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The committee, acting the suggestion place one these members, have decided this permanent paragraph The Author order cognisant that members may those funds paid. which these contributions may The funds suitable for this purpose are (1) The Capital Fund. This fund kept reserve necessary for the Society case incur heavy prin fighting question expenditure, either ciple, assisting obtain copyright reform, ROM time to F º-e is in THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. e of of to of of 1908, the Trustees the beginning the Pension Fund the Society, after the Secretary had placed before them the financial position the Fund, decided invest per #230 the purchase Irish Land Act cent. Guaranteed Stock. £258, and The amount purchased added A. T to of on º-e PENSION of of of cases that have come before the notice or the knowledge the Secretary the Society, and that those members the Society who desire have the names the publishers concerned can obtain application. them in to e of to of THE Editor begs inform members the Authors Society and other readers The Author that the cases which are quoted The Author are of be of to at at It of of Authors, List Members the Society published October, 1907, can now obtained the offices the Society the price July, 6d., post free 7#d. includes elections 1907, and will be sold members and associates the Society only. dozen blank pages have been added the end of the list for the convenience of those who they are chronicled desire add future elections from month month these pages. to especially stated MEMBERS. º-º-º to or - OF 2; unless such is as be of or in papers that are OR the opinions expressed signed initialled the authors alone are para responsible. None the papers graphs must expressing the opinion taken º-e of º-º-º of in is º-e NOTICES. the Committee to be the case. of e LONDON. of AUTORIDAD, e is it of all ADDRESS SIXPENCE. A TELEGRAPHIC [PRICE 1909. dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work the Society. slowly (2) The Pension Fund. This fund increasing, and hoped will, time, cover the needs the members the Society. WICTORIA. 374 1s'ſ, or NUMBER : TELEPHONE JANUARY 4. XIX. No. SIR WALTER BESANT. : tº. FOUNDED Monthly.) Society of Authors. in (The Organ of WOL. bor. El u t Irrigation ............... �ADITISIOR. Subscriptions. 1908. : º . tº g e e . K. A. e o º & e . .i º º g e . 11 1908. 2 º e 16, Carolin, Mrs. 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W. Sept. 28, Whitworth Wynne" Oct. 23, Woolf, Miss Bella Sidney Oct. 31, Robinson, Nov. Wroughton, Miss Cicely Nov. Sherard, H. Nov. Cameron, Miss Charlotte Nov. 12, Tweedie, Mrs. Alec. Nov. 17, Tench, Miss Mary © Now. 17, Anon. © º Nov. 21, Anson, Sir William, Bart. Nov. 21, Cordeaux, Miss M. º º . . 1 1 K. 1. Q º . . I F. A. 1 . J. R. 7, 7, 6, 1 R. . 1 R. g . e e . E. . F. . i of E. G. E. F. K. J. L. . A. T. e J. K. . Dec. 14, Weyman, Stanley Dec. 17, Macpherson, John T)ec. 17, Hills, Mrs. Martha Dec. 18, Hands, Mrs. Morris Dec. 18, Geddes, Mrs. . . S. . A. S. T. L. E. Rosetti, July July M. e e E. T. Felkin, . Askew, Claude Donations, C. E. º . º T. . E. Sachs, Truman, Miss Olivia Yolland, Miss Bagnall, Miss Humphreys, Mrs. Desmond (Rita) Anon. Westrup, Miss Margaret Lynch, H. B., M.P. Caillard, Miss M. L. l . Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. . 1 J. .. . o . . . J. . E. F. G. A. G. G. G. A. E. . E. Brandon, Miss Dorothy. Nov. 28, Pasture, Mrs. Henry Nov. 28, Scott, Mrs. s NOV. 28, Harrison, Mrs. Darent Nov. 28, Logan, The Rev. Robert Nov. 28, Chesterton, Nov. 30, Sherwood, Miss Now. 30, Hutchinson, The Rev. H. N. W. M. Miller, Miss Esther 11, Woodward, Miss Ida 12, Mann, Mrs. Mary 12, Lack, H. Lambert 14, Winchilsea and Nottingham The Countess of Dec. 14, Sinclair, Miss May G. T. N v. Nov. 26, Marks, Mrs. Mary Nov. 26, E. Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss e Nembhard, Miss Isabel Smith, Miss M. . S. Oct. 10, Macnaughton-Jones, Oct. 20, Garvice, Charles Nov. 12, Woods, Miss Mary Nov. 20, Boycott, W. M.. Nov. 20, Budgeon, Miss Nov. 21, Benjamin, Lewis g e Nov. 21, Coulton, Dixon, 21, Margaret Nov. Miss H. © Nov. 21, Colquhoun, Nov. 23, Holmes, Miss Eleanor Nov. 23, Hussey, Eyre Nov. 23, Capes, Bernard Nov. 23, Hecht, Mrs. Arthur Nov. 23, Festing, Miss Gabrielle Nov. 23, Carolin, Mrs. Mov. 23, Bland, Mrs. Nesbit Nov. 23, Hichens, Robert Nov. 23, Grogan, W. Nov. 23, Stowell, Mrs. Rodolph Nov. 23, Gay, Mrs. tº Nov. 23, Summers, Nov. 23, Bloundelle-Burton, Nov. 23, Freshfield, Douglas Nov. 24, Rowsell, Miss Mary e Nov. 24, Bell, Lady Nov. 24, Sanders, Miss Nov. 25, Count Plunkett e Nov. 25, Victoria Cross Nov. 25, Cromartie, the Countess Nov. 25, Sutro, Allred. Nov. 25, Kipling, Rudyard Nov. 25, Pope, Miss Jessie Nov. 25, Scott, Forrester 25, Carr, Miss Mildred Nov. 25, O Brien, The Rev. Nov. 25, Wills, The Rev. Freeman e Nov. 25, Lewis, Nov. 25, Fenwick, Miss Nov. 26, Montgomery, Miss Nov. 26, Dummelow, The Rev. Nov. 26, Jopp, Miss Nov. 26, Wintle, Harold R.. Nov. 26, Malcolm, Mrs. Ian. Niven, Frederick . Total ............... #3,376 18 E. 247 258 C. Stock Saies, Mrs. H. Heath, Miss Ella Thomas, Edward Shaw, Mrs. Bernard Smith, Bertram A. . . . . . . 23% Guaranteed NOV. 27, Nov. 27, Now. 27, NOV. 27, Nov. 27, Nov. 27, Nov. 27, Nov. 27, NOV. 28, 9, 9, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 4, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3;% Stock. . :O New Zealand Irish Land Act ... Cape of Good Hope 34%. Inscribed Stock .................................... 3200 Glasgow and South-Western Railway 228 4% Preference Stock.................. de la THE 86 �TRIE ALTTRIOR. s () () 5 0 1 2 1 () 0 () I I 0 O 10 6 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 last meeting of the committee for 1908 was held on Tuesday, December 8, at the society's office, at four o'clock. Thirteen members and two associates were its to 1 elected, bringing the number of elections for the current year up to 243 within three of the total This is the second election of the previous year. largest election the society has had since report the The committee regret foundation. resignation ten members, bringing the total seventy-two. resignations for the current year larger than last year. The total This number addition the society, which includes, loss resignations, erasions for non-payment and deaths, heavy. not, however, the The secretary reported the acceptances These the art sub-committee. council and The Author. the last number were chronicled up to to in to The committee : The first related of then considered the following of CàSéS to a dispute between one the agent. The former had found members and respecting impossible obtain any information The the agent. had entrusted the MSS. Write the secretary instructed committee demanding the return the MSS., and stating certain date the this were not done that placed papers would the the hands society's solicitors, who would commence pro ceedings. The next matter for consideration was difficult it to to of by a of in a i1 question concerning the bankrupt estate a 9, Lefroy, Mrs. . I () of 1)ec. () so 27, 27, 28, 28, 28, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, Bent, Mrs. Theodore 30, Atkins, Miss Margaret A. g e Dec. 7, Hood, Francis Dec. 7, Maunsell, A. E. Lloyd g Dec. 7, Carolin, Mrs. . Dec. 7, Drake, Lady Eliott Dec. 7, Parker, Mrs. Nella. Dec. 7, Montresor, Miss F. F. Dec. 7, Shepherd, George H. Dec. 9, Maartens, Maarten. Dec. 9. Y. F. S. ſ TYHE in Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. 5 º-º-º be 25, Now. 25, Nov. 25, Nov. 26, Nov. 27, Nov. 27, Nov. 27, 0 () NOTES. COMMITTEE of 25, d. The names of those subscribers and donors which are not included in the lists printed above, are unavoidably held over to the February issue. The total amount of annual subscriptions received and promised since the issue of the circular amounts to £61 12s. The total amount of donations to £82 6s. . Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite e Crouch, A. P. . Hawtrey, Miss Walentine Sedgwick, Miss Anna Douglas º e Anon. . Page, Herbert W. Brereton, Capt. F. S. . Knight, Mrs. Maude C. Bowen, Miss Marjorie . Turner, Reginald Nash, T. A. Trevor, John Wacher, Francis . Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. Farmer, Miss A. A. Hunt, Holman Tuckett, F. F. Allen, Mrs. Grant e Hole, W. G. e Granville, Charles Henoch, Miss Emily T. Simes, Miss O. Kathleen Penny, The Rev. Frank e Westell, W. P. . Coolidge, The Rev. W. A. B. Tennant, Lady Pamela e Wingfield, H. . Northcote, The Rev. H. Dexter, Walter Oliver, Miss Selwyn Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila 5 is Nov. Nov. & s. () to 25, Now. 25, Nov. 25, ſº :É an 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, g J. heto 24, 24, 24, 24, 24, tº ſº dolen Spielmann, M. H. Saville, Frank Kennedy, E. B. . Bennett, Prof. W. H. 9, Bourdillon, Miss Rose . 9, White, Mrs. Woollaston . 10, Gilliatt, The Rev. E. . & . 13, Evans, Miss C. M. 14, Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins . 14, Oppenheim, E. C. . 16, Blake, P. . º 17, Medlicott, Cecil º . 18, Tansley, A. G. . 19, Thurston, Mrs. Katherine Cecil . 19, Todd, John L. e º . 21, White, Percy to 21, 21, 24, 24, 1 Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. is Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. I d. if Nov. 21, Drewitt, F. Dawtrey, M.D. . Nov. 21, Delaire, Madame Jean . Nov. 21, Hecht, Mrs. Arthur . Now. 21, Collier, The Honble. John Nov. 21, Keltie, G. Scott . Nov. 21, Shepeard-Walwyn, H. w. Nov. 21, Church, Prof. A. H. Nov. 21, James, Miss S. Boucher Nov. 21, Ramsden, The Lady Gwen 8.7 �THE AUTHOR. Committee Notes. The committee sanctioned the its to it to of by of as of of is it of be of on to on in of of of to as publication obtain the benefit their criticism for the final revision the pamphlet. translation the constitution and treaty the new German Dramatic Authors Society was publish considered. Ilater we hope The foreign authors' Author series articles societies, which this new body will dealt with. applied wholly Meanwhile we need only say that it of in in of Germany with the the relations authors agents whose services are indispensable Germany present because the prevalence the repertory system. throws new light British report theatrical business. Mr. Shaw made respecting the working the French Société des Auteurs Dramatiques. The consideration managerial treaty the was continued and adjourned. of of a on no of the House of Commons, to put a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject. The secretary made a full report of the work accomplished by the Dramatic Sub-committee during the past months, details of which have appeared in past issues under the Dramatic Sub way mittee now sees some valuable additions hoped, make the pamphlet cover which will, every department business between authors and the theatre. Also, the pending settlement the questions between the Society Authors and the proposed Dramatic Authors Society seems likely reinforce the society the accession some adjourn experienced dramatists, was decided so An invitation, sent by Mr. C. J. Longman on behalf of his firm and other publishers, to appoint delegates to discuss certain matters relating to book publication, was read, and Mr. Maurice Hewlett, Mr. A. Hope Hawkins, and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw were requested to represent the committee in the matter. The secretary made a confidential report in respect to the Berlin Conference, and the action which it might be desirable to take in regard to the revised convention of Berne. The mutter was adjourned to the next meeting of the committee, when it is hoped that the Government report and Blue Book will be obtainable. Next followed a discussion on an important point respecting the payment of income tax on authors' earnings, and it was decided to ask one of the members of the society, who was also a member of NOTES. THE last meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee for the year 1908 was held at the offices of the society on Monday, December 7, at 3 o'clock. It had been decided to postpone publication of the dramatic pamphlet in The Author, as the com a the next meeting. COMMITTEE in this, and also the question DRAMATIC It to consider of advertisements in The Author, and to report to º-º-º to appointed the authors whose stories are running, and inquire whether their publication is or is not authorised. If the publication is unauthorised the com mittee will consider the matter, and, if necessary, take action for infringement of copyright. A recoverable under the American law owing to the lapse of time from the date of the offence. Another question a very complicated one touch ing the construction of an agreement between an author and a publisher was discussed, and counsel's opinion and the report of the society's solicitors were read. The committee decided to follow the solicitors' advice, and suggested that a letter should be written to the publisher, and his answer thereto be referred to them at their next meeting. The committee then considered the question of office management, and a small committee, con sisting of the chairman (Mr. Douglas Freshfield), Mr. Francis Storr, and Mr. S. Squire Sprigge, was to society would maintain this position by action if necessary, but to suggest that it would be possible to arrange an amicable settlement by purchase of the stock which the papermaker held. The next question referred to a false entry of copyright by a publisher in the United States. The secretary read the opinion of the society's American lawyers. It appeared from that opinion that it was impossible to take action for the penalty registration scheme there set out, but left the details to the sub-committee. When the scheme is ready, and in Working order, a statement will be published in The Author. A sub-committee, consisting of the chairman and Mr. Sidney Lee, was chosen to settle the report of the committee's work during the year. The proposal submitted by Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland was again adjourned owing to her absence, and the secretary was instructed to inform her it would be dealt with at the first meeting next year, and invite her if possible to attend. Finally, the committee decided, as far as possible, to obtain particulars of the titles of stories, and their authors, running in some of the colonial papers during a given period, in order to ascertain the extent, if any, of the piracy of British authors' works in the colonies. When the details are to hand, the secretary will write to at publisher. A papermaker claimed the assignment of the publishing contract and the right to publish. The solicitors opinion, which was opposed to the claims of the papermaker, was read to the com They instructed the secretary to write, mittee. setting out the legal position, and to state that the �TISIE AUTISIOR, just mentioned. Bentley, Simla, Calcutta. Royal Station Hotel, 5, N. E. . tº . º e Cases. to BOOKS of xv. By FRANCIS 12.S.m. m ; h, a n t e BOND. 9 × AND FONT COVERS. 347 pp. Frowde. -- FONTS 53. ART. × INDIAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING. Illustrated by typical masterpieces. By HAVELL. 73. Murray. xx. 278 pp. £33s. BRITAIN'S GREAT AUTHORS. With introduction and By ARTHUR WAUGH. descriptive text. 13. Publishing (Folio.) The Fine Arts Co. × The same the other three cases Q 4 E. in in to in New Zealand. as is to this PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. ARCEIITECTURE. + in is of of ; slow one case remark applies º-e t so MSS., which one claim for the return still negotiation; and two disputes on the course agreements which have only recently come into the office. Eight cases remain open from former months. Three of these deal with matters the United States, and the negotiations these are necessarily Llanfairfechan. Road, Auriol West Kensington, W. 10 to in of DURING the past month only ten cases have been placed the secretary's hands. Six these referred claims for money, and we have report with regret that only one them has been settled far. There was one claim for accounts, and these have been rendered by the publisher; 2, . . G. 6 º-e Place, 24, B. of an to Samuels, Major John, W.D. {e (Lumen) Snowden, Keighley Buccleugh Edinburgh. 25, Welbeck Street, W. 10, Glyn Mansions, Bridge, Addison W. n. it be to . to of or or defendant. Vicarage Gate, Kensington, W. 48, Harley Street, W. 15, - of no in be a of he were plaintiff Road, Road, West Kensington, a to a as its at Risque, W. H. l C 38, Pevensey Eastbourne. 30, Wereker Annie won Hope Poissonnière, Paris. Lack, H. Lambert MacLeod, Hamilton Protheroe, St. Terrace, Crescent 14B, Mrs. Hugel, Baron Nath, he Loughloher, Cahir, Ireland. Cowley, Uxbridge. - Bosanquet, Bremner, James Durran, W. Raghu Hull. M. McCraith (L. M. McCraith). Drummond, Road, 17 an Arthur Blakeney, Holland Chatterjee or of of a or of or of a or 15/2, W. . : to of to of on scenario, any the society's office two copies original similar statement the subject literary, work, any original dramatic adaptation. The society, matter translation having compared the two copies, will file one and return the other the author stamped with duplicate has been registered with certificate that the Society. Members availing themselves the registry must bear mind that under circum stances can they allowed access the registered Copy, any possibility tampering with would destroy value. Copies, however, can obtained trifling fee any time for cover the cost typing. Should the author have take proceed ings for infringement defend himself against infringement, accusation the registered copy Would strengthen his position considerably, whether in Baner ea, Satya Bhusan of as on be of 2A, L. its in and even inexperienced authors, accept evidence quite common coincidences evidence plagiarism. The final arrangements have not been settled. They will probably the following lines Any member the society will henceforth have payment half-a-crown, the right, send to a be December Elections. Armfield, Maxwell . matter to the Committee of Management (which subsequently concurred : see Report). The proposal was to strengthen the hands of the dramatist in the event of his plot being pirated, or in the event of a charge of piracy being brought against him, by enabling him to produce an authoritative record dating from invention. Cases recently tried the courts indicate that disputes often arise, and that judges and juries, the T. A suggestion made by one of the dramatic members of the society that the society should Open a register of all scenarios for its members Was fully approved, and it was decided to refer The rest are claims for money Failing money and accounts. satisfactory settlement these will transferred the society's Solicitors. 0-$º-e S. INNOVATION. or IMPORTANT 89. �AUTHOR. Smith, Elder. 15s. x 68. 73 x 5. x 74 × T. L. 5. 7} C. R. 5. × 74 . 9. x G. n. 9 × G. n. A. -- lv. × & 10 F. THE JUDICIAL DICTIONARY. By SUPPLEMENT 64. 641 pp. Sweet. Vol. IV. STROUD. Sons. Maxwell and Stevens LITERARY. JOHN MILTON, 1608 1674. 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P. as be is of to be to a remedy for widespread want which cannot provide results from broad and general social causes; that so; that the pro ought not expected vision such remedies the proper responsibility accepted the State, and should such. The King and Son. publishers are Messrs. Mr. Richard Davey has just published second is of * in of (author the forth English) Robespierre translation and adaptation for the Portraits course a of a Hippolyte Buffenoir coming by life, of is of The Sultan and his Subjects (Messrs. preparing and Windus), and second Pageant his London (Messrs. Methuen). The former has been considerably revised and enlarged. play A Woman's Pride, modern society edition Chatto edition 9. on an as on in an C. English stage Mary Rowsell. Mr. Wynford Dewhurst gave address the Manchester City Art Gallery December His subject was Paris Art Mother. Some thirty his pictures have been recently exhibi tion the Midland Hotel, Manchester. Mr. Fifield has just published two volumes by England, Mrs. Alfred Marks: Landholding Poverty, and considered Relation The Though issued separately, the Corn Laws. forming one work. Volumes may considered in as be to in C. as be in by at Wyndham's Theatre, On November 28, Sir comedy three acts, Haddon Chambers, was produced. may described satire on Suburbia. The cast included Mr. Anthony, It in Philanthropy and the State or, Social Poli tics, Kirkman Gray, edited Eleanor Hutchins, the author Kirkman Gray and maintains the thesis that private philanthropy of L. by in be be a is T. Thorpe Mayne. a be R. by * of Mary Mr. Francis Griffiths has published England, tragedy four acts, of 30 on in on of We have received from Mr. John Ouseley Shelley Foster; Poem, Captain Claude Mark Talbot, Crofton Spencer; The Silver Cross, Jenkins Stenning; The Flitting Angelina, Jessica Solomon. Also The Life and Times Robert Emmett, the first volume The Irish Library Series, which commendable pity the cheapness undertaking. this disfiguring the text series sixpence necessitates with advertisements. by in in on a is of it It is Wife, being brought out Mr. Fisher study Unwin. deals with modern life, and strongly contrasted temperaments. The scenes are laid the west coast Scotland and Hampshire. notes, of on a he is of F. in by in before (and, after) the country was annexed Great Britain. Conditions being now totally changed, recalls much that can never seen again and but for this book would swept away unrecorded. Miss Beatrice Moffat's novel, John Broome's glossarial and at of be T. at to of is in by in by to an to a of in by E. A. byat a is by is no of to of of Imperial Mystery Mrs. Theodore Bent, author Southern Arabia, Soudan, and Sucotra, shows how the British nation can be traced the lost tribes Israel and how other nation can, the United States published representing Manasseh. The book Messrs. Sherratt and Hughes one shilling. Lloyd The Apostate novel Maunsell, which Messrs. Allen have brought out. Mr. Selwyn Brinton's series, The Renaissance Italian Art, has now been completed the publication Part III., The Mediciat Florence. This volume contains full account of Florentine painting from Paolo Uccello Ghirlandajo. There analysis are twenty-six illustrations and Florentine painting from Paolo Doni (1397-1475) Wincenzo Dandini (1607-1675). Seekers, Frank Savile, which has been running serially brought P.'s Weekly, will out book form Mr. Arnold early next month. present engaged Mr. Savile new novel, Morocco, the scene which laid principally complete which has lately revisited Tangier, Melilla, and various other North African towns. The second and third concert Mr. St. John Lacy's sixth series chamber-music concerts will January given the Clarence Hall, Cork, and March 10. Those taking part will include Nſadame and Signor Grossi, Miss Eileen Price, Mr. W. Brady, and Mr. St. John Lacy. engaged Mr. Hubert Wales new novel pub entitled Hilary Thornton, which will lished Mr. John Long the early spring. The incidents woven into Marama" C. Woollaston White's new novel (Messrs. and T. Washbourne) are taken from eye-witnesses and Fiji actors some the scenes occurring be edited, with preface Thomas Hardy. it The of from Palestine ; the Lost Tribes, in Anglo-Saxons a In or, are asked by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, for the information of her many literary friends, to announce the recent death of her husband from heart failure after a few days' of E 2. 1. º-º-º illness. Three numbers Messrs. Crewsher Co.'s Songs have just been pub New School Series They are Budgen, and are lished. Miss entitled: No. The Hurricane and The Snowdrop"; No. True Charm ; No. There's Beauty the Air. We have received from Mr. Henry Frowde Select Poems William Barnes, chosen and all NOTES. by TISIES 92. �THE AUTHOR. we in we to of of of of of of is in of de is to in he a is de in is of as of a of of by is a et all is as is all so of be et is I in de no as by a of de to of to in he to of It a is F. C. in of of a is it as a in is in on he a byin of of of is of of of is it of who deals out what considers justice with his own hands, and avenges himself the wife who has betrayed him. There are two other curious and very original stories the same volume simple primitive life, very human and stories poetry with touch them. Brada, we have very L Ame libre, a de on of is of a is is at in he of study and the Bayas, and more especially greatly interested, the boy Sama whom who dies while they are Yalé. The account his death and funeral both dramatic and pathetic, deep feeling and and the whole chapter full poetry. The epilogue and the last chapters promise, and notes are full with the greatest is a in as of in a is as is of pressions date. These articles and criticisms are just interesting and seem just fresh when they many years ago. The curious Were penned part nearly this author's articles that the writer seems have been gifted with prophecy, frequently appears for his writings referring many the burning questions to-day. Nolhac, the Conservateur M. Pierre the Versailles Palace, has just brought out volume Trianon, with illustrations entitled Versailles René Binet. M. Nolhac knows Versailles He lives in the one else does France. château and knows its history and all that has happened there. The present edition published sixty francs. Ramuz, Jean-Luc Persécuté, by peasant life curious story the mountains. graphic style and every detail given. told tragic, The end the story husband at de of et de to of all a is It by a As well the author's first im Africa, we have study the effect that the great silence and peace Africa has Sama, his own soul. The next article entitled l'Afrique. the volume. The account early life given with many picturesque details. His letter his mother young man, Curious when, was such poverty spite his father's wealth. His trial detail, and his execution. described later on Anatole France's new book, Les Contes Jacques Tournebroche, published with coloured illustrations Ilêon Lebègue. By way fêting the centenary Barbey d Aurevilly, Mlle. Louise Read has published Centenary edition his volume entitled Voyageurs Romanciers. This collec tion articles about twenty-six French writers, among whom are Ampère, Frédéric Soulié, George Sand, Octave Feuillet, Victor Hugo and Barbey the Comte Gobineau. Like d Aurevilly's books, there nothing that seems is La of prize of £200 has just been to Edouard Estaunié, the author Wie secrète, mentioned in last article. interesting It will be to admirers Renan know that his grandson, Ernest Psichari, has just published his first book, Terres Soleil delightful description Sommeil. Africa poet spite written soldier who him self. The first chapter entitled Le Sourire month's ing illustrations Fouquier-Tinville's so sº-º LITERARY awarded Justice, Fouquier-Tinville, Maison L Accu Fouquier s'élève, sateur public, Les Grands Jours, L Ecroulement, Messes Rouges, Le Procès du Tribunal. There are several interest Out PARIS NOTES. 0 the result among the archives his country. this book are entitled La as º-e l'Empire, and discoveries The chapters In e (1793 1795) Révolution his historical studies La on favour and fills in the amount as My wife's love. Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie, was again revived at the Duke of York's Theatre on December 23 with Miss Pauline Chase in the name part. Révolutionnaire Lenotre's volumes on de J. Tribunal of Mr. Charles W. France and Miss Evelyn D Alroy appeared on December 17 in a little one-act play, Locke, at the Empire Theatre. by W. It is called A Blank Cheque, and concerns Mr. Mahoney, convict, who upon his an innocent release asks his wife to draw a blank cheque in his Le another of that introduces an aviator and his aeroplane. Mr. Seymour Hicks and Miss Ellaline Terriss sustained the principal parts. pleasure that recognize this book the simpli language and the sincerity which had every right expect from the grandson Ernest Renan. city et is Grossmith, Mr. Edmund Maurice, Mr. Evelyn Beerbohm, Miss Suzanne Sheldon, Miss Mary Leslie, and Miss Nina Boucicault. December 9 was the first night of The Last of by St. John Hankin, produced the De Mullins, by the Stage Society at the Haymarket Theatre. The play concerns a girl with unconventional ideas on the subject of marriage. In the last act her father becomes almost reconciled to her through a liking for her fatherless boy, but Janet de Mullin refuses to return permanently to her home. The boy, the last of the De Mullins, must earn by his own efforts name and reputation. The players included Miss Lillah McCarthy and Mr. Nigel Playfair. A new comedy sketch, by Paul Rubens, entitled Fly by Night, was given at the Palace Theatre on December 14. It is the first play in English Weedon 93 �A UTHOR. a be a of of is as in by to a is a of of in a to a of as is by of so of is in of a to of of of by ; as a to of all is to º' to of on a of of all at in of is a by a is of in by by of a of of in in It a D. P. in to be of of of be a of to of a of to of it it de to be a T a is it to en '' et de et de La Vie secrète (Perrin). Sommeil (Calmann Lévy). Soleil Terres Le Tribunal Revolutionnaire (1798 1795)" (Perrin). Jacques Tournebroche (Calmann Lévy). Les Contes Voyageurs (Lemerre). Romanciers Jean-Luc Persécuté (Perrin). L Ame libre (Plon). Prusse (Juven). Mes Prisons is to is in is at by - at be it to of be of It a ALYS HALLARD. ; à on of a a Blessé. her literary consideration Alfonso XIII. talent, that could give such striking pictures the Spanish nobleman feelings and the home life the son s wife. the heartless conduct ruined Daudet, has just been Le frère ainé, Martinez translated into beautiful Spanish verse night the other was rendered Sierra public Señorita Roderiguez and Señor Porredon. great loss the death Madrid has just suffered was his Salvador Font. the Reverend poured published which the A.B.C. articles controversy during the the stormy waters 1907, when the Solidarity Catalonia elections power too strong proved set aside. This Solidarity for the suffrage the priest zealously declared was quite distinct from the Separatism The was sometimes confounded. with which poor, the father called the was ecclesiastic clever his initiation that the Society was due for practical benefit such source Santa Rita the illustrious ladies who the poor; and many it of '' de an to de In Barbey December Paris the Revue d Aurevilley s Letters Trébutien are published. L Empereur article Judith Gautier gives and Ernest Lavisse on Un Séjour Chine Berlin. The theatrical event of the month has been the reception the Théâtre the play Le Foyer was quite impossible for the piece Français. persons had been ejected. number continue until regret that The general opinion seems given play this kind should table that At the Vaudeville Le Lys" State theatre. being given, and L Oiseau the Renaissance San been brought up abroad, with his relatives tragic Sebastian, its disillusion and dénouement, only the pen writer like Pardo Bazan, but countess been made has recently who by byon is Bien-Aimée. By Guzman the authoress ( Guzman's Child. ) Spaniard imbued Emilia Pardo Bazan means past the poetic chivalry and honour with ages. this young man, who had The encounter it de by an J. de in as a et le La Joyzelle realistic novel Rebelión plumb the which will interest those who like matter evils evolved from marriage high arrangement instead the inclination genius Spain. Society" touch There the fire with which the author describes the love when the inevitable heroine's awakening appears. Like mighty stream kindred spirit sweeps away and the convention laws evidently written one who knows, we book contented the medal see that the reverse social life, supposed the demands serfdom Spain, high degree prevail among women feeling keen that the high tide rebellion tragedy. the quicksand breaks El Niño de Guzman From rebellion we turn on an is de A. G. on Victorien Sardou by article there Caillavet, and one on Le Marché 1908, Bordeaux. Salon l'Automobile article M. Jacques Bardoux also contributes The novel Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. which has Colette Baudoche, Maurice Barrés, now this review, serial been published finished, and M. Jean-Louis Wandoyer commences daire from Valencia that Bernardo novel Morales has recently published La Tribuna Roja (The Scarlet entitled said The work may Tribune). Woman, study psychological and feminism point Spaniard's view has from seen English readers. particular interest This Spain his author was already well known In Rulla readers La Rulla. romance called arresting, inasmuch character which See painted with sincerity and wide sympathy. comes in of is of of a in a as an by a be of in It is by all in all en of the study those who are interested phases Mes Prisons life German Prusse, attractive Paul Chorenne, will Frenchman the account given book. spy, his trial, and Germany his arrest imprisonment. The prison etiquette and prison graphic life during seven years are described and amusing way. Georges Duval s trans The seventh volume Shakespeare now ready, and contains lation four plays. In the December numbers of La Revue Hebdoma To º-º-º EWS it a life. SPANISH NOTES. of in of of a as is a is, true study of French life in a certain circle of society. There are no doubt hundreds of girls present in precisely the circumstances described at by the observant novelist who tells the story. Every character in the book lives and is well the selfish aristocrat, the somewhat drawn husband and wife who live, and bring up their children, on their expectations, the young girl who has more modern ideas than her parents, but who is nevertheless bound, as it were, by the old typical too, arrivist There traditions. extremely The whole book the young doctor. study interesting French certain phase oil TISIES 94 �TFIE AUTHOR, writing, of is of of to to in be to be to on on to in it to or of to or or in so of by be of of of 17 of of 4 it be of as of to of by in or on be of an of or or or is : a is of to be to or of in or by be be is to by or be J (2 v. is of to of of to of be by or so S. to a as a a to to to it to he on It an at tended the defendant the trial that the could not recover because the provisions tiff plain of in be into between them should by is is - entered to s e-s continually arising which when there are disputes between authors and publishers whether the agreement QUESTION it, CONTRACTS IN WRITING AND THE 'STAMP ACT. they are material far printer, the present subject, that the plaintiff, print for the defendant having agreed work which was contain dedication to be thereafter him, printed the work and also the dedication, sent but the latter being returned him revised, discovered for the first time that contained libellous matter, whereupon refused continue the printing and the defendant refusing accept pay for the work without the dedica tion, brought action against him for the price of the work without the dedication. was con of a as of of Separatism for Catalonia, never conceived the idea for Separatism came under the same category evils for Regions suicide for individuals. RACHEL CHALLICE. A a v-u-w 236). The facts were, or of he In all its The great speech of Moret, the leader of the Liberal party in Saragossa, was listened to by a large assembly at the Town Hall. In his call to his followers the orator said, Union is strength, union is health, union is the sacrifice of the small for the great, union is to have a conscience. Cambo, the great statesman of Catalonia, has just held an impressive meeting in Barcelona. The Solidarist leader declared that the policy of victory for the suffrage will finally Catalonia in speaking eloquently for extend over Spain. interests, the orator declared this union had a reference to Abd-el-Aziz and Muley Hafid, the mission of Monsieur Regnault to Rabat, the During intervention of France in Casablanca, etc. the long time of his service at Tangier as Secretary of the Foreign Office, Don Manuel de Figuerola has more than justified the high opinion formed of him when in Madrid. writing unless some note memorandum the contract made and signed the party charged his agent that behalf. The Stamp Act 1891 provides that any agree any memorandum agreement shall ment stamped with sixpenny stamp. But the following exemptions are made agree ment or memorandum the matter whereof not of £5; and agreement, letter, the value memor relating any andum made for the sale goods. The 4th section of the Statute of Frauds renders performed void any agreement that not within year from the making thereof, unless the agreement upon which the action brought some memorandum note thereof, shall writing and signed charged the party there with some other person thereunto him lawfully authorised. roughly divided into (1) The subject may literary work agreements for the sale done, and (2) agreements for the sale Work already done. Or With regard the first class, one the leadin Sº, Clay cases the subject that Yates N. on Reparaz, Carracido the Marquis of Wadillo, were among those who assisted at the ceremony. The discourse of the new academician was very well written and replete with interest, the theme being Science as the Spring of Poetic Inspiration. The Libro Amarillo (Blue Book) on Morocco, gives a full account of the policy of France with J. Pidal, Count on to Menendez or in Count Casa Valencia, be . de Palau. another, viz., assuming the contract writ ing, whether requires stamped. Having regard the words used the two statutes, many cases which have been decided the Statute Frauds are also authorities the Stamp Act. The sections of the several Acts which bear on necessary the subject and which will consider are follows: Sec. the Sale Goods Act, 1893, which practically reproduces sec. the Frauds, provides that A contract for the Statute any goods sale the value ten pounds upwards shall not enforceable action unless sold, the buyer shall accept part the goods give something and actually receive the same, part-payment, earnest bind the contract, be Among these ladies one noted the Marchionesses of Perijaa Montehermoso, the Señoras Dato and Luca de Tena, etc. The funeral was attended by the Minister of War, General Weyler, and other celebrities. The Exhibition, which is still open at the palatial editorial house of A.B.C., has been the Scene of many successful entertainments. Señorita Carmen Roderiguez Trelles, the girl musician, gave a most brilliant pianoforte recital one afternoon, in which she interpreted with great facility many difficult works of great masters. The Royal Academy of Spain saw the reception the other day of the new academician, D. Melchor having regard the provisions the Sale Goods Act, 1893, and the Statute Frauds. And closely allied the above question L. devote so much time to cutting out and making garments for their less fortunate sisters took their farewell of the priest as he lay in the solemnity of death in his cell in the Convent of Saint Orozco. 95 the �of a be to of - is it be to as is it Aſ a - N. of of of Milton. By Jane - Stoddart. Criticism T. - BOOKMAN. The Latest Foreign B. F. of Wheeler. By Y. Y. Henley the Critic and other Matters. CORNHILL. The Holland House Circle. on the Table: By Virginia Stephen. By Leonard Huxley. Lewis Campbell. The Book de G. By E. H. E. P. P. Men. J. CONTEMPORARY. By Porson. Milton and Modern Montmorency. ForTNIGHTLY. of of John Milton. By Alice Law. The Tercentenary By Francis Gribble. Chateaubriand s Second Love. Whistler. By Walter Sickert. The New Life By St. London. The Need for an Endowed Theatre in of to it of of a It to to BIBLIOPHILE. Milton. By Professor Edward Dowden, LL.D. By Bertram Dobell. James Thomson. 1908. By Harold The Napoleonic Literature - in be to it, of is in º-º-º ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Write. By Havelock Ellis. On Learning the Problem Play. By Louis Some Moral Aspects W. Flaccus. Douglas. By Paradise Lost. Another Source John Hankin. : of ; CONTENTs. MAGAZINE to a of in it, upon the sales the book. writing, and had not been The contract was stamped the Judge who heard the case held that the contract did not come within the exemptions goods, and the sale the Stamp Act relating stamped. therefore required of of on be in of Grant Richards an re be it it in be stamped. author The Author, May, 1907), publisher upon his book sold the copyright the terms that the publisher should print and publish and should pay him certain royalties (reported by it by or to ' be is in it to A-* w w ~~ if be of its into writing and the matter thereof exceeded £5 in value it should be stamped, because it does not come within the exemptions of the Stamp Act relating to the sale of goods. It would also seem to follow that if the contract were one for the sale of work already done, that it would be a sale of goods and require to be in writing if the value of the contract was £10 or upwards. Whether such contract would require to be stamped is a very difficult question, and each own particular facts. case must depend upon the manu the contract was simply the sale script for lump sum would not require any additional stamped. On the other hand, might very contract the terms were embodied they contracts are reduced into writing, and when have them properly stamped. reduced are so It to in be is of It the price from being recovered as work and labour and materials found. appears to me, therefore, this was properly sued for as work and labour and materials found, and that the Statute of Frauds does not apply. It follows from the above case that where the contract is one for work to be done the contract need not be in writing. On the other hand, in such a case if the contract should have been reduced it part per Speaking generally, the doctrine the purview formance does not take the case out differs from that respect this section, and Goods Act. the Sale the 4th Section seen from the above how difficult will whether lay down any hard-and-fast rule absolutely necessary that contract should writing and stamped. clear enough, but the trouble The principle and each case must the application lies follows that considered separately. highly desirable that authors should see that their be I a - express appears, either wherever stipulation inference from the surrounding have been contemplated, that the circumstances completed either side contract could not the contract within the year, written evidence necessary. do not mean to say the price might not be recovered as goods sold and delivered if the work were completed and sent home. No doubt it is a chattel that was bargained for and delivered, and it might be recovered as goods sold and delivered, but still it would not prevent If writing. Therefore, It must held that recent case of In of Frauds, the Statute The 4th Section already stated, renders void any agreement that year unless the same performed within not 17th section of the Statute of Frauds had not been complied with. The Court, however, held that the section did not apply, the contract being one of work and labour and not of goods sold. Chief Baron Pollock seems to in the course of his judgment said, me the true rule is this, whether the work and labour is of the essence of the contract, or whether it is the materials which are found. My impression is, that in the case of a work of art, whether it be silver or gold, or marble, or common plaster, that is a case of the application of labour of the highest description, and the material is of no sort of importance as compared with the labour ; and therefore that all this would be recoverable as work and labour and materials found. possibly In the is as THE AUTHOR. 96 �THE AUTISIOR. WARNINGS - TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays in three or more acts: This (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. An author who enters into is unsatisfactory. ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property I. Selling it Outright, This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be But the transaction should be managed by a obtained. competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of Society. the II. Agreement - A Profit-Sharing agreement). (a bad form of 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 Therefore keep control of the advertisements. ments. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for office expenses, unless 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. (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. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form It is above all things necessary to know of agreement. It is now what the proposed royalty means to both sides. approximately the for an author to ascertain From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. possible truth. 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 In e2,DS. (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong We are advised that this is a right, in the to the author. nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld, (3.) Always avoid a transfer e of copyright. º-e WARNINGs To DRAMATIC AUTHORS, º-º-º 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 tmanager. EVER 97 such a contract should stipulate in the contract for production of the piece by a certain date of his name on the and for proper publication play-bills. (b) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary between 5 Percentages gross receipts. An author should obtain a and 15 per cent. percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts Should in preference to the American system. A fixed obtain a sum in advance of percentages. 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 out under heading (b.) 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 This is most important. time. rights, but 6. Authors should not assign performing The legal distinction is should grant a licence to perform. importance. great of 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 United States rights may be exceed They should never be included in English ingly valuable. agreements without the author obtaining a substantiał consideration. should be carefully for collaboration 9. Agreements 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 subject of dramatic con tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. e WARNINGS ITTLE º-e TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. can be added to the warnings given for the of books and dramatic assistance of producers authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as | a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with performing right and copyright. He �A UTFIOR, should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. MUSICAL COMPOSERS. TO º-º-º HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. is WERY member has a right to ask for and to receive greatly in of e Q-e NOTICES. º-º-e HE Editor The Author begs remind members the Society that, although the paper sent them charge, the cost producing free would very heavy charge great the resources the Society many members did not forward the Secretary the modest 5s. 6d. Subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed the Offices the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. literary work any kind, All persons engaged not, are invited whether members the Society communicate the Editor any points connected with their work which would advisable the general interest publish. to be a is it a if of to 7. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. London, Chancery crossed Union Bank by registered letter only. Communications and letters are invited by the on all subjects connected with literature, but on Every effort will no other subjects whatever. made 10. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. be to be Editor accepted. º-º-º e Lane, or of to be to to of to of give notice The Secretary the Society begs post, that all remittances are acknowledged by return requests and he members who do not receive an important answer communications within two days write him without delay. All remittances should be sent º-e LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The e ENSIONS º-0 or at to any selected age, commence either with without Life Assurance, can obtained from this Society. Full particulars can obtained from the City Branch Manager, Legal and General Life Assurance Society, 158, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C. be be 9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. to in be return articles which cannot This to or of in of confidential 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 concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to a greements. Fuller particulars of the Society's work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution. Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. of to of on of to for the reception it have now arranged of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as to 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 your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 6. The Committee of send is of it of a is as a M assist the Society the branch its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and composition treated treated by coach. The term fiction, but poetry MSS. includes not only works works, possible, under and dramatic and when Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The competence Readers are writers and experience. The fee one guinea. | 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 or old, for inspection and note. The information thus obtained may prove invaluable. º-º-º EMBERS will of 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi Therefore, do not scruple to use ence of ordinary solicitors. the Society. BRANCH, THE READING is 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. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor, but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Further, the Committee, if they Solicitors of the Society. deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion. All this any without cost to the member. 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, the document to the Society for examination. to With the Secretary, and the voucher then forwarded the members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble. -º-º-o 1. in of of its HE Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on behalf of members for the fee 6d. per 100 part 100. The members stamps are kept the Society s safe. The musical publishers communicate direct or TFIES 98 �Trips A Drt Hor. In it be it be to to is of of is to on or at be of It a of of of an at at be is of of at a in in in a be be to is It of no in an at be at of it to to as of of a of as is to to to The Life by be to of he is It to of of on if to is is at is in is of on is a it a of at at his most recent works, entitled issued about the Spirit, Williams and Norgate. one is If it in ; an so is If in at ; in a to of to no to to of do is a If PRIZE. THE NOBEL THE Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded Jena University, Professor Rudolph Eucken, offer our sincere congratula whom we beg responsible for that Professor Eucken tions. philosophy the New development known Idealism, and we understand that translation of it leadership from those whose there has been indeed, the musical world names carry weight the some who should be leaders have scoffed combination, we trust not because utility such they ever there was themselves. not need strong combination profession that needed The publishers, with the musical profession. grasping avidity, take the copyrights and perform England only but everywhere. ing rights, not many cases they offer The remuneration not infre grotesquely small and the composer quently merely the paid hack the publisher, produce much work every year. bound outrage the the dignity The position generation profession. the younger one kicks, his compositions are either rejected or, the rot publishes his own expense, they are left gradually flogged into publisher's shelves. He only one remedy combination. obedience. There publishers found that composer after com poser would not accept terms, they would gradually the matter from slow pressure yield, and look But the fight must more rational standpoint. long and stubborn one, for the composers fairly accurate reckoned the writers books 11,000. England total and dramatists the colonies who few writers There are not belong the United the society, and sundry America have found the society exceed States ingly useful when their works are published both hoped, therefore, the water. sides maintained, increase will that the yearly very distant date the society may that annual income from subscriptions reckon As the income increases, somewhere about £3,000. also, expenditure for the applications increases the The for legal assistance grow more numerous. heavy item legal expenditure the Society's But when its yearly income from sub accounts. £3,000, unless any serious scriptious amounts ought have an misfortune should descend, capital least the same well invested May the New Year show that these amount. any rate, part, hopes will fulfilled. on is to is publishers discusses the relations between music For years the Society has been and composers. combine, get the musical composers trying the fact that but unsuccessfully, owing mainly by the twenty-fifth the commencement THIS year The last year the society's existence. 243 members, and the election closed with the last circular issued that sent out on behalf total membership Fund showed Pension considerably over 1,900. stated that should the year are generally the end the numbers April, for higher than they are about March that time certain non-payers have been taken off consequent the books, and the resignations are more the call for the annual subscription possible, however, even then frequent. 1,900. put down the numbers roughly this result satisfactory The question arises, relied upon statistician whose figures may A is to is at a is to its mentioning name. state that the advice given kind enough He guinea, and cheap invalu by this society This, however, the young composer. able which we would draw attention. not the point really not half strong enough when The article a SOCIETY. OF THE as PUBLISHING. one of the current issues of Musical Opinion, to Young there is an article entitled Advice by An Old Hand. Composers, In this article the author has done the society the honour of IN be a *m-ºsm THE NUMBERS of d'Auteur, the Weekly. Le Droit Internationale, organ has Bureau the of official not as yet published a report of the conference, although the revised convention was published in The secretary, however, pro the November issue. poses to prepare a full statement of the proceedings, which will be published at the end of this month, and a series of critical articles, which will appear in Le Droit d'Auteur in the early months of this year. Publishers in THE Government Report of the Berlin Conference was not published on going to press, but we publish, by the courtesy of Mr. Askwith of the Board of Trade, the revised convention in French, and a translation of the same from the U.S.A. of to THE BERLIN CONFERENCE. MUSIC consequence, the long. have left the matter publishers feel that they have established their position. the movement will not come from leaders, then let come those who ought Let the younger generation. from the men their profession them show that indebtedness which Bacon says every man should owe. The only may good result come though sure years. the fulness If - so º-º-º- so GENERAL, NOTES. 99 Messrs. �TRIE A UſTHOR. of of by '' of of of on is of of In is be it of at in in is it to of is of a is do on do to to is a is of if as is of on a de la et. si la en il et sa si si la la la à à il de en la - of were a of in its on a to seventy-five apprenant que Sir Henry Bergne, été très attristée ancien président Société des Auteurs Anglais, est mort Berlin oti était venu représenter Grande Bretagne propriété littéraire Conférence pour artistique. Je me suis fait un devoir de dire au Comité quelle perte disparition Vraiment font les écrivains detous les pays par trop prompte, d'un homme digne, courtois, cruelle aimable, qui fut, toute vie, un défenseur convaincu du qui, avec grande: droit des auteurs sur leur Oeuvre jouissait Angleterre, aurait cer autorité morale dont tainement contribué obtenir poureux une reconnaissance: plus compléte leurs droits légitimes. de of of of of to of in to an the number SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.M.G., K.C.B. WE print the following letter from the President. of La Société des Gens de Lettres with the kind Lady Bergne. permission shows the warm. appreciation that was felt for Sir Henry and his France, and affords further evidence work the value of that work for the cause of international copyright. MADAME,-La Société des Gens de Lettres France et CLUB. WE are pleased hear that Mr. George Mere dith, our president, has signified his acceptance, autograph letter, the invitation the Execu occupy the tive Committee the Authors' Club president office their General Council for the ensuing year. The club held first dinner the Thursday, the 17th new premises December. There was most enthusiastic gathering. Members guests º-º-º-º-º-º-º-º-ºm-º Amºsºm-m-m-tº-mº of of certain measure especial short this agreement. It is, a be of as author to have his MS. returned though no one is to blame for this but to receive it in a con dition that renders re-copying imperative needlessly one our correspondents remarks, cruel. - and be in desire, however, to warn the few exceptions to take heed of their conduct in this matter. In the magazine and periodical market the outlook is more serious, and the slaughter of the innocents more general. It is bad enough for the Literary Year Book contains just over list 3,000. We not know what principle this list compiled, nor we know whether the list exhaustive, but submitted The Literary Year Book s figures are correct, then the society's mem bership 2,000 cause for congratulation, but we fear that the 11,000 much nearer the truth. Although we have not had time look through the volume with care, we have glanced through the part referring law and letters, and consider that, the space allotted for this complicated and difficult subject, the question has been dealt with, the whole, satisfactorily. We cannot, however, royalty compliment the writer his form of handling that is their due. We would state with regard to publishers that, generally speaking, MSS. confided to their care are treated with the greatest consideration. We THE AUTHORS the society carefully should passed. read and considered before any criticism England, given The number authors computed 11,000. another paragraph, The members in ceived against publishers, and there seems a very widespread feeling among authors that their tentative MSS. do not as a rule receive the tender this publication particularly necessary that in THE correspondence on this subject which has appeared recently in our columns has brought us many further communications. Information both for and against Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson's treat ment of MSS. has been received, though it is only fair to suppose in the latter case the bad treatment did not come under the notice of our correspondent The Editor. Other complaints have been re allowed but not just out, THE Literary Year Book for 1909 but has arrived the office the society too late. for review this issue. view the importance of EDITORIAL FAILINGs. Editors may failings, human Coming. THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK. at sº *E**** ºmºmºmºmº on **-ms present. Mr. Charles Garvice, the chairman the club, presided. After the toast The King, The Prosperity the Authors Club was the first toast. was proposed the chairman and enthusiastically most received. Mr. Francis Gribble then proposed the health the guest, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould. After dinner there. programme Was excellent music. The congratulated Authors Club may the success of its revival. It With reference to the rumours that have appeared in the daily Press of the assignment of the prize to Mr. Swinburne, we have high authority for saying that the decision of the Committee was very nearly given in his favour. At the same time, it could hardly be expected, after Mr. Rud yard Kipling's success of last year, that the prize would again be given to an Englishman. The Nobel Prize Committee, with the whole world to consider, have a very difficult duty to perform in adjudicating the claims of the numerous nominees, and in this especial subject of literature their intentions and efforts have been to distribute the prize among as many countries as possible. an 100 �A UITISIOR. he to at he a ALL SUBSCRIBING in who have been nominated the L. A. S. to up Sidney Webb. (3) The date fixed the committee which nominations the subscribing members of candidates for election the new committee may February. made the 15th day of is be all of by to of to of L. A. of S. of of S. 19 into of or by by a in by of or be to to in to by of or on of to or an of of a in in in to it to in be at to 12th nominate one more subscribing members, other than themselves, not exceeding the number writing sent vacancies filled up, notice the secretary, accompanied letter signed the candidate candidates expressing willingness accept the duties the post. Members desiring exercise their powers under this rule must send the name of the candidate candidates they nominate, not exceeding four February, together all, before the 15th day accompanying letter written with the candi accept date candidates expressing readiness nomination. The complete list candidates will of he he the : Mrs. Felkin (Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler). Mr. Arthur Rackham. Sprigge. Mr. Mr. Sidney Webb. The committee remind the