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meeting
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elect members and associates. Thirty-five members
and associates were elected. The list appears on
another page. This brings the total elections for
the current year
145. The committee have
chronicle, with regret, one resignation, bringing
sixty-three.
the resignations for the year
sympathy
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Mr.
George Meredith, which had been passed
the
Council, was confirmed
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elected president of the society.
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chairman undertook to report the election to Mr.
Hardy, and to ask him to accept
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report
the committee setting forth the action
copyright
which they had taken
the matter
legislation during the past year.
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mously
injurious
novels
2s. would
all writers
novels,
were widely adopted and successful;
but they were inclined
think that publication
this price would not succeed.
had been tried
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former occasions and had failed.
view
the importance
the issues, the committee
adjourn the question
decided
the July meeting,
give members
order
the committee time
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consider whether
appoint
strong sub-committee
thoroughly
into the whole question
the sale price
works
of fiction.
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the death
the society s president,
much work had fallen
upon him that
report
had been unable fully
upon the question
authors' agents and insurance.
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statement
the committee, however,
the steps
had taken, and the committee
deferred their consideration till the next meeting.
They consider
the utmost importance that the
relations between authors and agents- should
to
the meeting of the Council of the society,
under the chairmanship
of Mr. Maurice
Hewlett (chairman of the Committee of
Management), held at 20, Hanover Square, W., on
June 7, a unanimous vote of sympathy was passed
to the family of Mr. George Meredith on the great
loss they had sustained by the death of their father
the late president of the society.
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president, and, on the proposal of Mr. Anthony
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put
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regard
relative
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authors
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payment
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approach Mr. Robert Harcourt, M.P.,
member
the Society,
order that the Chancellor
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Exchequer might
interrogated
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The committee decided, after consideration, that
they could not take upon themselves the onus
the legacy bequeathed
the society
Miss Alice
Sargent.
appeared from papers laid before them
print, and that
that many
the books were out
there was practically
market for the remainder.
The chairman reported the result
the meeting
with the publishers,
when the question
the
issue
new copyright novels
2s. was discussed,
and the further question
colonial sales.
The
Sub-committee formed for the consideration
of
opinion that the issue
these matters were
new
to
0
of
d.
1
be
s.
to
1
in
20, Stephens, Riccardo
May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. C. P.
June 2, Olivia Ramsey
&
June 7, Horne, A. B.
June 10, Muir, Ward
June 10, Swan, Miss Myra
June 17, Bradley, A. C.
June 22, Trotére, H. .
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FourTEEN cases have come into the secretary s
hands during the past month.
Four
these were
claims for moneys and accounts.
Two have been
settled, and two, more recently
hand, are still
negotiation.
the course
Four were claims for
money only.
Here also two have been settled and
the cheques forwarded.
One
still
the course
negotiation though part
the money has been
paid.
day
The fourth came into the office only
press.
before going
One claim for the return
MSS. has been
complaint has been made
settled.
the editor
one
the papers
which the secretary applied,
great many authors neglect
that
write their
names and addresses
their MSS. when submitting
many occasions
them for publication.
has
been stated
this paper that authors should
not only send stamped and addressed envelopes for
the return
their MSS., but should always write
a
of
by
of
to
to
A
to
of
on
It
on
in
of
of
visible portion
their MSS. their names and
addresses,
not infrequently occurs that the
MSS. are separated from the envelopes. Owing
this neglect
seems that the complaints
authors
against editors are the result
the authors own
any unbusinesslike conduct
carelessness and not
to
it
as
of
of
of
it
the part
the editor.
The editor, who has
been
communication
with the Secretary, states
that
has
least sixty MSS. ready for publica
tion not one
which contains the name
the
of
of
of
at
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee
met at 39, Old
Queen Street, on Thursday, June 17, at 3 P.M.
After the minutes of the last meeting had been
read and signed, the Secretary reported that he had
heard from Mr. Esmond to the effect that the
action which had been taken in America, in con
sequence of an infringement of his property there,
settled,
had been satisfactorily
the defendants
agreeing to a perpetual injunction against them.
This case has been referred to in these columns on
One or two occasions previously, and the committee
had decided, if necessary, to support an appeal on
Mr. Esmond's behalf.
Before the case came for
trial, a very important decision was given in the
Higher Courts in America on exactly the same
question as that at issue in Mr. Esmond's case,
and the judgment delivered in that case had, no
doubt, a healthy influence on the settlement of
Mr. Esmond's claim. The result referred to above
not only strengthens the position of English
dramatists with regard to their American rights,
which, at one time appeared to be in jeopardy,
but also saves the society from the expense of
an action at law.
sº-0
Cases.
he in
COMMITTEE.
4
a
DRAMATIC
was finally decided that the
with the aid
Mr. Shaw and
of
º-º-º
draft.
should,
agreement
Mr. Barker, draft
model form
repertory theatre,
between author and manager
and other agreements
cover the different forms
contract affecting the work
dramatic authors.
These will
laid before the committee
he
next meeting, which will
held
October.
of
before the committee for their consideration.
basis
Secretary
on
Mr. Shaw's behalf for infringement of copyright
in a New Zealand paper ; that he had obtained the
full sum demanded by the society through their
Spanish lawyers for the infringement of Mr. E. W.
Hornung s copyright in Spain.
He reported also
the successful result of the Society's appeal in
Scholz v. Amasis, and read Mr. Fenn's letter of
thanks to the society.
Other letters were laid
, The committee then took up the question of the
dramatic pamphlet.
Several different points were
discussed, such as the most favourable time of year
play intended for
run, the
the production
performance
repertory and
best agreement
other matters.
The chairman then made Sugges
tion that the dramatic pamphlet should
drafted
different form.
He stated that
had read
thought
the pamphlet with great care, and that
needed simplification; that this simplification
drafting
agree
could
attained
number
contract,
ments
cover the different forms
drafting one agreement with com:
rather than
plicated Series
notes.
the request
the
agreement
committee
read through
his
own for
run
West End theatre, and this form
agreement was approved
the committee
the
a
Mr. Herbert Sullivan was elected a member of
the Copyright Sub-Committee.
.
A letter from Mr. A. Hope Hawkins was laid
before the committee, in which he pointed out
that, if possible, evidence should be obtained and
brought
Departmental
before the
Committee
to show that many authors of famous books had
not gained the full recompense from their works,
either because of the limitation of the copyright
term, or because of the fact that the public denied
appreciation of their literary position
till after
their death or till after the copyright had already
run for many years. It was agreed that such
evidence should be collected.
The committee passed a vote of thanks to Mr.
A. B. Horne for his generous donation of £50 to
the pension fund of the society.
There was one small case which the committee
decided to take up on behalf of the member.
The secretary reported that he had obtained
the full sum of money demanded by the society on
on
264
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author or anything which would serve for purposés
When, therefore, these MSS. are
of identification.
published, he will not know to whom the cheques
should be sent in payment. Authors cannot be too
careful in their method of conducting their business,
and it is unfair to complain about editors when
authors are equally unbusinesslike.
In the only claim for accounts the accounts have
been rendered and forwarded to the author.
Four
difficult cases arising out of disputes on agreements
have also been in hand.
Two of these have been
settled satisfactorily, one is on a fair way to settle
ment, while the last has only just come into the
office. Three cases are still open from former
months.
In one of these the secretary has been
unable to get an answer from the editor against
whom the claim rests. Owing to lack of evidence,
the case will most probably have to be abandoned.
One claim against an important review is in the
course of satisfactory negotiation,
and will, no
doubt, be settled shortly.
A claim for the return of a MS. had to be
abandoned, as there was no legal evidence that it
had come into the hands of a responsible person in
the office to which it was addressed.
The remarks
already made in regard to the submission of MSS.
apply especially in this case, and the committee
trust that authors will inwardly digest the warning
given.
Gibson, Miss Zoë M.
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H. Yoxall, two distinguished
and Mr.
members of the Society, on the receipt
of knighthoods in the last list of birthday honours.
It seems extraordinary that dramatists should have
of
been so long neglected when the interpreters
The genius
their works have received recognition.
who originates the work is surely of more conse
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rule, neglected.
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& Boon.
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268
The Message of the Son of Man, by the Rev.
Edwin A. Abbott, is an attempt to answer the
Why did Christ call Himself the Son
question,
of Man ?
The answer arrived at is that the
title was adopted by Him, not from apocryphal,
but solely from Biblical sources, so as to indicate
the man made in the image of God and destined
to have dominion
over the beast.
Dr. Abbott
points out that Ezekiel and Daniel, the only
prophets called
son of man, are shown to have
had visions pointing to such a dominion of the
Man or Son of Man.
Messrs. A. and C. Black are
the publishers.
MUSIC.
Joseph Holbrooke's
Mr.
orchestral and choral
concert of his new works was held at Queen's Hall
on Friday, June 25.
The programme included
choral songs, a dramatic choral Symphony,
Anna
bel Lee
(a ballad with orchestra). Mr. Holbrooke
had the assistance of Mr. Victor Benham (the
American pianist), the Alexandra Palace choir of
four hundred picked voices, and the Beecham
orchestra of ninety performers. Mr. Allen Gill and
Mr. Thomas Beecham acted as conductors.
Messrs. Crewsher & Co.'s latest additions to their
school series include
Gems of a Day, by L.
Budgen and R. Goldbeck.
The songs are published
at the price of 2d.
FICTION.
Dr. Riccardo Stephens has just finished a series
of stories with the general title of The Signet
Ring, commissioned for Chambers Journal.
A Fair Suffragette is the title of a novel by
Adrienne Mollwo, which Mr. Henry Drane has just
published.
Downhill: the Story of a Faithful Servant,
by Eva Richmond, is a narrative told, in simple
language, which concerns the life of a horse.
She
describes the sufferings it has to endure at the
hands of masters, thoughtless when not cruel, and
untouched by any feelings of affection when, worn
out by harsh treatment, it is no longer profitable to
them. Copies of the story, which are on sale at 3s. per
100, are obtainable at the offices of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
105, Jermyn Street, S.W.
Beyond the Skyline, by Robert Aitken, is a
volume of short stories recently published by Mr.
John Murray.
The scenes of most of them are laid
beyond the horizon of the average reader in lands
where a man is measured by a standard that
demands justice here and now, and on seas whose
open expanse permits no littleness to lurk in the
souls of those who travel over them.
In America
Mr. B. W. Huebsch is the publisher.
Mrs. During's new novel, Love's Privilege,
which won a £200 prize in the recent serial
competition organised by the Chicago Daily News
Company, has just been brought out in volume
form by Messrs. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, and is
being extensively
advertised
in America.
The
British and Australian serial rights in the story
have been purchased by Messrs. Tillotson, of Bolton.
Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith, whose first novel, The
Tramping Methodist,
was published by Messrs.
Geo. Bell & Son, has just issued, through the same
house, a second novel, which she calls Starbrace.
In this book Miss Kaye-Smith deals with life in
Kent and Sussex during the first half of the
eighteenth century, partly
on the roads and
partly in the hunting field. The author depicts
the struggle between two utterly dissimilar natures
brought
together by mutual love, and gives a study
of human cross-strains as exemplified in the hero's
character.
We regret that in our notice of Miss R. N.
Carey's new book last month we gave it an incorrect
title. Miss Carey's book is called The Key of
not The King of the Unknown "
We tender our apologies to the author
for the slip.
Mrs. M. E. Stevenson, who has latterly only
been writing descriptive articles, has just completed
a novel, the scene of which is laid in Yorkshire.
The interest of this novel centres in two literary
sisters, who are launched into a domestic removal
and the care of two children by their brother and
his wife, who meanwhile go abroad, and subse
quently start for a voyage round the world.
In
the Unknown,
as stated.
this, however, they are arrested by an unexpected
development of events at home, which lead to a
climax.
The title will probably be The Maiden
Aunts, or Tommy's Aunts.
The story is laid
in a well-known and historical locality.
The Enterprise of Ella : a Stock Exchange
Romance,
by Jay Jelf, is a love story of an English
girl who in her early days is thrown upon her own
resources, and eventually finds a haven in unex
pected waters.
Blended with the story is a picture
of the manners and methods of the Stock Exchange.
Mr. John Long is the publisher.
Mrs. de Crespigny s new novel, The Coming of
Aurora, will be published by Mr. Eveleigh Nash
on July 7.
It is a story of modern times, and
the first part takes place on the borders of France
and Switzerland,
the second in North Wales.
There is a cover design by Miss Marjorie Murray.
Stories from the same writer have appeared in the
May issue of the Red Magazine, last month's
Storyteller, and the Car of June 9th.
Mr. Michael Barrington's first book, The
Reminiscences
of Sir Barrington Beaumont,
dealt with social and political conditions ; his
second,
The King's Fool, was a story of
romance.
His latest work, The Knight of the
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Tragic Comedians, which has been prepared
Miss Ida Benecke, who has kindly promised the
proceeds
the Society's pension
the sale
fund.
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large
Clough, containining
Mr.
work
information respecting the constitution
amount
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South Africa.
and governance
non-parliamentary
the book deals with the
British South Africa, and gives par
colonies
and constitutional
the population
ticulars
respect
Parts
each territory.
information
the book are devoted respectively
and
the South African self-governing colonies, viz., the
Cape
and
Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal,
greater portion
Orange River Colony.
the
volume, however,
South African
set apart
public business
parliamentary procedure, both
map
prefixed
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and private bills.
railway, tele
British South Africa, showing
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experienced, and the
shock which the colonel
result it produced, are told in the play, which is
interpreted by a cast including Mr. Lewis Waller,
Mr. A. E. George, Mr. Fisher White, and Miss
Auriol Lee.
Among the plays included by Miss Horniman,
in her recent repertory performances at the Coronet
Theatre, Notting Hill, were Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's
Widowers' Houses and Mr. John Galsworthy's
The Silver Box.
Mr. Arthur Dillon s Leto Suppliant, shortly to
be published by Mr. Elkin Mathews, is modelled in
the form of Greek drama.
Mr. St. John Hankin's new play, The Last of
the De Mullins, which the Stage Society produced
at the Haymarket at the end of last year, has now
6d. net.
been published by Mr. A. C. Fifield at
Four
entitled,
the
A Green Tree, will appear
author
Review, commencing
Englishwoman's
with the
The articles deal with St. Brigit,
current number.
Margaret O'Carroll (the
Queen Gorringlaith,
Bountiful), and Grainne O'Malley, the pirate.
is
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's new play, The Fires
of Fate, was produced at the Lyric Theatre on
June 15. The chief character in the piece is
a young colonel, who, informed by his doctor that
he has probably only a year to live, abandons his
first thought of putting an immediate end to his
existence, in deference to the appeals of his brother (a
Nonconformist minister), who advances the orthodox
Christian objections, and the hope expressed by
the doctor of a possible recovery in the event of
The nature of the
the administration of a shock.
historical articles,
series
Forgotten Great Irishwomen,
of
Hyacinth Halvey, Lady
Connell respectively.
Gregory's piece, portrayed Irish life and customs ;
An Imaginary Conver
while Mr. Connell's work,
sation,
was a character study, which contrasted
the cold cynicism of Tom Moore with the passionate
enthusiasm of the revolutionist Robert Emmet.
the poem being
and Sorrow, and the argument
indispensable
the other, and both
that each
The Lost
The last poem,
God's purpose.
pregnant
soliloquy
Soul,
with religious
feeling.
BIOGRAPHY.
4,
B. Fagan's new play,
Mr.
The
was produced at the Playhouse on June 3.
cast included Mr. Cyril Maude, Miss Winifred
Emery, and Miss Jessie Bateman.
The Irish Players' season at the Court Theatre
last month witnessed the production of two one
act plays, by Lady Gregory and Mr. Norreys
Paul
Grindrod has published, through
Mr. Charles
volume which contains, and
Mr. Elkin Mathews,
An
The first,
Three Poems.
entitled
Elegy,
which the author plumbs the depths
poem
Following this
Sorrow and longing.
The Two Spirits, the spirits being Joy
called
3,
J.
Merry Devil,
COasters.
of
DRAMATIC.
A
imaginative
the prophet Elijah, from
the life
interspersed
with
and ethical standpoint.
four songs.
Merely
Stuart-Young, author
Mr.
Negress, etc., has ready
volume
the press
tropical poems upon West Africa.
