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Title A name given to the resource The Author Subject The topic of the resource <em>The Author</em> Description An account of the resource A digitised run of the Society of Authors' monthly periodical, <em>The Author</em>, 1890<span>–</span>1914, made available together for the first time.<br /><br />Currently users can browse issues and <a href="https://historysoa.com/items/browse?search=&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bjoiner%5D=and&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Index&amp;collection=&amp;type=&amp;tags=&amp;exhibit=&amp;date_search_term=&amp;submit_search=Search+For+Items&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle">indices</a> (not available for all volumes). Full text search for all issues, and other additional search functionality, will be added in 2022. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890–1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The-Author-Issues Publication Date The date of an event (in YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD format) 1901-06-01 Volume 12 Issue 1 Pages Page range in volume 1–16 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19010601 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin The Autbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. VOL. XII.—No. 1.] JUNE 1, 1901. [PRICE SIXPENCE. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Mrs. Humphry Ward on the Art of Writing Fiction... ... ... 10 Literary Property.-A Publisher's Agreement and Mr. " Abso Some American Views ... ... 11 ... ... ... gi lute” Actor-Managers and New Plays ... ... 12 ... ... ... ... ... ... Correspondence.-1. The Dating of Books, and other Suggestions Paris Letter. By Darracotte Scott ... ... ... for Copyright. 2. Authors' Deductions and Income Tax. Annual Dinner of the Society of Authors ... ... 3. Magazines and Literature. 4. Editors The Pension Fund of the Society of Authors ... Book and Play Talk... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14 ... ... « « « « * 12 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. The Annual Report for the current year. 18. 2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary Property. Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 6s. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from 1892, at 1os. 6d. per vol. 3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38. 4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 18. 5. The Cost of Production. (Out of print.) 6. The Various Methods of Publication. Py S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their agreements. 38. Addenda to the Above. By G. HERBERT TARING. Being additional facts collected at the office of the Society since the publication of the “Methods." With comments and advice. 28. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Is. 6d. 8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of Committee, 1888–1892). 15. 9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst LUNGE, J.U.D. 28. 6d. 10. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers' Association ; with Comments. By G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 18. [All prices net. Apply to the SECRETARY, 4, Portugal Street, London, W.C.]  ## p. (#332) ################################################ ADVERTISEMENTS. The Society of Authors (Incorporated). PRESIDENT. GEORGE MEREDITH. COUNCIL SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. AUSTIN DOBson. The Rev. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE. J. M. BARRIE. A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D. SIR LEWIS MORRIS. A. W. À BECKETT. A. W. DUBOURG. HENRY NORMAN, M.P. ROBERT BATEMAN. SIR MICHAEL FOSTER, K.C.B., M.P., Miss E. A. ORMEROD, LL.D. F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S. F.R.S. GILBERT PARKER, M.P. SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.M.G. D. W. FRESHFIELD. J. C. PARKINSON. SIR WALTER BESANT. RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D. A. W. PINERO. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, K.C. EDMUND GOSSE. The Right Hon. The Lord PiB. THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. SYDNEY GRUNDY. BRIGHT, F.R.S. THE RIGHT Hon. JAMES BRYCE, M.P. | H. RIDER HAGGARD. SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, Barto, THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH THOMAS HARDY. LL.D. CLERE. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS. WALTER HERRIES POLLOCK. HALL CAINE. JEROME K. JEROME. E. ROSE. EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A. J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D. W. BAPTISTE SCOONES. P. W. CLAYDEN. RUDYARD KIPLING. Miss FLORA L. Shaw. EDWARD CLODD. PROF. E. RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. G. R. SIMS. W. MORRIS COLLES. THE RIGHT Hon. W.E.H. LECKY,M.P. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. The Hon. John COLLIER. J. M. LELY. J. J. STEVENSON. SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY. THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A. FRANCIS STORR. F. MARION CRAWFORD. SIR A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doc. WILLIAM MOY THOMAS. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON PROF. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN. Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD. OF KEDLESTON. Hon. Counsel – E. M. UNDERDOWN, K.C. COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS. A. W. À BECKETT. SYDNEY GRUNDY. GILBERT PARKER, M.P. SIR WALTER BESANT. J. M. LELY. E, ROSE. A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D. HENRY NORMAN, M.P. FRANCIS STORR. D. W. FRESHFIELD. SUB-COMMITTEES. ART. Hon. JOHN COLLIER (Chairman). I SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY. I M. H. SPIELMANN. COPYRIGHT. A. W. À BECKETT. A. HOPE HAWKINS. J. M. LELY. W. M. COLLES. GILBERT PARKER, M.P. DRAMA. HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman). F. C. BURNAND. A. W. PINERO. A. W. À BECKETT. SYDNEY GRUNDY. EDWARD ROSE. SFIELD, ROSCOE, and Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields. Solicitors- G. HERBERT THRING, 4, Portugal-street. Secretary-G. HERBERT THBING. OFFICES : 4, PORTUGAL STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C. ESTABLISHED 1896. THE COSMOPOLITAN PRINTING & PUBLISHING Co. LTD. INVITE INQUIRIES FROM AUTHORS. MSS. read and, if approved, terms offered for Publishing. NOVELS OF SUITABLE LENGTH TO INCLUDE IN NEW SIXPENNY SERIES WANTED. WALTER T. SING, Secretary, 22, Clare Street, Bristol.  ## p. 1 (#333) ############################################## The Author. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. VOL. XII.-No. 1.] JUNE 1, 1901. [PRICE SIXPENCE. For the Opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the Authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the collective opinions of the Committee unless they are officially signed by G. Herbert Thring, Sec. M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all 1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and he requests members who do not receive an answer to important communications within two days to write to him without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered letter only. - COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ARE INVITED BY THE E EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on no other subjoots whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor! III. The Royalty System. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly the truth. From time to time the very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the “Cost of Production." IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are :- (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are :- (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement means. (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld. GENERAL MEMORANDA. WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS. TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an n agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- I. Selling it Outright. This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement). In this case the following rules should be attended to : (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise. ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for " office expenses," anless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. VOL. XII. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with anyone except an established manager. 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :- (a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT. This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into such a contract should stipulate in the con. tract for production of the piece by a certain date and for proper publication of his name on the play-bills. B 2  ## p. 2 (#334) ############################################## TIIE AUTHOR. experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new yr old, for inspection and note. The information thus obtained may prove invaluable. 4. BEFORE SIGNING ANY AGREEMENT WHATEVER, send the document to the Society for examination. 5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen. dence of the writer. 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fireproof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con- fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give advice con- cerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to agreements. (6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES on gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipte in preference to the American system. Should obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed date on or before which the play should be performed. (c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always avoided except in cases where the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set ont under heading (6.) apply also in this case. 4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should be reserved. 