members that under association, Article the amended articles any two subscribing members the society may committee consider the interest the society suggest any change not the constitution. They have therefore re-nominated the four retiring members. of On (4) The committee nominate the following candidates, being subscribing members the Society, fill the vacancies caused the retire ment one-third the committee, according the new constitution printed the March issue The Author. Having regard the fact that the present com mittee has not been office for full year, the of in a by re-election retiring committee are the Hon. Mrs. Felkin, Sprigge, Mr. Mr. Arthur Rackham, Mr. or the last few months we have had to chronicle the deaths of J. C. Parkinson, one of the oldest members of the society and of the council, of the Rev. Prof. Ilewis Campbell, and of Sir Henry Bergne. Now we have to regret the death of Mr. Basil Field, the head of the firm of Messrs. Field, Roscoe & Co., the society's solicitors. In the early days of the society, when friends were not so numerous as they are now, it was of great importance to the society to have the support of Mr. Field and his firm. He laboured with the promoters with energy and sympathy, and his mature judgment and sound practical advice often guided the course of the society's ship in the early days of its voyage. He assisted in the society s reform, and to efforts to deal with copyright him they used to refer with confidence doubtful legal issues. In the last few years he has not given so much personal attention to our work as previously, but his goodwill was always with the society's endeavours and the society's aims. It will be impossible for those who still remember the early days to forget his labours during those anxious struggles, and it is well that these facts should be brought to the ken of those who never knew. To Mr. Basil Field the society and deep debt gratitude. members owe 1835, and educated Mr. Field was born the London University, where took his degree. prac twenty-five At the age was admitted tice, joining the firm his father, Mr. Edwin of of of to for to º-º-º solicitor. to be of of of of Article the Articles Association the society, the committee give notice that the election members management will proceeded the committee with the following manner (1) One-third the members the present management retire from office committee accordance with Article 17. (2) The members desiring offer themselves by BASIL FIELD. Field, the eminent MEMBERs. of TO pursuance 19 NOTICE ELECTION. sº-0 by ©----- N 0 S. agreement. COMMITTEE of The December number of Le Droit d'Auteur also contains a long article, which illustrates the feeling of his colleagues, the delegates of other nations. It commends in the warmest language his special and personal efforts toward the ends of international à. - º-wA w of téressement personnel, à cette cause chère à son coeur. Au nom de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France et en mon nom personnel j ai l honneur de vous dire la part bien Sincère que nous premons à votre douleur. Et je vous prie de vouloir bien agréer, Madame, l hom mage de messentiments de sympathie respectueuse et bien attristée. Le Président de la Société des Gens de Lettres. Signé : GEORGES LECOMTE. December, while the Law Society's hall, paralytic stroke and was removed suffered his home, where died the following morning. N Aussi le Comité de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France a-t-il manifesté par un vote unanime ses regrets bien sinceres, et m'a-t-il confié le soin de vous les exprimer 16Il SOI),Il OIOl. Je le fais avec d'autant plus d émotion que, ayant eu l'honneur de travailler a Londres et à Berlin avec sir Henry Bergne, a la défense des justes intérêts littéraires, j ai pu apprécier ses qualités d'esprit et de caractère, l'ardeur si prudente et si avisée qu'il apportait, avec tant de désin 101 in TFIES �TI ILS A UTI IO PR. THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. UNITED STATES NOTES. º-º-º bybe an of of no as for in to in it ; of tercentenary has been worthily the Grolier Club New York. Some three hundred portraits, with forty engravings done exhibition, besides many America, have been first editions the poet's works, and books and manuscripts with his autograph. Mr. Beverley congratulated Chew and his colleagues are the success of their efforts. Perhaps the greatest achievement American The Milton of on celebrated of on be to of in by of of scholarship during the year has been the editing King Richard the Third, the Tragedy the Shakespearean Wariorum, Howard Furness, junior. must have been not only most very difficult task. laborious but also We most heartily congratulate Dr. Frederick Nebraska, Morrow Fling, the University upon the great promise shown The Youth Mirabeau, the first three projected volumes the life the great French statesman. our judgment likely, when completed, seems equal, not surpass, any historical work yet literary qualities America, though Written very considerable are scarcely level with Value monument extensive research and Critical acumen. The Pennell Life of Whistler will be too familiar a of a on of in In of to itsits of a on in a as be of ; to of of L. be ; be of as a Essays pleasant comes from Professor Osler reminder that the tradition Sir Thomas Browne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. John Brown being handed is of rº-------- on all 6- Friendships, containing Chronicle of French and American artists and Some recollections the British Stevensons (R. M.), will widely read and whilst the greatly inte musical and dramatic worlds will rested the veteran William Winter s Other Days and Paul Wilstach s Richard Mansfield. An Alabama Student and Other Biographical A. Society has usually towards the end of February or the beginning of March. It is essential that nominations should be in the hands of the secretary before January 31, 1908. held A Low's reminiscences R. The general meeting of the been readers The Author need comment here but there are other outstanding books American biography that must noticed. William H. in to, as members receive a copy every month. It will be as well, therefore, should any of the members desire to put forward a candidate, to take the matter within their immediate consideration. * case any member should desire to refer to the to In list of members, the new list, taking the elections up to the end of July, was published in October, 1907. This list is complete, with the exception of the thirty-eight members referred to in the short preface. All further elections have been duly notified in The Author. They can easily be referred if it Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by at least three members of the society. A list of the names of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members of the society, with the annual report of the Managing Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the general meeting shall be elected. to serve on the Pension Fund Committee. it. of tion, and submits his name for re-election. The members have power to put forward other names under clause 9, which runs as follows: sion and the prevailing ferment the religious World. For the rest, novels are said be numeri cally the decline, but gift books more demand than ever whilst we have on the authority Weekly that the Publishers the public taste improves and the publishers realise by society, three members elected by the society at the general meeting, and the chairman of the Society for the time being, ea officio. The three members elected at the general meeting when the fund was started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn during the past years resigned, and, submitting their names for re-election, have been unanimously re-elected. Mr. Spielmann resigned and was re elected in 1907. This year Mr. Morley Roberts, under the rules of the scheme, tenders his resigna means on been thought advisable to place in The Author a complete statement of the method of election under the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Under that scheme the committee is composed of three members elected by the committee of the judged present, the year 1908. unprosperous one Practically the American book trade. the only effect the Presidential elections has been political literature. stimulate the production Other influences that have had perceptible results upon the output are last year's commercial depres can Sº has been It accordance with annual custom, and in order to give members of the society, should they desire to appoint a fresh member to the Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has of N far sº-0 to e in * at 102. �THE AUTISIOR. Then there is that remarkable record of a wanderer's existence, My Life, by Josiah Flynt, with its recollections of Tolstoi, Mommsen, and the nameless vagrant, more especially the last. Josiah Flynt Willard is said by those who knew him to have talked better than he wrote ; but as someone re marked, It must be remembered that Flynt was the tramp writing not the literary man tramping. Of a more purely literary interest are Ferris Greenslet's book on Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the Letters and Memorials of Wendell Phillips Garrison, who edited the Nation for more than forty years. The third volume of Carl Schurz's Reminiscences are of at least equal interest to the preceding Other notable additions to biographi are Henry L. Nelson's Life of George William Curtis, to which we may return later ; and Thomas Nelson Page's study of Robert E. Lee. F. M. Sanborn's new Hawthorne book should also not be omitted in this connection. instalments. cal literature In the domain of history two Boston books arrest attention, M. C. Crawford s St. Botolph's Town, and James De Wolff Lovett's Old Boston Boys and the Games they Played ; whilst we have also Charles W. Colby s Canadian Types of the Old Régime, Galusha Anderson s A Border City during the Civil War, and Agnes C. Laut's Conquest of the Great North-West. Abraham Lincoln has inspired an epic, Francis Howard Williams s The Burden Bearer, and the dead preserver of the Union has received a tribute, George Sydney from Bancroft. G. Fisher's Struggle for American Independence should have appeared last year : it is a distinct addition to the historical literature of America. President Eliot's retirement from the headship of Harvard has been followed by his University Administration, an important educational apologia which has been and will be much read and dis cussed. Another American University President, Nicholas |M. Butler of Columbia, has published under the title The American as He Is, his recent lectures They have appeared in Danish, at Copenhagen. French, and German, as well as in English. Alaska, the Great Country, by Mrs. Ella Higginson, issued by the Macmillan Company, is a very good type of this kind of book, which to-day attracts so many readers. When we come to fiction our heart always fails us. Selection is difficult and often invidious. It has happened that we have passed over altogether works of the first importance, notably, as we have been reminded, those of Mrs. Atherton, whose position as a novelist is incontestably in the front rank. An interesting experiment in this department 103. of literature has been made under the auspices of the Harper Brothers. The Whole Family " is a novel which is the joint composition of twelve authors, among whom were Mr. James, W. D. Howells, M. E. Wilkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and John Kendrick Bangs. Lewis Rand, Mary Johnston seems to high water-mark; and John Fox, junior, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, a romance of the South, would also appear to have surpassed his previous efforts. George W. Cable's Kincaid's Battery is a thrilling romance of the South, the furthest south of New Orleans. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell has given us two works of fiction this fall, A Venture in 1777 ° and The Red City. The former is a story of Valley Forge, and recounts in stirring fashion the capture of a map from the British and the conveyance of it to Washington's camp. In The Diva's Ruby Mr. Marion Crawford has related an exciting episode in the life of his In have attained her former heroine. Robert W. Chambers by The Firing Line ; has added to his laurels and Stewart White and good stories F. Hopkinson Smith have provided for their respective publics in the man" and Peter. George C. Eggleston has The River published two Virginian stories. The new Oppenheim story is called The Long Arm of Mannister. Amongst lady novelists' triumphs this season are Alice MacGowan s Judith of the Cumber Through lands and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Life in the Past. George P. Upton s Musical Memories, ex tending over half a century, should be added to the tale of biographical books. Booth Tarkington, in The Quest of Quesnay, adds to the list begun by Monsieur Beaucaire. Barry Gordon" is William Farquhar Payson s a romance in somewhat the same vein by a less known story-teller. of To-day and of the Peace Con ferences at the Hague are two publications which should be of use in their several ways. The publication of a concordance to Gray's poems, edited by Albert S. Cook, shows that the eighteenth century is still of interest to Ameri Franklin, and the cans, apart from Washington, Andrew Carnegie s James Brown-Scott s Problems Texts Revolution. The greatest loss to the American literary world during the latter part of the year has been that of Charles Eliot Norton, who died on October 21. After a short experience of business life, he returned to Harvard as a French lecturer, but soon had to go to Europe for reasons of health, �A UſTFSIOR. 9, : 9, of to us by in to of on of of ; of of is of : to or a as ; : ; to as as of to by an of as to he by on by I. by of an of us on After the applause said the Times report which followed the reciting the lines had ceased, Dr. Ward expressed the sincere and cordial thanks the Academy Mr. Meredith for his message. said, could have No greater grace, been added their tribute than the Words which Mr. Meredith had sent them. (Cheers.) The meeting closed with address Sir Frederick Bridge Milton and Music, during the course of which members of the Westminster Abbey Choir, accompanied the Grimson Quartet, rendered compositions from the incidental music written for the first performance Comus. by of all in by GEORGE MEREDITH. on of Milton's birth was on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of sup December by the British Academy, ported by representatives the leading Literature, Music, Drama, and Science, and also by many services, lectures, meetings, and exhibi tions held the metropolis and the provinces. The ceremonies the British Academy the first day were opened with address Dr. Peterhouse, which was A. W. Ward, the Master followed the recitation Professor Gollancz some lines Milton contributed Mr. George Meredith, whose advanced age prevented him from being present. The lines, which Mr. Meredith reprint, were permission has kindly given of Homage him His debtor band, innumerable waves Running all golden from an eastern Sun, Joyfully render, deep reverence Subscribe, and they speak their Milton's name, Rays his glory on their foreheads bear. to Tercentenary celebrated follows: squeeze the slavish sweat more swoln and overshadowingly (Aggrandized, monstrous his grinning mask Of hypocritical Peace), inveterate Moloch Remains the great example. in º-º-º HE Mammon, From hopeless toil in BRATIONS. f We need him now, repetition cries This latest Age For Belial, the adroit, our midst : TERCENTENARY CELE MILTON Were England sunk Beneath the shifting tides, her heart, her brain, The Smile she wears, the faith she holds, her best, Would live full-toned the grand delivery Of his cathedral speech an utterance Hellespont, Almost divine, and such Crashing its breakers under Ida's frown, Inspired yet worthier he, whose instrument Was by comparison the coarse reed-pipe Whereof have come the marvellous harmonies, Which, with his lofty theme, infinite range, Abash, entrance, exalt, of THE º-e raise the voice for Freedom champion armed plains the Sophister heights To meet on Throughout the ages, equal this man, Whose spirit breathed high Heaven, and drew thenc . The ethereal sword to Smite. of e Beside his peers Nor has fair Liberty of popular stories. Frank Parsons (died September 26) lectured on law at the Boston University, and on other subjects in Ruskin University, Missouri and Kansas College, and was a prolific author. The Railways, the Trusts, and the People '' (1906) was his last work. Earth, the soul Earth, her charm, The face Her dread austerity the quavering fate Of mortals with blind hope by passion swayed, His mind embraced, the while on trodden soil, Defender the Commonwealth, he joined Our temporal fray, whereof vital fruit, And choosing armoury the Scholar, stood in Service Reform League, and published several biographies and educational works. Harvard lost its Professor of Greek and Dean of the Graduate School, John Henry Wright, on November 25, and earlier in the same month another alumnus and benefactor, John Harvey Treat. Esther Chamber lain, who died at Mount Clemens, Michigan, was author of The Court of Chance, and other In the devout music unsurpassed Since Piety won Heaven's ear Israel s harp. : in at 1908. What splendour Life, may reach when, rooted fast, The Tree upper air His branching stem points way And skyward still aspires, we see him Who Sang for the Archangelical host Morning urged Made old Darkness the abyss voice that down three centuries onward rolls; Onward will roll while lives our English tongue, - to is Professor December imperial station man, to a 1608 in the same month, was successively Yale, and President of the University of California and Johns Hopkins. He was also head of the Carnegie Institute and of the National Civil MILTON. December : having meanwhile published his first book, Considerations on some Recent Social Theories (1853). He went to Italy and formed a friendship with Ruskin. On his return he published a trans lation of Dante s Vita Nuova " and Notes of Travel and Study in Italy, and joined the cele brated Cambridge circle. He helped Lowell to edit the North American Review, 1862 8, and aided in the foundation of the Nation in '65. Having spent five years in Europe, he returned to take up art teaching under President Eliot, holding his chair at Harvard from 1875 to 1898. He enjoyed the friendships of Carlyle and Leslie Stephen, as well as those of Emerson and Lowell, and he edited several volumes of their Letters as well as those of G. W. Curtis. Ruskin called Eliot my first real tutor. Daniel Coit Gilman, who died earlier in A TISIES 104. �ACTRIOR. is N is It be it is In in is,it It if is In of ; it go of so ; be is as as to of to of of a of as In is it in to be of of a ; ; ; ; ; to a fº w w The Writers and Artists' Year Book, 1909. Black, 1s. and ; of all fit * w ; wore an Elizabethan while Harapha's attendants and the soldiers were dressed as Romans, Samson's attendant as a Greek, and the Danites in a dress we did not recognise. The action passed before a background of purple hangings a setting for grave-browed Milton's solemn harmonies. m. to the Times report, dress of great splendour, ; . according C, º Weeden. Age, Boston, Spare Moments, Mass. Rochester, N.Y.; People's Popular Monthly, Des Moines, Ia. Sunset Maſſazine, San Francisco, Cal. Holland's Magazine, Dallas, Texas; South Atlantic Quarterly, Durham, N.C. and among juvenile periodicals we fail find Children's Magazine, N.Y.C.; Youth, Philadelphia, Pa.; American Boy, Detroit, Mich. and Practical Young America, Among the leading religious Des Moines, Ia. (R.C.); papers omitted are: Catholic AWews (R.C.), Church Benziger's Magazine Economist, Churchman (Epis.), Epaminer (Baptist), Christian Advocate (Presb.), New York; Expositor, Cleveland, Ohio Ram's Horn, Chicago, Ill. Westminster, Philadelphia, Pa. * Dalila, 1Miss Evelyn Mr. Lionel Braham. Mr. Clive Currie. Mr. Percy Anstey. Jiving : Mr. Ian Maclaren. Mr. Chas. A. Doran. Samson Manoa T)alila Harapha . Public Officer NLessenger and journals. are included. We are therefore give constrained short list some the leading periodicals that are not, follows: Life, Aeronáutics, Designer, International Studio, Live Wire, Scrap Book, Scrip, Strand, Theater, Town and Country, World's Work and Yachting, all New York Technical World, Chicago, Ill. o :-- the latter we miss the National Press Agency Whitefriars, and notice that the Northern Newspaper Syndicate appears the Northern Syndicate. the former are quite number omissions. We are well aware that the periodicals published the States total well over 20,000, impossible and therefore would include all them the same time stated the preface that all the leading American magazines A. follows about each could hardly bettered the English publishers' list, too, good, and are the lists printers, literary agents, photographers colour and on. Other lists included are also good quite good, they far but here becomes necessary drop generalisation for detail. The two new features of the 1909 Year Book particulars and information are the addition the list American journals and magazines, and English syndicates that purchase MSS. list as Duke and Duchess of Argyll, on December 16. This, it is worth noting, was the first public repre sentation of the play. The cast was made up as The handy, well arranged, and never wastes space with quite indis useless information. fact pensable, and, quite were adequate, would however, some way from per invaluable. every succeeding issue fection yet, although something added towards that desirable con summation. the present the fourth annual issue, the English periodicals and the information list it J. publication welcome in Century (1701 1750), by by Dowden ; Milton's Fame on the Continent, Professor J. G. Robertson ; Milton as Schoolboy by Mr. Arthur F. Leach ; and and Schoolmaster, A Consideration of Macaulay's Comparison of Courthope. Dante and Milton, by Mr. W. A seemly close to the celebrations was provided by the performance in the Theatre, Burlington Gardens, of Samson Agonistes before a brilliant audience, including the Princess Louise and the always Writers' Year Book. at Eighteenth Professor Edward in the A. to Milton : º-º-º ; Sir Henry Jebb AND ARTISTS' BOOK, 1909. so On the 10th, at an ordinary general meeting of the British Academy, Dr. A. W. Ward announced that the Council had passed votes of special thanks to the Lord Mayor, Sir Frederick Bridge, Mr. George Meredith, the Rev. A. W. Hutton (incum bent of Bow Church), Professor I. Gollancz, and the Press generally, for the great assistance they had rendered to the Academy in the celebrations. The following papers were then read : Samson Agonistes and the Hellenic Drama, by the late YE THE WRITERS a Austin, P.L. ; Mr. Justice Darling Alfred ( Music and Drama ), in reply, Sir Hubert Parry ( Music ) and Mr. Pinero ( Drama"); the American Ambassador ( The Lord Mayor ), sup ported by Dr. A. W. Ward. 105 of In On the 9th the poet's birthday a commemo ration service was held at Bow Church, the sermon being delivered by the Bishop of Ripon on the text of verses 4 and 5 of the second chapter of Zechariah. In the evening a banquet was given at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor, Sir George Wyatt Truscott. The speakers were the Lord Mayor ( The King ); Canon Beeching ( The Immortal Memory of John Milton ); the Italian Ambassador ( Poetry ), in reply, Mr. of TRIES Messrs. �A DfTISIOR. be of in as C. & A. is is be be of to be its to so Who Year-Book is 2) of it not (should the made up were formerly such in tables, which, says the editor, popular feature The new tables Who s Who. Newdigate the present issue include those Among other Prizemen and Nobel Prize winners. special interest authors are lists information the leading Indian and the London offices pseudonyms newspapers, and pen colonial proper peculiarly-pronounced names, and of of of to of of Ila,I\leS. its of us worthily maintains The last volume before eight predecessors. The brains the standard the year 1908 are skilfully picked and displayed the list bold and comprehensive way. this year's centenaries we notice Edgar Allan Poe (January 19), Edward Fitzgerald (March 31), W. Richard Monckton Milnes (June 19), A. of In Kingslake (August 5), Lord Tennyson (August 6), and Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29). -* MUSICAL CRITICS a PUBLISHERS: AND º-º-º Memories well worth on and '' Studies is NIR CHARLES WILLIERS STANFORD S some throws for the light English music, and for the notes that phases his own personal experience has put together much that not these men and matters; but of he it reading so is it of L. C. C. n. n. ; ; Black), 10s. Who's Who's Who, 1909" (A. Daily Black), 18. Who Year Book, 1909" (A. Parker, Associated Mail Year Book (edited by Percy Newspapers, Ltd.), 6d. n. by Sir Charles Williers Studies and Memories, & & its - Who s Who s Who's Year Book of the of it to If to of or is a of to as is of interesting these old friends The first Seventy-two pages have been added the ever. biographies since last year, making total 2,112 pages; but whether this because there importance because there are more people less mortality among the famous, the reviewer suggest any we were determine. unable thing for its improvement that would biographies that are purely autobiographies should starred, these that the future historian pages may marshal able times referring accuracy. his facts with some degree be concludes its in Year Book. in a that Magazine is only in the English list and Smart Set only in the American. Finally, if the Year Book is sufficiently up-to date to include Victor Grayson as a co-editor of the New Age, why are the Englishman and the Scout omitted in the English list and Travel and £pploration, the new monthly, whose advent this month has been announced for some time past 2 We object to pulling a book to pieces, and where we cannot commend, we generally refrain from In the case of The Writers' Year all comment. Book, bowever, the case is different, for it is a book which is essential to many members of the Though, as we have stated, it Authors Society. grows better year by year, there is considerable room for improvement. The idea of the book is excellent, but the contents These points should be accurate and adequate. might be easily attained by a little more care and attention to details. We recommend the book, as it is the only one of use its kind before the public, yet consider that circulation, might consequence fulness, and increased. - very well Z. be from Who s Who Year Book, Daily Mail Black, and the of index there are some glaring inconsistencies. We only propose to mention a few instances, justify merely assertion. our to sufficient appears as an American magazine. Aeronautics But Aeronautics This as far as it goes is correct. does not appear among the list of American pub is lications, whereas the English Aeronautics included in its own list, but not in the index. Publishers Weekly is in the American list, but not American The two religious in the index. The periodicals in the list are not in the index. New Democrat in the English list is not in the index and so on. appears Magazine Furthermore, Pearson's rightly in both English and American lists, Strand book : this season. and Who Messrs. recognisable reference books which red covers on the reviewer's table at Not least among them are Who s a classified blaze hardly in of - the would without the crop * In Chºi f years. HARDY ANNUALS.