The title chosen
The Seductive Coast, and the book will
published
Mr. John Ouseley.
the autumn
The first edition has already been subscribed for
is
Golden Sword, which is to be published in the
early autumn by Messrs. Chatto & Windus, while
giving a cynical picture of the England of the later
Stuarts and of the intrigues which brought about
the revolution of 1688, shows John Graham, the
last great champion of the fallen cause.
The Shadow of the Ragged Stone" is the title
of a story by Charles F. Grindrod, published recently
by Mr. Elkin Mathews, which tells of the days of
Henry II., and presents the great struggle of that
reign between Church and State, between King and
prelate, between secular law and ecclesiastical rule.
269
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Another interesting book
the Correspondance
entre Victor Hugo
Paul Meurice.
an
of in
of
a
by
is
F.
Challaye,
Le Congo français,
book
the international question
the Congo
extremely able writer who has lived
the country
which
writes.
The subject
the French
being seriously considered now. Several
colonies
give lectures.
league
authors have consented
A
to
of of to
improving both the
has been formed with view
moral and material situation
France throughout
the world.
Pierre Mille,
whose remarkable
stories
life
the Congo we spoke recently,
a
is
to
on
has hitherto
is
of
all
de
at
of
a
in
&
de
its
dramatic and at the same time an excellent study
Nietzschéene, the last novel by
of character.
twenty-eighth
this same author, is now in
edition.
Barbey d'Aurevilly
Lettres
Trebutien
publication
two large-sized volumes, containing
D'Aurevilly with his friend
the correspondence
Trebutien from 1832 to 1856.
Trebutien was
the publisher
Caen who helped D Aurevilly
bring out his first books.
He published the
Caen,
famous review entitled Revue
which
D Aurevilly founded
his hopes.
The first
number
this review was the last one.
The
La Legende
Jean Jacques Rousseau,
Frederika Macdonald, has been translated into
Georges Roth. This curious book shows
French
us, with the help
historical documents discovered
among the French archives
the author, that
entirely false idea
Jean Jacques Rousseau's
plot
us, thanks
character has come down
carried out
two literary men who were his con
temporaries.
The proofs
this plot are given
the author.
The subject
the keenest interest,
and the discovery throws new light
much which
in
is
Edouard
by
leaves us with a problem unsolved.
In
Rod's recent books, and in those by
several other authors, this is the case.
In the
book of which we have just spoken a sequel is
absolutely necessary.
Pierre et Thérèse
the title of Marcel
Prevost s new novel.
Anatole France has just published a volume
entitled Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et
autres Contes Merveilleux.
Le Droit à la Force, by Daniel Lesueur, is
both a roman feuilleton and a psychological study.
It is only in a few rare cases that an author
succeeds in writing a novel which is extremely
frequently
which
was treated during his lifetime
this
posthumous glory
honour
his centenary.
Mademoiselle Read, the faithful friend who for the
last twenty years has been editing the thirty
volumes
his works, which she has brought out
since his death,
now reaping the reward
her
unselfishness and devotion.
The sixth volume of Histoire de l Art
has
just appeared under the title
Les Débuts
Renaissance.
he
married.
he a
have
of
he should
by
woman
wit.
They are
is
the
and
interesting
personages.
read the opinion
contemporary like D'Aurevilly.
The inaugura
tion
the monument erected
honour
his
centenary
shortly
take place.
The bust has
Rodin, and subscriptions
been executed
are
still being received
the Société des Gens
Lettres. Books, pamphlets, articles, and lectures
Barbey d Aurevilly have been the order
the
day for the last few years.
though
seems
general wish
expiate the injustice with
there
on
is
When the discovery comes to them both, she
decides to put the ocean between them.
The
problem is therefore left for the future.
Mere
absence cannot solve such a problem, the author
does not attempt to look into the future, and we
are left with a situation which demands a sequel.
There is a distinct tendency in the French literature
of to-day to leave questions open.
Instead of
attempting to give us the final word, the author
description
the book.
natural, full
life and interest, and are perhaps
even more curious and interesting
read to-day
than they were
the time they were penned.
The persons
whom D Aurevilly speaks, Victor
Hugo, George Sand, Mme. Récamier, Maurice, and
Guérin, have now become historical
Eugénie
is
to him.
He discovers too late that the woman of
kindred taste, whom he had always treated as a
are masterpieces
are no dull letters
on
a woman who is not, and never can be, a companion
which
There
on
satisfaction is felt by French authors
with regard to the new Act in the American
Copyright Law, which comes into effect
from July 1, 1909.
From henceforth it will, of
course, be much more easy for foreign authors to
secure copyright for their books, either in the
original language or in translations, throughout the
United States of America.
Le Miroir aux Alouettes, by J. de Mestral
Combremont,
is another problem novel.
The
characters are so well drawn and so living that it
might very well be a story from life transplanted
into a volume.
It is the old, old story of the man
who marries believing himself to be in love, and
finds out afterwards that he is bound for life to
of
REAT
friend,
this collection was written when
D'Aurevilly was only twenty-four years
age.
full
enthusiasm. The last one
dated twenty-four
During
years later, and
still more enthusiastic.
the whole period
this correspondence Barbey
d'Aurevilly wrote letters
his friend, many
of
º-º-º
as
PARIS NOTES.
of
270
�A UITISIOR.
Spring which slew Swinburne, Meredith,
Modjeska,
and Madame
did not spare
American authors.
Marion Crawford, who
died at Sorrento on April 9, had a wide range of
interests, great versatility,
and, above all, the
ability to tell a story.
He wrote too much and too
quickly, and had passed his zenith when he died ;
but he remained readable to the last.
It is gene
rally admitted, that good as were Mr. Isaacs and
One or two of its successors, this author was at his
best in his Italian romances, of which the recently
issued White Sister was the last. Crawford had
intended to add to his large output a history of
Rome in the Middle Ages.
Mrs. Elinor Macartney Lane, who died at
HE
A committee has been formed to publish the
poems of the extraordinary
man who signs his
works
Humilis.
The Comte de Larmandie dis
covered this poet and spoke of him to M. Saint
Chamarand, director of La Poétique.
Thanks to
their combined efforts, a committee was formed, and
the first volume is announced for this month.
A
recently,
matinée was given by M. Saint-Chamarand
when Madeleine Roch, of the Comédie Française,
and M. de Max recited some of the masterpieces
contained in this volume.
A dinner was given recently by the Société des
Gens de Lettres in honour of Madame Juliette
Adam, who has now been a member of that society
for fifty years and who was presented by George
Speeches were made at this dinner by M.
Sand.
Georges Lecomte, M. Michel Pelletier,
and by
Madame Daniel Lesueur.
Madame Juliette Adam
responded, and in a very touching speech thanked
all her friends for their good wishes.
It will be
remembered
that Madame Adam founded
the
Nouvelle Revue, and that in its pages many of
the well-known
French writers of to-day found
hospitality for the first time.
In the Revue de Paris for June 1, there are two
articles on the Duc d'Enghien: L Affaire du Duc
d'Enghien, by Prince Murat, and Murat et le
Duc d'Enghien, by Comte de Mosbourg.
There
is also a curious and interesting article on L Art
Japonais et la Figure Humaine,
by Louis Aubert,
and the continuation
of Myriam Harry's novel,
;
of
of
of
"
to
be
to
at
of
is
of
of
an
of
of
as
of
a
as
entitled Egoists,
has been described
like
rapid series
electric sparks.
Its supermen
Nietzsche,
include such diverse personalities
Stendhal, Bandelaire, and Pater.
Dr. Elroy McKendree Avery has been delivered
the fifth volume
his History
the United
States, which deals with the revolutionary period.
said
show
advance upon previous
to
º
àra
v-w---w
lecture
French
Appleton's Magazine
discontinued after
the June number.
Breslau, who has
Prof. Eugen Kühnemann,
Harvard, has
been German exchange professor
study
written
President Eliot's career.
James Huncker's new volume
critical studies,
a
ALYS HALLARD.
Le Miroir aux Alouettes (Plon).
Lettres de Barbey d'Aurevilly a Trebutien (A. Blaizot).
La Legende de Jean Jacques Rousseau " (Hachette).
Correspondance
entre Victor Hugo et Paul Meurice.
(Fasquelle).
Le Congo français" (Alcan).
of
at
Hebdomadaire the Wicomte de
Legende de Maria Stella,
Philippe Henriot on George Meredith,
and
Edward Rod on Le Mouvement des Idées.
La
is
of
Harvard,
Prof. Bliss Perry,
the University
Paris and other
universities during 1909 10.
-
Revue
on
of
of
of
of
its
Virginia, on March 15, attracted
attention by her first novel, The Mills of God,
which appeared in 1901.
This study of heredity
was followed by the historical romance, Nancy
Katrine, will
Stair.
Her posthumous story,
probably
hardly
quite rank with
popular
predecessors.
Others who have recently fallen out
the ranks
American literature are Charles Warren Stoddard,
author
South Sea Idylls, and other books
verse and travel (April 24); Samuel June Barrows,
(April 21)
penologist
the well-known
Peter
publisher
Fenelon Collier, the enterprising
and
proprietor
Collier's Weekly (April 24); Ham
mond Lamont, editor
the Nation and New York
Evening Post (May 6); Mrs. Wilson (née Augusta
Evans), author
the once vastly popular stories,
Vashti,
amongst
St. Elmo
and
others
(May 9); George Rice Carpenter, educationist
and biographer (April 8).
Mr. Paul Elmer More, the essayist, has become
fourth
editor of the Nation.
He had been
associate-editor for the last three years.
is
the
Lynchburg,
of
In
Reiset writes
NOTES.
º-º-º
An English edition of Pierre de Couvelain's
Sur la Branche will appear shortly in England
and America under the title of On the Branch.
Madame Petit-Jardin.
271
UNITED STATES
also taking the matter up, and it is hoped that by
means of lectures and publications things may be
improved in some of the French colonies.
With
such names as are on the committee of the league,
it seems probable that great schemes may be carried
through satisfactorily.
Amor Vincit is the title of the new novel by
w
Hélène Vacaresco.
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Dr. Harry Thurston Peck s Studies
Several
Literatures covers
wide range, and shows some
quite
critical acuteness without being
ever
illuminating.
given
few mortals
Horner, Milton, Zola,
competent authority
Emerson, the Detective Story, and The Psychology
the Printed Page.
Advertising, according
Mr. George French,
soon
be formulated into
science.
Art and
science are
work together
the advertising
Utopia for auctioneers
field.
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and
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is
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the rest
of
may
to
whatever
be
publishers,
mankind.
it
of
Bacheller s
The Hand-made Gentle
characteristic piece
work which will
appeal
many readers.
certain
Mrs. Wharton s metrical volume,
Artemis
Actaeon,
Scarcely reaches the level
true poetry,
though
may
accomplished
allowed
to
at
as
a
of
is
in
by
of
of
of
be
a
of
literary view
The event
the summer from
point will
the appearance
James Lane Allen's
book, The Bride
the Mistletoe.
The talented
author
The Choir Invisible" has now been
silent for six years.
Probably
far the best work
fiction that
has appeared
the United States this year
Judge Grant's Bostonian study,
The Chippen
Irving
man
is
of
of
to
he
he
in it
the
not been for his exploits,
Sauborn's opinion, have
Special Messenger,
added another
his vivacious tales; and
Alice Hegan Rice has presented another Sop
her
admirers.
In Mysterious Way
the title
Anne Walmer's latest story.
Robert W. Chambers,
has
a
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indispensable
among the contributors.
Question,
The Woman
John Reed Scott
Sidney McCall; and Ellen
Red Horse Hill,
Glasgow s
The Romance
Plain Man, are
three stories of modern life which are out of the
it
be
of
it
is
Free Soil fight.
the
publication
some note
Prof. Francis
Thorpe's The Statesmanship
Andrew
Jackson.
Seven letters which old Hickory wrote
Nullification
are printed for the first
Occasionally,
time.
the editor's opinion, the
writer approaches the eloquence
Lincoln.
Another encyclopædia
emanates
from
Philadelphia and
bear the name
the
Eight volumes
Winston Company.
500 pages
each represent its content, Dr. Annandale being
Newton
to
is
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of
be
of
as
in of
it
of
&
of
is
of
is
of
or
The publication
Ticknor's Life and Letters
has been put off until the autumn.
say
Mr. Frank
Sauborn has much
the
Seventy
Concord circle
his Recollections
Years.
He also relates his dealings with John
Brown, who will soon,
thinks, arrive
the
mythical stage. But
very real
knew him
and
.
in
of
of in
of
an
a
Booth s book are that Bacon not only wrote the
Shakespeare, but occasionally also used
works
the names
Marlowe and Spenser.
Here indeed
pasture for Baconians
by
The Life and Times
Laurence Sterne,
Yale, will doubtless
Cross,
Prof. Wilbur
read with interest on both sides
the Atlantic.
Americans have been divided
their reception
Mark Twain s
Is Shakespeare Dead
Mr. Clemens
numbered among good Baconians,
only some
his fun
The Inner Shrine.
A
of
.
of
of
of
be
S. to
of
Two books
American history which the Mac
millan Company are issuing this season are likely
permanent value. The one, Prof. Edmond
History
Washington,
Meany s
the State
tells the story
the great north-west. The other,
History
Mrs. Schuyler Van Reusselaer's
the
City
New York
the Seventeenth Century,
original study
the old Dutch settlement.
One
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin
Co.'s recent
publications,
Some Acrostic Signatures
Francis
Bacon,
described
an array
facts
the
plainest sort.
That the ciphers
are not
by
determined,
accidental
can
we are told,
simple mathematical calculation.
few
the
inferences
that may
drawn from Mr. Stone
person,
presentment
woman's self-imposed atonement.
story which has been appearing anonymously
Harper's has excited much curiosity.
The
strong
author appears
woman.
She
plot and dialogue,
but rather uneven
her
character delineation.
The title
the book
A
Red Fox
Roberts's
novelist
powerful
on
Mr.
Another good piece
work from
Myrza,
Alice Brown's The Story
be
those
ayS.
of
some
story.
in
of
it
its
Mr. Rockefeller s Random Reminiscences will
probably have been read almost as widely in Europe
as here. Whatever may be thought of the Standard
Oil magnate, it cannot be denied that as an author
he has the virtues of simplicity and directness.
Thompson Seton s Biography of a Silver Fox
Grizzly predecessor. Curiously
is as good as
enough
has incidents which closely
resemble
dales.
The hero typifies successfully,
not
sympathetically, the Puritan conscience, which
rarity; the real force
now becoming
the thing
made
stand out triumphantly
effect
upon the recalcitrant heroine,
fine creation.
Hugh Blaisdell, who
third character
note
represents the man who
good because
finds
is
volumes
in literary
restraint
and
to excel
some more pretentious
works in accuracy and
balance.
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TISIES
272
�THE AUTHOR.
It
of to
to
CHEAP EDITIONS.
of
º-º-º
Alma-Tadema, Laurence.
Armstrong, Miss Frances.
Fursdon, Mrs.
Haggard,
Rider.
James, Miss Winifred.
Osgood, Miss Irene.
Stockley, Mrs. Joan.
to
so
to
be
of
in
of
set out
the columns
The Author,
the daily press, and
Government Blue Book.
Immediately after the return
the delegates
long
England, the secretary
the Society had
confidential interview with one of the officials of
Trade, discussing what had taken
the Board
place
the Berlin Convention, and what steps
might
necessary
take
arouse public interest
copyright reform.
The result
this interview
was reported
the committee.
The committee
then decided not to discuss their course of action
until the Blue Book had been issued, but proceeded
joint com
make arrangements
call together
mittee, consisting
representatives
the Authors'
Society, the Musical Publishers'
Association,
the
Publishers' Association, and the Copyright Associa
of
a
of
of
to
a
H.
in
fully
it
of
to
to
this list.
COMMITTEE.
Macgillivray
tion. Sir Alfred Bateman and Mr.
represented the Society
Authors. The object
repre
calling together the committee was that
sentative copyright holders might
able
discuss
opinion,
the position; that the differences
there
openly dealt with and settled
were any, might
possible,
and that,
common line
action might
adopted.
The committee were successful
their efforts.
As soon as the Government Blue Book was
issued, the joint committee met together, and
was decided that the delegates from the different
represented should
bodies
confer with
their
members, should consider carefully the Blue Book
which had just been issued, and come together again
later date and report the result
their delibera
Departmental Committee
tions.
the meantime,
of
to all
if
of
be
of
;
of
a
in
it
of
to
It
.