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time. This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that AMERICAN RIGHTS may be exceed. ingly valuable. They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should remember that production of a play is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on account of the wide range of the sabject of dramatic con. tracts, THOSE AUTHORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA. TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY. THE READING BRANCH. TEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this branch of their work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS. includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY AND DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. NOTICES. M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the 1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 68. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed to .. the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln'g-inn Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER THAN THE 2186 OF EACH MONTH. All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. THE AUTHORS' CLUB is situated at 3, Whitehall court, London, S.W. Address the Secretary for information concerning rules of admission, &c. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. 1. DVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub. lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. If the advice bought is such as can be given best by a solici. tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the Society's solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel's opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him Counsel's opinion. All this without any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions conneuted with copyright and publishers' agreoments do not generally fall within the  ## p. 3 (#335) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. LITERARY PROPERTY. aned I.-A Publisher's Agreement and Mr. "Absolute.” AGREEMENT made this day of BETWEEN of (hereinafter called the AUTHOR) of the one part and of (bereinafter called the PUBLISHER) of the other part, WHEREBY it is agreed as follows:- 1. The PUBLISHER agrees to purchase and the AUTHOR agrees to sell the entire copyright, without any reserve, in the United Kingdom and all other parts of the world, of a work entitled , the completed manuscript execated in a proper manner of which the AUTHOR has delivered to the PUBLISHER, and all future editions thereof in considera- tion of the following payments, viz. : A royalty of on the pablished price of all copies sold op to 3000, a royalty of after 3000 (this last increase oply taking place as long as the book is not reduced in price lower than 68. and as long as 500 copies are sold in each year). 2. The PUBLISHER will according to his own judgment and in such a manner as in bis anfettered discretion he may consider advisable at his own cost print and publish a first edition of the said work, and further editions if in his judg. ment further editions are required, and in his absolute discretion advertise tbe same, and shall determine all details and in bis absolute discretion make all arrangements of and incidental to the printing, publishing, advertising, sale price, and reviewing of the said work. 3. The PUBLISHER sball in his absolute discretion have the right to sell, exchange, assign, or otherwise dispose of all and every right of publication or of translation of the said work on any terms and for any period and either wholly or partially or exclusively or otherwise as he shall think expedient for the colonies and foreign conatries, and an amount equivalent to 50 per cent. of the net profits realised and actually received by tha PUBLISHER shall be paid to the AUTHOR. 4. If the PUBLISHER shall sell an edition (or such number of copies as may be fixed on by the PUBLISHER in his own absolute discretion as constituting an edition for the purpose of this clause) to & publisher or bookseller in the United States of America, the provision as to royalties in clause i hereof provided shall not apply, but the AUTHOR shall be paid a royalty equivalent to one half the royalty that would be paid were the copies in question sold to the English trade. 5. If the said work shall be included in any edition of works published in England for exclusive sale in any colony, the royalty shall be ad. on each copy sold. 6. The PUBLISHER may, in his absolute discretion, sell, excbange, assign, or otherwise dispose of the remainder of any edition at remainder prices, and the AUTHOR shall not be entitled to any royalty in respect thereof, but shall in lieu thereof be entitled to a payment equivalent to 5 per cent. of the net profit realised by such sale and actually received by the PUBLISHER. 7. The AUTHOR shall revise and return for press with all reasonable speed the proof sheets of the work so that the same may be printed without interruption. 8. If the printer's charges for author's corrections of the first or any other edition of the said work exceed an average of 68. per sheet of thirty-two pages, the excess shall be repaid to the PUBLISHER by the AUTHOR and may be deducted from royalties due or to become due bereunder or from any moneys held by the PUBLISHER on account of the AUTHOR. 9. The AUTHOR shall revise with all possible despatch any new edition of the said work and correct the proofs and otherwise assist as may be required by the PUBLISHER. 10. The AUTHOR shall not write or publish, either directly or indirectly, any other work on the same subject of such a kind that the sale of the work shall be in any way prejudicially affected, and should be write anotber work on the same or cognate subjects be sball in the first instance give the PUBLISHER the right to acquire the work by purchase or otherwise as may be arranged. 11. This agreement is entered into by the PUBLISHER ON the warranty by the AUTHOR that the said work does not infringe any copyright, and that the said work does not contain anything of a libellous nature. If the said work does contain anything constituting or alleged to constitute & breach of such warranty, and proceedings or brought for any alleged infringement of copyright or for any alleged libel, and it is deemed advisable by the PUB. LISHER in his absolute discretion not to contest the matter but to arrive at a settlement thereof, or if the action is successfully contested, then and in every case the AUTHOR shall pay in advance to the PUBLISHER & sufficient eum to cover the estimated costs of the PUBLISHER in defending such action or threatened proceedings, and shall at the same time give to the PUBLISHER Security satisfactory to him to indemnify him against any damage awarded in such action, and shall on demand repay to the PUBLISHER all costs (as between solicitor and client), damages, and expenses incurred by the PUBLISAER in respect of or resulting from or incidental to the publication, advertisement, withdrawal of, and other dealings with the said work, to the effect that the PUBLISHER shall have full and complete indemnity from the AUTHOR in respect of all out of pocket expenses in connection with the said work. 12. The PUBLISHER shall keep proper books of accounts showing the number of copies of the said work sold, and also accounts showing the sales up to the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December in every year, as far as can be accurately ascertained, shall be delivered to the AUTHOR as soon as practicable after these respective dates, and the royalties dae and payable sball be paid not later than the ensning 30th day of November and the 3180 day of May respectively in every year, and in estimating such royalties thirteen copies of the said work sball be counted as twelve. 13. The PUBLISHER shall give to the AUTHOR free of charge six copies of the said work. 14. Nothing in this agreement contained shall constitute or be taken to constitute a partnership between the parties. M HE agreement printed above has nearly all the faults which from an author's point of view it could possibly contain. These faults have been criticised over and over again in The Author, and also in the work published by the Society entitled “ Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers' Association, with Comments by G. Herbert Thring and Illustrative Examples by Sir Walter Besant.” But it has been thought essential to reproduce this special form, as it is a new form recently brought forward. Several copies have been sent to the Secretary for his comments. It is much to be regretted that pub. lishers who really desire an equitable agreement between the parties should still persist in putting forward such a document.  ## p. 4 (#336) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. · CLAUSE 1.-The author sells every right he has nothing further need be said, the amount that in the world in England, her Colonies and an author can obtain in royalty being merely a Dependencies, in America, and under the Berne matter of bargaining, but attention should be Convention. The folly of this course is evident. drawn to the latter part of the clause, which is The English publishers should only hold a licence inserted in brackets. It might lead the unsus- to publish in England, her Colonies and Depen. pecting author into considerable difficulty, as the dencies. It is sometimes necessary to except publisher nowhere undertakes to produce the Canada. All other rights are generally left book at 68., and it is possible that he might, if in the hands of an agent, and much better so than the sales were averaging about 500 a year, stop in the hands of publishers, for this reason—that a them before they reach that number. publisher does not as a general rule undertake the In CLAUSE 2 Mr. " Absolute" has everything at work of a literary agent; that his office is not to his “ unfettered discretion ” and practically takes place literary work in other hands, but to produce all the powers into his own hands. He does not literary work for the author; that work of this mention the date when he will publish, and he does kind left in the hands of publishers is not likely not mention the form in which he will publish, nor to receive anything like the same attention as it does he mention the price at which he will pub- is if left in the hands of a literary agent; that lish, and at his “absolute discretion ” he adver- the publisher is the only person who gains by tises or not, and at “his absolute discretion " he having control of this work, and that the author makes what arrangement he likes with regard to loses by leaving it in his hands. It should be the production of the book. He is particularly pointed out further that the publisher does not "absolute” in this clause. It is needless to say anywhere in the agreement undertake to secure that