* e-º-o J The list of American publishers is still far from complete. No indication is given of what their special lines are, and only general addresses are given. The following are not included: Ames Publishing Co., Clyde, Ohio : T. S. Denison, Chicago, Ill. ; The Ball Publishing Co., Boston ; Dramatic Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. : Saalfield Publishing Co., New York ; E. A. Fink, New York ; Samuel French, New York ; Penn Publish ing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. It is only fair to add that Samuel French's American address is given in list. On the other hand, the English publishers rightly in both lists. appears Warne Frederick Before passing on we beg the editor to correct the well-known name of Moffatt (of Moffatt, Yard It has appeared as Moffett " these two & Co.) " TISIE 106 Stanford. Constable and Co., 7s. 6d. net. �a in to as of or in In - to ; is as in an a is to It a so is to a to of to of of of an is he of of on to De Libris" will º CORRESPONDENCE. º-O-0 THE PENSION FUND. De Libris, Published Prose by Macmillan and Verse, Co. by to of of as a SIR,--I hope, humble individual and mem the Society, that there are many who will ber respond Mr. Douglas Freshfield's recent appeal the Pension Fund. on behalf * of de in of in of all to of as of of is to be to e 2. or a of in be as a of a It To the book lover's library, pleasant addition. certainly * is to some there modern critic might The Seasons. not yet the author (Kate Modern Illustrators Two essays Greenaway and Hugh Thomson), with sundry examples waken the their art, further help reader's interest. no it Editor All his essays show the devout student. misquotation, astonishing find would verify careful one the writings false date, indeed Books and their Associations his facts. masterpiece He leads you Mr. Dobson s art. another, forward from One treasured volume the book till the reader feels the fascination collector creeping over him, and straightway goes search the second-hand book shops. out accuracy. example his Here too Speaking mock-heroic John Works the Phillips, 1720, remarks: This copy bears also James Thomson, the title page the autograph all in by of of is, in In many & to In Epistle of to of 1 An be to to to in ; And Sound advice which heart. take a ; of to by is of a by to to If * . . of The For Revolutionary your dress There's more distinction Than in the oldest Elzevil'. on by in to If it. A Your cheek seems Ready for the Press ; clear Clarendon Your laugh in it is no a is he In on a of in of in or º TIC[]. Bois, perhaps Mr. Dobson Relic might have been included. The the lighter vein. this volume his Love" he deals with the Passionate Printer printer's jargon dexterously copyrights; the composers per They ask for struggle. yield without forming rights; the composers bow their heads #31&Q Bºö0.Klead acquiescence. they asked for more still, doubt they would get For these rights they pay varying sums, according the their business instinct and composer's ignorance, and the rights are marketed lack the publisher's fancy not according years any chance enterprise. come the composer becomes famous, then not the the work but the publisher who becomes Tanneguy though a as The Dying gotten Grave, as is it to reading the reviewer first thought prose and verse Mr. Austen book put like Little Jack Horner, Dobson his thumb and pull out the plums. other words, though we admire the author essays, we love him verse. writer writer expected book De Libris could hardly subject such beauty come across poems Before Sedan, treatment and delicacy in in or HE - º-º-º in of to of go to to in satisfy the article and produce some sort press for the next day's public time paper. The second, that one man should write different papers, six different notices, five they leading the public come from that think many different critics. difficult Both these charges are serious, but almost impossible to remedy them. The first might the author himself suggests, but altered Did not Sir Arthur the second seems past cure. rest against this second Conan Doyle lay his lance windmill, and unsuccessfully, some years ago complains that serious chapter number two the English pub chance not given music doubt springs from the same two This lisher. causes superficiality and rapidity. Superficiality, for the public who pay will not waste their time forced upon them and serious study unless business, rapidity, for the publishers, being men quick and substantial returns, gamble like sow the seed and fertilise rather than laboriously slow-growing though luxuriant crop. The no doubt another reason. But there the writers musical publishers terms offered strangle any industry. serious music are enough complain literature have much The authors get are not unsatis of, but the terms they are able factory. The unfortunate composers have never spite various attempts had any combination take made on their behalf; have never tried consequence their neck from under the yoke. this long and passive endurance the publishers their contracts make the most fanciful demands, be DE LIBRIS." to to or at in ; to : a to be of to in in on appeal to us as Criticism two chapters, one England, the other Music Publishing England. each case seems due His complaint the same cause, modern superficiality and lack serious study. the natural sequence These two seem modern desire for rapidity and change. He brings two charges against the critics first, fill their paper the day after that they are bound any important performance other words, have about 11.30, the concert leave the theatre and get them. They ask for 107 on his TISIE AUTISIOR, Austen Dobson. �THE AUTHOR, is of in is It a of to so of to all to an is to so in of it by on of a a it a of ? " to on to of a to of in of us is or of to be in of to up I be in be by in an to admitted into the Yours faithfully, JAMES CASSIDY. Whitton Road, Twickenham, S.W. is of of advertisement, it an it House, will be to Orchard of Nothing the nature perhaps needless say, correspondence. to on a at to I myself, article contributed the request the editor, and glad post copy shall the any member issue the paper containing interested. of to so very glad my shall hear from any fellow-members, men women, who are willing take the cudgels, particularly with regard opposition the aspect criticism. have personally had some rather remarkable experiences very this direction, and should pleased hear from others who can give personal details on these lines. The discussion starts the Worth Mail by of on in S. it to of in a SIR,-Will you permit me use the columns The Author for issuing invitation the members the Incorporated Society whom the subject may appeal write their views Some Modern Methods of Criticism paper circu The editor the Worth Mail, lating extensively between the Tyne and the Humber, has most generously offered open his discussion, which sincerely columns such hoped may serve useful purpose. There are, no doubt, hundreds authors who feel strongly the subject, but who have hitherto not cared tackle case they should doing raise storm enmity against themselves. surely high time that the more courageous among should fling away this pusillanimity slaying and enter the lists with the object the dragon unfairness and inconsistency Criticism. It I us of CRITICISM. OF I of in E. as so METHODS to I I to S. of by to I do I I to women have relation women and not only men. One might almost say that until George Meredith wrote, Shakespeare was the only man who grasped this fact, and were not for him we might almost have imagined that love and loyalty did not exist between women until our own period. But Beatrice, Sylvia, Celia, and many others are capable faithful and honest friendship; and a 4-0-0 to a in be up HEROINEs. suppose represent John and each book, which proud, dark, the German mind one melancholy and Byronic, the other fair, frivolous, and good-tempered. agree with the lady quotes Most approving George Meredith s women, but not her grounds. We feel that George Meredith and Shakespeare, unlike most men authors, realise that of to as a to is in no if I a AND HEROINES-CHIEFLY SIR,--In taking the challenge deal begin saying that with men's heroines, wish fully agree with him regarding John and Jack. feel that have myself invented several Johns and Jacks, though not think many English authoresses are quite bad Werner Ger many, who invariably brings out two types hero of risen the spiritual elevation Mrs. Pendennis might have learnt suppress her animal instinct, poor Laura. and would not have been cruel B. do I a to to of in º-º-e in jealousy, and characteristics the female therefore Thackeray makes his good women Pendennis behave atrociously about poor little Fanny, and Amelia, even when happily married, jealous her own little daughter. does not seem have struck him that woman who had of as a to it by in in to to to W. PERCIVAL WESTELL, F.L.S. Jack it a 2 of or a to of I I a as it of a put the finances the Pension Fund thoroughly sound condition, for other reason supporting our less fortunate craftsmen because preparing for and women we shall, indirectly, rainy day. ourselves against am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant, HEROES is or in of possess Some publishers and editors appear give authors and writers keen desire much mildly) trouble and inconvenience (to put possible, and have found several instances that only result intervention the society has any good been done. Personally, am under great obligation Mr. Thring for much valuable assistance. As this, and response result Mr. Freshfield's appeal, has afforded me pleasure contribute Small donation towards the Pension Fund, and suggest that those fellow members who feel under the same obligation the society should likewise. The guinea per annum that we contribute mere bagatelle, and we should all show our willingness support the council their efforts are George Meredith's women, and we welcome their advent into literature. This not small matter the portraiture Women, for shows that the author distinguishes between the female and the woman. This exactly what Thackeray does not do. One the of all I May make the suggestion that those who any way, use the Society utilise the services our secretary, council, others connected with point sending the Society, should make donation towards the Pension Fund to to 108 �AD VERTISEMENTS. SIKES TYPEWRITING. Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000 words; in duplicate, 1/-, Plays and General Copying. List and specimen of work on appli cation. MISS M. R. HORNE, accurately Accºrate and Prompt. by 3 in of A Chapters. 2s. 6d, of to of a is ' a toIt is of of is a a is ofis lºss; . . . net. story thrillinginterest. 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Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]  ## p. 84 (#108) ############################################# AD VERTISEMENTS. (ſhe Šuriefn of Autburg (incorporatº). Telegraphic Address: “A UTORIDAD, LONDON.” Telephone No. : 374 Victoria. PRESIDENT. G-TECIERG-E IMITEREDITIEI, C - IMI- SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. SIRWM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AVE- J. M. BARRIE. [BURY, P.C. A. W. A BECKETT. ROBERT BATEMAN. ‘F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S. - - - THE RIGHT Hon. AUGUSTINE BIR- RELL. P.C. . . * = MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND. THE REv. PROF. BonnEY, F.R.S. THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYok, P.C. : THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH- CLERE, P.C. ' . * * * * * HALL CAINE. J. W. COMYINS CARR. EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A. EDWARD CLODD. W. MORRIS COLLES. THE HON. JOHN COLLIER. SIR. W. MARTIN CONWAY. F. MARION CRAW FORD. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. AUSTIN DOBSON. COUNCIL. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. A. W. DUBOURG. DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD. THE HON. MRS. ALFRED FELKIN (ELLEN THORNEYCROFT Fowl ER). SIR. W. S. GILBERT. - EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D. SYDNEY GRUNDY. H. RIDER HAGGARD. THOMAS HARDY. - - - MRS. HARRISON (“LUCAS MALET"). ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS, E. W. HORNUNG. MAURICE HEWLETT. JEROME K. JEROMF. HENRY ARTHUR JONES. J. Scott KELTIE, LI.D. RUDYARD RIPLING. SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. THE REv. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A. THE RIGHT EION. SIR ALFRED LYALL, P.C. LADY LUGARD (MISS FLORA L. SHAw). SIDNEY LEE. MRS. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). JUSTIN McCARTHY. . . . THE REv. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE, SIR HENRY NorMAN, M.P. . . SIR. GILBERT PARKER, M.P. A. W. PINERO. THE RIGHT HON. SIR HORACE PLUNKETT, K.P. ARTHUR RACKHAM. Owen SEAMAN. G. BERNARD SHAW. G. R. SIMS. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. FRANCIS STORR. - - SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc. WILLIAM MOY THOMAS. MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. PERCY WHITE. FIELD MARSHAL THE RIGHT HoN. THE WISCOUNT WolsFLEY, K.P., P.C., &c. - SIDNEY WEBB. - COIMIMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT. MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND. J. W. COMYINS CARR. THE HON. MRS. ALFRED FELKIN (ELLEN THORNEYCROFT Fowl ER). Chairman—DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD. MAURICE HEWLETT. SIDNEY LEE. ARTHUR RACKHAM. G. BERNARD SHAW. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. FRANCIS STORR, SIDNEY WEBB. DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. WILLIAM ARCHER. MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND. H. GRANVILLE BARKER. Chairman—HENRY ARTHUR JONES. J. W. COMYNS CARR. JEROME K. J.EROME. W. J. LOCKE. W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM. CAPT. ROBERT MARSHALL. PAUL RUBENs. G. BERNARD SHAW. PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. Chairman—DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD. MORLEY ROBERTS. |M. H. SPIELMANN. MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE. • , MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. i E. J. MACGILLIVRAY. SIR. GILBERT PARKER, M.P. ART SUB-COIMIMITTEE. JOHN HASSALL, R.I. J. G. MILLAIS. OFFICEs. SIR CHARLES WILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc. * . J. H. YOXALL, M.P. ARTHUR RACKEIAM. M. H. SPIELMANN. Secretary—G. HERBERT THRING, Solicitor im England to La Société des Gems de Lettress ANSTEY GUTHRIE. ANTHONY HoPE HAWKINS, COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE. HAROLD HARDY. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS. THE HON. JOHN COLLIER. SIR. W. MARTIN CONWAY. FIELD, ROSCOE & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. : a**~as G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. Solicitors, Lawrence GODKIN, 30, Pine Street, New York, U.S.A., Counsel in the United States. 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY’s GATE, S.W.  ## p. 85 (#109) ############################################# C be El u t bor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) tº. FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT. WOL. XIX.—No. 4. JANUARY 1s'ſ, 1909. [PRICE SIXPENCE. TELEPHONE NUMBER : 374 WICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : AUTORIDAD, LONDON. —e—º-e— NOTICES. —º-º-º- OR 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 opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. - THE Editor begs to inform members of the Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. ———- THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. —e—º-e— ROM time to time members of the Society F desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin- ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, WOL. XIX, or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. —e—º-e— LIST OF MEMBERS. —º-º-º- HE List of Members of the Society of Authors, published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. —e—º-e— PENSION FUND. —º-º-º- T the beginning of 1908, the Trustees of A. the Pension Fund of the Society, after the Secretary had placed before them the financial position of the Fund, decided to invest #230 in the purchase of Irish Land Act 2; per cent. Guaranteed Stock. The amount purchased is £258, and is added to the list printed below. - The investments are steadily increasing from year to year, the amount varying between £200 and £250. Consols 24%................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,000 0 0 Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0 Victorian Government 3%. Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11 War Loan ................................. 201 9 3 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock .............................. 250 0 0 Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ............... 200 0 0  ## p. 86 (#110) ############################################# 86 THE ADITISIOR. Cape of Good Hope 34%. Inscribed Stock .................................... 3200 Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. 228 New Zealand 3;% Stock. . . . . . . . ... 247 Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 Total ............... #3,376 18 Subscriptions. 1908. S. Oct. 10, Macnaughton-Jones, Oct. 20, Garvice, Charles Nov. 12, Woods, Miss Mary A. Nov. 20, Boycott, G. W. M.. Nov. 20, Budgeon, Miss . . Nov. 21, Benjamin, Lewis J. Nov. 21, Coulton, G. G. e g Nov. 21, Dixon, Miss H. Margaret Nov. 21, Colquhoun, A. © Nov. 23, Holmes, Miss Eleanor Nov. 23, Hussey, Eyre Nov. 23, Capes, Bernard . Nov. 23, Hecht, Mrs. Arthur Nov. 23, Festing, Miss Gabrielle . Nov. 23, Carolin, Mrs. . o Mov. 23, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit Nov. 23, Hichens, Robert Nov. 23, Grogan, W. E. . Nov. 23, Stowell, Mrs. Rodolph Nov. 23, Gay, Mrs. . • Nov. 23, Summers, J. . tº Nov. 23, Bloundelle-Burton, J. Nov. 23, Freshfield, Douglas Nov. 24, Rowsell, Miss Mary Nov. 24, Bell, Lady . e Nov. 24, Sanders, Miss E. K. Nov. 25, Count Plunkett Nov. 25, Victoria Cross e Nov. 25, Cromartie, the Countess of Nov. 25, Sutro, Allred. Nov. 25, Kipling, Rudyard . Nov. 25, Pope, Miss Jessie . Nov. 25, Scott, G. Forrester N v. 25, Carr, Miss Mildred E. Nov. 25, O’Brien, The Rev. G. E. Nov. 25, Wills, The Rev. Freeman Nov. 25, Lewis, T. C. e Nov. 25, Fenwick, Miss S. F. . Nov. 26, Montgomery, Miss K. L. Nov. 26, Dummelow, The Rev. J. R. Nov. 26, Jopp, Miss E. A. . Nov. 26, Wintle, Harold R.. Nov. 26, Malcolm, Mrs. Ian. g Nov. 26, Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M. Nov. 26, “E.” . º º e º Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T. . Q . :O 1 l i 1 1 1. NOV. Nov. Now. NOV. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. NOV. Nov. Nov. NOV. Nov. Nov. Nov. Now. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. T)ec. Dec. Dec. July 16, Carolin, Mrs. e º July Aug. Sept. 28, “Whitworth Wynne" . Oct. 23, Woolf, Miss Bella Sidney 31, Robinson, J. R. . º Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Now. Nov. Nov. 27, Saies, Mrs. F. H. 27, Heath, Miss Ella 27, Thomas, Edward 27, Shaw, Mrs. Bernard 27, Smith, Bertram 27, Niven, Frederick . e 27, Nembhard, Miss Isabel . 27, Smith, Miss M. E. º 28, Brandon, Miss Dorothy. 28, de la Pasture, Mrs. Henry 28, Scott, Mrs. C. s - 28, Harrison, Mrs. Darent . 28, Logan, The Rev. Robert 28, Chesterton, G. K. 30, Sherwood, Miss A. tº g 30, Hutchinson, The Rev. H. N. . 1, Sachs, E. T. . e e e 1, Truman, Miss Olivia 3, Yolland, Miss E. 4, Bagnall, Miss L. T. . o º 4, Humphreys, Mrs. Desmond (Rita) 4, Anon. . e e & e 7, Westrup, Miss Margaret 7, Lynch, H. T. B., M.P. 8, Caillard, Miss E. M. 8, Askew, Claude 8, Felkin, A. L. . 9, Rosetti, W. M. e 9, Miller, Miss Esther . 11, Woodward, Miss Ida 12, Mann, Mrs. Mary E. . g 12, Lack, H. Lambert . e º 14, Winchilsea and Nottingham The Countess of e º 14, Sinclair, Miss May 14, Weyman, Stanley . 17, Macpherson, John F. 17, Hills, Mrs. Martha 18, Hands, Mrs. Morris 18, Geddes, Mrs. . Donations, 1908. 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude 21, Beckett, Arthur W. 2 6, Wroughton, Miss Cicely 7, Sherard, R. H. . º 7, Cameron, Miss Charlotte 12, Tweedie, Mrs. Alec. 17, Tench, Miss Mary F. A. 17, Anon. . º © © 21, Anson, Sir William, Bart. 21, Cordeaux, Miss K. M. . 1 1 : i . 11 1 I  ## p. 87 (#111) ############################################# TRIE ALTTRIOR. 8. 7 Nov. Nov. Nov. Now. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Now. Nov. Nov. Nov. Now. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Nov. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. 1)ec. 21, Drewitt, F. Dawtrey, M.D. . 21, Delaire, Madame Jean . 21, Hecht, Mrs. Arthur . 21, Collier, The Honble. John 21, Keltie, G. Scott . 21, Shepeard-Walwyn, H. 21, Church, Prof. A. H. 21, James, Miss S. Boucher 21, Ramsden, The Lady Gwen- dolen tº ſº g ſº 21, Spielmann, M. H. 21, Saville, Frank 24, Kennedy, E. B. . & 24, Bennett, Prof. W. H. . 24, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite 24, Crouch, A. P. . e 24, Hawtrey, Miss Walentine 24, Sedgwick, Miss Anna Douglas 24, Anon. . º e 25, Page, Herbert W. 25, Brereton, Capt. F. S. . 25, Knight, Mrs. Maude C. 25, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . 25, Turner, Reginald 25, Nash, T. A. 25, Trevor, John 25, Wacher, Francis . 25, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. 25, Farmer, Miss A. A. 25, Hunt, Holman 25, Tuckett, F. F. 25, Allen, Mrs. Grant 26, Hole, W. G. e 27, Granville, Charles e 27, Henoch, Miss Emily T. 27, Simes, Miss O. Kathleen 27, Penny, The Rev. Frank 27, Westell, W. P. . e 28, Coolidge, The Rev. W. A. B. 28, Tennant, Lady Pamela 28, Wingfield, H. . e 30, Northcote, The Rev. H. 30, Dexter, Walter 30, Oliver, Miss Selwyn 30, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila 30, Bent, Mrs. Theodore 30, Atkins, Miss Margaret A. 7, Hood, Francis g e 7, Maunsell, A. E. Lloyd 7, Carolin, Mrs. . g 7, Drake, Lady Eliott 7, Parker, Mrs. Nella. 7, Montresor, Miss F. F. 7, Shepherd, George H. 9, Maartens, Maarten. 9. Y. F. S. 9, Lefroy, Mrs. . w. 1 s I 1 i1- d. :É s. d. Dec. 9, Bourdillon, Miss Rose . () 5 0 Dec. 9, White, Mrs. Woollaston () 5 () Dec. 10, Gilliatt, The Rev. E. . . I () () Dec. 13, Evans, Miss C. M. & . () 5 0 Dec. 14, Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins 1 1 0 Dec. 14, Oppenheim, E. C. - . 2 () () Dec. 16, Blake, J. P. . . I I 0 Dec. 17, Medlicott, Cecil º O 10 6 Dec. 18, Tansley, A. G. . º . 2 2 0 Dec. 19, Thurston, Mrs. Katherine Cecil 1 1 0 Dec. 19, Todd, John L. . 1 1 0 Dec. 21, White, Percy e º . 1 1 0 The names of those subscribers and donors which are not included in the lists printed above, are unavoidably held over to the February issue. The total amount of annual subscriptions received and promised since the issue of the circular amounts to £61 12s. The total amount of donations to £82 6s. COMMITTEE NOTES. —º-º-º- ſ TYHE last meeting of the committee for 1908 was held on Tuesday, December 8, at the society's office, at four o'clock. Thirteen members and two associates were elected, bringing the number of elections for the current year up to 243—within three of the total election of the previous year. This is the second largest election the society has had since its foundation. The committee regret to report the resignation of ten members, bringing the total resignations for the current year up to seventy-two. This number is larger than last year. The total loss to the society, which includes, in addition to resignations, erasions for non-payment and deaths, is not, however, so heavy. The secretary reported the acceptances to the council and to the art sub-committee. These were chronicled in the last number of The Author. The committee then considered the following CàSéS :— The first related to a dispute between one of the members and an agent. The former had found it impossible to obtain any information respecting the MSS. he had entrusted to the agent. The committee instructed the secretary to Write demanding the return of the MSS., and stating that if this were not done by a certain date the papers would be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors, who would commence pro- ceedings. The next matter for consideration was a difficult question concerning the bankrupt estate of a  ## p. 88 (#112) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. publisher. A papermaker claimed the assignment of the publishing contract and the right to publish. The solicitors’ opinion, which was opposed to the claims of the papermaker, was read to the com- mittee. They instructed the secretary to write, setting out the legal position, and to state that the society would maintain this position by action if necessary, but to suggest that it would be possible to arrange an amicable settlement by purchase of the stock which the papermaker held. The next question referred to a false entry of copyright by a publisher in the United States. The secretary read the opinion of the society's American lawyers. It appeared from that opinion that it was impossible to take action for the penalty recoverable under the American law owing to the lapse of time from the date of the offence. Another question—a very complicated one touch- ing the construction of an agreement between an author and a publisher—was discussed, and counsel's opinion and the report of the society's solicitors were read. The committee decided to follow the solicitors' advice, and suggested that a letter should be written to the publisher, and his answer thereto be referred to them at their next meeting. The committee then considered the question of office management, and a small committee, con- sisting of the chairman (Mr. Douglas Freshfield), Mr. Francis Storr, and Mr. S. Squire Sprigge, was appointed to consider this, and also the question of advertisements in The Author, and to report to the next meeting. An invitation, sent by Mr. C. J. Longman on behalf of his firm and other publishers, to appoint delegates to discuss certain matters relating to book publication, was read, and Mr. Maurice Hewlett, Mr. A. Hope Hawkins, and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw were requested to represent the committee in the matter. The secretary made a confidential report in respect to the Berlin Conference, and the action which it might be desirable to take in regard to the revised convention of Berne. The mutter was adjourned to the next meeting of the committee, when it is hoped that the Government report and Blue Book will be obtainable. Next followed a discussion on an important point respecting the payment of income tax on authors' earnings, and it was decided to ask one of the members of the society, who was also a member of the House of Commons, to put a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject. The secretary made a full report of the work accomplished by the Dramatic Sub-committee during the past months, details of which have appeared in past issues under the Dramatic Sub- Committee Notes. The committee sanctioned the registration scheme there set out, but left the details to the sub-committee. When the scheme is ready, and in Working order, a statement will be published in The Author. A sub-committee, consisting of the chairman and Mr. Sidney Lee, was chosen to settle the report of the committee's work during the year. - The proposal submitted by Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland was again adjourned owing to her absence, and the secretary was instructed to inform her it would be dealt with at the first meeting next year, and invite her if possible to attend. Finally, the committee decided, as far as possible, to obtain particulars of the titles of stories, and their authors, running in some of the colonial papers during a given period, in order to ascertain the extent, if any, of the piracy of British authors' works in the colonies. When the details are to hand, the secretary will write to the authors whose stories are running, and inquire whether their publication is or is not authorised. If the publication is unauthorised the com- mittee will consider the matter, and, if necessary, take action for infringement of copyright. —º-º-º- DRAMATIC COMMITTEE NOTES. THE last meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee for the year 1908 was held at the offices of the society on Monday, December 7, at 3 o'clock. It had been decided to postpone publication of the dramatic pamphlet in The Author, as the com- mittee now sees its way to some valuable additions which will, it is hoped, make the pamphlet cover every department of business between authors and the theatre. Also, as the pending settlement of the questions between the Society of Authors and the proposed Dramatic Authors’ Society seems likely to reinforce the society by the accession of some experienced dramatists, it was decided to adjourn publication so as to obtain the benefit of their criticism for the final revision of the pamphlet. A translation of the constitution and treaty of the new German Dramatic Authors’ Society was considered. Ilater on we hope to publish in The Author a series of articles on foreign authors' societies, in which this new body will be dealt with. Meanwhile we need only say that it applied wholly to the relations of authors in Germany with the agents whose services are indispensable in Germany at present because of the prevalence of the repertory system. It throws no new light on British theatrical business. Mr. Shaw made a report respecting the working of the French Société des Auteurs Dramatiques. The consideration of the managerial treaty was continued and adjourned.  ## p. 89 (#113) ############################################# TISIE AUTISIOR, 89. IMPORTANT INNOVATION. A suggestion made by one of the dramatic members of the society that the society should Open a register of all scenarios for its members Was fully approved, and it was decided to refer the matter to the Committee of Management (which subsequently concurred : see Report). The proposal was to strengthen the hands of the dramatist in the event of his plot being pirated, or in the event of a charge of piracy being brought against him, by enabling him to produce an authoritative record dating from its invention. Cases recently tried in the courts indicate that disputes often arise, and that judges and juries, and even inexperienced authors, accept evidence of quite common coincidences as evidence of plagiarism. The final arrangements have not been settled. They will probably be on the following lines : —Any member of the society will henceforth have the right, on payment of half-a-crown, to send to the society's office two copies of a scenario, or any similar statement of the subject of an original literary, or dramatic work, or of any original matter in a translation or adaptation. The society, having compared the two copies, will file one and return the other to the author stamped with a certificate that a duplicate has been registered with the Society. Members availing themselves of the registry must bear in mind that under no circum- stances can they be allowed access to the registered Copy, as any possibility of tampering with it would destroy its value. Copies, however, can be obtained at any time for a trifling fee to cover the cost of typing. Should the author have to take proceed- ings for infringement or defend himself against an accusation of infringement, the registered copy Would strengthen his position considerably, whether he were plaintiff or defendant. —6–º-e Cases. DURING the past month only ten cases have been placed in the secretary's hands. Six of these referred to claims for money, and we have to report with regret that only one of them has been settled so far. There was one claim for accounts, and these have been rendered by the publisher; one claim for the return of MSS., which is still in the course of negotiation; and two disputes on agreements which have only recently come into the office. Eight cases remain open from former months. Three of these deal with matters in the United States, and the negotiations in these are necessarily slow ; one case is in New Zealand. The same remark applies to this as to the other three cases just mentioned. The rest are claims for money or money and accounts. Failing a satisfactory settlement these will be transferred to the society's Solicitors. - - –0-$º-e— December Elections. Armfield, Maxwell 2A, Holland Road, W. 15/2, Raghu Nath, Chatterjee St. Simla, Calcutta. Royal Station Hotel, Hull. 5, Crescent Terrace, C he l t e n h, a m ; Loughloher, Cahir, Baner ea, Satya Bhusan Bentley, Arthur Blakeney, L. M. McCraith (L. M. McCraith). - Ireland. Bosanquet, N. E. T. . Cowley, Uxbridge. Bremner, James 14B, Poissonnière, Paris. Drummond, Mrs. S. Annie 38, Pevensey Road, Eastbourne. Durran, W. . 30, Wereker Road, West Kensington, 15, Vicarage Gate, Kensington, W. Lack, H. Lambert . 48, Harley Street, W. MacLeod, G. Hamilton . 2, Buccleugh Place, Hugel, Baron won - Edinburgh. Protheroe, Hope tº . 25, Welbeck Street, W. Risque, W. H. . 10, Glyn Mansions, Addison Bridge, W. Samuels, Major John, W.D. (Lumen) {e º . Llanfairfechan. 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By ELLEN THORNEY- CROFT FOWLER. Dodd, Mead. $1.50. PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK. KLAPKA JEROME. Dodd, Mead. $1.50. JOAN OF GARIOCH. By ALBERT KINROSS. Macmillam. By JEROME $1.50. THE WAR IN THE AIR. By HERBERT G. WELLs. Macmillan. $1.50. ROSE-VWHITE YOUTH. By DOLF WYLLARDE. John Lane Co. $1.50. ARNOUL THE ENGLISHMAN. B. Herder. $1.50. LOVE, THE CRIMINAL. By J. BURLAND HARRIS-BUR- LAND. Cupples and Leon. $1.50. THE YELLOW GOD : AN IDOL OF AFRICA. By FRANCIS AVELING. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. Cupples and Leon. 75 c. WHEN THE TIDE TURNs. By FILSON YOUNG. Dana Estes. $1.50. TRAVEL. IN OLD CEYLON. By REGINALD J. FARRER. Longmans. $4. *-  ## p. 92 (#116) ############################################# 92. TISIES A UTISIOR- LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL NOTES. —º-º-º- E are asked by Mrs. Henry de la Pasture, for the information of her many literary friends, to announce the recent death of her husband from heart failure after a few days' illness. In “Anglo-Saxons from Palestine ; or, The Imperial Mystery of the Lost Tribes,” Mrs. Theodore Bent, author of “Southern Arabia, Soudan, and Sucotra,” shows how the British nation can be traced to the lost tribes of Israel and how no other nation can, the United States representing Manasseh. The book is published by Messrs. Sherratt and Hughes at one shilling. “The Apostate ’’ is a novel by A. E. Lloyd Maunsell, which Messrs. Allen have brought out. Mr. Selwyn Brinton's series, “The Renaissance in Italian Art,” has now been completed by the publication of Part III., “The Mediciat Florence.” This volume contains a full account of Florentine painting from Paolo Uccello to Ghirlandajo. There are twenty-six illustrations and an analysis of Florentine painting from Paolo Doni (1397-1475) to Wincenzo Dandini (1607-1675). “Seekers,” by Frank Savile, which has been running serially in T. P.'s Weekly, will be brought out in book form by Mr. Arnold early next month. Mr. Savile is at present engaged on a new novel, the scene of which is laid principally in Morocco, to complete which he has lately revisited Tangier, Melilla, and various other North African towns. The second and third concert in Mr. St. John Lacy's sixth series of chamber-music concerts will be given in the Clarence Hall, Cork, on January 30 and March 10. Those taking part will include Nſadame and Signor Grossi, Miss Eileen Price, Mr. W. Brady, and Mr. F. St. John Lacy. Mr. Hubert Wales is engaged on a new novel entitled “Hilary Thornton,” which will be pub- lished by Mr. John Long in the early spring. The incidents woven into “Marama"—C. L. Woollaston White's new novel (Messrs. R. and T. Washbourne)—are taken from eye-witnesses and actors in some of the scenes occurring in Fiji before (and, after) the country was annexed by Great Britain. Conditions being now totally changed, it recalls much that can never be seen again and—but for this book—would be swept away unrecorded. * Miss Beatrice Moffat's novel, “John Broome's Wife,” is being brought out by Mr. T. Fisher Unwin. It deals with modern life, and is a study of strongly contrasted temperaments. The scenes are laid on the west coast of Scotland and in Hampshire. Three numbers of Messrs. Crewsher & Co.'s New School Series of Songs have just been pub- lished. They are all by Miss L. Budgen, and are entitled: No. 1. “The Hurricane” and “The Snowdrop"; No. 2. “True Charm”; No. 3. “There's Beauty in the Air.” We have received from Mr. Henry Frowde “Select Poems of William Barnes,” chosen and edited, with a preface and glossarial notes, by Thomas Hardy. We have received from Mr. John Ouseley “Shelley : a Poem,” by Captain Claude E. Foster; “Mark Talbot,” by Crofton Spencer; “The Silver Cross,” by Jenkins Stenning; “The Flitting of Angelina,” by Jessica Solomon. Also “The Life and Times of Robert Emmett,” the first volume of The Irish Library Series, which is a commendable undertaking. It is a pity the cheapness of this series—sixpence—necessitates disfiguring the text with advertisements. - Mr. Francis Griffiths has published “Mary of England,” a tragedy in four acts, by N. Thorpe Mayne. In “Philanthropy and the State ; or, Social Poli- tics,” by B. Kirkman Gray, edited by Eleanor Kirkman Gray and B. L. Hutchins, the author maintains the thesis that “private philanthropy cannot provide a remedy for widespread want which results from broad and general social causes; that it ought not to be expected to do so; that the pro- vision of such remedies is the proper responsibility of the State, and should be accepted as such.” The publishers are Messrs. P. S. King and Son. Mr. Richard Davey has just published a second edition of “The Sultan and his Subjects” (Messrs. Chatto and Windus), and is preparing a second edition of his “Pageant of London’’ (Messrs. Methuen). The former has been considerably revised and enlarged. “A Woman's Pride,” a play of modern society life, by Hippolyte Buffenoir (author of the forth- coming “Portraits of Robespierre * in English) is in course of translation and adaptation for the English stage by Mary C. Rowsell. Mr. Wynford Dewhurst gave an address in the Manchester City Art Gallery on December 9. His subject was “Paris as an Art Mother.” Some thirty of his pictures have been recently on exhibi- tion at the Midland Hotel, Manchester. Mr. Fifield has just published two volumes by Mrs. Alfred Marks: “Landholding in England, considered in Relation to Poverty,” and “The Corn Laws.” Though issued separately, the Volumes may be considered as forming one work. On November 28, at Wyndham's Theatre, “Sir Anthony,” a comedy in three acts, by C. Haddon Chambers, was produced. It may be described as a satire on Suburbia. The cast included Mr.  ## p. 93 (#117) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 93 Weedon Grossmith, Mr. Edmund Maurice, Mr. Evelyn Beerbohm, Miss Suzanne Sheldon, Miss Mary Leslie, and Miss Nina Boucicault. December 9 was the first night of “The Last of the De Mullins,” by St. John Hankin, produced by the Stage Society at the Haymarket Theatre. The play concerns a girl with unconventional ideas on the subject of marriage. In the last act her father becomes almost reconciled to her through a liking for her fatherless boy, but Janet de Mullin refuses to return permanently to her home. The boy, the last of the De Mullins, must earn by his own efforts name and reputation. The players included Miss Lillah McCarthy and Mr. Nigel Playfair. A new comedy sketch, by Paul Rubens, entitled “Fly by Night,” was given at the Palace Theatre on December 14. It is the first play in English that introduces an aviator and his aeroplane. Mr. Seymour Hicks and Miss Ellaline Terriss sustained the principal parts. Mr. Charles W. France and Miss Evelyn D’Alroy appeared on December 17 in a little one-act play, by W. J. Locke, at the Empire Theatre. It is called “A Blank Cheque,” and concerns Mr. Mahoney, an innocent convict, who upon his release asks his wife to draw a blank cheque in his favour and fills in the amount as “My wife's love.” “Peter Pan,” by J. M. Barrie, was again revived at the Duke of York's Theatre on December 23 with Miss Pauline Chase in the name part. —e—º-e— PARIS NOTES. –0—sº-º- LITERARY prize of £200 has just been awarded to Edouard Estaunié, the author of “La Wie secrète,” mentioned in last month's article. - It will be interesting to all admirers of Renan to know that his grandson, Ernest Psichari, has just published his first book, “Terres de Soleil et de Sommeil.” It is a delightful description of Africa written by a soldier who is a poet in spite of him- self. The first chapter is entitled “Le Sourire de l'Afrique.” As well as the author's first im- pressions of Africa, we have a study of the effect that the great silence and peace of Africa has on his own soul. The next article is entitled “Sama,” and is a study of the Bayas, and more especially of the boy Sama in whom he is greatly interested, who dies while they are at Yalé. The account of his death and funeral is both dramatic and pathetic, and the whole chapter is full of deep feeling and poetry. The epilogue and the last chapters of notes are full of promise, and it is with the greatest as no one else does in France. I château and knows its history and all that has pleasure that we recognize in this book the simpli- city of language and the sincerity which we had every right to expect from the grandson of Ernest Renan. “Le Tribunal Révolutionnaire” (1793–1795) is another of Lenotre's volumes on “La Révolution et l'Empire,” the result of his historical studies and discoveries among the archives of his country. The chapters of this book are entitled “La Maison de Justice,” “Fouquier-Tinville,” “L’Accu- sateur public,” “Fouquier s'élève,” “Les Grands Jours,” “Messes Rouges,” “L’Ecroulement,” “Le Procès du Tribunal.” There are several interest- ing illustrations in the volume. The account of Fouquier-Tinville's early life is given with many picturesque details. His letter to his mother is Curious when, as a young man, he was in such poverty in spite of his father's wealth. His trial is described later on in detail, and his execution. Anatole France's new book, “Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche,” is published with coloured illustrations by Ilêon Lebègue. By way of fêting the centenary of Barbey d’Aurevilly, Mlle. Louise Read has published a Centenary edition of his volume entitled “Voyageurs et Romanciers.” This is a collec- tion of articles on about twenty-six French writers, among whom are Ampère, Frédéric Soulié, George Sand, Octave Feuillet, Victor Hugo and the Comte de Gobineau. Like all Barbey d’Aurevilly's books, there is nothing that seems Out of date. These articles and criticisms are just as interesting and seem just as fresh as when they Were penned so many years ago. The curious part of nearly all this author's articles is that the writer seems to have been gifted with prophecy, for so frequently in his writings he appears to be referring to many of the burning questions of to-day. M. Pierre de Nolhac, the Conservateur of the Versailles Palace, has just brought out a volume entitled “Versailles et Trianon,” with illustrations by René Binet. M. de Nolhac knows Versailles He lives in the happened there. The present edition is published at sixty francs. “Jean-Luc Persécuté,” by C. F. Ramuz, is a curious story of peasant life in the mountains. It is told in a graphic style and every detail given. The end is tragic, as it is the story of a husband who deals out what he considers justice with his own hands, and avenges himself on the wife who has betrayed him. There are two other curious and very original stories in the same volume— stories of simple primitive life, very human and with a touch of poetry in them. In “L’Ame libre,” by Brada, we have a very  ## p. 94 (#118) ############################################# 94 TISIES A UTHOR. true study of French life in a certain circle of society. There are no doubt hundreds of girls at present in precisely the circumstances described by the observant novelist who tells the story. Every character in the book lives and is well drawn — the somewhat selfish aristocrat, the husband and wife who live, and bring up their children, on their expectations, the young girl who has more modern ideas than her parents, but who is nevertheless bound, as it were, by the old traditions. There is, too, a typical “arrivist” in the young doctor. The whole book is extremely interesting as a study of a certain phase of French life. To all those who are interested in the study of all phases of German life “Mes Prisons en Prusse,” by Paul Chorenne, will be an attractive book. It is the account given by a Frenchman of his arrest in Germany as a spy, his trial, and imprisonment. The prison etiquette and prison life during seven years are described in a graphic and amusing way. The seventh volume of Georges Duval’s trans- lation of Shakespeare is now ready, and contains four plays. In the December numbers of La Revue Hebdoma- daire there is an article on Victorien Sardou by G. A. de Caillavet, and one on “Le Marché de l'Automobile et le Salon de 1908,” by J. Bordeaux. M. Jacques Bardoux also contributes an article on Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The novel by Maurice Barrés, “Colette Baudoche,” which has been published as a serial in this review, is now finished, and M. Jean-Louis Wandoyer commences “La Bien-Aimée.” In the Revue de Paris of December Barbey d’Aurevilley’s Letters to Trébutien are published. Judith Gautier gives an article on “L’Empereur de Chine '' and Ernest Lavisse on “Un Séjour à Berlin.” - The theatrical event of the month has been the reception of the play “Le Foyer’’ at the Théâtre Français. It was quite impossible for the piece to continue until a number of persons had been ejected. The general opinion seems to be that it is regret- table that a play of this kind should be given in a State theatre. At the Vaudeville “Le Lys" is being given, and at the Renaissance “L’Oiseau Blessé.” ALYS HALLARD. “La Vie secrète ’’ (Perrin). “Terres de Soleil et de Sommeil” (Calmann Lévy). “Le Tribunal Revolutionnaire (1798–1795)" (Perrin). “Les Contes de Jacques Tournebroche’’ (Calmann Lévy). “Voyageurs et Romanciers” (Lemerre). “Jean-Luc Persécuté” (Perrin). “L’Ame libre '' (Plon). “Mes Prisons en Prusse” (Juven). with which it was sometimes confounded. SPANISH NOTES. —º-º-º- EWS comes from Valencia that Bernardo T Morales has recently published a novel entitled “La Tribuna Roja” (The Scarlet Tribune). The work may be said to be a psychological study of Woman, and feminism seen from a Spaniard's point of view has a particular interest to English readers. This author was already well known in Spain by his romance called “La Rulla.” In Rulla readers See a character which is arresting, inasmuch as it is painted with sincerity and wide sympathy. “Rebelión” by “Joyzelle” is a realistic novel which will interest those who like to plumb the evils evolved from marriage as a matter of arrangement instead of inclination in the “high Society" of Spain. There is a touch of genius in the fire with which the author describes the heroine's awakening to love when the inevitable “kindred spirit” appears. Like a mighty stream it sweeps away all laws of convention ; and as the book is evidently written by “one who knows,” we see that the reverse of the medal of contented serfdom to the demands of social life, supposed to prevail among women of high degree in Spain, is a rebellion so keen that the high tide of feeling breaks on the quicksand of tragedy. From rebellion we turn to “El Niño de Guzman º' (“Guzman's Child.”) By Guzman the authoress Emilia Pardo Bazan means a Spaniard imbued with all the poetic chivalry and honour of past ages. The encounter of this young man, who had been brought up abroad, with his relatives at San Sebastian, is tragic in its disillusion and dénouement, but it is only the pen of a writer like Pardo Bazan, who has recently been made a countess by Alfonso XIII. in consideration of her literary talent, that could give such striking pictures of the feelings and the home life of a Spanish nobleman ruined by the heartless conduct of the son’s wife. “Le frère ainé,” by Daudet, has just been translated into beautiful Spanish verse by Martinez Sierra ; it was rendered the other night in public by Señorita Roderiguez and Señor Porredon. Madrid has just suffered a great loss in the death of the Reverend P. D. Salvador Font. It was his articles published in the “A.B.C.” which poured oil on the stormy waters of controversy during the elections of 1907, when the Solidarity of Catalonia proved to be a power too strong to be set aside. This Solidarity for the suffrage the priest zealously declared was quite distinct from the Separatism The clever ecclesiastic was called “the father of the poor,” for it was due to his initiation that the Society of Santa Rita is such a source of practical benefit to the poor; and many of the illustrious ladies who  ## p. 95 (#119) ############################################# TFIE AUTHOR, 95 devote so much time to cutting out and making garments for their less fortunate sisters took their farewell of the priest as he lay in the solemnity of death in his cell in the Convent of Saint Orozco. Among these ladies one noted the Marchionesses of Perijaa Montehermoso, the Señoras Dato and Luca de Tena, etc. The funeral was attended by the Minister of War, General Weyler, and other celebrities. The Exhibition, which is still open at the palatial editorial house of “A.B.C.,” has been the Scene of many successful entertainments. Señorita Carmen Roderiguez Trelles, the girl musician, gave a most brilliant pianoforte recital one afternoon, in which she interpreted with great facility many difficult works of great masters. The Royal Academy of Spain saw the reception the other day of the new academician, D. Melchor de Palau. . Count Casa Valencia, Menendez Pidal, Count Reparaz, Carracido the Marquis of Wadillo, were among those who assisted at the ceremony. The discourse of the new academician was very well written and replete with interest, the theme being “Science as the Spring of Poetic Inspiration.” The Libro Amarillo (Blue Book) on Morocco, gives a full account of the policy of France with reference to Abd-el-Aziz and Muley Hafid, the mission of Monsieur Regnault to Rabat, the intervention of France in Casablanca, etc. During the long time of his service at Tangier as Secretary of the Foreign Office, Don Manuel de Figuerola has more than justified the high opinion formed of him when in Madrid. The great speech of Moret, the leader of the Liberal party in Saragossa, was listened to by a large assembly at the Town Hall. In his call to his followers the orator said, “Union is strength, union is health, union is the sacrifice of the small for the great, union is to have a conscience.” Cambo, the great statesman of Catalonia, has just held an impressive meeting in Barcelona. The Solidarist leader declared that the policy of Catalonia in its victory for the suffrage will finally extend all over Spain. In speaking eloquently for this union of interests, the orator declared he had never conceived the idea of Separatism for Catalonia, for Separatism came under the same category of evils for Regions as suicide for individuals. RACHEL CHALLICE. a –A–a v-u-w CONTRACTS IN WRITING AND THE - 'STAMP ACT. —s—e-s— QUESTION which is continually arising when there are disputes between authors - and publishers is whether the agreement entered into between them should be in writing, having regard to the provisions of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, and the Statute of Frauds. And closely allied to the above question is another, viz., assuming the contract to be in writ- ing, whether it requires to be stamped. Having regard to the words used in the two statutes, many cases which have been decided on the Statute of Frauds are also authorities on the Stamp Act. The sections of the several Acts which bear on the subject and which it will be necessary to consider are as follows:–Sec. 4 of the Sale of Goods Act, 1893, which practically reproduces sec. 17 of the Statute of Frauds, provides that “A contract for the sale of any goods of the value of ten pounds or upwards shall not be enforceable by action unless the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same, or give something in earnest to bind the contract, or in part-payment, or unless some note or memorandum in writing of the contract be made and signed by the party to be charged or his agent on that behalf.” The Stamp Act of 1891 provides that any agree- ment or any memorandum of an agreement shall be stamped with a sixpenny stamp. But the following exemptions are made : agree- ment or memorandum the matter whereof is not of the value of £5; and agreement, letter, or memor- andum made for or relating to the sale of any goods. The 4th section of the Statute of Frauds renders void any agreement that is not to be performed within a year from the making thereof, unless the agreement upon which the action is brought or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing and signed by the party to be charged there with or by some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised. The subject may be roughly divided into (1) agreements for the sale of literary work to be done, and (2) agreements for the sale of Work already done. With regard to the first class, one of the leadin cases on the subject is that of Clay v. Yates (2 L. J. N. S. 236). The facts were, so far as they are material to the present subject, that the plaintiff, a printer, having agreed to print for the defendant a work which was to contain a dedication to be thereafter sent to him, printed the work and also the dedication, but on the latter being returned to him revised, discovered for the first time that it contained libellous matter, whereupon he refused to continue the printing of it, and on the defendant refusing to accept or pay for the work without the dedica- tion, brought an action against him for the price of the work without the dedication. It was con- tended by the defendant at the trial that the plain- tiff could not recover because the provisions of the Or Sº, J  ## p. 96 (#120) ############################################# 96 THE AUTHOR. 17th section of the Statute of Frauds had not been complied with. The Court, however, held that the section did not apply, the contract being one of work and labour and not of goods sold. Chief Baron Pollock in the course of his judgment said, “It seems to me the true rule is this, whether the work and labour is of the essence of the contract, or whether it is the materials which are found. My impression is, that in the case of a work of art, whether it be silver or gold, or marble, or common plaster, that is a case of the application of labour of the highest description, and the material is of no sort of importance as compared with the labour ; and therefore that all this would be recoverable as work and labour and materials found. “I do not mean to say the price might not be recovered as goods sold and delivered if the work were completed and sent home. - “No doubt it is a chattel that was bargained for and delivered, and it might be recovered as goods sold and delivered, but still it would not prevent the price from being recovered as work and labour and materials found. - “It appears to me, therefore, this was properly sued for as work and labour and materials found, and that the Statute of Frauds does not apply.” It follows from the above case that where the contract is one for work to be done the contract need not be in writing. On the other hand, in such a case if the contract should have been reduced into writing and the matter thereof exceeded £5 in value it should be stamped, because it does not come within the exemptions of the Stamp Act relating to the sale of goods. It would also seem to follow that if the contract were one for the sale of work already done, that it would be a sale of goods and require to be in writing if the value of the contract was £10 or upwards. Whether such contract would require to be stamped is a very difficult question, and each case must depend upon its own particular facts. If the contract was simply the sale of the manu- script for a lump sum it would not require to be stamped. On the other hand, if any additional terms were embodied in the contract it might very possibly be held that it must be stamped. In the recent case of In re Grant Richards (reported in The Author, May, 1907), an author sold the copyright of his book to a publisher upon the terms that the publisher should print and publish it, and should pay him certain royalties upon the sales of the book. - The contract was in writing, and had not been stamped ; the Judge who heard the case held that the contract did not come within the exemptions of the Stamp Act relating to the sale of goods, and therefore required to be stamped. - - The 4th Section of the Statute of Frauds, as already stated, renders void any agreement that is not to be performed within a year unless the same be in writing. - Therefore, wherever it appears, either by express stipulation or by inference from the surrounding circumstances to have been contemplated, that the contract could not be completed on either side within the year, written evidence of the contract is necessary. ' - Speaking generally, the doctrine of part per- formance does not take the case out of the purview of this section, and in that respect it differs from the 4th Section of the Sale of Goods Act. It will be seen from the above how difficult it is to lay down any hard-and-fast rule as to whether it is absolutely necessary that a contract should be in writing and stamped. The principle is clear enough, but the trouble lies in the application of it, and each case must be considered separately. It follows that it is highly desirable that authors should see that their contracts are reduced into writing, and when they are so reduced to have them properly stamped. Aſ a —A- * w ~~ w MAGAZINE CONTENTs. —º-º-º- ATLANTIC MONTHLY. On Learning to Write. By Havelock Ellis. - Some Moral Aspects of the Problem Play. By Louis W. Flaccus. Another Source of “Paradise Lost.” By N. Douglas. BIBLIOPHILE. Milton. By Professor Edward Dowden, LL.D. James Thomson. By Bertram Dobell. The Napoleonic Literature of 1908. By Harold F. B. Wheeler. BOOKMAN. - The Latest Foreign Criticism of Milton. By Jane T. Stoddart. - Henley the Critic and other Matters. By Y. Y. CORNHILL. The Book on the Table: “The Holland House Circle.” By Virginia Stephen. Lewis Campbell. By Leonard Huxley. CONTEMPORARY. Porson. By H. E. P. P. Milton and Modern Men. By J. E. G. de Montmorency. ForTNIGHTLY. The Tercentenary of John Milton. By Alice Law. Chateaubriand’s Second Love. By Francis Gribble. The New Life of Whistler. By Walter Sickert. The Need for an Endowed Theatre in London. By St. John Hankin. :  ## p. 96 (#121) ############################################# Convention de Berne Revisée POUR LA Protection des OEuvres Littéraires et Artistiques.  ## p. 96 (#122) #############################################  ## p. 96 (#123) ############################################# Convention de Berne Revisée POUR LA Protection des CEuvres Littéraires et Artistiques. SA MAJESTÉ L'EMPEREUR D'ALLEMAGNE, ROI DE PRUSSE : r p $ 4 41 (Enumération des Etats), E, $ F f a # a \ º # $ Egalement animés du désir de protéger d'une manière aussi efficace et aussi uniforme que possible les droits des auteurs sur leurs œuvres littéraires et artistiques, Ont résolu de conclure une Convention à l'effet de reviser la Convention de Berne du 9 Septembre, 1886, l'Article additionnel et le Protocole de clôture joints à la même Convention, ainsi que l'Acte additionnel et la Déclaration interprétative de Paris, du 4 Mai, 1896. Ils ont, en conséquence, nommé pour leurs Plénipotentiaires, savoir : Lesquels, après s'être communiqué leurs pleins pouvoirs respectifs, trouvés en bonne et due forme, sont convenus des articles suivants : ARTICLE 1º. Les pays contractants sont constitués à l'état d'Union pour la protection des droits des auteurs sur leurs œuvres littéraires et artistiques. ARTICLE 2. L'expression * œuvres littéraires et artistiques " comprend toute production du domaine littéraire, scientifique ou artistique, quel qu'en soit le mode ou la forme de reproduction, telle que : les livres, brochures, et autres écrits ; les œuvres dramatiques ou dramatico-musicales, les œuvres chorégraphiques et les pantomimes, dont la mise en scène est fixée par écrit ou autre- ment ; les compositions musicales avec ou sans paroles ; les œuvres de dessin, de peinture, d'architecture, de sculpture, de gravure et de lithographie ; les illustrations, les cartes géographiques ; les plans, croquis et ouvrages plastiques, relatifs à la géographie, à la topographie, à l'architecture ou aux sciences. Sont protégés comme des ouvrages originaux, sans préjudice des droits de l'auteur de l'œuvre originale, les traductions, adaptations, arrangements de musique et autres reproductions transformées d'une œuvre littéraire ou artistique, ainsi que les recueils de différentes œuvres. Les pays contractants sont tenus d'assurer la protection des œuvres mentionnées ci-dessus. - Les œuvres d'art appliqué à l'industrie sont protégées autant que permet de le faire la législation intérieure de chaque pays. ARTICLE 3. La présente Convention s'applique aux œuvres photographiques et aux œuvres obtenues par un procédé analogue à la photographie. Les pays contractants sont tenus d'en assurer la protection.  ## p. 96 (#124) ############################################# ( 4 ) ARTICLE 4. Les auteurs ressortissant à l'un des pays de l'Union jouissent, dans les pays autres que le pays d'origine de l'œuvre, pour leurs œuvres, soit non publiées, soit publiées pour la première fois dans un pays de l'Union, des droits que les lois respectives accordent actuellement ou accorderont par la suite aux nationaux, ainsi que des droits spécialement accordés par la présente Convention. La jouissance et l'exercice de ces droits ne sont subordonnés à aucune formalité ; cette jouissance et cet exercice sont indépendants de l'existence de la protection dans le pays d'origine de l'œuvre. Par suite, en dehors des stipulations de la présente Convention, l'étendue de la protection ainsi que les moyens de recours garantis à l'auteur pour sauvegarder ses droits se règlent exclusivement d'après la législation du pays où la protection est réclamée. Est considéré comme pays d'origine de l'œuvre : pour les œuvres non publiées, celui auquel appartient l'auteur ; pour les œuvres publiées, celui de la première publication ; et pour les oeuvres publiées simultanément dans plusieurs pays de l'Union, celui d'entre eux dont la législation accorde la durée de protection la plus courte. Pour les œuvres publiées simultané- ment dans un pays étranger à l'Union et dans un pays de l'Union, c'est ce dernier pays qui est exclusivement considéré comme pays d'origine. Par œuvres publiées, il faut, dans le sens de la présente Convention, entendre les œuvres éditées. La représentation d'une œuvre dramatique ou dramatico-musicale, l'exécution d'une oeuvre musicale, l'exposition d'une œuvre d'art et la construction d'une œuvre d'architecture ne constituent pas une publication. ARTICLE 5. Les ressortissants de l'un des pays de l'Union, qui publient pour la première fois leurs oeuvres dans un autre pays de l'Union, ont, dans ce dernier pays, les mêmes droits que les auteurs nationaux. ARTICLE 6. Les auteurs ne ressortissant pas à l'un des pays de l'Union, qui publient pour la première fois leurs œuvres dans l'un de ces pays, jouissent, dans ce pays, des mêmes droits que les auteurs mationaux, et dans les autres pays de l'Union des droits accordés par la présente Convention. ARTICLE 7. La durée de la protection accordée par la présente Convention comprend la vie de l'auteur et cinquante ans après sa mort. Toutefois, dans le cas où cette durée ne serait pas uniformément adoptée par tous les pays de i'Union, la durée sera réglée par la loi du pays où la protection sera réclamée et elle ne pourra excéder la durée fixée dans le pays d'origine de l'œuvre. Les pays contractants me seront, en conséquence, tenus d'appliquer la disposition de l'alinéa précédent que dans la mesure où elle se concilie avec leur droit interne. Pour les œuvres photographiques et les œuvres obtenues par un procédé analogue à la photographie, pour les œuvres posthumes, pour les œuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes, la durée de la protection est réglée par la loi du pays où la protection est réclamée, sans que cette durée puisse excéder la durée fixée dans le pays d'origine de l'œuvre. ARTICLE 8. Les auteurs d'œuvres non publiées, ressortissant à l'un des pays de l'Union, et les auteurs d'œuvres publiées pour la première fois dans un de ces pays jouissent, dans les autres pays de l'Union, pendant toute la durée du droit sur l'œuvre originale, du droit exclusif de faire ou d'autoriser la traduction de leurs œuvres. ARTICLE 9. Les romans-feuilletons, les nouvelles et toutes autres œuvres, soit littéraires, soit scientifiques, soit artistiques, quel qu'en soit l'objet, publiés dans les journaux ou recueils périodiques d'un  ## p. 96 (#125) ############################################# ( 5 ) des pays de l'Union, ne peuvent être reproduits dans les autres pays sans le consentement des auteurS. J.