-
a
In
It
at
of
of
a
to
by
of
be
to
of
of
in
if
of
in
by
as
bybe
on
at
in
to a
In
mind the
statement
last year's report
the work
Management
done
the Committee
forward
copyright legislation.
might, how
the cause
January,
ever,
repeat
well
few facts.
1908,
Trade, the
the courtesy
the Board
proposals sent
Berne, bearing
the Bureau
meeting which was
the international
take
place
October, were laid before the
Berlin
committee.
Sir Henry Bergne kindly undertook
going through the proposals
the arduous duty
and reporting.
His report was subsequently laid
before the Copyright Sub-Committee,
and very
carefully considered.
was finally, with
few
slight corrections and additions, referred
the
be
to
Authors will no doubt call
a
the Society
at
Council
of
members
of
TY HE
of
E.
J.
OF THE
of
of
º-º-º
THE REPORT
a
LEGISLATION.
to
COPYRIGHT
to
to
in
add
be
to
to
at
:
There are no fresh names
of
publication
of
its
Those who wrºdertake not to publish an edition of any
novel first issued at the price of 68. in a cheap form at
any time within two years from the date of
first
at
publication of their names.
keep these reports
The committee were bound
confidential.
But the mere fact that Sir Henry
Bergne was working
enthusiastically
for the
carry con
Authors Society would
sufficient
copyright legislation was
Viction that the reform
being dealt with along the right lines.
The com
again expressing
mittee take this opportunity
their deep sorrow
the sudden death
Sir
Henry Bergne
the Berlin Conference.
The result
the Berlin Conference has been
in of at
S stated in the last number of The Author, We
publish below the names of those novelists
who have sent in their cards since the first
list was issued, and who do not object to the
Those who do not wrºdertake
of to
of
at
to
by
of
to
of
de
to
of
of
Management, and adopted.
Committee
was
then forwarded
the Board
Trade.
June, the president
the Société des Gens
England, with the desire
Lettres came over
obtain the support
the English Society
Authors
the Berlin Conference
certain pro
posals which were being put forward
the French
authors, the chief point being the duration
copyright.
Monsieur Lecomte, the president, had
interviews with Sir Henry Bergne, the chairman
(Mr. Douglas Freshfield), Mr. Hawkins, and the
Secretary;
and Mr. Freshfield
was enabled
introduce Monsieur Lecomte
the President
Trade, who discussed the position
the Board
With him.
In
Mr. Filson Young has been following in the
steps of Mrs. Wapel and Elinor Glyn. In an inter
view arranged by the New York Saturday Review,
he was not unduly flattering to American litera
ture.
Our novels he refused to admit as equal to
those of England, whilst as to American drama he
preferred to observe a discreet silence.
273
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great issues which the Committee of Management
have approved of are as follows:
That the existence of Copyright should be for
life and fifty years.
That as soon as possible the domestic law of
Great Britain should be altered to bring it
into uniformity with the Berlin Convention.
That the committee consider it of great
importance for His Majesty's Government
associations which they represented.
It was very
satisfactory to learn that the terms of the Berlin
Convention
would receive the support of all the
bodies, though it was possible that on one or two
minor points the musical publishers might disagree.
The musical delegates, however, thought it more
than probable that for the sake of uniformity this
disagreement would be withdrawn.
The Committee of Management had thus obtained
the views of other representative copyright-holding
bodies.
It became necessary for them at the same time
to gather evidence from the various bodies of
authors represented by the Society in order to be
ready to meet any demand that the Departmental
of
of
a v-w
º- a
w
SCHOLZ
AMASIS,
LTD., AND FENN.
A
º-º-º
SUCCESSFUL
APPEAL.
of
HE Court Appeal has reversed the decision
Mr. Justice Jelf, who had awarded the
plaintiff £200 damages for the infringement
the plaintiff s rights
his play, entitled The
Son of the Sun.
The plaintiff, Mr. W. Hermann Scholz, pro
fessionally known
Mr. W. Gunn Gwennet, alleged
that Mr. Frederic Fenn, the author
the comic
opera, Amasis,
which had been represented
in
by
of
of
in
of
he a
the defendant company, had appropriated
sub
gave
stantial and material part
his play, and
certain particulars showing similarities
the plots,
characters, ideas and words, and scenic arrange
ments
the two pieces.
From the accumulated
many
evidence
such similarities, which
instances were
trivial character, Mr. Justice
a
of
in
of
* Since writing this report Sir Alexander Mackenzie
has consented to give evidence ; his proof has been prepared
and forwarded
to the secretary of the Departmental
Committee.
to in by
or
up
to in
do
is
it
If,
of the original. The committee trust the
members of the Council will approve the
action they have taken.
The committee would like to state at the same
time that their energies are not relaxed in any
public appeal
Way.
the papers,
necessary
other means,
stir
interest
so, and will continue
the question, they will
use their best endeavours for the benefit
the
large number
authors, dramatic authors, and
composers whom they represent.
as
carefully considered by the Copyright Committee
Finally, the Copyright Committee
and approved.
endeavoured to arrange for Sir Alexander Mackenzie
to give evidence on behalf of composers.
tº
It is unnecessary to discuss the many technical
alterations to which it may be necessary to call the
attention of the Departmental Committee, but the
gramophone and cinematograph records to
be made without the sanction of the author
T
should
be brought into uniformity
with the
Convention
as early as possible.
Mr. Pinero's
points were discussed and approved with very slight
alterations.
After Some negotiations, finally Mr.
Comyns Carr and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw consented
to act as representatives of the dramatic section of
the society, should the Departmental Committee
require to call their evidence.
Copyright
meeting
A
of the
Committee was also
held, when Mr. MacGillivray, who had consented
to give evidence, laid before the committee a proof
of the evidence that would be necessary. This was
approve the
The . Dramatic Sub-Committee
principle, existing in practice in countries
other than Great Britain, and approved of
by the Berlin Convention, that public per
formance of a dramatic piece should not be
publication, and dramatists, composers, and
authors
alike are opposed
to allowing
of
Committee might make.
In consequence, at the first meeting of the
Dramatic
Sub-Committee
in 1909, the secretary
made a statement of the present position, and the
members of the committee decided to study the
Blue Book and bring forward their suggestions at
Accordingly, at the meeting
the next meeting.
30, Mr. Pinero set out an
held on March
exhaustive statement of the points on which it
would be necessary for the present law to be altered
in order to conform with the Berlin Convention, as
it was the unanimous opinion of the Dramatic Sub
Committee that the domestic law of Great Britain
to secure, if possible, the consent of the
Colonies to imperial legislation, but they
Consider that domestic legislation should
not be delayed, if it is impossible to secure
the consent of the Colonies
within a
reasonable time.
by
had been appointed by the Government to consider
the Berlin Convention and the statement set out
in the Blue Book.
The joint committee met again
on March 31, at the offices of the society, and
the delegates from the different bodies put forward
the view of the situation
taken by the several
v.
TISIES
of
274
�TISIE AUTISIOR,
is
be
to a
be
to
to
an
he
is
he to
it.
be
to
that
from
:
I
was
former
it
the impression
what one could
long
you
under
learn
do
always
desirable
of
of
to
so
by
a
to
do
allso
to
as
not copy you
and
the information you can get;
use
are entitled
my mind you ought
before you
and
attempt
comic
instruct the world, even
opera.
The appeal was allowed, and judgment entered
the trial and
for the defendant, with costs
the appeal.
HAROLD HARDY.
publications,
of
of
A.
J.
G.
H.
of
:
J.
G.
I.
of
By Prof. Saintsbury.
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
By James Douglas.
Swinburne and his Circle.
By Blanche Warre Cornish.
Swinburne and Eton.
By Edmund
Swinburne.
The Genius and Influence
Zangwill,
Gosse, W. M. Rossetti,
Walter Crane, Dr. Abraham
Skok,
Bernard Shaw, Dr. John Todhunter, and George
Brandes.
By Dr. William Barry.
The Down Grade in Literature.
By Edward Thomas.
Nietzsche.
By Walter Jerrold.
History
Romance.
CONTEMPORARY.
By
P.
E.
of
L.
By
March Phillipps.
Greek Art.
The Ethics
Stage.
Shakespeare and the Modern
German
Eulenspiegel.
By Hugh
Prophet Malgré Lui.
Platt.
FORTNIGHTLY.
:
By Edmund Gosse.
Personal Recollections.
Swinburne
By John Galsworthy.
Novelist's Allegory.
By Sidney Lee.
French Culture and Tudor England.
NATIONAL.
By Charles Whibley.
Copyright.
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
By Ernest Rhys.
Swinburne.
By George G.
Shakespeare.
Windicators
The
Greenwood.
By W. Morris Colles,
Copyright
Home and Abroad.
Tribute
of
the history of dramatic writing in this
world will show that what the great dramatic
authors have done is to go to old books and
history, and to take the facts from that history,
and then to build up their incidents, some real
believe the greatest play
and some imaginary.
Literature.
Wells, Anthony
Opinions
The Novel Crisis
Hope, Madame Albanesi,
Sir Gilbert Parker, Baroness
Locke, Miss Marjorie Bowen, and
Orczy, W.
Steuart.
Literature. By Frank
Character and the Handling
Schloesser.
BOOKMAN.
to
I
The Profits
BOOK MONTHLY.
at
If
BLACKWOODS.
Musings without Method:
in
º:
CONTENTS.
º-º-º
A
In both of these books the killing of
Amasis.
a cat in Egypt is referred to as a crime punishable
by death, and the situation arising from this cir
cumstance formed a prominent incident in both
p lavs.
to Mr. Fenn's
Justice Jelf, referring
evidence, observed that Mr. Fenn was not above
taking what he wanted, to some extent at least,
from other books.
upon this part of the judgment,
Commenting
that means any
the Lord Chief Justice said,
thing, it means that Mr. Fenn was guilty of
something unworthy ; and, looking at it from the
point of view of a dramatic author,
must protest
against such an inference being
drawn. . . . .
MAGAZINE
A
trial that he got the idea of his play from a well
known work by Dr. Ebers, entitled The Egyptian
Princess, published many years ago, and a novel
by Mr. Henty, called The Cat of Bubastes ; and
from the former book he had in fact taken seven
teen names of the characters, including that of
I
Upon this point Mr. Justice Farwell said
Was
I
committed
that the gentleman
the conclusion
deliberate perjury in the box, and is saying what
is untrue when he says that before the matter was
mentioned to him, he had never seen the plaintiff's
play or the book.
Mr. Fenn had also stated in his evidence at the
I believe
SU.
A
I
º:
y
fairly be said to establish a case
of infringement.
Dealing with the similarities cited by Mr. Justice
Jelf in his judgment, the Lord Chief Justice said:
Those instances are put forward by the learned
judge as being the main similarities which force
cannot
him to disbelieve Mr. Fenn on oath.
possibly come to that conclusion.
think in
themselves they are far short of copying at all, and
they are still further short, in my opinion, of such
evidence upon which anyone is justified in drawing
together, could
Writers in the world, from Shakespeare downwards,
suggest that
man
Therefore
have done
supposed
discredited, because
not
wanted from other books,
above taking what
entirely wrong
applying
me
to
after reading and comparing both plays, came
to the conclusion that there had been copying, and
that he was unable to accept the statement of
Mr. Fenn that he had not seen the plaintiff's play
before he had written his own.
In the Court of Appeal the similarities in ideas
and Words were the main consideration ; but it
Was pointed out that similarities in plot and scenic
arrangements might have an important bearing
After an
upon the question of conscious copying.
similarities,
alleged
of
the
examination
exhaustive
however, the Court unanimously came to the con
nor the
clusion that no one of the allegations,
Combined effect of the whole of them taken
to
Jelf,
275
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is
to
per
of a
of
to
:
of
(a
in
to
a
or
of
to
of
or
is
to
a
to
or
to
to
or
to
to to
to
is
to
It
to
is
It
in
to
of
a
of
to
if
of
in
or
be
is
a
of
such
contract
dramatic
or
contract
should
stipulate
the contract
of
on
for production
the piece by
certain date
and for proper publication
his name
the
play-bills.
of
price can
for plays
the performing right. This
An author who enters into
a in
unsatisfactory.
a
is
of
There are three forms
in three or more acts:
(a.) Sale outright
of
an
of to
a
in
of
of
proper
be
a
sometimes satisfactory,
is
2.
of
a
it
be observed
an
dealing
methods
Outright.
if
is
I.
This
in
º-0
are
few standing rules
agreement.
There are four
with literary property
Selling
e-º-e
3.
TO THE PRODUCERS
OF BOOKS.
to
ERE
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.
EVER sign an agreement without submitting
the
Secretary
the Society
Authors
some com
petent legal authority.
negotiating for
well
be extremely careful
play with anyone except
the production
established
manager.
º Å
A
vºy wº-w
e
copyright.
~~ a
y
w-v-
it
or
9.
£1 1s.
transfer
to
to
of
so
to
8.
The subscription
the Society
annum,
£10 10s. for life membership.
WARNINGS
(3.) Always avoid
**
it
prevent authors from
Some agents endeavour
referring matters
the Secretary
the Society;
do some publishers.
Members can make their own
deductions and act accordingly.
(2.) The inspection
those account books which belong
right,
the author.
We are advised that this
the
nature
common law right, which cannot
denied
withheld.
-
The
the four
Such combinations are generally disastrous
the author.
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from
Secretary
Society.
the
the
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.
possible.
Avoid agreements by letter
The main points which the Society has always demanded
from the outset are:
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement
Iſlea,I\S.
of
This
of
of
7.
to
Many agents neglect
stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days
first execution.
Secretary will undertake
on behalf
members.
agreement are combinations
of
a
to
to
to
the Secretary
forms
above mentioned.
|
in
a
of
to
of
by
and explanation
of
them for interpretation
the Society.
General.
All other
to
To
a
be
to
of
6.
literary
No contract should be entered into with
agent without the advice
the Secretary
the Society,
accept without careful
Members are strongly advised not
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted
literary agents, and are recommended
them
submit
of
or
A
to
of
in
(1)
Prospectus.
main points are :
production.
Be careful
obtain
fair cost
Keep control
the advertisements.
Keep control
the sale price
the book.
to
of
as
a
be
in
3.
of
The
(1.)
(2.)
(3.)
of of
if
in
The Committee have arranged for the reception
members' agreements and their preservation
fire
regarded
proof safe. The agreements will,
course,
confidential documents
be read only by the Secretary,
who will keep the key
the safe. The Society now offers:
possible action
To stamp agreements
readiness for
upon them.
(2) To keep agreements.
(3).
enforce
payments due according
agreements.
Fuller particu
ians
the Society's work can
obtained
the
A
to
of to of in
of
no
The Royalty System.
perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form
agreement.
above all things necessary
know
what the proposed royalty means
both sides.
now
possible for an author
approximately
ascertain
the
very
important
figures
truth.
From time
time
connected
royalties
published
with
are
The Author.
IV.
Commission Agreement.
This
belonging
Remember always that
the Society
you are fighting the battles
you
other writers, even
yourself, and that you are
are reaping
direct benefit
your calling
advancing the best interests
promoting
the independence
the writer, the dramatist, the composer.
4.
III.
a
send
of
any agreement whatever,
the Society for examination.
It
to
signing
to
do
do
of
3.
Before
the document
Profit-Sharing
Agreement
II.
bad form
agreement).
In this case the following rules should be attended
pro
sign any agreement
(1.) Not
which the cost
part without the strictest investigation.
duction forms
putting the
give the publisher the power
(2.) Not
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements
by charging exchange advertise
his own organs,
ments. Therefore keep control
the advertisements.
(3.) Not
allow special charge for office expenses,
unless the same allowance
made
the author.
give up American, Colonial,
(4.) Not
Continental
rights.
give
up
rights.
(5.) Not
serial
translation
any publisher.
(6.) Not
bind yourself for future work
yourself
any one solicitor
As well bind
for the future
doctor
|
by
all
2.
Remember that questions connected with copyright
experi
and publishers' agreements
not fall within the
ordinary solicitors.
Therefore,
ence
not scruple
use
the Society.
managed by
the Secretary
is
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
the case to the
special reason the Secretary
will refer
Further, the Committee, if they
Solicitors of the Society.