such a clause as this is “absolutely ” bad the American copyright for the author, nor even from the author's point of view. Some of the to do his best to obtain it. It may pay an difficulties of CLAUSE 3 have already been pointed English publisher better to sell sheets or stereos out when commenting on clause 1, but Mr. to America and pay the author a royalty as per " Absolute” makes his position exceedingly clear clause 4. It should be added (see clause 3) that to the unfortunate author. The publisher, as for tbis agency work, while the literary agent already pointed out, pockets 50 per cent. of the charges 10 per cent., the publisher generally asks profits, for which the negotiations, in many cases, from 30 to 50 per cent. (in tbis case 50 per cent.). entail the mere writing of one or two short letters; Out of a large series of agreements before the and again it should be pointed out that the sale Society from all sorts and conditions of pub- of these minor rights may entail great delay in lishers the lowest charge for this literary agency publication in addition to the efforts of the business has been 25 per cent., and this only in publisher being careless and balf-hearted. one case. Again, in CLAUSE 4, the publisher safeguards Further, a publisher who makes his profit out himself against obtaining the American copy- of the English book publication looks upon the right. As a general rule, it does not pay a increase in his profits from these other sources as publisher to obtain the American copyright for little extra luxuries. He does not push to get a an author. In clause 4 if he does not obtain such fair price for the author or to keep up the author's copyright, the author is to have half the royalty position in the literary market, but he readily that he would obtain if the copies had been sold accepts any offer that is made. to the English trade; this, quite irrespective of An example was recently before the Secretary any bargain which Mr. “Absolute” may make where the serial rights of a 68. novel, held by the with the American house with which he is dealing. publisher, were sold for £30. The book was The arrangement may be an exceedingly good by an author of no mean reputation, who could arrangement for the publisher; no doubt Mr. obtain without difficulty £100 if his work had “ Absolute” will see that it is a good arrange- been fairly marketed. ment, otherwise he will not accept it, as the There is another point-that publishers very acceptance or rejection lies entirely with him, often delay the publication of a book in order to and it is possible that he might arrange with an market these minor rights, and it is quite pos- American publisher to obtain more than 50 per sible that, as the agreement stands, if the pub- cent. of the just returns. lisher was desirous of serialising both in England Iu CLAUSE 5 it will be noticed that the author and America the publication might be delayed is to have 2d. on each copy sold to the Colonies. almost indefinitely. As the book to which this agreement refers is · That there should be a rising royalty is only presumably a 6s. book (no price being actually fair if the author cannot claim the highest fixed), it is as well to point out that the ordinary royalty at once. With regard to this point, price paid to an autbor is from 4d. to 4 d. a GILUMO  ## p. 5 (#337) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. copy. The arrangement by which the author from all loss would necessarily render him care. gets 2d. is an exceedingly good one for Mr. less as to the costs he might incur, the settle- * Absolute.” ments he might make, and his whole course of The next clause (6) is also a dangerous clause action. The author would be powerless under for the author. It is wearisome to repeat the the clause as it stands. Mr. “Absolute” has reasons, but attention should be drawn to the “out-Heroded Herod," “pray you avoid him.” fact that the author is paid 5 per cent. on the net It must be repeated that where a publisher makes profits, the publisher taking the rest. an out-and-out purchase, as he does in this agree- With regard to CLAUSE 8, again, it is fair that ment, the motto should be caveat empter, and the the publisher should be protected against the author should not give a guarantee to the heavy expense of corrections brought about by publisher. the author, but the amount, 6s. per sheet of The account clause (12) is not satisfactory; thirty-two pages, as quoted in this agreement, it is not, however, as bad as some. The irony is perhaps the smallest amount that has been of clause 14 is perhaps its most amusing point. allowed to any author in any agreement that has Apology must be made for a merely superficial come before the Society. commentary on this extraordinary agreement. If In CLAUSE 9, again, the author is entirely at the any member of the Society would care to have beck and call of the publisher. The work is the further details he must apply to the secretary. author's, but he is not allowed to revise it unless Space does not allow of the further unravelling of the publisher desires him to do so, and his Mr. “Absolute's" methods. G. H. T. revision, even, is subject to the publisher's discretion. In CLAUSE 10 the author is forbidden to publish a work which is likely to conflict with the PARIS LETTER. interests of Mr. “ Absolute.” but our friend Mr. " Absolute” might, on the other hand, desiring to control the market with regard to a certain 4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts. style of publication, kill a book at “his absolute M HE first spring of the new century has been discretion” in order that it might not in any way I signalised by an outburst of literary and conflict with any work of his own on the same intellectual activity. Place aux jeunes ! subject already on the market. If the author is might be its watchword. A marked favour is bound not to produce, it is only fair that the being shown to young writers and the ideas pro- publisher should be equally bound. mulgated by the rising generation. The reading CLAUSE 11 is perhaps the most absolute clause committee of the Comédie Française—that erst of this absolute agreement. If the book was the stronghold of precedent, protection, and prejudice author's, and the publisher bad a licence to -is placing itself in the advance guard of the publish, it is fair under certain circumstances, movement by accepting new men's work, rightly and to a certain limited extent, to guarantee the esteeming that the hall-mark of original talent publisher against infringement of copyright and counterbalances the lack of a celebrated signa- libel; but as the book is the publisher's, he ought ture. Of the second revolution going on in the to protect himself before the purchase. In any heart of the Comédie itself it is not our case, the author is asked to concede much too province to speak. The proceedings of the first much. A case once arose in which the publisher general assembly of the Association internationale of a scientific book dealing with the sex question des Académies have, likewise, been duly detailed on scientific lines was prosecuted by the police. elsewhere. In his opening speech the president The publisher pleaded guilty to obscene publica made a graceful allusion to the services rendered tion, and the author, although his book was by the Royal Society, to whose initiative the idea approved by some of the greatest scientists in of an international catalogue of scientific litera- Europe, had no power of clearing his character. ture was due. The floral games at Toulouse, and the This case is not an exact analogy, but power is pretty ceremonies which accompanied the bestowal given to the publisher of making any agreement by the Clémence Faure Academy of the silver without the author having any opportunity of violet, primrose, pink, eglantine, lily, and mari. clearing himself. It is possible that under gold (marking the respective order of merit similar circumstances the publisher might consent attained by the poem thus recompensed) must to the payment of a large sum to satisfy a case also rauk among the matter“crowded out.” That rather than permit the author to vindicate his the judge's office was no sinecure is attested by character with regard to what he had written. the fact that out of a total of 759 poetical Besides, the fact that the publisher is protected effusions only ten were deemed worthy of reward  ## p. 6 (#338) ############################################## 6 THE AUTHOR. --to wit, five poets and three poetesses, one M. SAINT-GEORGES DE BOUHÉLIER. :: fortunate lady being thrice declared victress. The literary magazines of the new generation- À propos of associations, M. Marcel Prévost viz., La Clavellina, L'Effort de Paris, Gallia, announces the formation of a new society of Le Pays de France, and La Revue naturiste- Parisian journalists, entitled Nouvellistes parisiens. have united in giviug a banquet in honour of the “ Let us render homage in this matter," writes publication of the “ Tragédie du Nouveau Christ” he, “to the journalists of our country; the French of M. Saint-Georges de Bouhélier, the young Press is one of the most healthy as regards infor- chief of Naturism, who was saluted on this occa- mation.” If the French journalist require sion by M. Charpentier as the incarnation of the strengthening in this "literary prubity and ideas, hopes, and generous soul of the literary moderation," he has only to consider dans quel vouth of to-day. In seven powerfully written discrédit sont tombées certaines presses étrangères tableaux, M. de Bouhélier develops the hypo- par l'abus de l'information à outrance, de l'infor- thesis of the Saviour's re-integration in human mation grossière, non controlée et cyniquement form. He returns to earth to encounter the proclamée. “Written in a certain tongue,” he same outrages, misunderstandings, and rebuffs. continues, "all news is to-day suspicious, even together with the same life and death-as when to those whose tongue it is.” It would be He suffered centuries ago to redeem a world that interesting to know if the new society con 2000 years of Christian proselytism has apparently sidered the above remarks as shining examples made no better. The mysticism of the idea of this of “the professional dignity,” “the severe curious, pessimistic work is allied with the most moral discipline,” “the solidity, polish, and brutal realism in form. It is conscientiously good taste," advocated by M. Prévost in the