- À l'exclusion des romans-feuilletons et des nouvelles, tout article de journal peut être reproduit par un autre journal, si la reproduction n'en est pas expressément interdite. Toutefois, la source doit être indiquée ; la sanction de cette obligation est déterminée par la législation du pays où la protection est réclamée. La protection de la présente Convention ne s'applique pas aux nouvelles du jour ou aux faits divers qui ont le caractère de simples informations de presse. ARTICLE 10. En ce qui concerne la faculté de faire licitement des emprunts à des œuvres littéraires ou artistiques pour des publications destinées à l'enseignement ou ayant un caractère scientifique, ou pour des chrestomathies, est réservé l'effet de la législation des pays de l'Union et des arrangements particuliers existants ou à conclure entre eux. ARTICLE ll. Les stipulations de la présente Convention s'appliquent à la représentation publique des œuvres dramatiques ou dramatico-musicales, et à l'exécution publique des œuvres musicales, que ces œuvres soient publiées ou non. Les auteurs d'œuvres dramatiques ou dramatico-musicales sont, pendant la durée de leur droit sur l'œuvre originale, protégés contre la représentation publique non autorisée de la traduction de leurs ouvrages. Pour jouir de la protection du présent article, les auteurs, en publiant leurs œuvres, ne sont pas tenus d'en interdire la représentation ou l'exécution publique. ARTICLE 12. Sont spécialement comprises parmi les reproductions illicites auxquelles s'applique la présente Convention, les appropriations indirectes non autorisées d'un ouvrage littéraire ou artistique, telles que : adaptations, arrangements de musique, transformations d'un roman, d'une nouvelle ou d'une poésie en pièce de théâtre et réciproquement, &c., lorsqu'elles ne sont que la reproduction de cet ouvrage, dans la même forme ou sous une autre forme, avec des changements, additions ou retranchements, non essentiels, et sans présenter le caractère d'une nouvelle œuvre originale. ARTICLE 13. Les auteurs d'œuvres musicales ont le droit exclusif d'autoriser : (1) l'adaptation de ces œuvres à des instruments servant à les reproduire mécaniquement ; (2) l'éxécution publique des mêmes œuvres au moyen de ces instruments. Des réserves et conditions relatives à l'application de cet article pourront être déter- minées par la législation intérieure de chaque pays, en ce qui le concerne , mais toutes réserves et conditions de cette nature n'auront qu'un effet strictement limité au pays qui les aurait établies. La disposition de l'alinéa 1º n'a pas d'effet rétroactif et, par suite, n'est pas applicable, dans un pays de l'Union, aux œuvres qui, dans ce pays, auront été adaptées licitement aux instruments mécaniques avant la mise en vigueur de la présente Convention. Les adaptations faites en vertu des alinéas 2 et 3 du présent article et importées, sans autorisation des parties intéressées, dans un pays où elles ne seraient pas licites, pourront y être saisies. ARTICLE 14, Les auteurs d'œuvres littéraires, scientifiques ou artistiques ont le droit exclusif d'autoriser - •---, Q e # la reproduction et la représentation publique de leurs œuvres par la cinématographie.  ## p. 96 (#126) ############################################# ( 6 ) Sont protégées comme œuvres littéraires ou artistiques les productions cinématographiques lorsque, par les dispositifs de la mise en scène ou les combinaisons des incidents représentés, l'auteur aura donné à l'œuvre un caractère personnel et original. Sans préjudice des droits de l'auteur de l'œuvre originale, la reproduction par la cinémato- graphie d'une œuvre littéraire, scientifique ou artistique est protégée comme une œuvre originale. Les dispositions qui précèdent s'appliquent à la reproduction ou production obtenue par tout autre procédé analogue à la cinématographie. ARTICLE 15. Pour que les auteurs des ouvrages protégés par la présente Convention soient, jusqu'à preuve contraire, considérés comme tels et admis, en conséquence, devant les tribunaux des divers pays de l'Union, à exercer des poursuites contre les contrefacteurs, il suffit que leur nom soit indiqué sur l'ouvrage en la manière usitée. Pour les œuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes, l'éditeur dont le nom est indiqué sur l'ouvrage est fondé à sauvegarder les droits appartenant à l'auteur. Il est, sans autres preuves, réputé ayant cause de l'auteur anonyme ou pseudonyme. ARTICLE 16. Toute œuvre contrefaite peut être saisie par les autorités compétentes des pays de l'Union où l'œuvre originale a droit à la protection légale. Dans ces pays, la saisie peut aussi s'appliquer aux reproductions provenant d'un pays où l'œuvre n'est pas protégée ou a cessé de l'être. La saisie a lieu conformément à la législation intérieure de chaque pays. ARTICLE 17. Les dispositions de la présente Convention ne peuvent porter préjudice, en quoi que ce soit, au droit qui appartient au Gouvernement de chacun des pays de l'Union de permettre, de surveiller, d'interdire, par des mesures de législation ou de police intérieure, la circulation, la représentation, l'exposition de tout ouvrage ou production à l'égard desquels l'autorité com- pétente aurait à exercer ce droit. ARTICLE 18. La présente Convention s'applique à toutes les œuvres qui, au moment de son entrée en vigueur, ne sont pas encore tombées dans le domaine public de leur pays d'origine par l'expira- tion de la durée de la protection. - Cependant, si une œuvre, par l'expiration de la durée de protection qui lui était antérieurement reconnue, est tombée dans le domaine public du pays où la protection est réclamée, cette œuvre n'y sera pas protégée à nouveau. L'application de ce principe aura lieu suivant les stipulations contenues dans les conventions spéciales existantes ou à conclure à cet effet entre pays de l'Union. A défaut de semblables stipulations, les pays respectifs régleront, chacun pour ce qui le concerne, les modalités relatives à cette application. 3- Les dispositions qui précêdent s'appliquent également en cas de nouvelles accessions à l'Union et dans le cas où la durée de la protection serait étendue par application de l'article 7. ARTICLE 19. Les dispositions de la présente Convention n'empêchent pas de revendiquer l'application de dispositions plus larges qui seraient édictées par la législation d'un pays de l'Union en faveur de étrangers en général. r 1  ## p. 96 (#127) ############################################# ( 7 ) ARTICLE 20. Les Gouvernements des pays de l'Union se réservent le droit de prendre entre eux des arrangements particuliers, en tant que ces arrangements conféreraient aux auteurs des droits plus étendus que ceux accordés par l'Union, ou qu'ils renfermeraient d'autres stipulations non contraires à la présente Convention. Les dispositions des arrangements existants qui répondent aux conditions précitées restent applicables. ARTICLE 21. Est maintenu l'office international institué sous le nom de ** Bureau de l'Union imter- nationale pour la protection des œuvres littéraires et artistiques." Ce Bureau est placé sous la haute autorité du Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse, qui en règle l'organisation et en surveille le fonctionnement. La langue officielle du Bureau est la langue française. ARTICLE 22. Le Bureau international centralise les renseignements de toute nature relatifs à la protection des droits des auteurs sur leurs œuvres littéraires et artistiques. Il les coordonne et les publie. Il procède aux études d'utilité commune intéressant l'Union et rédige, à l'aide des documents qui sont mis à sa disposition par les diverses Administrations, une feuille périodique, en langue française, sur les questions concernant l'objet de l'Union. Les Gouverne- ments des pays de l'Union se réservent d'autoriser, d'un commun accord, le Bureau à publier une édition dans une ou plusieurs autres langues, pour le cas où l'expérience en aurait démontré le besoin. Le Bureau international doit se tenir en tout temps à la disposition des membres de l'Union pour leur fournir, sur les questions relatives à la protection des œuvres littéraires et artistiques, les renseignements spéciaux dont ils pourraient avoir besoin. Le Directeur du Bureau international fait sur sa gestion un rapport amnuel qui est communiqué à tous les membres de l'Union. ARTICLE 23. Les dépenses du Bureau de l'Union internationale sont supportées en commum par les pays contractants. Jusqu'à nouvelle décision, elles ne pourront pas dépasser la somme de soixante mille francs par année. Cette somme pourra être augmentée au besoin par simple décision d'une des Conférences prévues à l'article 24. Pour déterminer la part contributive de chacun des pays dans cette somme totale des frais, les pays contractants et ceux qui adhéreront ultérieurement à l'Union sont divisés en six classes contribuant chacune dans la proportion d'un certain nombre d'unités, savoir :- lº classe ... • a • e ， a g @ e • • @ 25 unités. 2me , « • e º • • - © * 4 $ - - ©t 20 5 ) 3me , - - - - - - a º • e º ... lö , 4ºº ,, • • • © º º • © - s e $ ... 10 ,, 5ºº , - º - «e • • s s © s $ $ # © - º 5 ,, 6me , e • © é º º º $ $ • • © 3 ,, Ces coefficients sont multipliés par le nombre des pays de chaque classe, et la somme des produits ainsi obtenus fournit le nombre d'unités par lequel la dépense totale doit être divisée. Le quotient donne le montant de l'unité de dépense. Chaque pays déclarera, au moment de son accession, dans laquelle des susdites classes il demande à être rangé. L'Administration suisse prépare le budget du Bureau et en surveille les dépenses, fait les avances nécessaires et établit le compte annuel qui sera communiqué à toutes les autres Administrations.  ## p. 96 (#128) ############################################# ( 8 ) ARTICLE 24. La présente Convention peut être soumise à des revisions en vue d'y introduire les améliorations de nature à perfectionner le système de l'Union. Les questions de cette nature, ainsi que celles qui intéressent à d'autres points de vue le développement de l'Union, sont traitées dans des Conférences qui auront lieu successivement dans les pays de l'Union entre les délégués desdits pays. L'Administration du pays où doit siéger une Conférence prépare, avec le concours du Bureau international, les travaux de celle-ci. Le Directeur du Bureau assiste aux séances des Conférences et prend part aux discussions sans voix délibérative. - Aucun changement à la présente Convention n'est valable pour l'Union que moyennant l'assentiment unanime des pays qui la composent. ARTICLE 25. Les États étrangers à l'Union et qui assurent la protection légale des droits faisant l'objet de la présente Convention, peuvent y accéder sur leur demande. Cette accession sera notifiée par écrit au Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse, et par celui-ci à tous les autres. Elle emportera, de plein droit, adhésion à toutes les clauses et admission à tous les avantages stipulés dans la présente Convention. Toutefois, elle pourra contenir l'indication des dispositions de la Convention du 9 Septembre 1886 ou de l'Acte additionnel du 4 Mai 1896 qu'ils jugeraient nécessaire de substituer, provisoirement au moins, aux dispositions correspon- dantes de la présente Convention. ARTICLE 26. Les pays contractants ont le droit d'accéder en tout temps à la présente Convention pour leurs colonies ou possessions étrangères. Ils peuvent, à cet effet, soit faire une déclaration générale par laquelle toutes leurs colonies ou possessions sont comprises dans l'accession, soit nommer expressément celles qui y sont comprises, soit se borner à indiquer celles qui en sont exclues. Cette déclaration sera notifiée par écrit au Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse, et par celui-ci à tous les autres. ARTICLE 27. La présente Convention remplacera, dans les rapports entre les Etats contractants, la Convention de Berne du 9 Septembre 1886, y compris l'Article additionnel et le Protocole de clôture du même jour, ainsi que l'Acte additionnel et la Déclaration interprétative du 4 Mai 1896. Les actes conventionnels précités resteront en vigueur dans les rapports avec les Etats qui ne ratifieraient pas la présente Convention. Les Etats signataires de la présente Convention pourront, lors de l'échange des ratifications, déclarer qu'ils entendent, sur tel ou tel point, rester encore liés par les dispositions des Conventions auxquelles ils ont souscrit antérieurement. ARTICLE 28. La présente Convention sera ratifiée, et les ratifications en seront échangées à Berlin au plus tard le 1º Juillet 1910. Chaque Partie contractante remettra, pour l'échange des ratifications, un seul instrument, qui sera déposé, avec ceux des autres pays, aux archives du Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse. Chaque Partie recevra en retour un exemplaire du procès-verbal d'échange des ratifications, signé par les Plénipotentiaires qui y auront pris part. ARTICLE 29. La présente Convention sera mise à exécution trois mois après l'échange des ratifications et demeurera en vigueur pendant un temps indéterminé, jusqu'à l'expiration d'une année à partir du jour où la dénonciation en aura été faite. - -  ## p. 96 (#129) ############################################# ( 9 ) Cette démonciation sera adressée au Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse. Elle me produira son effet qu'à l'égard du pays qui l'aura faite, la Convention restant exécutoire pour les autres pays de l’Union. ARTICLE 30. Les Etats qui introduiront dans leur législation la durée de protection de cinquante ans prévue par l'article 7, alinéa 1*, de la présente Convention, le feront connaitre au Gouverne- ment de la Confédération Suisse par une notification écrite qui sera communiquée aussitót par ce Gouvermement à tous les autres Éfats de l’Union. Il en sera de méme pour les Etats qui remonceront aux réserves faites par eux en vertu des articles 25, 26, et 27. En foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires respectifs ont signé la présente Convention et y ont apposé leurs cachets. Fait à Berlin, le 13 Novembre mil neuf cent huit, en un seul exemplaire, qui sera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement de la Confédération Suisse et dont des copies, certifiées conformes, Seront remises par la voie diplomatique aux pays contractants. Revised Text, 1908, of the Convention creating the International Copyright Union. |Reprinted from the United States Publishers' Weekly.] ARTICLE 1. Union to protect literary and artistic works.-The contracting countries are constituted into a union for the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works. ARTICLE 2. Definition of “literary and artistic works.”—The expression “literary and artistic works” includes all productions in the literary, scientific, or artistic domain, whatever the mode or form of reproduction, such as books, pamphlets, and other writings; dramatic or dramatico-musical works; choreographic works and pantomimes, the stage directions (mise-en-scène) of which are fixed in writing or otherwise ; musical compositions with or without words; drawings, paintings; works of architecture and sculpture; engravings and lithographs ; illustrations; geographical charts; plans, sketches, and plastic works relating to geography, topography, architecture, or the sciences, Translations, arrangements, and adaptations protected.—Translations, adaptations, arrange- ments of music, and other reproductions transformed from a literary or artistic work, as well as compilations from different works, are protected as original works without prejudice to the rights of the author of the original work. The contracting countries are pledged to secure protection in the case of the works mentioned above. . - Works of art applied to industry.—Works of art applied to industry are protected so far as the domestic legislation of each country allows. ARTICLE 3. Photographic works to be protected.—The present Convention applies to photographic works and to works obtained by any process analogous to photography. The contracting countries are pledged to guarantee protection to such works.  ## p. 96 (#130) ############################################# ( 10 ) ARTICLE 4. Authors to enjoy in countries of the Union the rights granted to ºvatives.—Authors within the jurisdiction of one of the countries of the Union enjoy for their works, whether unpublished or published for the first time in one of the countries of the Union, such rights, in the countries other than the country of origin of the work, as the respective laws now accord or shall here- after accord to natives, as well as the rights specially accorded by the present Convention. No formalities required.— The enjoyment and the exercise of such rights are not subject to any formality; such enjoyment and such exercise are independent of the existence of protection in the country of origin of the work. Consequently, apart from the stipulations of the present Convention, the extent of the protection, as well as the means of redress guaranteed to the author to safeguard his rights, are regulated exclusively according to the legislation of the country where the protection is claimed. Definition of country of origin.-The following is considered as the country of origin of the work: for unpublished works, the country to which the author belongs; for published works, the country of first publication, and for works published simultaneously in several countries of the Union, the country among them whose legislation grants the shortest term of protection. For works published simultaneously in a country outside of the Union and in a country within the Union, it is the latter country which is exclusively considered as the country of origin. Published works.-By published works (oeuvres publiées) must be understood, according to the present Convention, works which have been issued (oeuvres éditées). The representation of a dramatic or dramatico-musical work, the performance of a musical work, the exhibition of a work of art, and the construction of a work of architecture do not constitute publication. ARTICLE 5. Authors of countries of the Union have same rights as natives of other countries.—Authors within the jurisdiction of one of the countries of the Union who publish their works for the first time in another country of the Union have in this latter country the same rights as mational authors. . ARTICLE 6. Authors not belonging to countries of the Union also protected if they first publish in a Union country.—Authors not within the jurisdiction of any one of the countries of the Union, who publish for the first time their works in one of these countries, enjoy in that country the same rights as national authors, and in the other countries of the Union the rights accorded by the present Convention. ARTICLE 7. Term of protection : life and fifty years.-The term of protection granted by the present Convention comprises the life of the author and fifty years after his death. If not adopted, laws of country to govern term.–In case this term, however, should not be adopted uniformly by all the countries of the Union, the duration of the protection shall be regulated by the law of the country where protection is claimed, and cannot exceed the term granted in the country of origin of the work. The contracting countries will consequently only be required to apply the provision of the preceding paragraph to the extent to which it agrees with their domestic law. Term for photographic, posthumous, amonymous, or pseudonymous works,—For photographic works and works obtained by a process analogous to photography, for posthumous works, for anonymous or pseudonymous works, the term of protection is regulated by the law of the country where protection is claimed, but this term may not exceed the term fixed in the country of origin of the work. ARTICLE 8. Eacclusive right of translation for entire term.—Authors of unpublished works within the jurisdiction of one of the countries of the Union, and authors of works published for the first time in one of these countries, enjoy in the other countries of the Union during the whole term of the right in the original work the exclusive right to make or to authorise the translation of their works.  ## p. 96 (#131) ############################################# ( 11 ) ARTICLE 9. Serial novels protected when published in newspapers or periodicals.-Serial stories (romans feuilletons), novels, and all other works, whether literary, scientific, or artistic, whatever may be their subject, published in newspapers or periodicals of one of the countries of the Union, may not be reproduced in the other countries without the consent of the authors. Reproduction of newspaper articles. – With the exception of serial stories (romans- feuilletons) and of novels, any newspaper article may be reproduced by another newspaper if reproduction has not been expressly forbidden. The source, however, must be indicated. The confirmation of this obligation shall be determined by the legislation of the country where protection is claimed. Mews items not protected.—The protection of the present Convention does not apply to news of the day or to miscellaneous news having the character merely of press information. ARTICLE 10. Extracts from literary or artistic works for educational publications.—As concerns the right of borrowing lawfully from literary or artistic works for use in publications intended for instruction or having a scientific character, or for chrestomathies, the provisions of the legislation of the countries of the Union and of the special treaties existing or to be concluded between them shall govern. ARTICLE ll. Representation of dramatic or dramatico-musical works.-The stipulations of the present Convention apply to the public representation of dramatic or dramatico-musical works and to the public performance of musical works, whether these works are published or not. Representation of translations of dramatic works. –Authors of dramatic or dramatico-musical works are protected, during the term of their copyright in the original work, against the unauthorised public representation of a translation of their works. Notice of reservation of performance not required.—In order to enjoy the protection of this article, authors, in publishing their works, are not obliged to prohibit the public representation or public performance of them. ARTICLE 12. Adaptations, etc., considered as infringements.-Among the unlawful reproductions to which the present Convention applies are specially included indirect, unauthorised appropriations of a literary or artistic work, such as adaptations, arrangements of music, transformations of a romance or novel or of a poem into a theatrical piece, and vice versá, etc., when they are only the reproduction of such work in the same form or in another form with non-essential changes, additions, or abridgments, and without presenting the character of a new, original work. ARTICLE 13. Adaptation of musical works to mechanical instruments.-Authors of musical works have the exclusive right to authorise—(1) the adaptation of these works to instruments serving to reproduce them mechanically; (2) the public performance of the same works by means of these instruments. Each country to regulate for itself the mamme, in which Convention shall apply.—The limitations and conditions relative to the application of this article shall be determined by the domestic legislation of each country in its own case ; but all limitations and conditions of this nature shall have an effect strictly limited to the country which shall have adopted them. Not retroactive.—The provisions of paragraph 1 have no retroactive effect, and therefore are not applicable in a country of the Union to works which in that country shall have been lawfully adapted to mechanical instruments before the going into force of the present Convention. Importation of mechanical musical appliances prohibited.—The adaptations made by virtue of paragraphs 2 and 3 of this article and imported without the authorisation of the parties interested into a country where they are not lawful may be seized there.  ## p. 96 (#132) ############################################# ( 12 ) ARTICLE 14. Reproduction by cinematograph.-Authors of literary, scientific, or artistic works have the exclusive right to authorise the reproduction and the public representation of their works by means of the cinematograph. Cinematographic productions protected.—Cinematographic productions are protected as literary or artistic works when by the arrangement of the stage effects, or by the combination of incidents represented, the author shall have given to the work a personal and original character. Cinematographs copyrightable.—Without prejudice to the rights of the author in the Original work, the reproduction by the cinematograph of a literary, scientific, or artistic work is protected as an original work. Also any analogous production.—The preceding provisions apply to the reproduction or production obtained by any other process analogous to that of the cinematograph. ARTICLE 15. Author's name indicated on work sufficient proof of authorship.–In order that the authors of the works protected by the present Convention may be considered as such until proof to the contrary, and admitted in consequence before the courts of the various countries of the Union to proceed against infringers, it is sufficient that the author's name be indicated upon the work in the usual manner. Publisher of anonymous or pseudonymous works considered as representative of author.—For anonymous or pseudonymous works, the publisher whose name is indicated upon the work is entitled to protect the rights of the author. He is without other proofs considered, the legal representative of the anonymous or pseudonymous author. ARTICLE 16. Seizure of pirated copies.—All infringing works may be seized by the competent authorities of the countries of the Union where the original work has a right to legal protection. Seizure may also be made in these countries of reproductions which come from a country where the copyright in the work has terminated, or where the work has not been protected. Seizure to be made according to the laws of each country.—The seizure takes place in conformity with the domestic legislation of each country. ARTICLE 17. Jach Government to evercise supervision as to circulation, representation, or exhibition of worſes.—The provisions of the present Convention may not prejudice in any way the right which belongs to the Government of each of the countries of the Union to permit, to supervise, or to forbid, by means of legislation or of domestic police, the circulation, the representation, or the exhibition of every work or production in regard to which competent authority may have to exercise this right. . ARTICLE 18. Convention to apply to all works mot in public domain at the time of its going into force.— The present Convention applies to all works which, at the time it goes into effect, have not fallen into the public domain of their country of origin because of the expiration of the term Of protection. - - - But if a work by reason of the expiration of the term of protection which was previously secured for it has fallen into the public domain of the country where protection is claimed, such work will not be protected anew. ~ * ~ * Special conventions and domestic legislation may govern.-This principle will be applied in accordance with the stipulations to that effect contained in the special conventions either  ## p. 96 (#133) ############################################# ( 13 ) existing or to be concluded between countries of the Union, and in default of such stipulations, its application will be regulated by each country in its own case. Provisions of Convention to apply to new accessions.—The preceding provisions apply equally in the case of new accessions to the Union and where the term of protection would be extended by the application of article 7. ARTICLE 19. More extensive rights may be granted by domestic legislation.—The provisions of the present Convention do not prevent a claim for the application of more favourable provisions which may be enacted by the legislation of a country of the Union in favour of foreigners in general. ARTICLE 20. More extensive right may be secured by special treaties.—The Governments of the countries of the Union reserve the right to make between themselves special treaties, when these treaties would confer upon authors more extended rights than those accorded by the Union, or when they contain other stipulations not conflicting with the present Convention. The provisions of existing treaties which answer the aforesaid conditions remain in force. ARTICLE 21. Bureau of the International Union.—The international office instituted under the name of “Bureau of the International Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works” (“Bureau de l’Union Internationale pour la protection des CEuvres Littéraires et Artistiques”) is maintained. Under control of Switzerland.—This Bureau is placed under the high authority of the Government of the Swiss Confederation, which controls its organisation and supervises its working. Language of Bureau to be French.-The official language of the Bureau is the French language. ARTICLE 22. Duties of International Bureau.-The International Bureau brings together, arranges, and publishes information of every kind relating to the protection of the rights of authors in their literary and artistic works. It studies questions of mutual utility interesting to the Union, and edits, with the aid of documents placed at its disposal by the various administrations, a periodical in the French language, treating questions concerning the purpose of the Union. The Governments of the countries of the Uuion reserve the right to authorise the Bureau by common accord to publish an edition in one or more other languages, in case experience demonstrates the need. Will furnish information as to copyright.—The International Bureau must hold itself at all times at the disposal of members of the Union to furnish them, in relation to questions concerning the protection of literary and artistic works, the special information of which they have need. Director of the International Bureau.-The Director of the International Bureau makes an annual report on his administration, which is communicated to all the members of the Union. ARTICLE 23. Ea'penses of the International Bureau to be shared by contracting States.—The expenses of the Bureau of the International Union are shared in common by the contracting countries. Until a new decision, they may not exceed sixty thousand francs per year. This sum may be increased when needful by the simple decision of one of the conferences provided for in article 24. - Method of sharing expenses.