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion
without
any cost to the member.
Moreover, where, counsel's
opinion is favourable, and the sanction ºf the Committee
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved
member, and
costs borne
the Society.
VERY
1.
in
o-º-º-
obtained.
But the transaction should
competent agent,
with the advice
the Society.
-
of
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
be
A UTHOR.
of
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º-º-º
in
as of
a
in
of
it
be
a
is
to
to
of
a
if
of
to
Communications and letters are invited by the
Editor on all literary matters treated from the stand
business, but
point
no other subjects whatever.
art
Every effort will be made
return articles which cannot
be accepted.
e
º-e
REMITTANCES.
CENARIOS, typewritten
º-º-º
Temittances should be crossed
Lane,
Smith's Bank, Chancery
letter only.
of
of
All
to
of
give notice
the Society begs
The Secretary
post.
return
that all remittances are acknowledged
by
in duplicate on foolscap paper
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author
Copies
and the other filed in the register of the Society.
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.
S
is
remind members
The Author begs
them
sent
the Society that, although the paper
producing
charge, the cost
would
free
great
very heavy charge
the Society
the resources
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on the basis of percentages on
vary
Percentages
5
gross receipts.
between
An author should obtain a
and 15 per cent.
receipts
gross
sliding
percentage on the
scale of
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A fixed
obtain a sum in advance of percentages.
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performed.
(b.) Sale
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of
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�A UſTISIOR.
Talfourd and
of
opposition
of
to
as
a
an
it
as
of
of
on
for
of
is
to a
it
he
by
he
no
of
a
is
in
is
a
It
is
It
in
in
by
to
is
of
do
in
he
of
by
to
;
a
or
to
to
is
no
It
he
P
of
in
a
is
a
of
of
is
as
a
by
it
of
of to
to at
it is of of
as
a
of
a
in
as is
a
is
at
be in
It
be
as of
a
in
in
of
a
on
June
in
of
CONVENTION.
reviews there appeared two articles
the Wational Review under the
signature
the Wineteenth
Charles Whibley;
Century under the signature
W. Morris Colles.
property.
The
The first dealt with copyright
obtain
the struggle
writer gave short history
the
copyright
it
as
by
It
all of
on
A.
is
by
to
to
be
THE BERLIN
B.
quite
different
written
The second article
spirit.
the action
criticism
written
note
the Berlin Convention
the delegates
warning
those who desire uniformity.
impossible
our disposal, though
the space
difficult,
the
write an answer
would not
arguments put forward.
the
These are some
preserving
and
Instead
catch phrases :
strengthening
[the Berlin Convention] throws
the whole unionist system into the melting pot, and
introducing new and dangerous
complicates
every danger that
result
There
issues.
advancing the realisation
they will retard instead
simplifying
these aims, and complicate instead
the international system.
And then what does the writer propose?
short additional
thousand pities that for the nonce,
the first
Berlin was not framed providing
Act
place for obviously innocuous addenda and corri
genda.
The
more fatal
Could any suggestion
result would have been that very complication
Some nations would adhere to the
so much fears.
to
It
to
of
is
AND
an to a F.
J.
of
at
of
of
IN
COPYRIGHT
,
II.
It
A
It
c.
of
6
as
in
in
THERE has been some slight movement
Bill came before
Canada.
matters copyright
House, which was practically the
the Canadian
was introduced by
36.
Edw. VII.
same
request
Justice,
Mr.
the
the Minister
Toronto, who represented
Edgar, barrister,
publishers.
related
musical
number
musical piracy only, and was introduced
passed
the criminal code.
amendment
Commons, but was rejected
the
the House
Senate.
The only other measure affecting copyright was
copyright
the amendment abbreviating the form
printed
Canadian
notice required
copyrights.
print the words,
All that now necessary
Copyright, Canada, 190
to
by
COPYRIGHT.
it
is
of
to
of
of
their humbler
receive directly, still for the good
join the society. The spirit
brethren,
fellow
ship animated the late Poet Laureate.
The same
spirit animated George Meredith.
copyright, Lord Macaulay said, is
givingS
this,
the purpose
readers
tax
bounty
writers.
clear, however, from the later statements
not
the article that the writer
contained
does not
confesses
the society, for
member
those who are interested
know what has been done
copyright reform and boldly states that
effort
improve the law.
needless
has been made
past
repeat what has been done
the society
years the report
this month's Author will show
Some
the action that has been taken recently.
gather accurate
effort should have been made
knowledge from accredited sources.
argument adopted
Mr. Whibley
The line
shows have been
not new, and the deductions
these pages. When copyright
stated frequently
not
ceases, the profits arising from the property
accrue for the public benefit, but for the benefit
the publishers.
necessary
secure these for the public,
royalty,
the
either the publishers should pay
Government should publish and pay the profits into
the public purse.
establish
these means
Mr. Whibley proposes
literary fund that asks
The idea
alms.
eminently sane,
principle
a
if
in
of of
a
of
a
in
of
to
its
of
its
a great poet, and secondly that the Society was
first president
honoured by having him as
his
the day
foundation
from the year
death.
thought may arouse
some
the minds
Such
the highest
the desire for still closer cohesion
literature, and may
the great art
and lowest
the benefit they may
not because
induce others,
extraordinary topsy-turvy
embracing
does
ideas, we cannot help repeating.
The
dom
If
THE centenary of the birth of the first president
of the society falls on the 5th day of August.
Such an event should not be passed over without
expressing a pious
In Memoriam. As The
Author is not published in August and September,
this expression must fall in this number.
Many may say that any criticism or appreciation
of Tennyson is now out of date, and that nothing
This is no doubt to some extent
new can be said.
true, but this is not our object.
Our object is
first to recall to all members that Tennyson was
property, and drew
Serjeant
advocacy
the unaccountable and irrational
Lord Macaulay.
One quotation,
of
attention
LORD TENNYSON.
CANADIAN
to
recognition
º-º-e
copyright
the potent
of
GENERAL NOTES.
to
TISIES
278
�THE AUTHOR.
by
to
several occasions.
The
pay
representative
a
to
of
on
matter has been
Society
Authors
Society cannot afford
attend these Congresses.
gresses appears
more
of
to
of
is
of
to
It
If,
a on
to
it
to on
be
to
The result
the Con
theoretical than practical.
impossible
The committee have found
various
former occasions
obtain volunteers
attend
each Congress,
account
the expense involved.
Authors are not wealthy class.
however, Professor Rothlisberger refers
the
Berne, Paris and Berlin Congresses, we can only
reply that the matter rests with the Government.
true that the French Government (always
literary and artistic productions) appointed
kind
delegates from some
their most famous authors
attend the Berlin Congress, but this was not
done
the British Government, though we are
pleased
know that Sir Henry Bergne, who did
represent Great Britain, was
valued member
the committee
the society, and knew, from
holding this position, the views
authors and
legislation.
the society
the matter
of
on
of
of
a
of
to
by
to
be
the International Literary and
we can only say that the
before the committee
of the
to
º-º-º
a
of
of
is,
or
no
is
to
as
to
be
to
be
of
to
in
he
he
a
all
of
of
to
it
of
do
to
a
is
a
is
as
of
to
its
of
to
to
he
If
of
to
in
is
to
a
do
We
not quite understand
what Professor
Rothlisberger
refers.
refers
the yearly
of
of
of
in of
to
an ;
of
isolation,
and attend the congresses where the moral and
material interests
the producers
intellectual works
are discussed
let them organise,
accord with the
publishers,
opposition
the normal treatment
which they are the victims; let them appeal
the
very vital
international solidarity which
the unionist
Literary
guided
by
centres
the International
and Artistic
they will soon both obtain Satisfaction,
Association and
greater
copyright
and render
service
the cause
than
they can render by taking any extreme measures.
to
of
to
in
in
Le
in
an article deal
ing with the United States law and United States
piracy that appeared
Droit d'Auteur, refers
English authors
the following terms:
Let the English authors come out
their splendid
be
to
AGREEMENT.
to
INTERNATIONAL
PROFESSOR ROTHLISBERGER,
in
It
a
as
be
is
2
of
to to
if,
president
the Society
Authors
was shy man and one who could not suffer
fools gladly.
These two facts having been
made public property, there
indiscretion
referring
bad taste
them.
There
how
ever, some danger that
reputation thus earned
may prove misleading.
may cause posterity,
interested,
who personally will
we are,
great men,
the personalities
blind
one
important point.
This point
one
which the
Society
Authors has every reason
aware and
good comradeship.
thankful for his sense
Tennyson, however reserved
might have been
his intercourse with the world
the World, the
world,
ear and eye, and with such foolish heart
interpret eye and ear
may
however cordially
have hated fools and prigs, was, nevertheless,
essentially like his own Lancelot,
a kindly man
moving among his kind.
The loss which the
society has suffered from the death
George
Nothing could
Meredith calls this fact
mind.
good comradeship,
have shown Tennyson's sense
his loyalty
his craft, more forcibly than his
acceptance
the first presidency
the Society.
recognised
Now that the society
established
force, now that
name
household word with
all men and women who have
with letters, we
forget that the early fostering
are apt
was
a
of
It
of
an
is
international uniformity, we shattered the Anglo
American Agreement, and split up British copy
right into fractions.
But where
the need
HE first
in
of
or
be
in
is
be
TENNYSON.
If
or
it
us
is
to
is
at
a
be
or
to
is
an
be
of
as
is
:
of
to
in
to
to
at
is
to
at
all
cation of short additional Acts.
In a bold spirit
they grappled with a difficult issue and adopted the
only Sane course, an entirely new Convention.
It is true that
countries may not
once
adopt its tenets. For these the lesser Berne
able
Convention
left.
But all Governments have
aim, and we must
before them an ideal
which
offer
the delegates our hearty congratulations on
the broad and statesmanlike manner
which they
have dealt with the question.
Again this bogey
uniformity seems
stir up
weird alarms in the writer in another direction
Literary property itself
not homogeneous and
could,
regards the duration
copyright, usefully
classified and differentiated.
To claim protection
for life and fifty years for copyright property indis
criminately
insult
the public common sense.
Uniformity, whether international
domestic, can
attempted
wholly dispropor
cost which
any practical advantages likely
tionate
result.
The whole turn of the article
one of alarm and
fear, but
leaves
unmoved.
the present
Government,
any Government, pass
bad copy
right law, that may
their fault
the fault
the
contending parties
Great Britain.
But the full result
the work
the delegates
certainly
satisfactory
and praiseworthy.
irreparable calamity,
quote the
would
alarmist again,
in the effort
facilitate
Congresses held
Artistic Association,
of
Berne Convention only, some to the Berne Con
vention and the Act of Paris only, and some to the
Berne Convention,
the Act of Paris, and
what
would have been the Act of Berlin.
There is no doubt that the course the delegates
adopted was the best. They saw the awful compli
279
�are
all
of
are
is
in
as
a
it,
a is
all
of
of
be
his
is be
of
is
it to
of
is
a
of
as
of
or
in
to
so
we
of
P
of
of
to
of
of
a
in
a
in to of
all
in
Idylls,
which have
the imaginations
two
Memoriam,
which the
men and women
his day found their cloudy hopes
and fears, their dim aspirations
and doubtings,
minted into current coin ? Who can say? Mean:
While,
this
can bear witness, that loyalty a
loyalty
loyalty
his friends which never failed,
passages
shown
innumerable
his poetry,
loyalty
the best and highest traditions
his
loyalty
Country,
his fellow men
letters was
the characteristic mark
the first president
the
Society
Authors.
The
ambitious efforts or
strongly
appealed
generations
In
a to
in
to
of
its
of
as
its
hour
need Lord Tennyson came
champion.
good fellowship we find reflected
This sense
his work.
His friendships were warm friendships
and loyal.
Fitz and Brooks, above
Arthur
Hallam, have gained
posthumous fame, which
might otherwise have been denied
them, even
that
forward
guess
music The Thrush.
But here must
work stop.
Will Maud live 2 4 Maud, which
commonly regarded
the greatest
his more
of
of
is
in an
of
a
of
of
a
It
of
to
to
at
to
have been involved
the fiasco and have suffered
Tennyson knew this quite well
loss accordingly.
when his faith and courage and loyalty prompted
step forward
him
all risks
himself and
cover the infant society with the shield
his great
splendid act
unselfishness,
influence.
was
good comradeship
noble proof
the sense
the heart
the man.
That the infant has proved
largely due
itself
infant Hercules
the fact
agreed, and that
not endure.
one point
with regard
some
the lyrics.
A handful,
Gargantuan handful,
writer
the Tºmas
recently put
will live. This
common ground
agreement. Exactly which lyrics they
upon
which this anticipated immortality
conferred
Generally
dispute.
matter
felt that
this handful will
drawn mainly from
course, Sunset and
earlier lyrical work, with,
Evening. Star, and that wonderful piece
bird
is
to of
of
of
a
its
in
of
it
in
of
as
in
to
of
It
it
on
In
by
its
by
a period of doubt and dread to its parents.
The
society in
early days was surrounded
enemies,
and, worse still,
indifferent and scoffing onlookers.
The enemies are not dead, but they have been
rendered powerless for evil.
The indifference and
the scoffing still continue, but wax fainter.
those days
was quite
the cards that the
Society would not live.
was therefore no small
thing for the greatest and most popular man
letters
his day
lend the weight
his name
support the Society
its first struggles for existence.
Had the Society
Authors perished,
its enemies
devoutly hoped
would,
ridicule, the
sea
name and reputation
first president must
to On
TISIE AUTISIOIR,
280
E. P. L.
*º
to
in
an article on
Y.
by
X.
the
Z.,
of
he
an
a
in
is
of
to
is
a to
in
of
all
by
is
it
to
of
or
of
non-employment
the employment
the agent
great importance
writers,
one
classes
and therefore
well worth while to examine
in
of
of
of
of
to
he
a
to
no
he
to
Y.
in
is,
is
to
on
Y.
to
of
Y.
the arguments brought forward
X.
Z.
prove the uselessness
his attempt
the agent.
X. Z. naturally draws
his own experience,
dealings during fifteen months
which
limited
says, one
with one agent, who
the best
known men
his profession.
This agent may
well known, but, according
X. Z., he
not conscientious,
for after selling the serial
rights
novel,
attempt
place
made
the story
volume.
Of the five long stories
entrusted
this man, all that
could do was
place the serial rights
one for £30; the author,
however, withdrawing the remaining manuscripts,
placed the serial and book rights
one, the serial
rights
another, and cannot dispose
any rights
of
to as a
of
in
to
of
it
an
of
to
as
interested
which was
printed
recent issue
The Author.
The
Writer takes as his text Mr. H. G. Wells's remark
indispensable middleman,
that the agent
and
two columns bristling with arguments,
endeavours
show that
the majority
authors
Now, the question
agent
serious handicap.
of
is
by
in
all
as
of
much
literary agent,
is of an
a
of
be
it
is
It
in
is
of
to
or
WAS
is be
of
as
of
no to
he
in
to
be
of to
in
is
of
of
to
AGENTS.
º-º-º
or
of
it
it
;
of to
be
two
three men and women interested
literature are gathered together, and fall into
Tennyson, they invariably come
talk
the work
arguing among themselves, sometimes with con
siderable bitterness,
what will and what will
in
Whenever
AUTHORS
of
Fitzgerald, had not been for the association
their
Tennyson. Whether
names with that
no the
splendid monument which
raised
Arthur
Hallam will endure through the ages
one can
Say
has touched the hearts
millions
nothing
sorrowful men and women
our times
else has touched them.
But we are still too near
Tennyson
judge with any degree
able
certainty
his work. While the touch
Vanished hand still lingers upon our hands, while
we feel the warmth of
and can even count the
Weakening pulse-beats, our judgment must perforce
suspense.
held
not for us it will
great,
for Our children's children to say what
permanent, for
What
this matter greatness and
permanency are the same,
his work.
The judg
ment
the future
the ordeal
fire through
every man must pass.
Perhaps
which the work
very little, perhaps much more than we think
Tennyson's work will come out
this fire un
Scathed.
And yet we
find
irresistible
fascination, utterly idle
be,
we know
futurity.
attempting
anticipate the judgment
he
to
a
*
�TFIES A CITISIOR.
a
a
a
as
to
of
in
of
is
or
or
.