thought out, and impressively written ; neverthe- leader in question ? less, we doubt if it will be widely read. The A VIEW OF MODERN JOURNALISM. literary critic of the Figaro advises M. de Bouhélier to be more accessible to the true “The papers would be excellent if the journa- public; to lower his intellectual range, and bring lists did not spoil them,” was the frequent down his writing to the comprehension of ordinary assertion of M. Emile Girardin, progenitor of the people. “We know he has talent.” adds this advertising system now almost universal. M. friendly writer : “ we would like him to offer Adolphe Brisson is still more severe on modern others than his friends the possibility of being French journalism, though he attributes its short convinced of it.” It remains to be seen whether comings to the abnormal expansion of M. M. de Bouhélier is sufficiently alive to his Girardin's innovation. The following paragraph own pecuniary interests to profit by the hint. taken from “Paris intime” (one of the set of The recently published “ Travail” (Vol. 2 of volumes unanimously rewarded by the Academy the “Quatre Evangiles." chez Fasquelle) of his as containing the best portrayal of Parisian friend and master, M. Emile Zola, likewise deals manners and customs of the present day) can with the working classes, being a study of the scarcely be considered eulogistic. struggle between capital and labour, and the . “The advertisements should pay a paper's reorganisation of the latter such as is being expenses!'” he writes, quoting Emile de Girardin's slowly brought about in the present day. favourite formula. “ This reasoning has given birth to the modern newspaper. Girardin's idea A BENEVOLENT BOOKSELLER. has borne fruit; it has made his fortune, and M. Le Goaziou, an enterprising bookseller, has enriched those who imitated him. The ancient discovered to his cost that benevolence towards. gazette at three sous is at death's door. It is customers is an expensive and unappreciated supplanted by the halfpenny paper, that journa- virtue. Having ascertained that his business listic shark which penetrates into the villages, connection permitted him to dispose advan. eagerly seeks out readers there, and inundates tageously of books at 40 per cent. reduction, in lieu. France with bad paper. “The advertisements of the 20 per cent. established by the publishers' should pay a paper's expenses !' The editors and booksellers' syndicates, he forthwith lowered have applied this formula too literally. The the price of his wares. Whereupon his name was journalists of 1830 sinned through excess of put on the black list of the two syndicates, and candour; those of the twentieth century are no all the large publishing houses (Hachette, Belin, longer so naïve. The daily paper was formerly a Delagrave, Larousse, &c.) refused to continue tribunal where ardent, sincere, and almost always business relations with him. Nothing daunted, disinterested, voices discoursed. It has become a M. Le Goaziou sued nine Parisian publishers and commercial house which sells its publicity to all booksellers for infraction of article 419 of the comers.” Penal Code, which article declares that any  ## p. 7 (#339) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. coalition existing between holders of the same exercise of the liberty of coalition, &c. [L'exer- merchandise for the purpose of operating a rise cice de la liberté des conventions. Wherefore above the price fixed by free competition is illegal the decision of the Ninth Chamber was adverse and punishable by law. to M. Le Goaziou. M. Bruyant, substitute, asserted, on the con- trary, that the publishers and editors in question LOVE-LETTERS AND MATRIMONY. were perfectly within their rights. “ Publishers,” Love-letters are apparently in vogue, since the said he,“ are not holders of the same merchan fervid “Lettres à ma Fiancée" of Victor Hugo dise, each book preserving a distinct individuality. (chez Fasquelle) have been followed by the publi- A novel by Anatole France is not the same cation of the letters of the “ Marquise de Sade," merchandise as a novel of the Rose Library series, which epistles have been unearthed from among nor a grammar by Lhomond the same merchan- the dusty archives of the eighteenth century dise as a grammar written by a Jesuit. Books and duly edited by M. Paul Ginisty. The letters escape the economic law of supply and demand of the unfortunate Marquise to her reprobate because they contain a double element-one husband during his fifteen years' well-merited material (the paper and printed characters), the captivity are true love letters, indicative of a rare other immaterial (the thought of the author). abnegation and affection. According to all con- Human thought cannot be monopolised, even by temporary testimony, she possessed the pure, an American Trust agency. It is not a product angelic disposition usually accredited to celestial like sugar and vitriol. Thus, no market price beings. Nevertheless, her husband — a chef existing, there is no market!”. [Donc, pas de d'ouvre of Nature as regards innate baseness, cours, pas de marché !] vice, and ferocity-chose to suspect her of infi. The Ninth. Chamber of the Correctional delity. At this crowning outrage the meek Tribune sharing M. Bruyant's opinion, M. Le devotee revolted. Only for one day, however. Goaziou lost the case. His disbursal of costs has On the morrow she wrote: “If you are capable probably not tended to increase his esteem for of poniarding me, under the present circum- cheap book buyers in general. stances it would be a happiness to me not to exist longer." Scrawled on the margin of this THE CHAMBER'S DECISION. piteous letter by its unworthy recipient we find The decision was made known in the following the reflection : "Quelle platitude, grand Dieu ! terms :- Quelle platitude !" Granted that the text of the Code provides Social Paris has been much interested in the against a coalition existing between holders of betrothal of Mlle. Sardou (daughter of the cele- the same merchandise ; that, in the case in point, brated dramatist) to Comte Robert de Flers, this condition is not realised ; that, in reality, the a rising literary critic and dramatist, reputed publishers having each their speciality, the books to possess more than average talent. M. Sardou published by them preserve their individuality; is also to be congratulated on the satisfactory that there are as many different wares (marchan- statistics furnished by the annual report of dises) as there are publishers; that these wares the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Drama- (marchandises) not being the object of a free tiques, of which association he is president. The competition, escape almost completely the law of royalties collected by the society (from March 1, supply and demand, and that there exists for 1900, to Feb. 28, 1901) amount to a total of no books neither market nor fixed value. [Il n'existe less than 4,569,207 francs. 24,834 francs have pour les livres ni marché ni cours.] been distributed among indigent members, and Granted, on the other hand, that the coalition 105,250 francs expended in old age pensions. foreseen in article 419 of the Penal Code appears M. Decourcelle's project for augmenting the —at least, since the law of 1884 on professional funds of the caisse des retraites was unanimously syndicates—to be only unlawful and punishable voted by the adherents of the society. when accompanied by fraudulent maneuvres which have, in influencing the market price, New BOOKS. occasioned its rise or fall. “Rhapsodies Passionées," a volume of verse by Granted that, in reality, the object of profes. the Comte du Bois; “En Pleine Épopée," a sional syndicates is the defence of reputable journalistic chronicle of the Transvaal war, by M. economic interests; that a syndicate of pub. Jean Carrère, French correspondent in South lishers cannot be refused the right to fix, in Africa; “La Liberté de la Presse " (1789-1815), accord with the retail booksellers, a net price by M. Le Poittevin (chez Arthur Rousseau); below which books cannot be sold ; that the “Le Progrès Social à la fin du Dix-neuvième liberty of commerce itself is limited by the Siècle," a most interesting work, by M. Louis VOL. XII.  ## p. 8 (#340) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. HA Skarzinski; “La Théorie de l'Ordre," by M. of the present day seemed to be getting smaller Jules Delafosse; and the usual shoal of sensa. by degrees and beautifully less. (Laughter.) tional novels. DARRACOTTE Scott. He could not help hoping that, as the world of letters had conferred so much benefit upon the two great legislative assemblies, they might see their way to returning the compliment during the ANNUAL DINNER OF THE SOCIETY present session by passing a measure in which authors, and especially that Society, took a great OF AUTHORS. interest--the Copyright Bill—and so alleviate, if not altogether remove, the injustice which so long M HE annual dinner of the Incorporated Society had hung over literature. (Cheers.) The measure of Authors was held on May 1 in the had been entrusted, and rightly so, to the care of King's Hall, Holborn Restaurant. The his noble friend, Lord Monkswell, and he had Right Hon. the LORD BURGHCLERE presided with great discretion transferred the burden from Among the 220 who were present were Lord his own shoulders to the broader-he would not Monkswell, Sir Algernon West, Sir Wm. say the abler-shoulders of the present Govern. Kennedy, Sir Joshua Fitch, the Archdeacon ment; and he sincerely trusted that in the ensuing of London, Mr. J. Henniker-Heaton, M.P., session the legislators and Government might see Mrs. Campbell Praed, Mrs. Steel, Mrs. Reeves their way to pass the Bill. (Cheers.) He (Helen Mathers), Mrs. Tweedie, Mr. A. Hope congratulated them on the success of the Society, Hawkins, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Mr. Harold Since the advent of their present Secretary it had Spender, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. F. G. Aflalo, very nearly doubled its membership. The Society Mr. Frank Harris, Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Mr. was able to help others--not only those who had Oscar Browning, Mr. Mackenzie Bell, Mr. risen, but those who were rising. They were able Lewis Hind, Mr. M. H. Spielmann, Miss to assist the younger members of the profession Montresor, Mr. Julian Corbett, Mr.J.K. Spender, in their entrance to their