—To determine the part of this sum total of expenses to be paid by each of the countries, the contracting countries and those which later adhere to the Union  ## p. 96 (#134) ############################################# ( 14 ) are divided into six classes each contributing in proportion to a certain number of units, to wit — - 1st class tº ſº tº $ tº tº $ tº gº tº sº. ... 25 units. 2nd class * * * tº ſº e tº º º tº e & ... 20 , 3rd class e tº º * * * tº º º tº s tº ... 15 , 4th class © tº º e & º tº e º tº º ge ... 10 , 5th class e ‘º e & Cº º tº gº º * = & ... 5 , 6th class * * @ & & º * * * tº e º ... 3 s, These coefficients are multiplied by the number of countries of each class, and the sum of the products thus obtained furnishes the number of units by which the total expense is to be divided. The quotient gives the amount of the unit of expense. Each country shall declare, at the time of its accession, in which of the above-mentioned classes it desires to be placed. Swiss Administration to prepare the budget of the International Bureau, etc.—The Swiss Administration prepares the budget of the Bureau and superintends its expenditures, makes necessary advances, and draws up the annual account, which shall be communicated to all other administrations. ARTICLE 24. Revision of Convention.—The present Convention may be subjected to revision with a view to the introduction of amendments calculated to perfect the system of the Union. To take place successively in the countries of the Union.—Questions of this nature, as well as those which from other points of view pertain to the development of the Union, are considered in the conferences which will take place successively in the countries of the Union between the delegates of the said countries. The administration of the country where a conference is to be held will, with the co-operation of the International Bureau, prepare the business of the same. The Director of the Bureau will attend the meetings of the conferences and take part in the discussions without a deliberate voice. Changes require unanimous consent.—No change in the present Convention is valid for the Union except on condition of the unanimous consent of the countries which compose it. ARTICLE 25. Accession of other countries.—The States outside of the Union which assure legal protection of the rights which are the object of the present Convention may accede to it upon their request. To be made known by Switzerland.—This accession shall be made known in writing to the Government of the Swiss Confederation and by the latter to all the others. May 8wbstitute provisions of previous conventions.—Such accession shall imply full adhesion to all the clauses and admission to all the advantages stipulated in the present Convention. It may, however, indicate such provisions of the Convention of September 9, 1886, or of the Additional Act of May 4, 1896, as it may be judged necessary to substitute provisionally, at least, for the corresponding provisions of the present Convention. ARTICLE 26. Accession for colonies or foreign possessions.—The contracting countries have the right to accede at any time to the present Convention for their colonies or foreign possessions. They may, for that purpose, either make a general declaration by which all their colonies or possessions are included in the accession, or name expressly those which are included therein, or confine themselves to indicating those which are excluded from it. This declaration shall be made known in writing to the Government of the Swiss Con- federation, and by the latter to all the others. ARTICLE 27. Present Convention to replace Berne Convention and Additional Articles. But Berne Convention remains in force between countries not signatory to present Convention.—The present  ## p. 96 (#135) ############################################# ( 15 ) Convention shall replace, in the relations between the contracting States, the Convention of Berne of September 9, 1886, including the Additional Article and the Final Protocol of the same day, as well as the Additional Act and the Interpretative Declaration of May 4, 1896. The Convention Acts above mentioned shall remain in force in the relations with the States which do not ratify the present Convention. Sigmatory States may declare themselves bound by former conventions upon certain points.- The States signatory to the present Convention may, at the time of the exchange of ratifications, declare that they intend, upon such or such point, still to remain bound by the provisions of the conventions to which they have previously subscribed. ARTICLE 28. Convention to be ratified not laler than July 1, 1910.-The present Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Berlin, not later than the first of July, 1910. Instrument to be filed with Swiss Government.—Each contracting party shall send, for the exchange of ratifications, a single instrument, which shall be deposited, with those of the other countries, in the archives of the Government of the Swiss Confederation. Each party shall receive in return a copy of the procès-verbal of the exchange of ratifications, signed by the plenipotentiaries who shall have taken part therein. ARTICLE 29. Convention to take effect three months after exchange of ratifications.—The present Convention shall be put into execution three months after the exchange of the ratifications, and shall remain in force for an indefinite time, until the expiration of one year from the day when denunciation of it shall have been made. Withdrawal from the Convention.—This denunciation shall be addressed to the Government of the Swiss Confederation. It shall only be effective as regards the country which shall have made it, the Convention remaining in force for the other countries of the Union. ARTICLE 30. Adoption of term of life and fifty years to be motified.—The States which introduce into their legislation the term of protection of fifty years” provided for by article 7, paragraph 1, of the present Convention, shall make it known to the Government of the Swiss Confederation by a written notification, which shall be communicated at Once by that Government to all the other countries of the Union. Notice shall be given of renouncement of any reservations.—It shall be the same for such States as shall renounce any reservations made by them in virtue of articles 25, 26, and 27. Signatures.—In testimony of which the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and have attached thereto their seals. Date of signing, Wovember 13, 1908.-Dome at Berlin the thirteenth of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight, in a single copy, which shall be deposited in the archives of the Government of the Swiss Confederation, and of which copies, properly certified, shall be sent through diplomatic channels to the contracting countries. * Article 7 provides for a general term of protection for life and fifty years.  ## p. 96 (#136) #############################################  ## p. 97 (#137) ############################################# THE AUTISIOR. 97 WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. - ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property — I. Selling it Outright, This is sometimes 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,” unless 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. (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. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. 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 the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. 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 In e2, DS. (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, (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright. ——e—º-e— WARNINGs To DRAMATIC AUTHORS, —º-º-º- 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 tmanager. 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 contract for production of the piece by a certain date and for proper publication of his name on the play-bills. (b) 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 author should obtain a percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts 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 out under heading (b.) 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 United States rights may be exceed- ingly valuable. They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantiał 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 subject of dramatic con- tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. —e—º-e— WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the assistance of producers of books and dramatic | authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan- cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He  ## p. 98 (#138) ############################################# 98 TFIES A UTFIOR, should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. -º-º-o- 1. WERY 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. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor, but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion. All this without any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi- ence 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 or 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 your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire- proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential 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 concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to a greements. Fuller particulars of the Society's work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 7. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. - This The 8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution. Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. 9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 10. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. —º-º-º- HE Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society’s safe. The musical publishers communicate direct With the Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble. THE READING BRANCH, —º-º-º- EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in the M branch of its 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. —e—Q-e— NOTICES. —º-º-e— HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of | the 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 5s. 6d. Subscription for the year. Communications for “The Author” should be addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st 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. Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all subjects connected with literature, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot be accepted. —º-º-º- The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all 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. —e—º-e— LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. —e—º-0– ENSIONS to commence at any selected age, either with or without Life Assurance, can be obtained from this Society. Full particulars can be obtained from the City Branch Manager, Legal and General Life Assurance Society, 158, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.  ## p. 99 (#139) ############################################# Trips A Drt Hor. 99 GENERAL, NOTES. —º-º-º- - THE BERLIN CONFERENCE. THE Government Report of the Berlin Conference was not published on going to press, but we publish, by the courtesy of Mr. Askwith of the Board of Trade, the revised convention in French, and a translation of the same from the U.S.A. Publishers’ Weekly. Le Droit d'Auteur, the official organ of the Bureau Internationale, has not as yet published a report of the conference, although the revised convention was published in the November issue. The secretary, however, pro- poses to prepare a full statement of the proceedings, which will be published at the end of this month, and a series of critical articles, which will appear in Le Droit d'Auteur in the early months of this year. MUSIC PUBLISHING. IN one of the current issues of Musical Opinion, there is an article entitled “Advice to Young Composers,” by “An Old Hand.” In this article the author has done the society the honour of mentioning its name. He is kind enough to state that the advice given by this society is cheap at a guinea, and is invalu- able to the young composer. This, however, is not the point to which we would draw attention. The article is really not half strong enough when it discusses the relations between music publishers and composers. For years the Society has been trying to get the musical composers to combine, but unsuccessfully, owing mainly to the fact that there has been no leadership from those whose names carry weight in the musical world ; indeed, some who should be leaders have scoffed at the utility of such a combination, we trust not because they do not need it themselves. If ever there was a profession that needed a strong combination it is the musical profession. The publishers, with grasping avidity, take the copyrights and perform- ing rights, not in England only but everywhere. The remuneration they offer is in many cases grotesquely small ; and the composer is not infre- quently merely the paid hack of the publisher, bound to produce so much work every year. The position is an outrage on the dignity of the profession. If one of the younger generation kicks, his compositions are either rejected or, if he publishes at his own expense, they are left to rot on the publisher's shelves. He is gradually flogged into obedience. There is only one remedy—combination. If publishers found that composer after com- poser would not accept terms, they would gradually by slow pressure yield, and look at the matter from a more rational standpoint. But the fight must be a long and stubborn one, for the composers have left the matter so long. In consequence, the publishers feel that they have established their position. If the movement will not come from those who ought to be leaders, then let it come from the men of the younger generation. Let them show that indebtedness to their profession which Bacon says every man should owe. The good result is sure to come though it may be only in the fulness of years. *m-ºsm THE NUMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. THIS is the commencement of the twenty-fifth year of the society's existence. The last year closed with an election of 243 members, and the last circular issued—that sent out on behalf of the Pension Fund—showed a total membership of considerably over 1,900. It should be stated that the numbers at the end of the year are generally higher than they are about March or April, for at that time certain non-payers have been taken off the books, and the resignations consequent on the call for the annual subscription are more frequent. It is possible, however, even then to put down the numbers roughly at 1,900. The question arises, is this result satisfactory A statistician whose figures may be relied upon as fairly accurate reckoned the writers of books and dramatists in England at a total of 11,000. There are not a few writers in the colonies who belong to the society, and sundry in the United States of America have found the society exceed- ingly useful when their works are published both sides of the water. It is to be hoped, therefore, that the yearly increase will be maintained, so that at no very distant date the society may reckon on an annual income from subscriptions of somewhere about £3,000. As the income increases, the expenditure increases also, for the applications for legal assistance grow more numerous. The legal expenditure is a heavy item in the Society's accounts. But when its yearly income from sub- scriptious amounts to £3,000, unless any serious misfortune should descend, it ought to have an invested capital as well of at least the same amount. May the New Year show that these hopes will in part, at any rate, be fulfilled. THE NOBEL PRIZE. THE Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded to Professor Rudolph Eucken, of Jena University, to whom we beg to offer our sincere congratula- tions. Professor Eucken is responsible for that development of philosophy known as the New Idealism, and we understand that a translation of one of his most recent works, entitled “The Life of the Spirit,” is about to be issued by Messrs. Williams and Norgate.  ## p. 100 (#140) ############################################ 100 TRIE A UſTHOR. With reference to the rumours that have appeared in the daily Press of the assignment of the prize to Mr. Swinburne, we have high authority for saying that the decision of the Committee was very nearly given in his favour. At the same time, it could hardly be expected, after Mr. Rud- yard Kipling's success of last year, that the prize would again be given to an Englishman. The Nobel Prize Committee, with the whole world to consider, have a very difficult duty to perform in adjudicating the claims of the numerous nominees, and in this especial subject of literature their intentions and efforts have been to distribute the prize among as many countries as possible. **-ms “sº- EDITORIAL FAILINGs. THE correspondence on this subject which has appeared recently in our columns has brought us many further communications. Information both for and against Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson's treat- ment of MSS. has been received, though it is only fair to suppose in the latter case the bad treatment did not come under the notice of our correspondent “The Editor.” Other complaints have been re- ceived against publishers, and there seems a very widespread feeling among authors that their tentative MSS. do not as a rule receive the tender handling that is their due. We would state with regard to publishers that, generally speaking, MSS. confided to their care are treated with the greatest consideration. We desire, however, to warn the few exceptions to take heed of their conduct in this matter. In the magazine and periodical market the outlook is more serious, and the slaughter of the innocents more general. It is bad enough for the author to have his MS. returned—though no one is to blame for this—but to receive it in a con- dition that renders re-copying imperative is, as one of our correspondents remarks, “needlessly cruel.” - Editors may be allowed a certain measure of human failings, but not this especial short- Coming. THE AUTHORS’ CLUB. WE are pleased to hear that Mr. George Mere- dith, our president, has signified his acceptance, in an autograph letter, of the invitation of the Execu- tive Committee of the Authors' Club to occupy the office of president of their General Council for the ensuing year. The club held its first dinner in the new premises on Thursday, the 17th of December. There was a most enthusiastic gathering. Members and guests to the number of seventy-five were present. Mr. Charles Garvice, the chairman of the club, presided. After the toast of “The King,” “The Prosperity of the Authors’ Club '' was the first toast. It was proposed by the chairman and most enthusiastically received. Mr. Francis Gribble then proposed the health of the guest, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould. After dinner there. Was an excellent programme of music. The Authors’ Club may be congratulated on the success of its revival. - *E**** •ºmºmºmºmº- THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK. “THE Literary Year Book” for 1909 is just out, but has arrived at the office of the society too late. for review in this issue. In view of the importance of this publication to members of the society it is particularly necessary that it should be carefully read and considered before any criticism is passed. The number of authors in England, given in another paragraph, is computed at 11,000. “The Literary Year Book” contains a list of just over 3,000. We do not know on what principle this list is compiled, nor do we know whether the list is submitted as exhaustive, but if “The Literary Year Book’s” figures are correct, then the society's mem- bership of 2,000 is a cause for congratulation, but we fear that the 11,000 is much nearer the truth. Although we have not had time to look through the volume with care, we have glanced through the part referring to law and letters, and consider that, in the space allotted for this complicated and difficult subject, the question has been dealt with, on the whole, satisfactorily. We cannot, however, compliment the writer on his form of royalty agreement. º-º-º-º-º-º-º-º-ºm-º Amºsºm-m-m-tº-mº SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.M.G., K.C.B. WE print the following letter from the President. of La Société des Gens de Lettres with the kind permission of Lady Bergne. It shows the warm. appreciation that was felt for Sir Henry and his work in France, and affords further evidence of the value of that work for the cause of international copyright. MADAME,-La Société des Gens de Lettres de France a été très attristée en apprenant que Sir Henry Bergne, ancien président de la Société des Auteurs Anglais, est mort à Berlin oti il était venu représenter la Grande- Bretagne à la Conférence pour la propriété littéraire et. artistique. Je me suis fait un devoir de dire au Comité quelle perte font les écrivains detous les pays par la disparition Vraiment cruelle et trop prompte, d'un homme si digne, si courtois, si aimable, qui fut, toute sa vie, un défenseur convaincu du droit des auteurs sur leur Oeuvre et qui, avec la grande: autorité morale dont il jouissait en Angleterre, aurait cer- tainement contribué a obtenir poureux une reconnaissance: plus compléte de leurs droits légitimes. - - -  ## p. 101 (#141) ############################################ TFIES A UITISIOR. 101 Aussi le Comité de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France a-t-il manifesté par un vote unanime ses regrets bien sinceres, et m'a-t-il confié le soin de vous les exprimer 16Il SOI), Il OIOl. Je le fais avec d'autant plus d’émotion que, ayant eu l'honneur de travailler a Londres et à Berlin avec sir Henry Bergne, a la défense des justes intérêts littéraires, j’ai pu apprécier ses qualités d'esprit et de caractère, l'ardeur si prudente et si avisée qu'il apportait, avec tant de désin- téressement personnel, à cette cause chère à son coeur. Au nom de la Société des Gens de Lettres de France et en mon nom personnel j’ai l’honneur de vous dire la part bien Sincère que nous premons à votre douleur. Et je vous prie de vouloir bien agréer, Madame, l’hom- mage de messentiments de sympathie respectueuse et bien attristée. Le Président de la Société des Gens de Lettres. Signé : GEORGES LECOMTE. The December number of Le Droit d'Auteur also contains a long article, which illustrates the feeling of his colleagues, the delegates of other nations. It commends in the warmest language his special and personal efforts toward the ends of international agreement. ©----- BASIL FIELD. —º-º-º- N the last few months we have had to chronicle the deaths of J. C. Parkinson, one of the oldest members of the society and of the council, of the Rev. Prof. Ilewis Campbell, and of Sir Henry Bergne. Now we have to regret the death of Mr. Basil Field, the head of the firm of Messrs. Field, Roscoe & Co., the society's solicitors. In the early days of the society, when friends were not so numerous as they are now, it was of great importance to the society to have the support of Mr. Field and his firm. He laboured with the promoters with energy and sympathy, and his mature judgment and sound practical advice often guided the course of the society's ship in the early days of its voyage. He assisted in the society’s efforts to deal with copyright reform, and to him they used to refer with confidence doubtful legal issues. In the last few years he has not given so much personal attention to our work as previously, but his goodwill was always with the society's endeavours and the society's aims. It will be impossible for those who still remember the early days to forget his labours during those anxious struggles, and it is well that these facts should be brought to the ken of those who never knew. To Mr. Basil Field the society and all members owe a deep debt of gratitude. Mr. Field was born in 1835, and educated at the London University, where he took his degree. At the age of twenty-five he was admitted to prac- tice, joining the firm of his father, Mr. Edwin Field, the eminent solicitor. On the 12th of December, while at the Law Society's hall, he suffered a paralytic stroke and was removed to his home, where he died the following morning. —º- A -—w COMMITTEE ELECTION. –0—sº-0– NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBING MEMBERs. N pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of Association of the society, the committee give notice that the election of members to the committee of management will be proceeded with in the following manner — - (1) One-third of the members of the present committee of management retire from office in accordance with Article 17. (2) The members desiring to offer themselves for re-election who have been nominated by the retiring committee are the Hon. Mrs. A. L. Felkin, Mr. Arthur Rackham, Mr. S. S. Sprigge, Mr. Sidney Webb. (3) The date fixed by the committee up to which nominations by the subscribing members of candidates for election to the new committee may be made is the 15th day of February. (4) The committee nominate the following candidates, being subscribing members of the Society, to fill the vacancies caused by the retire- ment of one-third of the committee, according to the new constitution :- Mrs. A. L. Felkin (Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler). Mr. Arthur Rackham. Mr. S. S. Sprigge. Mr. Sidney Webb. The committee remind the members that under Article 19 of the amended articles of association, “any two subscribing members of the society may nominate one or more subscribing members, other than themselves, not exceeding the number of vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness to accept the duties of the post.” Members desiring to exercise their powers under this rule must send in the name of the candidate or candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in all, on or before the 15th day of February, together with an accompanying letter written by the candi- date or candidates expressing readiness to accept nomination. The complete list of candidates will be printed in the March issue of The Author. Having regard to the fact that the present com- mittee has not been in office for a full year, the committee consider it in the interest of the society not to suggest any change in the constitution. They have therefore re-nominated the four retiring members. à. w  ## p. 102 (#142) ############################################ 102. TI ILS A UTI IO PR. THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. *—e—sº-0– N accordance with annual custom, and in order to give members of the society, should they desire to appoint a fresh member to the Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been thought advisable to place in The Author a complete statement of the method of election under the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Under that scheme the committee is composed of three members elected by the committee of the society, three members elected by the society at the general meeting, and the chairman of the Society for the time being, ea officio. The three members elected at the general meeting when the fund was started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel- mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn during the past years resigned, and, submitting their names for re-election, have been unanimously re-elected. Mr. Spielmann resigned and was re- elected in 1907. This year Mr. Morley Roberts, under the rules of the scheme, tenders his resigna- tion, and submits his name for re-election. The members have power to put forward other names under clause 9, which runs as follows:— Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by at least three members of the society. A list of the names of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members of the society, with the annual report of the Managing Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the general meeting shall be elected. to serve on the Pension Fund Committee. In case any member should desire to refer to the list of members, the new list, taking the elections up to the end of July, was published in October, 1907. This list is complete, with the exception of the thirty-eight members referred to in the short preface. All further elections have been duly notified in The Author. They can easily be referred to, as members receive a copy every month. It will be as well, therefore, should any of the members desire to put forward a candidate, to take the matter within their immediate consideration. The general meeting of the Society has usually been held towards the end of February or the beginning of March. It is essential that all nominations should be in the hands of the secretary before January 31, 1908. —6- —rº--------—- UNITED STATES NOTES. —º-º-º- Sº far as can be judged at present, the year 1908. has been by no means an unprosperous one for the American book trade. Practically the only effect of the Presidential elections has been to stimulate the production of political literature. Other influences that have had perceptible results upon the output are last year's commercial depres- sion and the prevailing ferment in the religious World. For the rest, novels are said to be numeri- cally on the decline, but “gift books” more in demand than ever ; whilst we have it on the authority of the Publishers’ Weekly that “the public taste improves and the publishers realise it.” The Milton tercentenary has been worthily celebrated by the Grolier Club of New York. Some three hundred portraits, with forty engravings done in America, have been on exhibition, besides many first editions of the poet's works, and books and manuscripts with his autograph. Mr. Beverley Chew and his colleagues are to be congratulated on the success of their efforts. Perhaps the greatest achievement of American scholarship during the year has been the editing of the “Tragedy of King Richard the Third,” in the Shakespearean Wariorum, by Howard Furness, junior. It must have been not only a most laborious but also a very difficult task. We most heartily congratulate Dr. Frederick Morrow Fling, of the University of Nebraska, upon the great promise shown in “The Youth of Mirabeau,” the first of three projected volumes on the life of the great French statesman. In our judgment it seems likely, when completed, to equal, if not surpass, any historical work yet Written in America, though its literary qualities are scarcely on a level with its very considerable Value as a monument of extensive research and Critical acumen. The Pennell Life of Whistler will be too familiar to readers of The Author to need comment here ; but there are other outstanding books of American biography that must be noticed. William H. Low's “A Chronicle of Friendships,” containing reminiscences of French and American artists and Some recollections of the British Stevensons (R. L. and R. A. M.), will be widely read ; whilst the musical and dramatic worlds will be greatly inte- rested in the veteran William Winter’s “Other Days” and Paul Wilstach’s “Richard Mansfield.” “An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays * comes from Professor Osler as a pleasant reminder that the tradition of Sir Thomas Browne, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Dr. John Brown is being handed on  ## p. 103 (#143) ############################################ THE AUTISIOR. 