.
.
a
he
as
;
so
to
an
as
is a
it in
we
on
us
to
of a
byall
a
to to
of
of
is
It
Y. is
to X. it
to
is
a
of
of to
of
at
a
A
a
a
by
to
of
a
or a
be
of
so
to
in
I
of
in
?
lie
by
an
in
it
he
or if to
in
of
of
of
as
to
of
byto
a
;
at
to in
of
of
of
is
a is
is
of if
be of
to
be
or
the expense
their clients
favour the firm with
indirectly their interests
which either directly
are allied.
impertinent
would
for me
warn other
agents, and, indeed,
authors against these classes
warning could only
such
effective
names
yet another class
agent
were given.
There
dangerous
the author, and that
the good man
business, absolutely honest, yet
trifle careless
probably too
and somewhat dilatory.
The man
to
or
in
an a in of
he
if
or
be
of
it
a
to
let
of
or
to
to
on
I
as
do
an
a
by
of
go
I
in
he
;
is
it
a
is
he
he an
;
he
do
in
to
or
of
by
an
a
is
of
he
All sorts
stories are told
the discredit of
agents.
publisher told me
one who offered
high price, and told him that five
him
novel
thousand copies
the author's last book had been
being suspicious, made
Sold.
The publisher,
inquiries, and learnt that the sales amounted
Now,
lie, an
about six hundred copies.
such
big royalty, with considerable
agent might get
sum
account he might get this once from
publisher too trusting
doubt his statement,
require such corroboration
too careless
could
sight
afforded
the statement
sales
question.
the last book
the author
This
particular publisher was too shrewd
caught
napping
but suppose
had been,
the agent
writing,
had put his statement
uttered
before
third person, would not
action
for
money obtained
the recovery
fraudulent mis
representation
Anyhow,
the most wily agent
could never
this way trick even the most confiding
publisher twice.
hear, too,
agents who are
careless
their contracts, and when the author,
consequence, gets into difficulty, try
keep him
from consulting the Society,
that their faults
exposed;
shall not
dishonest agents, who mis
represent the sums they receive; and
others who
disguise, and try
are really publishers' agents
a
of
be
to
to of
is
no
to an
in
of
to
of
to
to
he
to
as
of
a
of
Y.
K.
if
an
to
as
I
he
In to
in
a
agent has been futile, because the writers have not
understood that authors can be divided into two
classes: first, those whose work the publisher
doesn t particularly want
and second, those whose
work the publisher does want,
would want
it; and that
only with the second
knew
class that
sound literary agent has,
should
have,
do.
Unless
author's work gives decided
promise,
little interest
the publisher,
the first-class agent.
No agent, except one who
spend much time
takes retainers,
can afford
gay.
a
he
no
to
to
Y.
of
is
a
is
of
Literary Agent,
Mr. Curtis Brown, who writes
thorough knowledge
with
the subject :
Much that has been written about the literary
nutshell, and put
unnecessary
com
here
effective
worth no first-class
agent's while
offer short stories the copyright
guinea, which
which the author disposes
for
glad
get.
glad
get
We are
guineas, but
guinea
selling the copy
obtain
right
short story, however welcome the guinea
may be, would leave most writers anything but
be
of
he
;
of
I
more clear
Z. had mentioned the length
anything
the stories, for short stories may
My contention
from 1,200 to, say, 7,000 words.
submit, through his
that
author who has
agent and himself, one short story nine times
before selling
the copyright
for £1 10s., and
another twenty-nine
times before obtaining
an
very
offer for the copyright
£1 1s., which
glad
get,
wrong
employ
agent.
What
has, practically
ever his literary merits may be,
speaking,
and, until there
commercial value
demand for his work,
can
well for
any agent can
himself
for him.
must
agent, one
confess
cannot understand how
the best known men
his profession, who does
not ask for
advance fee, can have thought
client,
worth while
have accepted such
client
submit, without result, four
for whom he has
thirty-two quarters, the copyrights
short stories
which are afterwards disposed
the author for
further, and say that,
the total sum
£716s.
unless
had great faith
the literary qualities
work,
X. Y. Z.
had no right, either
justice
accept such
himself
the author,
this,
support
client.
me quote from
article
the Fortnightly Review for August, 1906,
on The Commercialisation
of Literature and the
Here
have the case
clearly and forcibly that
it;
quoted
ment
rejoinder
Z.
It
;
of
by
X.
Z. does not see that the agent had made
sending him lists
the author's task easier
the
papers where the stories had been offered and
rejected
nor does
comment upon the fact that
the agent had offered six stories
could not
dispose
less than fifty-one editors.
have given these statistics because they are
essential
the forming
conclusion
the
position,
view,
from the financial point
Z., though this would have been made still
X.
over him.
He can generally find
market for his
good agent, and better than
Work
well
bad agent
and
can afford
more thorough
canvass than either.
The only agent who
really counts, either for the author,
with the
publisher,
with his own banker,
the one who
sells the kind
work for which publishers are
competition,
and who takes advantage
that
competition
get the best market price for the
author.
of
Y.
of
of
all
18.
in the other two.
Of sixteen short stories the
agent sold the British serial rights of three for,
respectively, £10 10s, £412s. 6d., and £7
9d.
and the author subsequently sold the British serial
rights
one for £8 5s.,
serial rights
another
for £15 15s., and the copyrights
others for
£3. 3s., £1 10s., £1 1s., £2 2s., and £3 38.
281
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AUTEIOR*.
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it,
in
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it in
on
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to
us
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to it
; is
he
I
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as
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of
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be
to
in
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of
or
us
I
I
a
it
I
no
an
as
a
be
to
of
of a
at
of
to
to
of in
of
displaying emotion
who are not ashamed either
rising
the innocent
falsetto
which
pitch the remarks
Brandram
used
Master
Harry Walmers, junior,
the story
Boots
in
be
will continue
to
aloud
induce
comedian
read Mr. Dooley
experiment, but
music hall, just
one
thought anything
the project.
perhaps
little alarming for me
Saying
much
the professionals the
readers
so
of
in
of
to
of
I
hope that reading
trying
to 2 in
a
a
had
You may
-
is
at
in
have since discovered
sir?
arresting
Dickens could
actor
stage illusion.
with all the accessories
was
person, but
born too late
hear Dickens
once
heard his son, who, however, came far behind
Brandram.
Will authors ever again read their
public
penny
works
Will there ever again
readings
had the idea
few years ago
of
I
a
in
of by
I
which
I
stories
little charm
their own, but which read
those
gentle tones in that sweet monotony were
more
fascinating than any
the music
which one's
adult ears have listened.
where you are now,
a
so
I
I
a
of
be
to
I
of
other
the human voice.
As
Dickens
this way, all
King
adored), Ruskin s
together with
host
speare
It
of
to
a
I
is
of
in ;
I
of
lulled
child
heard much
Jacob Abbott (whom
the Golden River,
in
Later,
was my fortune reading aloud being
still cultivated art to hear both the brave and
spirited Brandram and the wistful Clifford Harrison.
Brandram
most esteemed, and
look round
among the entertainers to-day for any who com
pensate
give anything
good.
for his loss
Samuel Brandram alone
his desk reading Shake
wonder
to
of
to
Reep my pencil.
to
in
of
of
a
it
is
who like
Tokio, wherever Englishmen
from the Thames
assembled.
in
to
he
in it
is
to
a
I
a
S
literary
listened
little while since
man of eminence whose foible
to
play the garrulous autobiographer
mixed
company,
grumbled
me that one
his
recent hosts
the country had the detestable
reading aloud
habit
the evening,
the
good talk.
ruin
can conceive
Dr. Johnson
uttering similar complaint, with blunter dogma
tism, and that naturally causes one
examine the
situation more closely, since one has the suspicion
at the back of one's mind that the Doctor was
never wrong
and yet none the less my own feeling
stay.
that
such
house that should like
For some
the pleasantest memories
shall ever
have are connected with reading aloud, and
little do think the habit detestable that
once
meditated bringing together
one book
collec
tion
extracts suitable for reading aloud
odd
times, for the use
those derelicts (like myself)
by
in
ALOUD.
in
º-º-º
or
ON READING
he
a
to
jº -*- ſº
sº-w
a
it,
to
so
I
it
is
some importance
the agent is a most valuable
instrument.
He would not dream of appointing
as an executor a man of whom he knows little or
nothing ; but, with a minimum of inquiry, or even
the chance word of an acquaintance, he will make
over to some agent the disposal of his literary
really
may so put
work ; whereas, if
much more important
choose with care one's
doctor than one's undertaker.
TIEWIS MELVILLE.
to
agent with far less discrimination than he selects
his tailor, usually because he does not recognise
that once his work is a marketable commodity of
us
I
encouraged
schools,
against
the revival
interest
that the swing
the pendulum
My own schooldays
should ensure.
several
although
establishments were sweetened
the example
the master who was most addicted
this pleasant art may
held
have been
little dangerous.
He was
handsome and
profligate
Scotchman,
now conjecture)
with
world's record for some athletic feat I think for
throwing the hammer and
tendency
sponging terms with the older boys and frankly
piratical terms with the younger, for
still
possesses (or
least
not)
silver pencil
fancy.
mine
which
took
What branch
learning
forget
had under his control
completely,
but what
can remember,
with
minute fidelity,
the entertainment
that
substituted
for
for
was his genial and
popular habit
place beneath
the text-book
from which he should have instructed
us and
indeed did affect
instruct
when any authority
messenger from another class-room entered
play
Shakespeare
either
novel
Ouida (his two authors), from one
which
long
read
with fine feeling
the coast
was clear.
He was
born reader, his only fault
being that
felt too much, and
can still see
the tears streaming down his face over
A Leaf
Flanders,
the Storm and A Dog
and other
pathetic histories
that generous romantic crea
ture, now cold, who
the seventies was read
a
valuable to be abandoned, for the really first-class
agents with a connection in England and America
can be counted on the fingers of one hand ; and,
with a trifle of that tact for which authors are so
distinguished, he can usually be induced to do his
best.
Disraeli said that every country has the Jews it
deserves, and perhaps
may venture to say that
every author has the agent he deserves.
The
truth of the matter is that an author selects an
or
a
282
�A CITISIOR,
is
I
If
be
of at
I
of
a
it
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of
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to
of
by
a
it
is
he
NOVEL
º-º-º
of
in
in
in
of
its
to
a
in
of
at
its
of
of
a
as
of
of
at
of
of
in
of
or
of
of
by
of
it
is
of
a
to
of
its
of as by
;
of
for
us,
it
to is
in
So
in
all of
to
of
to
be
a
we
.
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is
of
of
it
of
all
he
of
to it,
to
of in
of
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of
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of
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of
of
is
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by
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no
let
:
l),
to
no
I
(I
of
think,
a
is
all
in
an
is
be
to
I
is
as
of
Ah, there,
on
to
of
;
as
as
a
is
to
to
the reader
the oldest similes
the world compares
tree, with its roots planted
human life
deep
the organic life
the past,
highest leaves quivering
the winds that herald
the future, its branches lightning-struck
parts
war and revolution, but
firm trunk still acting
convey the sap
channel
life from the roots
And, like the tell-tale grove
King
instinct.
Midas,
the leaves that reveal the story
the
tree's inner life,
them we judge
the activity
sloth
the force that works
the heart
each
life, too, has
cell.
whispering leaves.
The tree
We find them
the arts, which are always the
clearest index
every
the power
the life-force
period
human history.
The Middle Ages, seeing
spirit and matter, give us,
existence
conflict
for art, the Lives
the Saints and the Gothic
Cathedral, with its frozen vision
forces arrested
infinite forms
conflict the Renaissance, rioting
life, throws down the gauntlet
the pride
challenge
the passions.
with every
period whose arts have come down
the
always
foliage somewhere.
tree
life
Intellectually
are now closing one age and
rapidly entering upon another.
We have come
great age
analysis;
the end
are starting
time when linking, synthesis, will
the main
preoccupation
thinkers and practical men.
The scientist, having carried the analysis
matter,
we know
impinges on
the confines where
matter that
our senses
half spiritual, finds
himself
the jumping-off place, where
must
as
is
in
is
of is
to
on
to
And what
NE
THE FUTURE.
OF
a
THE
is
be
in
a
of
to
it
to
a
let
If
at
I
we touch upon great virtue.
were the Record
ing Angel
very gentle with readers
would
aloud, whatever they had done
other times: not
Only from
general admiration
their kindness,
but from my own particular private horror
the
suffering which my own reading aloud costs me.
makes me hoarse,
makes me sleepy beyond
drugs, and
little, more
twists my tongue, after
than anything ever sung
Mr. Wilkie Bard. And,
lacking the needful power
seeing two lines ahead
(as John Roberts used
see two cannons ahead),
am continually falling into wrong stresses and mis
understandings, which annoy me like little stings.
But the intense physical weariness which reading
aloud produces the yawns and the irritations
this
often so bad that
never reach the late
stages
all.
Hence
veneration
the patient
untiring reader aloud which
am unable fittingly
express.
E. W. LUCAS.
It
the Holly Tree Inn.
For the reading aloud that
really counts is such reading as so exasperated my
friend the autobiographer when he was staying in
the country and wanted to talk: reading by readers
who have no dramatic gift whatever, intelligent
humorous persons of kindly nature (this of course
goes with the art) without vocal modulation or
mimicry. For such the ironical authors are the
best Arnold, for example, in Friendship's Gar
land, which reads aloud wonderfully, or that essay
by him on America that appeared in the Nineteenth
Century in the month in which he died, and has,
believe, never been republished, possibly out of con
sideration (surely an over - sensitiveness) for the
feelings of the nation under the switch.
any
one wants an agreeable half-hour let him procure
that number of the Wineteenth Century and turn to
an article entitled
Civilization
in the United
States, and having mastered it
him then read
congenial company.
Bagehot
aloud
almost everywhere good
read aloud,
but for
trial trip begin with his diverting account
places could
Crabb Robinson.
Leslie Stephen
better, but too much did
not
control his
while, but
mischief.
Gibbon goes admirably for
monotony
soon inevitable
from the see-saw
symmetry
always
his sentences. Goldsmith
good.
Heine's prose
Leland's translation
easy
the unemotional
reader and
course
immensely diverting and awakening.
Hazlitt
any man
reads aloud almost
well
but
mistake you want your eye
read Lamb aloud
the words and the stops:
intermediary breaks
Cowper's letters are perfect.
the chain.
Other good books for the undramatic
reader
suggest
occur
me and there
little point
ing material for the others, since their gifts
can re-create anything, and
not
Dickens
hand, never
exhausted, and Thackeray,
and Mr. Hardy (but not Mr. Meredith
one
think
obtain him vicariously
and the adorable
W. W. Jacobs and the Misses Somerville and Ross
But,
say, there
need
name the writers
that require from the reader something
the
Among other good books for
actor's treatment.
the reader with but one voice and one manner, and
no desire for creation,
would name Stevenson's
Fables and Dr. Garnett's stories
The
Twilight
particularly that little
the Gods,
masterpiece, beyond
think) even Anatole France,
entitled Abdallah the Adite, and Mr. Whiteing's
early satire The Island, and
genuine
book
stealthy fun that was published some ten years ago
under the title The Wallet
Kai Lung,
which irresistible use
made
the mechanism
Chinese courtesy
author possessed
true
humour.
283
to
TISIES
�THE A DITISIOR.
is
It
of
all
in
of
In in
a
in
no
by
be of in
of of
is
in
of
of
an
in
a
of
of
a
of
to
of
of
of
to
he
is
all
to
he
:
is
of
In
is
se,
it
is
of
is
to
in
of
of
in
a
in of
of a
of
a
a
as
a
of
a
as
of
of
by
of
of
of
be
be
all
in
or
of
in
of
to
it
of
of
in by
to
of
as
of of
its
or
of
in
of
of
of in
us
in
it
as
it
of
on
it
;
of
?
of
in
its
of
on
or
on
all
is
of
a
in
in
is
and
if
of
to
be
to
of
in
;
;
Hardy, with Björnson and Anatole France
with the younger descendants
these
of
of
:
it
of
of
of
of
is
a
in
of
to
of
the groaning shelves
which are stacked the
novels that start with Defoe, and continue with
Tolstoy, with George Meredith, with Thomas
Hardy shows his soul winnowed
the flails
fate, Björnson reveals
woven
the looms
heredity, while Anatole France steeps
the
testing solution
his irony, and Tolstoy lays
violent hands
the chords
his heart.