career. They had, he Mr. F. T. Dalton, Mr. W. L. Courtney, Mr. understood, a pension list; he did not know Francis Storr, Miss E. Sharp, Miss Pendered, Mr. whether it referred to old age pensions or not. W. H. Besant, Mr. Basil Tozer, Mrs. Belloc (Laughter.) They had no debt, and their taxa- Lowndes, Mr. Douglas Sladen, Miss Arabella tion consisted of one guinea a year. The Society Kenealy, Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (“Rita"), contained some of the most distinguished names Mr. F. Gribble, Mrs. Arthur Stannard, and Mr. of the day in all the various branches of literature G. H. Thring (Secretary). and art. If there were any who were not on the The CHAIRMAN proposed “ The Society.” It list, he might say something which would give was with considerable diffidence, he said, that them reason for reconsidering their position. he occupied the chair, in view of the various The Society was not only made for those who had eminent men who had presided in the past and been successful, but perhaps its special task was the many distinguished names on the rolls of the to help those who were commencing their literary Society. He was not going to indulge in the efforts. It seemed to be the bounden duty of growing custom among speakers of obtaining those who, either by luck or skill, had obtained applause by some cheap sneers at the two legislative comfortable seats on the top of Parnassus to hold assemblies of the country, although the tempta- out their hands to their younger and weaker tion was very strong. He would prefer to trace brethren who were trying to struggle up the the intimate and very ancient-he might almost steep ascent. (Cheers.) In that spirit he wished say hereditary-connection between politics and success to the Society. (Cheers.) the world of letters. In illustration of this Mr. DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD, in reply, thanked the relationship, the noble chairman mentioned the chairman for the way in which he had spoken of names of Chaucer, Tennyson (who was made a the work of the Society. His Lordship's praise lord of Parliament in 1883), Byron, Edmund was the more agreeable because he himself was Waller, Andrew Marvel, Milton, Matthew Prior, not a stranger to literature. He might allude to Addison, George Villiers (second duke of Buck- his work—which he hoped would soon be pub- ingham), R. B. Sheridan, Lord Lytton, Bacon, lished—a translation of the pastoral poetry of Clarendon, Burnett, Marquis of Halifax, Lord Virgil, in which they recognised that Lord Chesterfield, Lord Macaulay, and Sir George Burghclere was well worthy to travel along the Trevelyan ; while among the spiritual lords were paths in which so many statesmen had found Dr. Stubbs and Dr. Creighton. If there was one recreation. They poor authors were a very un- thing more than another he had noticed in the protected race. Painters had their Academy, delightful realm of fiction it was that the novels architects their Institute, and men of science their  ## p. 9 (#341) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 100 Royal Society, which looked after them well. THE PENSION FUND OF THE SOCIETY But authors had had nowhere to lay their griev. OF AUTHORS. ances. Their Society could not, of course, pre- tend to any proud position such as was held by T a meeting of the Pension Fund Committee the French Academy. They claimed no honours held on Tuesday, May 7, at 4 o'clock, the and could confer none, but they had a very prac- following resolution was unanimously tical aim, which was not always correctly appre passed : ciated even by members. There seemed to be an “That a pension of £60 a year be awarded idea abroad that the Society was an engine for to Mrs. J. H. Riddell, author of George attacking publishers. He did not take that view. Geith of Fen Court,' • The Senior Partner,' Authors and publishers were naturally allies, and and many other well-known novels.” the main business of the Society was to strengthen In announcing this decision the Pension Fund the alliance by making its terms more clear and Committee desire to express their satisfaction, definite in each individual case. Vagueness in which they think will be shared by the Society at literary contracts had been the source of much large, that the first pension awarded under the misunderstanding. Society's scheme should be the means of expressiug Sir Joshua Fitch proposed “ The Guests." the respect so widely felt for Mrs. Riddell's Such a Society as theirs must be of public value literary gifts and achievements. if it did as it was said to do--that was, to keep in view the highest interests of authorship, to watch all public measures, legislative and otherwise, The following is the list of donations and likely to influence the interests of literature, to subscriptions at present promised or received :- promote mutual concord and mutual understand. DONATIONS. ing among authors, and to aim to make equitable MEREDITH, GEORGE, President of tbe Society arrangements between makers and distributors (first donation)............ £100 0 0 of books. There was no class of work done Meredith, George (second donation)................ 10 00 A. S. 100 0 0 under circumstances of more isolation, and no Alcott, E. ....... ......................................... 50 0 0 class more thoroughly needed the help and sym Anonymous ......... pathy which arose from association than authors. Arnim, The Countess von ................ Anything that would help to give strength to our Baldwin, Mrs A. ........................... Barrie, J. M. .......................................... literature, to alleviate the profession of letters, Benecke, Miss Ida .................................... and to encourage endeavour after literary excel. Besant, Sir Walter....................... lence must be not only an advantage to litera. Boevey, Miss Crawley ture, but a great-public benefit. (Cheers.) Chambers, Miss Beatric. ............ Sir Algernon West replied. Clifford, Mrs W. K. . Cordeaux, Miss .................. Mr. A. HOPE HAWKINS gave“ The Chairman," Craigie, Mrs. to whom the Society was not only indebted for Davy, Mrs. E. M. .......... presiding and for his very interesting speech, but Doyle, A. Conan ... also for his very cordial, ready, and substantial Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years) 5 0 0 aid. In connection with the Copyright Bill, he Esmond, H. V. ........ 3 3 0 Fowler, Miss E. T... ................................. had always placed at their disposal his experience 10 10 Freshfield, D. W.... 100 0 and knowledge of Parliamentary affairs. Gibbs, Mise ............ ............. 10 In response, the CHAIRMAN said he had had the Hallward, N. L. ... ......... honour of being a member of the Council of the Harraden, Miss Beatrice ......... 10 0 0 Society since its formation, but the meetings of Hawkins, A. Hope .................. 200 Hutchinson, Rev. H. the Council seemed to be of very rare occurrence. Jacberns, Raymond How many times he had been called to assist Jones, Henry Arthur.. would ever remain a secret between himself and Keltie, J. Scott the Secretary. (Laughter.) On any future occa Kipling, Rudyard ........ sion, if his bumble efforts could be of any good to Loftie, Rev. W.J. Macfarlane, H. ...................................... the Society, they would be placed with the greatest Marshall, Capt. R. .................................. pleasure at its disposal. (Cheers.) Miles, Eastace ..., Moncrieff, R. Hope Montresor, Miss F.... Morrah, Herbert Norris, W. E. ..... Oliphant, Kingston .. Parker, Gilbert Phillpotts, Eden ......... .............. 10 0 O JOWO ............ OOOONO 0-0--000-000-0oOwo O-Oouw No0o- en OOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 8-enn-ö -7 - - .......... . 100 .. 100  ## p. 10 (#342) ############################################# 10 THE AUTHOR. 00000 0- oceneno - ÖNNON ou nobeno oo oooo õen OOOOO 0 SUBSCRIPTIONS. .......... o ..... ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ Pollook, Sir Frederiok 50 night at the Authors' Club. We are indebted to Roe, Mrs. Harcourt ..... 10 O the Queen of May 25 for the following report of Roggetti, W. M. ......... the gathering. The great hall of the Hotel S. B. ........ Sanderson, Sir J. B. .. Cecil was crowded with members and their Skeat, The Rev. Prof. friends. In proposing the toast of the Spielmann, M. H. o evening, DR. CONAN DOYLE, who was in the Stanton, Miss H. M. E. chair, treated his audience to a masterly con- Toplis, Miss G..... sideration of Mrs. Humphry Ward as a Tweedie, Mrs. Alec..................................... Watt, A. P. ..................................... novelist. Dr. Conan Doyle's speech is fully Weyman, Stanley ...... reported in our contemporary. In conclusion, he Wheelwright, Miss E. E. . said : The public knows a writer by his or her Williams, Mrs. E. L. ..... work, but there is another point of view which Young, Ernest o 60 authors must take. They are a profession, a noble profession, and they honour those members à Beckett, A. W. ........... 5 0 0 of it who conform to the highest traditions of Aidë, Hamilton (for a period of five years)...... 10 0 0 that profession. We feel that Mrs. Humphry Alexander, A. ...... 110 Ward has always done so, and that the tone of Avery, Harold o 10 6 Besant, Sir Walter... 5 5 0 the profession has been the higher from her Bond, R. Warwick I 10 presence within it. (Cheers.) Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G. Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD, in reply, said :-As to Brodhurst, Spencer................. 0 10 6 “novels with a purpose," I am inclined to think Clodd, Edward .. that if a novelist imagines that he or she is going Cresswell, Rev. H. .................................... Crockett, S. R. ............. to conquer art by much preaching, that the novel Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for is merely the pamphlet or the sermon writ long, 1901) .......... that “ prose is verse and verse is merely prose" Ellis, Miss M. A. —then, in the words of Goldsmith, "nothing Esmond, H. V. Gilbert, W. S. cau exceed the vanity of his existence but the Goldsmith, W. H. o 10 0 folly of his pursuits.” It is no good opening out Gribble, F. ........ “cauld harangues on practice and on morals.” Guthrie, Anstey ......................... Nothing has any power in the world of art but Gwynn, S. the things of feeling and the things of beauty, Harraden, Miss Beatrice Hawkins, A. Hope ........................... On that we all agree. What is sincere, what Home, Francis.......................................... touches the artist before it is offered to the Jerome, Jerome K. .................................... public, that we all agree is the first, almost the Kelly, C. A...................... ............ only, condition of good work. But that condition Lely, J. M. ........ includes much that the critics are often ready to Macdonald, Mrs.................. Marchmont, A. W. deny us. If the play of religious opinion, or Pemberton, Max......... social reform, or political power, as they affect Pendered, Miss Mary L. 0 10 0 human life is what interests the writer, and if Pinero, A. W. .......... 5 0 0 that writer is drawn towards the form of the Roberts, Morley .......... 0 novel, what authority bars the way? Some of Rose, Edward .......... 5 0 0 the greatest authorities of the world are on his Rumble, Mrs. ..... side. Sinclair, Miss ..... 10 0 The only point to be considered is-can 0 Stanley, Mrs. ..... he touch other minds, can he throw what he has Ward, Mrs. Humphry ... ... ... ... ... to say into shapes that move and live ? And Watt, A. P. ................ that turns upon another question. Can he see Woston, Miss Jessie L. ... ... ... .... 0 5 0 these things and reproduce them, not as the student sees and reproduces them, but as the artist sees them interpreted through the forms of human life, and interfused with beauty or with terror ? MRS. HUMPHRY WARD ON THE AR If he can, let the critic say what he will. The WRITING FICTION. whole purpose of Tolstoy's “ Resurrection” is to lead up to those last pages in which a man of I RS. HUMPHRY WARD was entertained burning sincerity presses upon Europe a new as the guest of the evening by the view of the gospel message. For that purpose he - Authors' Club on May 20 at the Hotel has carried the whole marvellous load of that Cecil. This is the first occasion for several years book, and but for the purpose he would never upon which ladies have been admitted to a guest have lifted it. Are you going to glorify the oo 000 O-Oooooen oeren oo-enoun--enoooer on enounouceno - our aroo on ooo õen onerrocera-075 oczern ooo ooceno - oo  ## p. 11 (#343) ############################################# TIE AUTHOR. 11 book, and denounce the purpose ? Perfectly than we hate to our latest breath ; and admire true that the purpose is nothing without the art; chiefly, perhaps, the things that we could never, but humanity, the reader, the true and ultimate never du ourselves, the things that seem to public, will take care of that. us inconceivable and unattainable—the peaks Meanwhile, though I will always maintain furthest from our own treading, under the com- that art knows no limitations but those that mon light of poetry and truth. spring out of itself, though all genres (save the Innumerable mountains rise and rise, hideous and inhuman) have their burgher rights Ambitious for the ballowing of thine eyes. in the great city, an artist is worth little, I think, So might we say to arı, “I'll walk where my who cannot at times hate his own genre, and own nature would be leading "—there is the everything that concerns it, in order to fall in typical cry of the artist; but woe betide him if love with the genres of other people. How good he do not also ask of the gods as much happy for those who are not capable of such things, to curiosity and love as they will grant for the be filled with envy of the invention that gives us wanderers on other paths than his, and the shep- a “ Sherlock Holmes " ; of that pure story-telling herds of other sheep. (Cheers.) art whereof “Tusitala ” is king and priest ; of the plots, the adventures, the “moving accidents by flood and field,” over which some magicians of the novel have power. And I will dare to say how SOME AMERICAN VIEWS. good for the writers of adventure, or the realists, to have a passing fit of indulgence for the poor WRITER in the Evening Post, of New followers of Rousseau and George Sand! York, commenting on a report that the In the love letters of Balzac there is a delight- authors' profits on some novels which ful letter describing a visit of the great realist to have sold largely in the United States in the past George Sand at Nohant. He did not think year are given as £15,000, £9000, £7800, £6000, much of George Sand's art. That was inevitable. &c. :- “ She knows and says about herself the very Four of these novels have been dramatised, and are now things that I think about her, without telling presented on the stage. With one exception, the publishers. them to her, that she has neither strength of con- are not in a position to state definitely what additional ception nor the faculty of constructing plots, nor royalty the authors receive for the right of dramatisation. It is said that two authors sold the right for a stipulated the art of the pathetic, but that, without knowing amount. The lowest royalty considered for & success is the French language, she has style ; and such is usually 5 per cent. of the gross receipts of every perform. the fact." ance. Those, therefore, whose good fortane has been Well, George Sand has her own views, and associated with the three plays which have enjoyed con- tinuous success since the early autumn, and often drawn expresses them, about Balzac. But they both audiences paying eight and nine thousand dollars a week, meet on this common ground. Without knowing will have received between foar and five hundred dollars the French language she has style, Balzac admits every seven days from the theatrical manager. Old Dr. -that is to say, she is a writer, whatever foolish Johnson's notion that Thrale's brewery afforded “the things she may choose to write about. She has potentiality of growing risb beyond the dream of avarice" may be suggested in comparison with the idea of wealth the heightenins, the incommunicable gift, she has aroused by the contemplation of the new novelist's revendes: sincerity, she has vision ; he holds out to her the And it should be added that two of these novels were pub. hand of a comrade; he accepts from her a big lished serially, for which separate payment was received hookah and Latakia like her own; and the two wn · and the two before they were brought out in book form. smoke, and discuss by the hour the problems of Colonel Harvey, president of Messrs. Harper the métier. and Brothers, on his return from a visit to Cannot we all of us be richer in this ultimate London, said to a representative of the New York. indulgence the one for the other? All that we Tribune :- ought to ask, it seems to me, one of another is There simply does not exist in London to-day what. that each of us should be true to his or her own American publishers would consider even & moderate vision and instinct-should write what we love to demand for either books or periodicals. It is well known that one of the most conspicuous and apparently popular write-should strive for the perfection of what magazines in London has been in the market for some we write—within the bounds of beauty, within months because its proprietor has reached the conclusion the bounds of social service. I do not disguise that it cannot be pablished except at a loss—and no my own opinion—that all things are not lawful purchaser appears. . . . It has but receatly come to in literature, that there are social ends that be understood in England that, coincident with her splendid development along other lines, the United transcend the literary ends ; but with this limita- States has become the great book market of the world: tion, how much is it to be wished, for our health The Latin countries, of course, need cot be considered. of mind and soul, that we should admire more But take as an example “ Eleanor”-a purely English book  ## p. 12 (#344) ############################################# 12 THE AUTHOR. with English characters, Eaglish scenes, and written by People who assert tbat unknown writers don't have an English author. It was a great success in England, their work read are entirely wrong. Speaking for of course, as any book done by Mrs. Ward must be neces. sarily, and yet nearly three times as many were sold in myself, I'm always on the look-out for good America--and that without at any time holding the lead plays. over all other books in point of sales. Moreover, during Mr. Charles Wyndham observed :-“In all the the recent stagnation in the trade in London the output five-and-twenty years that people have been of American publishers has increased nearly 40 per cent. showering plays upon me, I have not found a From the Literary Era: single one worth producing. It was not that the It is reported from London that many English publishers work was bad in every case--far from it; it was who have hitherto established no branch houses in America merely unsuitable for my purpose.” will speedily open them. It is even intimated that some of Asked what quality in particular he considered the greater houses, long represented here by branches, will a play to require to render it successful : “ That transfer their headquarters to the country which has begun to be the depôt of their largest sales. They will retain of 'heart' above everything else," was the reply. their London offices merely as branches. “ It was 'heart' that made · David Garrick' so For during the past twelvemonth English books pub popular, and enabled me to revive it over and over lished in London have often found their most remunerative again.” market here and not in England. If such be the record for And what quality is wanted in a player ?” a year, what may we expect from the next decade? ... It is not impossible that within the lives of men now living “Naturalness," returned Mr. Wyndham, “ is the United States may become the centre of distribution for the first consideration nowadays. Once the public the literature of the world! demanded good elocution before it. Of late Not only English authors, but German, French, Russian, years, however, tastes have changed.” Italian, and other authors will have to send their MSS. for approval and acceptance, not to the great cities of their own Mr. Bourchier's met hod of dealing with these land, but to Philadelphia, to Boston, to New York, maybap offerings was as follows:-Every manuscript sent to Chicago and San Francisco. him by a person of whom he knew nothing was passed on to a “ reader" to deliver pronouncement upon. As for those written by people with whose work he was himself familiar, these he took 