103. Then there is that remarkable record of a wanderer's existence, “My Life,” by Josiah Flynt, with its recollections of Tolstoi, Mommsen, and the nameless vagrant, more especially the last. Josiah Flynt Willard is said by those who knew him to have talked better than he wrote ; but as someone re- marked, “It must be remembered that Flynt was the tramp writing not the literary man tramping.” Of a more purely literary interest are Ferris Greenslet's book on Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the “Letters and Memorials of Wendell Phillips Garrison,” who edited the Nation for more than forty years. The third volume of Carl Schurz's Reminiscences are of at least equal interest to the preceding instalments. Other notable additions to biographi- cal literature are Henry L. Nelson's Life of George William Curtis, to which we may return later ; and Thomas Nelson Page's study of Robert E. Lee. F. M. Sanborn's new Hawthorne book should also not be omitted in this connection. In the domain of history two Boston books arrest attention, M. C. Crawford’s “St. Botolph's Town,” and James De Wolff Lovett's “Old Boston Boys and the Games they Played ”; whilst we have also Charles W. Colby’s “Canadian Types of the Old Régime,” Galusha Anderson’s “A Border City during the Civil War,” and Agnes C. Laut's “Conquest of the Great North-West.” Abraham Lincoln has inspired an epic, Francis Howard Williams’s “The Burden Bearer,” and the dead preserver of the Union has received a “tribute,” from George Bancroft. Sydney G. Fisher's “Struggle for American Independence” should have appeared last year : it is a distinct addition to the historical literature of America. President Eliot's retirement from the headship of Harvard has been followed by his “University Administration,” an important educational apologia which has been and will be much read and dis- cussed. Another American University President, Nicholas |M. Butler of Columbia, has published under the title “The American as He Is,” his recent lectures at Copenhagen. They have appeared in Danish, French, and German, as well as in English. “Alaska, the Great Country,” by Mrs. Ella Higginson, issued by the Macmillan Company, is a very good type of this kind of book, which to-day attracts so many readers. When we come to fiction our heart always fails us. Selection is difficult and often invidious. It has happened that we have passed over altogether works of the first importance, notably, as we have been reminded, those of Mrs. Atherton, whose position as a novelist is incontestably in the front rank. An interesting experiment in this department of literature has been made under the auspices of the Harper Brothers. “The Whole Family " is a novel which is the joint composition of twelve authors, among whom were Mr. James, W. D. Howells, M. E. Wilkins, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and John Kendrick Bangs. In “Lewis Rand,” Mary Johnston seems to have attained her high water-mark; and John Fox, junior, in “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” a romance of the South, would also appear to have surpassed his previous efforts. George W. Cable's “Kincaid's Battery’ is a thrilling romance of the South, the furthest south of New Orleans. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell has given us two works of fiction this fall, “A Venture in 1777 ° and “The Red City.” The former is a story of Valley Forge, and recounts in stirring fashion the capture of a map from the British and the conveyance of it to Washington's camp. In “The Diva's Ruby’’ Mr. Marion Crawford has related an exciting episode in the life of his former heroine. Robert W. Chambers has added to his laurels by “The Firing Line”; and Stewart White and F. Hopkinson Smith have provided good stories for their respective publics in the “The River- man" and “Peter.” George C. Eggleston Virginian stories. The new Oppenheim story is called “The Long Arm of Mannister.” Amongst lady novelists' triumphs this season are Alice MacGowan’s “Judith of the Cumber- lands” and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ “Through Life in the Past.” George P. Upton’s “Musical Memories,” ex- tending over half a century, should be added to the tale of biographical books. Booth Tarkington, in “The Quest of Quesnay,” adds to the list begun by “Monsieur Beaucaire.” William Farquhar Payson’s “Barry Gordon" is a romance in somewhat the same vein by a less- known story-teller. Andrew Carnegie’s “Problems of To-day” and James Brown-Scott’s “Texts of the Peace Con- ferences at the Hague” are two publications which should be of use in their several ways. The publication of a concordance to Gray's poems, edited by Albert S. Cook, shows that the eighteenth century is still of interest to Ameri- cans, apart from Washington, Franklin, and the Revolution. The greatest loss to the American literary world during the latter part of the year has been that of Charles Eliot Norton, who died on October 21. After a short experience of business life, he returned to Harvard as a French lecturer, but soon had to go to Europe for reasons of health, has published two  ## p. 104 (#144) ############################################ 104. TISIES A UſTFSIOR. having meanwhile published his first book, “Considerations on some Recent Social Theories” (1853). He went to Italy and formed a friendship with Ruskin. On his return he published a trans- lation of Dante’s “Vita Nuova " and “Notes of Travel and Study in Italy,” and joined the cele- brated Cambridge circle. He helped Lowell to edit the North American Review, 1862—8, and aided in the foundation of the Nation in '65. Having spent five years in Europe, he returned to take up art teaching under President Eliot, holding his chair at Harvard from 1875 to 1898. the friendships of Carlyle and Leslie Stephen, as well as those of Emerson and Lowell, and he edited several volumes of their Letters as well as those of G. W. Curtis. Ruskin called Eliot “my first real tutor.” Daniel Coit Gilman, who died earlier in the same month, was successively a Professor at Yale, and President of the University of California and Johns Hopkins. He was also head of the Carnegie Institute and of the National Civil Service Reform League, and published several biographies and educational works. Harvard lost its Professor of Greek and Dean of the Graduate School, John Henry Wright, on November 25, and earlier in the same month another alumnus and benefactor, John Harvey Treat. Esther Chamber- lain, who died at Mount Clemens, Michigan, was author of “The Court of Chance,” and other popular stories. Frank Parsons (died September 26) lectured on law at the Boston University, and on other subjects in Ruskin University, Missouri and Kansas College, and was a prolific author. “The Railways, the Trusts, and the People '' (1906) was his last work. —e—º-e— TERCENTENARY CELE- BRATIONS. —º-º-º- f HE Tercentenary of Milton's birth was celebrated on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of December by the British Academy, sup- ported by all the leading representatives of Literature, Music, Drama, and Science, and also by many services, lectures, meetings, and exhibi- tions held in the metropolis and the provinces. The ceremonies of the British Academy on the first day were opened with an address by Dr. A. W. Ward, the Master of Peterhouse, which was followed by the recitation by Professor I. Gollancz of some lines on Milton contributed by Mr. George Meredith, whose advanced age prevented him from being present. The lines, which Mr. Meredith has kindly given us permission to reprint, were as follows:— THE MILTON He enjoyed MILTON. December 9, 1608 : December 9, 1908. What splendour of imperial station man, The Tree of Life, may reach when, rooted fast, His branching stem points way to upper air And skyward still aspires, we see in him Who Sang for us the Archangelical host Made Morning by old Darkness urged to the abyss A voice that down three centuries onward rolls; Onward will roll while lives our English tongue, In the devout of music unsurpassed - Since Piety won Heaven's ear on Israel’s harp. The face of Earth, the soul of Earth, her charm, Her dread austerity ; the quavering fate Of mortals with blind hope by passion swayed, His mind embraced, the while on trodden soil, Defender of the Commonwealth, he joined Our temporal fray, whereof is vital fruit, And choosing armoury of the Scholar, stood Beside his peers to raise the voice for Freedom : Nor has fair Liberty a champion armed To meet on heights or plains the Sophister Throughout the ages, equal to this man, Whose spirit breathed high Heaven, and drew thenc The ethereal sword to Smite. . Were England sunk Beneath the shifting tides, her heart, her brain, The Smile she wears, the faith she holds, her best, Would live full-toned in the grand delivery Of his cathedral speech : an utterance Almost divine, and such as Hellespont, Crashing its breakers under Ida's frown, Inspired : yet worthier he, whose instrument Was by comparison the coarse reed-pipe ; Whereof have come the marvellous harmonies, Which, with his lofty theme, of infinite range, Abash, entrance, exalt, We need him now, This latest Age in repetition cries : For Belial, the adroit, is in our midst ; Mammon, more swoln to squeeze the slavish sweat From hopeless toil : and overshadowingly (Aggrandized, monstrous in his grinning mask Of hypocritical Peace), inveterate Moloch Remains the great example. Homage to him His debtor band, innumerable as waves Running all golden from an eastern Sun, Joyfully render, in deep reverence Subscribe, and as they speak their Milton's name, Rays of his glory on their foreheads bear. GEORGE MEREDITH. “After the applause ’’—said the Times report— “which followed the reciting of the lines had ceased, Dr. Ward expressed the sincere and cordial thanks of the Academy to Mr. Meredith for his message. No greater grace, he said, could have been added to their tribute than the Words which Mr. Meredith had sent them. (Cheers.)” The meeting closed with an address by Sir Frederick Bridge on “Milton and Music,” during the course of which members of the Westminster Abbey Choir, accompanied by the Grimson Quartet, rendered compositions from the incidental music written for the first performance of “Comus.”  ## p. 105 (#145) ############################################ TRIES ACTRIOR. 105 On the 9th–the poet's birthday—a commemo- ration service was held at Bow Church, the sermon being delivered by the Bishop of Ripon on the text of verses 4 and 5 of the second chapter of Zechariah. In the evening a banquet was given at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor, Sir George Wyatt Truscott. The speakers were the Lord Mayor (“The King”); Canon Beeching (“The Immortal Memory of John Milton ’’); the Italian Ambassador (“Poetry”), in reply, Mr. Alfred Austin, P.L. ; Mr. Justice Darling (“Music and Drama”), in reply, Sir Hubert Parry (“Music”) and Mr. Pinero (“Drama"); the American Ambassador (“The Lord Mayor’’), sup- ported by Dr. A. W. Ward. On the 10th, at an ordinary general meeting of the British Academy, Dr. A. W. Ward announced that the Council had passed votes of special thanks to the Lord Mayor, Sir Frederick Bridge, Mr. George Meredith, the Rev. A. W. Hutton (incum- bent of Bow Church), Professor I. Gollancz, and the Press generally, for the great assistance they had rendered to the Academy in the celebrations. The following papers were then read : “Samson Agonistes and the Hellenic Drama,” by the late Sir Henry Jebb : “Milton in the Eighteenth Century (1701—1750),” by Professor Edward Dowden ; “Milton's Fame on the Continent,” by Professor J. G. Robertson ; “Milton as Schoolboy and Schoolmaster,” by Mr. Arthur F. Leach ; and “A Consideration of Macaulay's Comparison of Dante and Milton,” by Mr. W. J. Courthope. A seemly close to the celebrations was provided by the performance in the Theatre, Burlington Gardens, of “Samson Agonistes” before a brilliant audience, including the Princess Louise and the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, on December 16. This, it is worth noting, was the first public repre- sentation of the play. The cast was made up as follows :-- Samson Mr. Ian Maclaren. ‘Manoa Mr. Chas. A. Doran. T)alila 1Miss Evelyn Weeden. Harapha . Mr. Lionel Braham. Public Officer Mr. Clive Currie. NLessenger º . Mr. Percy Anstey. “Dalila,” according to the Times report, “wore an Elizabethan dress of great splendour, while Harapha's attendants and the soldiers were dressed as Romans, Samson's attendant as a Greek, and the Danites in a dress we did not recognise.” The action passed before a background of purple hangings—a fit setting for “grave-browed Milton's solemn harmonies.” * fº w w —a- —w- THE WRITERS’ AND ARTISTS' YE BOOK, 1909.” —º-º-º- N always welcome publication is “The A. Writers' Year Book.” It is handy, well arranged, and never wastes space with useless information. In fact it is quite indis- pensable, and, if it were adequate, would be quite invaluable. It is, however, some way from per- fection yet, although in every succeeding issue something is added towards that desirable con summation. In the present—the fourth annual—issue, the list of English periodicals and the information about each could hardly be bettered ; the English publishers' list, too, is good, and so are the lists of colour printers, literary agents, photographers and so on. Other lists included are also good — quite good, as far as they go ; but here it becomes necessary to drop generalisation for detail. The two new features of the 1909 Year Book are the addition of particulars and information to the list of American journals and magazines, and a list of English syndicates that purchase MSS. In the latter we miss the National Press Agency of Whitefriars, and notice that the Northern Newspaper Syndicate appears as the Northern Syndicate. In the former are quite a number of omissions. We are well aware that the periodicals published in the States total well over 20,000, and therefore it would be impossible to include all of them ; at the same time it is stated in the preface that “all the leading American magazines and journals.” are included. We are therefore constrained to give a short list of some of the leading periodicals that are not, as follows:– Aeronáutics, Designer, International Studio, Life, Live Wire, Scrap Book, Scrip, Strand, Theater, Town and Country, World's Work and Yachting, all o New York ; Technical World, Chicago, Ill. ; Jiving Age, Boston, Mass. ; Spare Moments, Rochester, N.Y.; People's Popular Monthly, Des Moines, Ia. : Sunset Maſſazine, San Francisco, Cal. ; Holland's Magazine, Dallas, Texas; South Atlantic Quarterly, Durham, N.C. ; and among juvenile periodicals we fail to find Children's Magazine, N.Y.C.; Youth, Philadelphia, Pa.; American Boy, Detroit, Mich. ; and Practical Young America, Des Moines, Ia. Among the leading religious papers omitted are:–Catholic AWews (R.C.); Benziger's Magazine (R.C.), Church Economist, Churchman (Epis.), Epaminer (Baptist), Christian Advocate (Presb.), all of New York; Expositor, Cleveland, Ohio ; Ram's Horn, Chicago, Ill. ; Westminster, Philadelphia, Pa. * The Writers’ and Artists' Year Book, 1909. Messrs. A. and C, Black, 1s. m.  ## p. 106 (#146) ############################################ 106 TISIE A DfTISIOR. The list of American publishers is still far from complete. No indication is given of what their special lines are, and only general addresses are given. The following are not included:—Ames Publishing Co., Clyde, Ohio : T. S. Denison, Chicago, Ill. ; The Ball Publishing Co., Boston ; Dramatic Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. : Saalfield Publishing Co., New York ; E. A. Fink, New York ; Samuel French, New York ; Penn Publish- ing Co., Philadelphia, Pa. It is only fair to add that Samuel French's American address is given in the English publishers’ list. On the other hand, Frederick Warne appears rightly in both lists. Before passing on we beg the editor to correct the well-known name of Moffatt (of Moffatt, Yard & Co.) It has appeared as “Moffett " these two years. - In the classified index that concludes the book there are some glaring inconsistencies. We only propose to mention a few instances, merely sufficient to justify our assertion. Aeronautics appears as an American magazine. This as far as it goes is correct. But Aeronautics does not appear among the list of American pub- lications, whereas the English Aeronautics is included in its own list, but not in the index. Publishers’ Weekly is in the American list, but not in the index. The two religious American periodicals in the list are not in the index. The New Democrat in the English list is not in the index—and so on. Furthermore, Pearson's Magazine appears rightly in both English and American lists, Strand Magazine is only in the English list and Smart Set only in the American. Finally, if the Year Book is sufficiently up-to- date to include Victor Grayson as a co-editor of the New Age, why are the Englishman and the Scout omitted in the English list and Travel and £pploration, the new monthly, whose advent this month has been announced for some time past 2 We object to pulling a book to pieces, and where we cannot commend, we generally refrain from all comment. In the case of “The Writers' Year Book,” bowever, the case is different, for it is a book which is essential to many members of the Authors’ Society. Though, as we have stated, it grows better year by year, there is considerable room for improvement. The idea of the book is excellent, but the contents should be accurate and adequate. These points might be easily attained by a little more care and attention to details. We recommend the book, as it is the only one of its kind before the public, yet consider that its use- fulness, and in consequence its circulation, might very well be increased. - - : Z. HARDY ANNUALS.* —e-º-o- Chºi would hardly be recognisable J without the crop of reference books which blaze in red covers on the reviewer's table at this season. Not least among them are “Who’s Who " and “Who’s Who Year Book,” from Messrs. A. & C. Black, and the “Daily Mail Year Book.” The first of these old friends is as interesting as ever. Seventy-two pages have been added to the biographies since last year, making a total of 2,112 pages; but whether this is because there are more people of importance or because there is less mortality among the famous, the reviewer is unable to determine. If we were to suggest any- thing for its improvement it would be that biographies that are purely autobiographies should be starred, so that the future historian of these times referring to its pages may be able to marshal his facts with some degree of accuracy. “Who’s Who Year-Book” (should it not be “Who’s Who's Year Book” 2) is made up of the tables, which, says the editor, “were formerly such a popular feature in “Who’s Who.’” The new tables in the present issue include those of Newdigate Prizemen and Nobel Prize winners. Among other information of special interest to authors are lists of the London offices of the leading Indian and colonial newspapers, of pseudonyms and pen- names, and of peculiarly-pronounced proper Ila,I\leS. The last volume before us worthily maintains the standard of its eight predecessors. The brains of the year 1908 are skilfully picked and displayed in a bold and comprehensive way. In the list of this year's centenaries we notice Edgar Allan Poe (January 19), Edward Fitzgerald (March 31), Richard Monckton Milnes (June 19), A. W. Kingslake (August 5), Lord Tennyson (August 6), and Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29). -*— a MUSICAL CRITICS AND PUBLISHERS: —º-º-º- NIR CHARLES WILLIERS STANFORD’S “Studies and Memories '' is well worth reading for the light it throws on some phases of English music, and for the notes that he has put together of his own personal experience of men and matters; but it is not these so much that * “Who's Who, 1909" (A. & C. Black), 10s. n. ; “Who's Who Year Book, 1909" (A. & C. Black), 18. n. ; “Daily Mail Year Book” (edited by Percy L. Parker, Associated Newspapers, Ltd.), 6d. n. - f “Studies and Memories,” by Sir Charles Williers Stanford. Constable and Co., 7s. 6d. net.  ## p. 107 (#147) ############################################ TISIE AUTISIOR, 107 appeal to us as his two chapters, one on “Criticism in England,” the other on “Music Publishing in England.” His complaint in each case seems due to the same cause, modern superficiality and lack of serious study. These two seem to be a natural sequence of the modern desire for rapidity and change. He brings two charges against the critics : first, that they are bound to fill their paper the day after any important performance ; in other words, have to leave the theatre or the concert at about 11.30, and produce some sort of article to satisfy the public in time to go to press for the next day's paper. The second, that one man should write five or six different notices, in different papers, leading the public to think that they come from as many different critics. Both these charges are serious, but it is difficult —almost impossible—to remedy them. The first might be altered as the author himself suggests, but the second seems past cure. Did not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lay his lance in rest against this second windmill, and unsuccessfully, some years ago In chapter number two he complains that serious music is not given a chance by the English pub- lisher. This no doubt springs from the same two causes—superficiality and rapidity. Superficiality, for the public who pay will not waste their time on serious study unless it is forced upon them ; and rapidity, for the publishers, being men of business, like to gamble in quick and substantial returns, rather than laboriously to sow the seed and fertilise a slow-growing though luxuriant crop. But there is no doubt another reason. The terms offered by musical publishers to the writers of serious music are enough to strangle any industry. The authors of literature have much to complain of, but the terms they are able to get are not unsatis- factory. The unfortunate composers have never had any combination ; in spite of various attempts made on their behalf; have never tried to take their neck from under the yoke. In consequence of this long and passive endurance the publishers in their contracts make the most fanciful demands, and get them. 1 * They ask for all copyrights; the composers yield without a struggle. They ask for all per- forming rights; the composers bow their heads in acquiescence. #31&Q 2. Bºö0. Klead If they asked for more still, no doubt they would get it. For these rights they pay varying sums, according to their business instinct and to the composer's ignorance, and the rights are marketed or not according to the publisher's fancy or lack of enterprise. If by any chance in years to come the composer becomes famous, then it is not the º of the work but the publisher who becomes TIC[]. * . . “DE LIBRIS." - —º-º-º- HE first thought of the reviewer in reading a book of prose and verse by Mr. Austen Dobson is, like Little Jack Horner, to put in his thumb and pull out the plums. In other words, though we admire the author as a writer of essays, we love him as a writer of verse. It could hardly be expected in a book De Libris to come across poems of such beauty of subject and delicacy of treatment as “Before Sedan,” “The Dying of Tanneguy de Bois,” or “The For- gotten Grave,” though perhaps “A Revolutionary Relic” might have been included. Mr. Dobson in this volume is in the lighter vein. In “The Passionate Printer to his Love" he deals with the printer's jargon dexterously — - Your cheek seems “ Ready for the Press’’; Your laugh as Clarendon is clear ; There's more distinction in your dress Than in the oldest Elzevil'. And in “An Epistle to an Editor” there is some Sound advice which many a modern critic might take to heart. All his essays show the devout student. It would be astonishing to find a misquotation, a false date, in the writings of one so careful to verify his facts. “Books and their Associations” is indeed a masterpiece of Mr. Dobson’s art. He leads you forward from One treasured volume to another, till the reader feels the fascination of the book collector creeping over him, and straightway goes out to search the second-hand book shops. Here too is an example of his accuracy. Speaking of the “Works” of mock-heroic John Phillips, 1720, he remarks: “This copy bears also on the title page the autograph of James Thomson, not yet the author of ‘The Seasons.’” Two essays on “Modern Illustrators” (Kate Greenaway and Hugh Thomson), with sundry examples of their art, further help to waken the reader's interest. To the book lover's library, “De Libris" will certainly be a pleasant addition. —e—º- CORRESPONDENCE. —º-O-0– THE PENSION FUND. SIR,--I hope, as a humble individual and mem- ber of the Society, that there are many who will respond to Mr. Douglas Freshfield's recent appeal on behalf of the Pension Fund. * “De Libris,” Prose and Verse, by Austen Dobson. Published by Macmillan & Co.  ## p. 108 (#148) ############################################ 108 THE AUTHOR, May I make the suggestion that all those who use the Society in any way, or utilise the services of our secretary, council, or others connected with the Society, should make a point of sending a donation towards the Pension Fund 2 Some publishers and editors appear to possess a keen desire to give authors and writers as much trouble and inconvenience (to put it mildly) as possible, and I have found in several instances that only as a result of intervention by the society has any good been done. Personally, I am under great obligation to Mr. Thring for much valuable assistance. As a result of this, and in response to Mr. Freshfield's appeal, it has afforded me pleasure to contribute a Small donation towards the Pension Fund, and I suggest that those fellow members who feel under the same obligation to the society should do likewise. The guinea per annum that we contribute is a mere bagatelle, and we should all show our willingness to support the council in their efforts to put the finances of the Pension Fund in a thoroughly sound condition, if for no other reason because in supporting our less fortunate craftsmen and women we shall, indirectly, be preparing for ourselves against a rainy day. I am, Sir, Your Obedient Servant, W. PERCIVAL WESTELL, F.L.S. —º-º-e— HEROES AND HEROINES-CHIEFLY HEROINEs. SIR,--In taking up the challenge of S. to deal with men's heroines, I wish to begin by saying that I fully agree with him regarding John and Jack. I feel that I have myself invented several Johns and Jacks, though I do not think many English authoresses are quite so bad as E. Werner in Ger- many, who invariably brings out two types of hero in each book, which I suppose represent John and Jack to the German mind—one proud, dark, melancholy and Byronic, the other fair, frivolous, and good-tempered. Most of us agree with the lady S. quotes in approving of George Meredith’s women, but not on her grounds. We feel that George Meredith and Shakespeare, unlike most men authors, realise that women have a relation to women and not only to men. One might almost say that until George Meredith wrote, Shakespeare was the only man who grasped this fact, and were it not for him we might almost have imagined that love and loyalty did not exist between women until our own period. But Beatrice, Sylvia, Celia, and many others are capable of faithful and honest friendship; and so are George Meredith's women, and we welcome their advent into literature. This is not a small matter in the portraiture of Women, for it shows that the author distinguishes between the “female’’ and the woman. This is exactly what Thackeray does not do. One of the characteristics of the “female” is jealousy, and therefore Thackeray makes his good women in “Pendennis” behave atrociously about poor little Fanny, and Amelia, even when happily married, jealous of her own little daughter. It does not seem to have struck him that a woman who had risen to the spiritual elevation of Mrs. Pendennis might have learnt to suppress her animal instinct, and would not have been so cruel to poor Laura. B. —4-0-0–— METHODS OF CRITICISM. SIR,-Will you permit me to use the columns of The Author for issuing an invitation to all the members of the Incorporated Society to whom the subject may appeal to write their views on “Some Modern Methods of Criticism " ? The editor of the Worth Mail, a paper circu- lating extensively between the Tyne and the Humber, has most generously offered to open his columns to such a discussion, which it is sincerely hoped may serve a useful purpose. There are, no doubt, hundreds of authors who feel strongly on the subject, but who have hitherto not cared to tackle it in case they should by so doing raise a storm of enmity against themselves. It is surely high time that the more courageous among us should fling away this pusillanimity and enter the lists with the object of slaying the dragon of unfairness and inconsistency in Criticism. I shall be very glad to hear from any of my fellow-members, men or women, who are willing to take up the cudgels, particularly with regard to the aspect of opposition in criticism. I have personally had some rather remarkable experiences in this direction, and should be very pleased to hear from others who can give personal details on these lines. The discussion starts in the Worth Mail by an article contributed by myself, at the request of the editor, and I shall be glad to post on a copy of the issue of the paper containing it to any member interested. Nothing of the nature of an advertisement, it is perhaps needless to say, will be admitted into the correspondence. Yours faithfully, Orchard House, JAMES CASSIDY. Whitton Road, Twickenham, S.W.  ## p. 108 (#149) ############################################ AD VERTISEMENTS. iii TYPEWRITING. Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000 words; in duplicate, 1/-, Plays and General Copying. List and specimen of work on appli- cation. 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