For the
appeal.
story
forms
art the widest
evil,
can plunge
fathomless seas
lift
holiness, and for this reason
the wings
story-telling
the past has always been the key
wherewith the wayfaring
man has unlocked his
heart.
is
is
at of
of
of
of
to
in
typical figure the ideals
incarnate
personify the thought-form
love
the romances
the trouvères
was the knight
the Renaissance tale, the lover
the Lives
the Saints, those lonely figures who
pillars
pain.
haunt desert shrines
crouch
But where
the ideal figure who emerges from
social and political novels will
the manuals
human biology, but the masters will devote their
energies
other work to the great spiritual
pictures that stand out
the sphere
human
investigation,
Species,
like The Origin
The Data of Ethics
other fields.
But
the goal
one for
these teachers
through story, the methods
approaching
are
varied
their personalities.
Meredith takes
pierce the mind
the keen blade
wit
man.
on
as in
an
in
it
of
is
of
of
of of
in
cycles was
the time,
had created
to
of
in
is
of
it
of
of
Looking backward over the literary history
Europe since the fall
the Roman Empire, we find
story, each express
four great outstanding cycles
ing the ideal
first, the
the age that evolved
Lives
the Saints, developing for fourteen centuries
bodily purity; second, the tales
the ideal
the
chivalry; third, the
trouvères with their vision
romances and dramas
the sixteenth century with
life; and finally, the
their incarnation
the love
novel
the last two centuries, which, linked with
probably destined
that
our time,
become
the most vital of the whole series.
At first sight there would seem
one feature
notably
which the fiction
this last cycle
lacking, namely,
central point round which its
works can centre.
For the task
the three former
to
of
as
be
of
quent vast increase
the number
the articulate
classes,
the novel that has become the chief
mouthpiece
letters, for
age when literature
has left the study for the street, the workshop, the
villa and the factory,
can no longer move
the
strict bonds
academic rule, but will adopt
its
expression the widest form
mode
art that
consonant with definite expression
all. This
form
art
the story.
neither saint nor sinner, weakling nor
the figure that steps down from these
compound
these, the compound
shelves, but
called man.
For the age that begins
1776 with
discussion
the common basis
the physical
Nations, that
life
man
the
Wealth
blazes into
lava flood
the liberty, equality and
fraternity
1789, the ideal task
clothe
flesh and blood the essential qualities
the human.
Hence
neither knight, nor lover, nor saint,
but man per
that
the type figure
this age's
fiction.
other words, the task
the novelist
to-day
synthetic
has
link knight and lover
these,
and Saint into one conception, for man
and many more things than these.
carry out his work
And
must strive
the
most secret places
the heart
man.
that
fact lies the key
the whole future
the novel
work
art.
The school that began with
life-like chronicle
the most commonplace happen
ings, that was
tool-boxes, umbrellas
matter
Defoe, that became with
and wheat-grains
analysis
Richardson
sentiment and
bluff
Fielding,
picture
lusty happenings
destined
follow
the paths
science and deal with the
very atom
saying that
the soul
man.
But
what may
called the master-novel
will become
more and more psychological,
we
means
exclude
the social novels of manners: these
abstract and brief chronicles will still continue
perform the service they have always performed
sympathy and
the widening
the bonds
comprehension
between class and class, between
type and type but they will take the psychological
conclusions, the laws
character, given them
the
deeper novels, much
the compiler
text-book
great scientist.
uses the conclusions
The
Hercules,
as
us
by
of
us
us
to
be
to
its
either stop or penetrate into the unknown fastnesses
of the unseen. By a reverse process, the religious
thinker finds himself brought up sharp by problems
of physical science whenever he deals with the
question of personal responsibility. In politics
and economics, beneath the forces that make for
spirit that
war, there moves the ever-stronger
draws nation to nation and race to race.
As always, this special feature of our time is
beginning to be reflected in our arts, and particularly
in that most vivid art of all literature : the most
vivid and therefore the most indiscreet, for it is
offspring, the written
still in the spoken, or in
word, that the most intimate Secrets are told. For,
although music seems
able
tell
the way
we came, literature can tell
that much more
interesting thing, the way we are going,
showing
yet
the birth
our ideals, the vague ideals,
unrealised, that will
the every-day principles
our descendants.
democracy and the conse
And with the dawn
us It
284
�A DITFIOR,
to
a
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of
of
of
;
it
is
if
as
it
of
is
be
to
to 1 in
he
in
I
to
it
to
be
of
in
of
a a
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is
of
it
of
to
be
a
by
a
I
a
a
or
or
of
or
to
or
of of,
;
a
go
is
a
?
to
so
of
;
it
of
to
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!
a
if
is is
is
at
of
I
it
a
to
if
be
at
or
;
,
in
a
if
so
to
;
if
of
a
of
a
a
in
a
on a
a is
in
I
be
to
a
of
of
it
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is
to
as P
is
of
a
as
plaintiff fail
MS.
recovered
the other hand, have seen
publisher
his claim against
and,
in
a
court,
to
to
at
is
is a
P
of
to
to
Is
a
;
is
it
2.
he of
in
as to
of
is
an
known the price
county
it
is
-
of
a
a
a
If
by
of
In
be
allno
a
man's brains
entitled
much respect
the production
his hands.
Opinions differ, even among lawyers, concerning
recovery for
author's right
lost MS.
have
I
in
of
a
I
to
now call attention
several other points on
very
writers are placed
any
different position from that
the members
other learned vocation.
the first place, the intrinsic value
MS.
scarcely admitted
English law.
a common
railway company) loses MS., the
carrier" (e.g.,
sender has no claim unless he declares the value
over £10 and pays carriage accordingly
the
handing the MS.
time
the carrier.
There
great hardship
this,
the law
the same for
goods; but suppose
publisher loses
classes
MS.,
responsible
very consider
There
able doubt about
but there
none about your
claim against
tailor who loses the coat you have
entrusted
him.
this fair
and ought not
writers
insist on an alteration of the law
which professional
Surely the work
if
to
the writer; and
this guarantee
-
a
a
on
The value
the name
right
author and public have
the worth of
review.
former paper, the
sign
reviewers
literary notice
to
a
in
have shown,
compelling
their articles.
depends entirely
a
of
of
it
2
WASTE PAPER
º-º-º
to of of
a
desirability
OR
of
I
THINK
2
MANUSCRIPT
a
a
or
of
a
º-e
a
A
of
of
at
a
is
is
a
of
of
a
of
It
is
M. P. WILLCOCKS.
in is
a
is
It
it.
it
of no
be of
as
to
of
a
a
a
a
of
in by
of
picture
grey Sea,
second instance:
cloud-cap that allows no
waves heaving under
ray
sunlight
pierce
monochrome
Claud Monet, and
one looks, one knows why,
writing
Eternity,
was expressly said that
there shall
sea there, for this
visual
representation
the sorrow
the sea.
few
stories produce the effect
this monochrome, and
between the noble wonder
the awe
desert
places and the base kinship
Savagery lies the
whole gamut
human emotion the
novelist's
province.
goodly heritage.
e
of
a
of
-
Take
a
its
to
tune.
a
associations
of is
its
time strangers who have no inherited
message yet come under
spell.
They,
with
like the citizens, are seized with the thirst for
blood, they long
Many
see death and suffering.
Savage
stories have that power, the power
higher court.
publisher returned
MS.
the
Writer
this article minus half the chapters.
reputation (one
Two Solicitors
them registrar
county court) expressed the opinion that
had
cause
action against the publisher,
although there was manifest carelessness.
Here
obvious that
MS.
treated
were
less
importance than
loaf
bread
but the popular
idea
that authors are case-hardened against
they have need
starvation as
What
Wanted
that
man should have the same legal
rights
his writings that
has
his chairs and
tables or
woman
her husband
drop
From the law courts
free libraries.
The books
these institutions should
be
standard works not the productions
modern
writers, unless they are paid for. No society,
corporate
private, Ought
pur
allowed
copy
chase
book and make
the common
property
many hundreds
readers. Clearly the
proceeding.
author
robbed
such
The
paid
writer
modern book ought
royalty every time
copy
lent out
library at any rate
public library.
many
places
the rich and not the poor who make the
greatest use
protest
these institutions; and
against the meanness which pays
penny for that
which ought
cost 6s.
10s. The committee
library buy two
three copies
book
with
name
and those two
three copies
through the hands
perhaps, two
three
thousand persons, many
whom would buy copies
were not for the blessed (blessed
not exactly
what
mean) free library. The readers pay
penny towards the expenses.
Why should not
each borrower pay the author another penny
Or
those Carnegie chaps, who are
anxious
stock
the brains
Mr. Hodges with other men's
thoughts, might pay
course,
for them and,
pay
with
handsome margin.
Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox, you know.
To meet possible objections (for alas the great
Darwin does not always agree with me), may say
that
have not been able
find evidence that the
fear that authors would suffer
their books were
barred free libraries
well founded.
On the
contrary, my position
that
well-to-do people
buy
could not induce the ratepayers
book for
themselves;
them they would buy
and
have
some evidence that corporations
obtain copies
doubly
current works
reduced rates, which
unfair
authors.
Free libraries, also, might
compelled
buy
many copies
and, say,
net
500 pennies per copy, royalty
advance.
Sauce
for the goose
sauce for the gander
and
the
production
penny, 500 pennies
book costs
£500 per copy, there are still several universities,
etc., which demand their free copies, especially
of
bull
no
is usual before a
is
it
some southern cities
285
to
a
In
fight for the band to go through the streets playing
a peculiar tune over and over again.
After a short
is
TISIES
�THE AUTHOR.
It
of
of
to
a of
of
a
of
of of
to
be
of
a
tyranny
Matthew Arnold's criticism has won for
them, from
public too long accustomed
take
Sérieua,
appreciation very much
their author
above their actual merit.
And they are only too
likely
enjoy this undeserved vogue
long
the
delusion that some boundless wisdom
embodied
all that Matthew Arnold has written continues
prevail.
That delusion ought never
have
Unhappily
long time,
existed.
has existed for
and, unhappily,
still
encountered
that
any one who takes
doing good
arms against
work.
Mr. Wilkinson makes the assault scientifi
cally.
side, the oracles
He sets down, side
delivered
Matthew Arnold and the actual
unadorned facts.
Out of this ordeal Matthew
fact, Mr. Wilkinson
Arnold comes very badly;
being
accuses him
loose thinker, and proves
his indictment up
the hilt.
done, and
The great need that this should
done drastically, makes the two articles
Matthew
Arnold
critic and poet
far the most important
part
the work, and one that should recommend
wide circle
readers.
But other portions
the book will
also found well worth reading.
The very graceful appreciation
the American
poet Steadman may
particularly mentioned.
Funk
and
to
so
;
is
it
by
in
by
on
be
to
a
of
of
In
be
of
be
in
an
as
of
of to
he
of
of
In
he
as
of
Is
is
all
of
of
of
great
the questions which are discussed are
delicacy, and the skill with which they are handled
should secure the book
wide appreciation.
a
1909.
London
be
to
a
it
up
is
by
as
is
of
Wilkinson.
:
*
William Cleaver
Wagnall's Company.
te
Mention has been already made
Mr. Wilkin
son's accuracy.
The temperate character
that
writes also deserves
noticed. Many
be
as
a
;
qualities
to
as
;
;
as
of
in
of a
:
a
as
of
to
is
of
as
a
in
an
verse
limitations, inasmuch
finds Tolstoi
wanting
judg
final soundness and justness
ment.
To disagree with that impossible.
But
any great
the question naturally suggests itself,
ness
author possible without those two
has
an
it
to
to
critic and poet Tennyson
Edmund Clarence Stead
letters; John Morley
man
man
critic
Diderot and Voltaire
and Tolstoi.
The
Matthew Arnold
lyric
artist
its
is so
is of of
of
Mr. Wilkinson.
doubt
in
is
to
an
no
opinion
Differences
exist concerning some
his con
possible
clusions.
To his punctilious accuracy
only
saying
bow.
And saying this amounts
represent
that
some literary valuations
deserving
contribution
critical literature
attention.
letters;
The range
wide
Howells
man
will
2
to
an
to
of
a
;
is
he
is
as
position
Tennyson
lyric
his criticism
artist
verse, Mr. Wilkinson, whilst insisting upon much
undoubtedly true, seems here and there
that
make rather too little allowance for the privileges
poetry.
his estimate
Tolstoi
confesses
that his sense
the Russian novelist s greatness
he
of to
is
is
it
of
of
of
in
a
to
to
of
of
a
of
a
or
of
a
it.
in
opinion,
even
wide
agreement regarding the conclusions pre
sented
critical work,
neither
be
expected, nor possible.
The very nature
the
true, for one
work forbids
The critic has,
part
people who either
his public
number
dare not or cannot form for themselves definite
estimates
the value
what they read.
These
good folk come
provide them with ready
him
made opinions, and are generally
tractable flock,
prepared jurare
verba magistri.
But the rest,
the more intelligent readers, who already possess
necessity criticise the critic's
views
their own,
observations
and his work has thus
take its
chance before
number of tribunals where the last
appeal
practically
personal tastes
incon
ceivable variety.
But whilst the critic's work
criticism, the
thus more than any others exposed
long
critic himself holds
unassailable position
scrupulously accurate.
And this
the
to
a of
NANIMITY
of it
º-º-º
to
to in
is
LITERARY WIALUATIONS.*
as
to
so
an
au
a
PAUL FOUNTAIN.
SOME NEW
is
be
in to
is
of
an
an
do
it,
I
of
";
The most valuable portion
the work, however,
certainly that dedicated
searching analysis
the actual value
the writings, whether critical
poetical,
Matthew Arnold.
To discover the
small merits
most
Matthew Arnold's poetical
indeed,
efforts
task that hardly requires the
abilities
critic of Mr. Wilkinson's calibre.
sorely need
relegated
But these poems
the position which they deserve.
The long
is,
I
likely
Howells
read with more
than anything else
the book.
admirable appreciation without exaggeration,
and
excellent example
criticism
the most
delicate kind.
estimate
enjoyment
or of is
I
the book is an expensive one.
wonder what the
tailors would say if they demanded free suits every
time the fashion changed
But there is a differ
ence between brains and money, as I remember
gentleman, the
Claimant, once
that enterprising
explained.
However, not to ask too much to begin with,
copy" made property
desire to see an author s
real, tangible, undisputable property: so that a poor,
threadbare, half-starved writer (the righteous are
always oppressed) may be able to enter a court
and, if a judge tells him he ought to have kept a
copy, answer,
Gammon
and now I want the
spinach
hope to see him get
and
too.
to
286
�A CITISIORs
of
of is
a
to
of all
of
of
up
a
by
to
a
in
on
be
to
all
of
be
I
to
of
of
to
be
or
to
to
to
on
by
of
OF NEW
individual
NOVELS.
is
.
us
.
.
do
to
as
to
I
a
is
in
on
DEAR SIR,-The interesting report
the 7d.
novel which appeared
the April Author contains
much with which everyone will agree, but there
sentence near the end which
think
open
question.
The distinguished writers who
sign the report say
Whatever policy authors
may adopt
reprints, they must maintain the
standard for first editions.
But they
why.
not tell
there
one thing absolutely beyond dispute,
should say
that new novels are too dear.
Does any one with
income
less than £500
year ever buy
new novel
And yet there
immense reading public eager
read the latest
fiction,
Why cannot this
had the chance.
public
tapped
every
The modern tendency
lower prices
cheaper, travelling
cheaper,
direction.
Food
amusements are cheaper, but the new novel remains
4s. 6d.
This fact excludes nine-tenths of the
population from ever seeing
new novel.
During the last two
three months
have read
various reviews, notices, and comments, on new
books, and the effect
my mind has been
make
me desire
read some half-dozen new novels.
?
is
of
an
is
it
is
a
to
is
in
is
to
to
I
a
or
on
enclose a notice of my novel,
received this morning, which
seems to me a very good specimen of the sort of
notice which inflicts an unfair, but probably
unintentional, injury on the novelist.