'home with him to apply a certain test to. This consisted ACTOR-MANAGERS AND NEW PLAYS. in reading them in bed, with the idea of seeing whether they would send him to sleep or not before A N interesting article on actor-managers and he had finished the first act. Those that had this A their ways of reading plays appears in result would, as may be imagined, be promptly the June number of the Pall Mall returned ; those that, on the other hand, failed in Magazine. Mr. Frederick Harrison, in reply to this respect would be accorded more careful con- a question about new plays, replied :- sideration at the first convenient opportunity. á Well, Mr. Maude and I have had something “So far," observed the originator, “ I have found like six hundred during the four years we have this scheme most efficacious. None of the 'send. been in partnership. The reading of these, as me-to-sleep' plays have met with a producer after you may imagine, is not the lightest part of our being returned by me, while, though I have been work." compelled to decline many of the keep-me-awake' I asked where they chiefly failed to meet with ny failed to meet with ones, a number of these have achieved a certain acceptance, and learned that this was largely due degree of success at other theatres, and have had to a want of knowledge on the part of their nice things said about them by the critics." writers as to the requirements of the stage. “It takes peculiar qualities to write a successful play,” observed Mr. Harrison, reflectively. “What one in particular?” I demanded. “ That of sentiment, I am inclined to think," was CORRESPONDENCE. the ready response. “People ask for it nowadays, and insist upon having it, too. Another point that a dramatist should aim at is to suit the traditions 1.-The Dating of Books, and other Suggestions of the theatre for which he is writing.” for Copyright. Mr. George Alexander says:-“ Plays come to TN consequence of illness I have only quite me by the dozens, simply. To give you an idea of I recently been able to read the last few how greatly this is the case, I may say that quite - numbers of The Author, and hence my lately I had to read no less than two hundred plays reason for referring only now to an article in five weeks. They were all carefully considered, which appeared so long ago as March. In too-no actor-manager can afford to do otherwise. the issue for that month there is quoted, on ch appeareferring onlythor, ande,  ## p. 13 (#345) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 13 w p. 180, under the heading “ Notes and News," 1896, concerning provisional copyright registra- an article from the Manchester Guardian, in tion, and if, Mr. Editor, you will, on some future which the suggestion is made that the date occasion, grant une a little space, I shall be of the original publication of every book should pleased to make two or three other suggestions be placed on the back of the title page of on this subject of copyright. HUBERT Hass. every new edition thereof. From this it would 28, Bassett-road, London, W. naturally be inferred that the date of publication May, 1901. appears compulsorily in the original edition. It is, however, and most regretfully, not one of the essentials for the obtaining of copyright in this II.-Authors' Deductions and Income Tax. country, and consequently many books are issued I am now called upon by the authorities—as is on which no date at all appears. their unpleasant habit at this time of the year, My object in writing this letter is to propose to make a return of my professional income for that a clause be embodied in the impending new assessment, basing the return upon the average Copyright Act, enacting that the date (that is to of the three preceding vears. say, the year) of issue be printed on the title-page According to schedule D, in computing the of every book issued in the United Kingdom, balance of profits to be returned, deductions are not only in the first edition, but in every sub- allowed: sequent one, and that its presence be one of the conditions on which copyright is granted. It For repairs of premises occupied for the parposes of the trado or manufacture, and for the supply or repair of would greatly help those who have occasion to implements, utensils, or articles employed... compare various editions of any work if the For a sua not exceeding two-thirds (as the Commissioners suggestion of the Manchester Guardian were shall allow) of the annual value on which daty has been included in this clause, and it were made com. paid ander schedule A in respe-:t of any dwelling-bonde occupied by the owner and partly Ased for the purposes of pulsory to state in each edition, besides its own business. date, the date of publication of the first. For any other disbursements or expenses wholly and This subject of the dating of books is of far exclusively laid out for the purposes of the trade, &c. greater importance than appears on the surface, Now. sir, my dwelling-house is occupied by and I would like much to enlarge upon it, but it the owner and partly used for the purposes of would occupy far too much space. Perhaps, my business as a writer. My study requires however, I may have the opportunity a few repairs from time to time; my pens wear out; months hence of making public some remarks a great mass of foolscap is used up, and a sea of ink thereon. is slung. I disburse a guinea a year to the Society While on the subject of copyright, I would like of Authors exclusively for the purposes of my to add another suggestion which has already trade; I employ persons to make searches and appeared in print (in the St. James's Gazette of verify matters at the British Museum ; I purchase Nov. 16, 1900, and other papers), viz., that books of reference: I spend considerable sums another of the conditions of obtaining copyright on typewriting, and I not infrequently call in the for books published in the United Kingdom, aud aid of a professional photographer in the matter the object of which is to make sure that a copy of of illustrations. This is to name but a few of every book published in this country finds its way many like disbursements. (automatically) into the national library, should And I have never claimed any deductions. I be the depositing in the British Museum a copy should much like to learn whether any of my of the work ; tbat, in fact, copyright should not fellow authors have done so, and if so, what exist for Great Britain for any work published success they have had in making such claims therein-by a citizen of whatsoever country from the Commissioners. G. S. LAYARD. written-until a copy of the work has been deposited there; that the depositing a copy at the British Museum shall be, in fact, what creates III.-Magazines and Literature. copyright for the United Kingdom. That means that the date of depositing a copy there would be The opinion of Mr. Walter Page as to the the date of publication for this country, and this connection between magazines and literature would at the same time effect what is so much to should not be allowed to pass unchallenged by be desired-viz., the compulsory registration members of the Society of Authors. (without any fee) of every book published in this Such a sweeping assertion as “ The making of country. magazines is not literature ; it is journalism,” I would like to call attention once more to the carries with it forcible evidence of a narrow and suggestion which I made in The Author of Jan., even distorted attack upon periodical publication.  ## p. 14 (#346) ############################################# 14 THE AUTHOR. “ Those editors who are trying to get out Whilst writing on these subjects, I will relate an monthly literature are making dull magazines.” amusing occurrence which happened to myself some Let me, as a reader and lover of literature, years ago. In 1893 my “ Collected Poems" were protest. Does Mr. Page really believe there is published with my full name in large plain letters no class to whom a scholarly essay or article, a on the title-page. On Dec. 16 of the same year the refined poem, a grammatical story, appeals with editor of the Realm gave a review of the work, swifter welcome than details concerning “Toe- saying it was by Thomas Winton Hood! Under nails of Celebrities,” particulars as to the what head would the editor of The Author place garments, food, habits, and domiciles of third- such a quixotic feat ? Do not perpetrators of rate theatrical and other vainglorious notoriety such outrages deserve a niche in a “comfortable hunters ? Does he flatter himself that editors of corner”? his calibre have quite superseded those of the Thomas WINTER Wood (“Vanguard”). caste of the late James Payn? The inquisitive vulgarian is not omnipotent, though certain editors, in collusion with whole- sale manufacturers of literary shoddy, may delude BOOK AND PLAY TALK. themselves into the belief that he is.. Acting upon the dictum that “ appetite grows by what M HE Lane Lectures, delivered by Sir Michael it feeds on," these people stimulate this false T Foster at the Cooper Medical College in appetite by flooding bookstalls and newsagents' - San Francisco last autumn, are being pub- shops with the rubbish they produce. lished by the Cambridge University Press. The Semi -illiterate, bird-witted devourers of title of the volume is “ Lectures on the History of worthless sensationalism, fulsome personalities, Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, grandiose self-advertisements, garnished by and Eighteenth Centuries." gaudy covers and rudimentary “illustrations," patronise these publishing and editing Cheap Mr. Arnold Glover and Mr. A. R. Waller are Jacks, no doubt, just as a lower human stratum editing a complete edition of the works of Hazlitt. still gloats over the brutalities of the gutter It will include the entire literary, political, and dramatic essays, together with his art criticism, prints. Theatrical managers bave long since perceived his miscellaneous lectures and prefaces, and his that, while melodrama of the crudest kind draws fugitive writings, now collected for the first time. best in poor-class neighbourhoods, plays of quieter lieter 1 The edition, for which Mr. Henley is to write action, thoughtful plot, and truer art, prove an introduction, will be published by Messrs. remunerative where audiences of taste and dis- Dent. crimination gather together. The Daily Chronicle states that Mr. Herbert HERBERT W. SMITH. Spencer has had his autobiography printed, and that there is now every probability that it will be published during Mr. Spencer's lifetime. IV.