My first
impulse on receiving it was to write to the editor
pointing out
of the Notts Daily Guardian,
that by telling the whole story down to the bitter
end, his reviewer has robbed his readers of any
incentive to read the book itself, especially as he
does not remotely suggest that there are any
interesting side issues, or anything in the novel to
make it enjoyable, apart from the main motive.
THE PRICE
is
SIR,--I
The Ways of Men,
made
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT FLOWERDEW.
to
DEAR
AND REVIEWED.
remonstrances
it
REVIEWERS
Occasional
sufferers.
be if
º-º-º
show probable readers the character
the book
preparing
printed form
and theme,
com
plaint,
filled
with details, and sent out
any paper who permits one
the editor
appear.
these unfair notices
think that the
pleased
members
the society would
send
you
the notices they receive
which
they think that objection can
taken
this
Score, and that
remonstrance made
the name
the society would carry more weight
than
6s.
If
(b.)
the agent is not indispensable, then let
us dispense with him.
Yours, etc.,
ASHMORE WINGATE.
I
If
SIR,--Mr. H. G. Wells seems to express a
reasonable enough view of the financial questions
that arise between author and agent, and of the
reforms necessary, on the supposition that these
agencies are indispensable.
But in my opinion the literary agent too often
adds a new terror to an already struggling pro
fession.
He will not accept a MS. on a percentage
commission alone, however high.
He demands a
fee of a guinea, not returnable if he fails, like a
doctor who takes no fee if you live, but one if you
die.
If the agent fails you lose a guinea; and as
many young
authors
have hundreds of MSS.
returned,
and have few guineas to waste, the
increasing prevalence of the literary agent is a
great misfortune.
Whereas, in the old days, you
risked 2d. in stamps, very soon, when everything
will need to be submitted through an agent, you
will risk a guinea.
In the theatrical profession young actors are met
at every turn by similar agents, and it becomes a
Question of pay, pay, pay, to get even an introduction,
to a manager.
And the very fact that literary agents claim that
they can get things accepted which, coming from
the author, were refused by the same editor, is a
bad sign.
It shows that many editors are more
and more unwilling to consider
MSS. except
through agents.
indispensable,
(a.) If the agent is becoming
then he is gaining a monopoly, and this should
not be allowed.
I
LITERARY AGENTs.
Two considerations make me conquer the impulse.
The first : that one cannot complain of a review
on any grounds without danger of being classed
With a certain
class of thin-skinned writers,
generally novices, who object to every review of
their work unless it is altogether laudatory.
The
Second consideration is that the thing is done, and,
So far as my book is concerned, I have nothing to
gain by crying over spilt milk.
It has occurred to me that the society might do
Something to mitigate the evil if
am right in
thinking it is one either by preparing a circular,
point
and sending it to
the reviewing papers,
giving away
out the unfairness
the end
story, or, indeed,
telling more than
necessary
a
e-º-e
an
CORRESPONDENCE.
287
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TISIES
�TISIE AUTISIOR.
or
in
to of
to
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to
a
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in
at
a
if
a
a
in
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by
a
!
a
of
on
I
I
a
to
do
to
at
to
a
to
2
be
an
at
I
no
to
to
THE GRAFTON
at
Committee
Pictures"
of
the Exhibi
these Galleries
request the honour
the company
the Incor
porated Society
special view
Authors
Wednesday July,
the exhibition
from three
to six o'clock.
your
Will you kindly convey this invitation
your next publication
through
members
Chosen
I
as
I
the
of
8,
to
on
to
of
of
an
be
1,
to
:
I
subject.
give my own experience
probably typical
When my first book was published,
asked
July
with
intimation that cards
admis
supplied
your members
sion will
those
desiring
attend,
application
the Secretary
the Grafton Galleries,
Grafton Street, W.
am, dear Sir,
of
in
I
I
is
in
a
DEAR SIR,--There has been good deal lately
The Author about members signing agreements
without the society's advice. There
one point
which
think has not been mooted about
the
most serious that
know
connection with this
on
to
THE SOCIETY'S ADVICE.
7,
on
at
a
of
A.
SIR,--The Honorary
tion of
of
H.
º-º-º
J.
Yours faithfully
GALLERIES.
of
-
at
I
if
of
I.
to
is
to
to
It
A. M.
to
in of do
is
of
as
a
to
of
or
be
in
at
as
in
Success with two
three books by
means
novelist's position, and whatever the
ethics
the case may be, authors who have
living cannot possibly afford
haggle over
make
their agreements.
has occurred
me
ranged too
wonder whether the society s advice
high, and whether
fails
take into consideration
the defenceless position
the beginner
Secures
it
a
a
of
be
in
of of
is
to
be
to
a
by
be
in
Imagine the first effect
such
reform.
All
swept off the front
the cheap magazines would
piles
the bookstalls, and
their place would
This, too, just
new novels.
the time when
these very books were being discussed
the daily
and weekly papers.
readily
magazines.
The books would sell
Moreover, being paper-covered,
they would dis
appear
the same mysterious
manner
that
magazines disappear, whereas
cloth-bound
book
passed from hand
hand for years.
Authors and book publishers
not yet seem
price.
see that the whole problem
one
There
potential readers
are millions
the country who
book-shops,
says the
cannot get books for want
report.
don t deny the millions,
but
the
books were produced
the right price, the question
of distribution would solve itself.
have placed two more books
without advice, and probably
accept.
much lower terms than
author ought
But what
done
Authors who depend
upon their pen for
living are not free
quarrel
so,
with their publishers they cannot afford
and
have three times
least very nearly come
loggerheads through having followed the society's
advice
Since then
successfully but
is
to
on
to
as
so
it
as
done dramatically,
were,
impress
the public that they
were really getting for 1s. 6d.
.68. novel,
minus the cloth binding. There would have
which,
some preliminary big space advertising,
however, would
supplemented
many articles,
interviews, and paragraphs, which such
revolution
the book trade would naturally elicit.
would return the MS.
As was utterly unable
rupture with that firm,
afford
withdrew the
request, and accepted
royalty
3d.
each copy
sold for all time
of a
The thing would have
be
-
of
to
R.
in
all
to
of
at 1s. 6d.
Exactly the same history occurred with my
second novel (which my first publisher had refused,
perhaps fortunately for me).
With my third,
the society's advice,
asked
rising royalty, and received
consequence
for
indignation from
letter
third publisher, who
informed me that
his terms were not acceptable,
I
a
in by
I
to
be
of
a
Smith,
Let Mr. Longman, Mr. Macmillan, Mr.
Mr. Methuen, and Mr. Hutchinson have another
meeting and agree
arrange with their authors
paper covers
for the publication
new novels
my second novel, and sell the entire copyright
price the society warned
him
me was
insufficient.
/
a
in
of
of
be
I
at
if
it.
a passionate one. It is not strong enough to induce
me to go without a new hat or curtail my modest
Nevertheless,
lunch in order to satisfy
those books had been easily available
reason
able price,
should have bought them.
There
people
must
tens
thousands
like case.
my point.
gather from the
This brings me
opening
you that rival
the report published
publishers can
got together
one room
discuss
matter affecting their common interest.
society's advice, and succeeded
having one
consequence,
two clauses
the agreement altered
accept the most
but my publisher flatly refused
important
alteration.
As
could not afford
rupture with him,
was obliged
withdraw that
item, bind myself
allow him the first refusal
a
I
the moment
call to mind the following:
Araminta,
Septimus,
Tono Bungay,
The
Gifted Family.
I may say that the desire is not
At
to he
288
Yours faithfully,
FRANCIS
HOWARD.
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C be El ut bor.
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.
VoI. XIX.-No. 10. JULY 1, 1909. [PRICE SIXPENCE.
C O N T E N T S.
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Notices ..... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 261 Registration of Scenarios ... ... .. N º
Council Meeting... ... ... . . . . . 263 Warnings to Musical Composers . . . 377
Committee Notes ... ... . . . . . 268 Stamping Music ... . . . . . . . . . 37%
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Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes . . . . 267 Remittances ... ... ... . . . . . 377
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United States Notes ... ... . . . . ... 271 Tennyson ... ... ... ... ... . . . 379
Cheap Editions ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 273 Authors' Agents... ... ... . . . . . $o
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Magazine Contents ... ... ... ... ... . ... ... 275 Manuscripts? or Waste Paper? . . . . . 2;
How to Use the Society “. ... ... ... ... ... 270 Some New Literary Valuations . . . . . 236
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4, Cousland, W. M. e
4, Hardy, Thomas
5, Bremner, Robert L.
6, Todhunter, John
6, Pettigrew, W. F.
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8, Walker, Capt. J. H.
8, Dutton, Miss Annie
8, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred
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16, Toplis, Miss Grace
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March 2, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie.
March 4, Henry, Miss Alice
March 4, Wilson, Edwin
March 5, Hardy, Harold
March 9, Crozier, Dr. Beattie
March 9, Ross, Mrs. Janet
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April 15, Linton, C. Stuart
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—e—º-e—
COUNCIL MEETING.
—º-º-º-
T the meeting of the Council of the society,
under the chairmanship of Mr. Maurice
Hewlett (chairman of the Committee of
Management), held at 20, Hanover Square, W., on
June 7, a unanimous vote of sympathy was passed
to the family of Mr. George Meredith on the great
loss they had sustained by the death of their father
—the late president of the society.
The Council then proceeded to elect a new
president, and, on the proposal of Mr. Anthony
Hope Hawkins, Mr. Thomas Hardy was unani-
mously elected president of the society. The
chairman undertook to report the election to Mr.
Hardy, and to ask him to accept it.
The chairman then laid before the Council the
report of the committee setting forth the action
which they had taken in the matter of copyright
legislation during the past year. The adoption of
the report was moved from the chair and accepted
unanimously. The report itself appears in another
column of The Author.
—e—Q-e—
COMMITTEE NOTES.
—º-º-º-
HE June meeting of the committee was held
at the rooms of the Society of Medicine,
20, Hanover Square, immediately after the
meeting of the Council.
After the minutes of the previous meeting had
been read and signed, the committee proceeded to
elect members and associates. Thirty-five members
and associates were elected. The list appears on
another page. This brings the total elections for
the current year up to 145. The committee have
to chronicle, with regret, one resignation, bringing
the resignations for the year up to sixty-three.
The vote of sympathy to the family of Mr.
George Meredith, which had been passed by the
Council, was confirmed by the committee, and the
chairman undertook to convey it to our late
president's family. -
The committee next turned their attention to
Questions which the society had for some time been
anxious to put to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
relative to the position of authors in regard to the
payment of income tax. The committee decided to
approach Mr. Robert Harcourt, M.P., a member of
the Society, in order that the Chancellor of the
Exchequer might be interrogated at the earliest
Opportunity.
The committee decided, after consideration, that
they could not take upon themselves the onus of
the legacy bequeathed to the society by Miss Alice
Sargent. It appeared from papers laid before them
that many of the books were out of print, and that
there was practically no market for the remainder.
The chairman reported the result of the meeting
with the publishers, when the question of the
issue of new copyright novels at 2s. was discussed,
and the further question of colonial sales. The
Sub-committee formed for the consideration of
these matters were of opinion that the issue of new
novels at 2s. would be injurious to all writers of
novels, if it were widely adopted and successful;
but they were inclined to think that publication at
this price would not succeed. It had been tried on
former occasions and had failed. However, in
view of the importance of the issues, the committee
decided to adjourn the question to the July meeting,
in order to give members of the committee time to
consider whether it might not be expedient to
appoint a strong sub-committee to go thoroughly
into the whole question of the sale price of works
of fiction.
The secretary reported that, owing to the death
of the society’s president, so much work had fallen
upon him that he had been unable fully to report
upon the question of authors' agents and insurance.
He made a statement to the committee, however,
of the steps he had taken, and the committee
deferred their consideration till the next meeting.
They consider it of the utmost importance that the
relations between authors and agents should be
fully discussed and considered. -
The draft prospectus, settled by the secretary of
the society, and circularised to all the members of
the committee, was formally passed, and will be
issued, in due course, with the papers of the Society.
The secretary reported the action taken in
respect of musical copyright and musical com-
posers' agreements. He explained that a small
Bill had been drafted with a view to protecting
composers against the special difficulties that
surround the publication of their works. The
committee decided to refer the Bill to the Copy-
right Sub-Committee. It will be laid before them
in due course.
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THE ArrºrHor.
Mr. Herbert Sullivan was elected a member of
the Copyright Sub-Committee. . -
A letter from Mr. A. Hope Hawkins was laid
before the committee, in which he pointed out
that, if possible, evidence should be obtained and
brought before the Departmental Committee
to show that many authors of famous books had
not gained the full recompense from their works,
either because of the limitation of the copyright
term, or because of the fact that the public denied
appreciation of their literary position till after
their death or till after the copyright had already
run for many years. It was agreed that such
evidence should be collected.
The committee passed a vote of thanks to Mr.
A. B. Horne for his generous donation of £50 to
the pension fund of the society.
There was one small case which the committee
decided to take up on behalf of the member.
The secretary reported that he had obtained
the full sum of money demanded by the society on
Mr. Shaw's behalf for infringement of copyright
in a New Zealand paper ; that he had obtained the
full sum demanded by the society through their
Spanish lawyers for the infringement of Mr. E. W.
Hornung’s copyright in Spain. He reported also
the successful result of the Society's appeal in
Scholz v. Amasis, and read Mr. Fenn's letter of
thanks to the society. Other letters were laid
before the committee for their consideration.
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DRAMATIC COMMITTEE.
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee met at 39, Old
Queen Street, on Thursday, June 17, at 3 P.M.
After the minutes of the last meeting had been
read and signed, the Secretary reported that he had
heard from Mr. Esmond to the effect that the
action which had been taken in America, in con-
sequence of an infringement of his property there,
had been satisfactorily settled, the defendants
agreeing to a perpetual injunction against them.
This case has been referred to in these columns on
One or two occasions previously, and the committee
had decided, if necessary, to support an appeal on
Mr. Esmond's behalf. Before the case came for
trial, a very important decision was given in the
Higher Courts in America on exactly the same
question as that at issue in Mr. Esmond's case,
and the judgment delivered in that case had, no
doubt, a healthy influence on the settlement of
Mr. Esmond's claim. The result referred to above
not only strengthens the position of English
dramatists with regard to their American rights,
which, at one time appeared to be in jeopardy,
but also saves the society from the expense of
an action at law.
, The committee then took up the question of the
dramatic pamphlet. Several different points were
discussed, such as the most favourable time of year
for the production of a play intended for a run, the
best agreement for a performance in repertory and
other matters. The chairman then made a Sugges-
tion that the dramatic pamphlet should be drafted
in a different form. He stated that he had read
the pamphlet with great care, and that he thought
it needed simplification; that this simplification
could be attained by drafting a number of agree-
ments to cover the different forms of contract,
rather than by drafting one agreement with a com:
plicated Series of notes. At the request of the
committee he read through an agreement of his
own for a run at a West End theatre, and this form
of agreement was approved by the committee as the
basis of a draft. It was finally decided that the
Secretary should, with the aid of Mr. Shaw and
Mr. Barker, draft a model form of agreement as
between author and manager of a repertory theatre,
and other agreements to cover the different forms
of contract affecting the work of dramatic authors.
These will be laid before the committee at he ir
next meeting, which will be held in October.
—4—sº-0–
Cases.
FourTEEN cases have come into the secretary’s
hands during the past month. Four of these were
claims for moneys and accounts. Two have been
settled, and two, more recently to hand, are still in
the course of negotiation. Four were claims for
money only. Here also two have been settled and
the cheques forwarded. One is still in the course
of negotiation though part of the money has been
paid. The fourth came into the office only a day
before going to press.
One claim for the return of MSS. has been
settled. A complaint has been made by the editor
of one of the papers to which the secretary applied,
that a great many authors neglect to write their
names and addresses on their MSS. when submitting
them for publication. It has on many occasions
been stated in this paper that authors should
not only send stamped and addressed envelopes for
the return of their MSS., but should always write
on a visible portion of their MSS. their names and
addresses, as it not infrequently occurs that the
MSS. are separated from the envelopes. Owing to
this neglect it seems that the complaints of authors
against editors are the result of the authors’ own
carelessness and not of any unbusinesslike conduct
on the part of the editor. The editor, who has
been in communication with the Secretary, states
that he has at least sixty MSS. ready for publica-
tion not one of which contains the name of the
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author or anything which would serve for purposés
of identification. When, therefore, these MSS. are
published, he will not know to whom the cheques
should be sent in payment. Authors cannot be too
careful in their method of conducting their business,
and it is unfair to complain about editors when
authors are equally unbusinesslike.