-Editors. Sherlock Holmes is to be revived. Mr. Conan Doyle will shortly contribute to the Strand a Mr. Doveton's spirited letter in the May number story in which the great detective is the principal of The Author induces me to broach a few further character; and it will be published as a serial of questions bearing on the subject of editors' from 30,000 to 50,000 words. pranks and privileges. As Mr. Doveton does not say how long he An appeal is to be made to admirers of the waited for the “ comfortable corner,” it is difficult late Miss Charlotte Yonge and her works for to judge his complaint aright. But as to the funds to place a memorial to the novelist in other question, of course no editor divulges the Otterbourne Church, where she worshipped, and name of pseudo-writers without their consent. to erect a new reredos in the Lady Chapel of But to come to personal matters, I once Winchester Cathedral. The memorial committee addressed a letter to the editor of The Author includes the Bishops of Winchester, Rochester, suggesting the adoption of the term “ typograph” for typewritten matter. Now, I look upon this as Lieutenant of Hampshire and Surrey. a perfectly legitimate literary question, involving Mr. Rider Haggard's account of his recent an obvious want, as no one appears to know what tour in Palestine, which has been appearing to call this, now common, production; thus it serially in the Queen, will be published in the remains an unaccountable stumbling-block. Why autumn by Messrs. Longman. The title of the keep it so ? book will probably be “A Winter Pilgrimage.”  ## p. 15 (#347) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 15. A descriptive work on Naples, intended to rank The great History of the Royal Navy, by Mr. as supplementary to a guide, has been written by W. Laird Clowes, which has been appearing Mr. A. H. Norway, and will be published by during the past year or two, is to number seven Messrs. Methuen under the title of “ Naples, Past volumes instead of six. The sixth volume is and Present.” It is fully illustrated. about to be published, and the subject which has Mr. Charles Duguid has written “ The Story of rendered the concluding one necessary is ihe work of the Naval Brigade in the South African the Stock Exchange ” of London, which passed its centenary only the other week. The book will campaign. be illustrated by Mr. Joseph Pennell and Mr. The second volume of Dr. M. R. James's Dudley Hardy. descriptive catalogue of the Western manuscripts in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, will “ The Vivisector,” No. 1 of a series of “ Testa- be published in a few days from the Cambridge ments” by Mr. John Davidson, will be issued by Mr. Grant Richards on June 4. In a “Note" University Press. prefixed to the volume Mr. Davidson says: A new work by Mr. Cuninghame Graham, entitled “ A Vanished Arcadia," will be published The Testament of a Vivisector, the first of a series of poems which I purpose pablishing at intervals, will hardly in a few days by Mr. Heinemann. It relates to recommend itself to vivisector or anti-vivisector; and the the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay. Dew statement of materialism which it contains is likely to Mr. Francis Gribble's book, “ Lake Geneva offend both the religious and the irreligious mind. This poem, therefore, and its successors, my “ Testaments,” are and its Literary Landmarks,” will be published addressed to those who are willing to place all ideas in the this month by Messrs. Constable. crucible, and who are not afraid to fathom what is sub- A new novel by Lieut. Colonel A. C. Haggard, -conscious in themselves and others. entitled “ Love Rules the Camp," will be published For the election to the Slade Professorship of immediately by Messrs. Hutchinson. Fine Art at Cambridge University, Mr. Charles Mr. A. J. Dadson is the author of a little book, Waldstein, Litt.D., King's College, who succeeded entitled “ Evolution and Its Bearing on Religion,” Mr. Middleton in 1895, did not seek re-election. which will be published by Messrs. Sonnen- The vacancy was filled on May 25, when the schein. choice of the electors fell upon Sir William Martin Conway, M.A., formerly chairman, and Mr. Robert S. Rait is preparing a volume, for now a member of Council, of the Society of publication by Messrs. Constable, containing Authors. hitherto unpublished autograph poems by King James the First of England and Sixth of Scot- "A Child of Art” by Annabel Gray, the second land, the existence of which, in the Bodleian of the series of her novels, is now published by Library at Oxford, has only recently been dis- Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., price 38. 6d. covered. “ The Mystic Number 7,” now in a fourth edition, will be issued at is. by same firm in the autumn. “An Eton Boy's Letters " is the title and subject of a work by G. Nugent Bankes, which “Anthems and Anthem Composers,” by Mr. Messrs. Cassell are about to publish. Purport- Myles Birket Foster, which Mr. Murray is to pub- ing to be written to relatives and friends, the lish, is described as an essay on the development letters narrate the vicissitudes of the boy's of the anthem from the time of the Reformation career at school, and illustrate the manners and to the end of the nineteenth century, with a com. customs of the college. plete list of anthems belonging to each of the four The Fellows of the Royal Society met at centuries. Burlington House, on May 9, to discuss the ques- A life of Synesius the Hellene has been written tion of enlarging the scope of the Society with a by the Rev. W. S. Crawford, vicar of Checkley, view to constituting a more distinctive literary Stoke-on-Trent, and will be published by Messrs. and philological section. The proceedings were Rivington. private, but it was announced at the close that A grammar of Cape Dutch has been prepared no decision had been come to, and that another by Miss A. Werner, of King's College, London, meeting would be called shortly. and will be published shortly by Messrs. Williams The Archbishop of Canterbury presided at the and Norgate. annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on "Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her May 17, and spoke of the excellent services Friends" is the title of a volume which Messrs. rendered by the fund to distressed writers. It Wells Gardner will issue shortly. It is written was hardly conceivable, he added, that we could by three friends of the late poet. ever sum up the debt we owed to great writers.  ## p. 16 (#348) ############################################# 16 THE AUTHOR. Of all the things for which he was grateful to God, he knew but one that stood above the gift of à noble literature, and that was God's own revelation; and when we put that high above everything, still he knew nothing he could rank higher than the literature which ennobled our country.-Subscriptions amounting to nearly £1000 were announced at the dinner. Mr. H. G. Keene has republished in book form the interesting series of articles he contributed to the Calcutta Review on the French and English free-lances who found their opportunity in the chaos which preceded the establishment of British power in India. Sir Richard Temple contributes a felicitous preface. The brochure is published by Messrs. Thacker, Spink, and Co., of Calcutta, and of 2, Creed-lane, London. Prince Kropotkin, the Russian scientist and exile, promises to bring out immediately a popular edition of his interesting work, “ Fields, Factories, and Workshops,” hitherto available only to those who could afford half-a-guinea or so. The book is a study of economic tendencies in the realms of modern industry and agriculture. Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein and Co. will be the publishers. The format will be especially good, both in the shilling (paper) and two-shilling (cloth) edition. In addition to the usual budget of short fiction, Crampton's Magazine for June will contain an article by Björnson on French exclusiveness and a discussion of “Is the • Yellow Peril’ a reality ?” by Lieutenant-General Türr, the Garibaldian veteran ; M. de Bloch, the famous Moscow banker and adviser of the Tsar; and Mr. Alexis Krausse, author of several works on China. Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted a copy of “Alien's” new novel, “ Another Woman's Territory.” Mr. B. T. Batsford regrets to announce that the second issue of Mr. Edwin 0. Sachs's monumental work, “Modern Opera Houses and Theatres,” promised for the opening of the opera season, bas been unavoidably delayed by the illness of the author. It is now scarcely probable that Mr. Sachs's work can be reissued before the autumn. “ The Nana's Talisman” is the title of a new novel, now on sale, by Mark Ashton, author of “ She Stands Alone,” &c. The publishers are Messrs. Hutchinson and Co. From a notice on the fly-leaf of Mr. Robert Cromie's “ Kitty's Victoria Cross,” which Messrs. Frederick Warne and Co. have just published, we learn that a new edition of Mr. Cromie's “A Plunge into Space” is in the press. The latter will contain twenty illustrations by Mr. Lancelot Speed. Among the many claims to prophecy made by authors-some of which are a trifle shadowy-we may instance Mr. Cromie's wireless telegraphy forecast in “A Plunge into Space," the first edition of which was published in 1890. Tesla and Marconi had not then commenced to work their wonders, but Mr. Cromie's paragraph —which will appear in the new edition without the alteration of a single word-has been admitted by an electrical science journal to be a fairly good definition of wireless telegraphy up to the moment of going to press. Two matinées for the benefit of the Waifs and Strays Society will be given at the Criterion Theatre on June 3 and 4, when, among other attractions, two one-act pieces will be performed —one by Lady Bancroft, the other by Mr. F. Anstey. At the Lyceum, Madame “Saps-Gêne” will be revived on June 10, “The Lyons Mail” on June 19, and “Charles I.” on June 24. Mr. J. T. Grein is proposing to start a “ Théâtre Français” in London. “Ben Hur,” the religious drama which has been so successful in the United States, is to be produced at Drury Lane next Easter. Mr. T. E. Pemberton is writing a Life of Miss Ellen Terry. The Stage announces that the F. R. 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