In the only claim for accounts the accounts have
been rendered and forwarded to the author. Four
difficult cases arising out of disputes on agreements
have also been in hand. Two of these have been
settled satisfactorily, one is on a fair way to settle-
ment, while the last has only just come into the
office. Three cases are still open from former
months. In one of these the secretary has been
unable to get an answer from the editor against
whom the claim rests. Owing to lack of evidence,
the case will most probably have to be abandoned.
One claim against an important review is in the
course of satisfactory negotiation, and will, no
doubt, be settled shortly.
A claim for the return of a MS. had to be
abandoned, as there was no legal evidence that it
had come into the hands of a responsible person in
the office to which it was addressed. The remarks
already made in regard to the submission of MSS.
apply especially in this case, and the committee
trust that authors will inwardly digest the warning
given.
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June Elections.
Affleck, Mrs. Pioneer Club, Grafton
> * Street, Piccadilly,
W -
37, Widdington Ter-
race, North Shields.
Vale Cottage, Chisle-
hurst, Kent.
12, Eglinton Crescent,
Edinburgh.
4, Melbury Road,
Kensington, W.
Bain, James A.
Balme, Mrs. (Loree)
Barrett, James A. S.
Barrington, Mrs. Russell .
Buchan, John . 40, Hyde Park Square,
W.
Burke, J. Butler 68, Buckingham Gate,
* S.W.
Colles, Ramsay, J.P. 7, Essex Street, Strand,
W.C.
Ditchfield, Rev. P. H.,
M.A., F.S.A. º Barkham Rectory, Nr.
Wokingham.
96, Inverness Terrace,
W. .
45, Chetwynd Road,
N.W.
Douglas, James
Field, Rev. Claud, M.A.
Gibson, Miss Zoë M.
Grier, Mrs. Julia
Harland, Mrs. .
Hindenburg, The Baroness
Herbert e
Innes, Norman
Jelf, Jay .
Relly, Marshall
Lennox, Cosmo Gordon
McLaren, Miss Amy
Palmer, W. L. .
Peek, W. Vernon
Podmore, Frank
Radbourne, E. .
Reid, Forrest . ve .
Steuart, J. A. .
Tearle, Christian
Warley, The Rev. Telford .
Voynich, Mrs. E. L.
Wallace, William
Watson, Mrs. Herbert A. .
Webling, Peggy
White, J. Martin
Williams, C. F. Abdy
Ellerslie, Petersfield,
Hants.
10, Leazes Terrace,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
20, Ken sing to n
Square, W.
R arolinen platz 5,
Munich.
Royal Societies Club,
St. James Street,
S.W. -
19, Turney Road,
West Dulwich, S.E.
“Howells,” Quendon,
Essex.
2, Portman Square, W.
Milnthorpe, Mortimer
West, Berks.
c/o Messrs. The
Bombay - Burmah
Corporation, Papun,
Burmah.
Forest Lodge, Owls
Road, Boscombe,
Hants.
Lawnside, Burley,
Hants. -
9, South Parade,
Belfast.
Milsey Bank, Holly
Park, Crouch Hill,
N .
c/o A. P. Watt & Son,
Hastings House,
Norfolk Street,
Strand, W.C.
Peter Symond's School
House, Winchester.
37, St. Peter's Square,
W
11, ladbroke Road,
W
The School House,
Lancaster.
124, The Grove,
Hammersmith, W.
1, Cumberland Place,
Regent's Park, N.W.
. Milford-on-Sea, Hants.
(One member objects to the publication of her
name and address.)
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TISIES A UITPSIOR.
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS
THE SOCIETY.
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OF
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep
this list as accurate and as exhaustive as possible, they have
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially
accurate.
BIOGRAPHY.
LIFE OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN,
G.C.B., G.C.S.I. By G. W. FoEREST, C.I.B. 9 × 53.
512 pp. Blackwood. 188. n. -
LIFE AND TIMES OF MASTER JOHN HUS. By COUNT
LUTZOW. Dent. 12s. 6d. In.
THE MANIAC : A realistic study of madness, from the
Maniac's point of view. 304 pp. Rebman. 68.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
THE CEYLON HANDBOOK AND DIRECTORY, 1908—9.
Compiled and Edited by the Staff of the Ceylon Observer,
under the direction of J. FERGUSON, C.M.G. 8% × 53.
1559 pp. Colombo: Ferguson. London: Maclaren.
THE STATESMAN’s YEAR BOOK, 1909. Edited by J.
SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D. 46th Annual Publication.
74 × 43. 1404 pp. Macmillan. 10s. 6d. n.
DICTIONARY OF • NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.
SIDNEY LEE. Vol. XVI. Pocock—Robins.
Edition.) 94 × 6}. 1339 pp. Smith Elder.
Edited by
(New
158. n.
CLASSICAL.
THE TRACHINIAN MAIDENS OF SOPHOCLES. Translated
into English verse by HUGO SHARPLEY, translator of
the “Mimes of Herodas.”
DRAMA.
THE LAST OF THE DE MULLINS.
Preface. By ST. JOHN HANKIN.
Eifield. 13. 6d. n.
A Play without a
7 x 5. 128 pp.
FICTION.
DAPHNE; OR, MARRIAGE A LA MODE. By MRS. HUMPHRY
WARD. 7# × 5. 315 pp. Cassell. 6s. -
GALATEA OF THE WHEATFIELD. By M. E. FRANCIS
(Mrs. Francis Blundell). 7% x 5. 320 pp. Methuen. 68.
THE PERJURER. By W. E. NORRIS. 73 × 5. 312 pp.
Constable. 68.
THE CAGE. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 73 × 5. 312 pp.
Hodder & Stoughton. 6s.
*NEATH AUSTRAL SKIES.
315 pp. Milne. 6s.
ATTAINMENT. By MRS. HAVELOCK ELLIS. 7% × 5.
316 pp. Alston Rivers. 6s.
PERU’s PEOPLE: A Story for Mothers' Meetings. By M.
BRAMSTON. 73 × 5. 157 pp. S.P.C.K. 1s. 6d.
STUDIES IN WIVES. By MRS. BELLOC LowNDES. 73 × 5.
247 pp. Heinemann. 63. -
GATES OF BRASS. By MRS. AUBREY RICHARDSON.
7% x 5. 319 pp. Digby, Long, 68. -
THE RED-HOT CROWN. A Semi-historical Romance. By
DOROTHEA GERARD (MADAME LONGARD DE LONG-
GARDE). 7% x 5. 318 pp. John Long. 68.
COUSINS AND OTHERS. By KATHARINETYNAN.
319 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.
By Louis BECKE. 73 × 5.
7} x 5.
: A YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY.
By MADAME
ALBANESI. 320 pp. THE IDEs of MARCH. By MRs.
BAILLIE-REYNOLDS. 370 pp. 63 x 43. (Hurst &
Blackett's Sevenpenny Reprints.)
THE SPELL OF THE JUNGLE. By ALICE PERRIN. 73 x 5.
230 pp. Stanley Paul, 1s. n.
THE HOUSE OF INTRIGUE. By PERCY WHITE. 8 × 5.
372 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 6s.
SIXPENNY PIECES. By A. NEIL LYONs. 73 × 5. 305 pp.
Lane. 68. t
THE LOVE BROKERS.
290 pp. Cassell. 6s.
A WERY DOUBTFUL EXPERIMENT.
By ALBERT KINRoss. 73 × 5.
By L. G. MOBERLY.
73 × 5. 303 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.
JOHN GLYNN. By A. PATERSON. 311 pp. DIANA
TEMPEST. By MARY CHOLMONDELEY. 318 pp. THE
FoREST LOVERS. By MAURICE HEWLETT. 301 pp.
64 × 4}. Macmillan. 7d.
THE YoUNGEST MISS Mowbray. By B. M. CROKER.
6% x 44, 320 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 7d.
A CHANGE IN THE CABINET. By H. BELLOC, 7} x 5.
309 pp. Methuen. 6s.
THE POOLS OF SILENCE. By H. DE WERE STACPooDE.
73 x 5. 348 pp. Unwin. 6s.
THE BRONZE BELL. By L. J. VANCE. 73 × 5.
Grant Richards. 6s.
DIANA DETHRONED. By W. M. LETTS.
Lane. 68.
BURNT WINGs. By MRs. STANLEY WRENCH. 73 × 5.
317 pp. John Long. 6s.
SIR GREGORY's SILENCE. By A. W. MARCHMONT.
7# × 5. 328 pp. Cassell. 68.
PEGGY GAINSBOROUGH. The Great Painter's Daughter.
By EMILY BAKER. 7: x 5. 243 pp. F. Griffiths.
58. n.
350 pp.
73 × 53. 317 pp,
GARDENING.
DUTCH BULBS AND GARDENs. Painted by MIMA NIxoN.
Described by UNA SILBERRAD AND SOPHIE LYALL.
9 × 6%. 176 pp. Black. 7s.6d. n.
HISTORY.
E VERY MAN'S HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH.
By the REv. PERCY DEARMER. With over 100
Illustrations, 7% × 5}. 158 pp. Mowbray. 1s. n.
LAW.
THE INDIAN CONTRACT ACT. By SIR FREDERICK
POLLOCK, BART., assisted by DINSHAH FARDUNJI
MULLA, M.A., LL.B. (Second Edition.) 93 x 64.
744 pp. London: Sweet & Maxwell. Bombay : Thacker;
and N. M. Tripathi. 258. n.
LITERARY.
OXFORD LECTURES ON POETRY. By A. C. BRADLEY.
9 x 6. 395 pp. Macmillan. 108. n.
ESSAYS IN FREEDOM. By H. W. NEVINSON. 8 × 5}.
329 pp. Duckworth. 6s. n. -
Is SHAKESPEARE DEAD 7 From my Autobiography. By
MARK TwAIN, 83 × 53. 150 pp. Harper. 3s.6d.
THE LEGEND OF SIR PERCIVAL. Studies upon its Origin,
Development and Position in the Arthurian Cycle. By
JESSIE L. WESTON. Vol. II., The Prose Percival
according to the Modena MS. 73 × 5%. 355 pp.
Nutt. 15s. n.
ADVENTURES IN LONDON. By JAMES DOUGLAS.
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GEORGE MEREDITH IN ANECDOTE AND CRITICISM. By
J. A. HAMMERTON. 9 × 53. 391 pp. Grant Richards.
12s. 6d. n.
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SANITARY LAWS AND PRACTICE. A. Handbook for
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ROBERTSON, M.D., and C. PoRTER, M.D. (Second
Edition Revised.) 83 x 5%. 694 pp. The Sanitary
Publishing Co. 10s. 6d. n.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ANGLO-SAXONS FROM PALESTINE ; OR, THE IMPERIAL
MYSTERY OF THE LOST TRIBEs. By MRS. THEODORE
BENT. 7 × 43. 75 pp. Sherratt & Hughes. 18. n.
MUSIC.
GEMS OF A DAY. Robin and the Violets. By L. BUDGEN
and R. GOLDBECK. Crewsher & Co.'s School Series.
Bradford : Crewsher. 2d. each.
NATURAL HISTOR Y.
THE POND I KNOW. Edited by W. P. WESTELL and H.
E. TURNER. 74 x 5. 78 pp. (Open Air Nature
Books.) Dent. 8d.
POETRY.
SONNETS. By LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. 8 × 53. 30 pp.
The Academy Publishing Co.
THREE POEMS. By CHARLES F. GRINDROD. Elkin
Mathews). 1s.
ELIJAH : An Ascent. A Poem in Three Parts. By J.
BRITCHARD. 7 x 43. 93 pp. Kegan Paul. 1s. 6d. n.
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THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING LEIR. The Original
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SPORT.
CLUB BRIDGE. By A. DUNN. 7; x 5. 245 pp. Mills
& Boon. 5s. n.
THEOLOGY.
MEISTER ECKHART'S SERMONS. First time translated into
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LACEY. 30 pp. 74 × 5. The North London Christian
Evidence League. 3d. n.
THE MESSAGE OF THE SON OF MAN. By EDWIN A.
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166 pp. 8vo. Cloth. A. and C. Black. 4s. 6d. n.
THE ENTERPRISE OF ELLA : A Stock Exchange Romance.
By JAY JELF. 320 pp. John Long. 68.
BoDY AND SouL. By PERCY DEARMER, 73 × 5. 405 pp.
Sir Isaac Pitman. 6s. n.
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Thoroughly revised and with 2 Aew Preface. 7+ x 43.
228 pp. Mills & Boon. 18, n.
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THE SPIRIT OF THE DOWNS. Impressions of the Sussex
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Methuen. 10s. 6d. n.
TRAVEL.
TYROL AND ITS PEOPLE. By CLIVE HOLLAND. 9 × 53.
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New York: Harper, 75c. n.
A FALSE POSITION. By MRS. L. BAILLIE REYNOLDS.
168 pp.
348 pp. Brentano. $1.50.
TECHNICAL.
CASSELL’s CYCLOPAEDIA OF MECHANICs. Edited by
PAUL HASLUCK. Cassell. $2.50 m.
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL
NOTES.
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E must congratulate Mr. A. W. Pinero
and Mr. J. H. Yoxall, two distinguished
members of the Society, on the receipt
of knighthoods in the last list of birthday honours.
It seems extraordinary that dramatists should have
been so long neglected when the interpreters of
their works have received recognition. The genius
who originates the work is surely of more conse-
quence than the mimetic interpreter; but this, no
doubt, is only further evidence that genius is, as a
rule, neglected.
THEOLOGY.
The Fortnightly Review for June contains Mr.
Edward Clodd's paper, “Pre-animistic Stages in
Religion,” which was read at the third Inter-
national Congress for the History of Religions
at Oxford in September of last year.
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TFIE A DfTFIOR.
“The Message of the Son of Man,” by the Rev.
Edwin A. Abbott, is an attempt to answer the
question, “Why did Christ call Himself ‘the Son
of Man’?” The answer arrived at is that the
title was adopted by Him, not from apocryphal,
but solely from Biblical sources, so as to indicate
the man made in the image of God and destined
to have dominion over the beast. Dr. Abbott
points out that Ezekiel and Daniel, the only
prophets called “son of man,” are shown to have
had visions pointing to such a dominion of the
Man or Son of Man. Messrs. A. and C. Black are
the publishers.
MUSIC.
Mr. Joseph Holbrooke's orchestral and choral
concert of his new works was held at Queen's Hall
on Friday, June 25. The programme included
choral songs, a dramatic choral Symphony, “Anna-
bel Lee’” (a ballad with orchestra). Mr. Holbrooke
had the assistance of Mr. Victor Benham (the
American pianist), the Alexandra Palace choir of
four hundred picked voices, and the Beecham
orchestra of ninety performers. Mr. Allen Gill and
Mr. Thomas Beecham acted as conductors.
Messrs. Crewsher & Co.'s latest additions to their
school series include “Gems of a Day,” by L.
Budgen and R. Goldbeck. The songs are published
at the price of 2d.
FICTION.
Dr. Riccardo Stephens has just finished a series
of stories with the general title of “The Signet
Ring,” commissioned for Chambers’ Journal.
“A Fair Suffragette” is the title of a novel by
Adrienne Mollwo, which Mr. Henry Drane has just
published.
“Downhill: the Story of a Faithful Servant,”
by Eva Richmond, is a narrative told, in simple
language, which concerns the life of a horse. She
describes the sufferings it has to endure at the
hands of masters, thoughtless when not cruel, and
untouched by any feelings of affection when, worn
out by harsh treatment, it is no longer profitable to
them. Copies of the story, which are on sale at 3s. per
100, are obtainable at the offices of the Royal
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
105, Jermyn Street, S.W.
“Beyond the Skyline,” by Robert Aitken, is a
volume of short stories recently published by Mr.
John Murray. The scenes of most of them are laid
beyond the horizon of the average reader—in lands
where a man is measured by a standard that
demands justice here and now, and on seas whose
open expanse permits no littleness to lurk in the
souls of those who travel over them. In America
Mr. B. W. Huebsch is the publisher.
Mrs. During's new novel, “Love's Privilege,”
which won a £200 prize in the recent serial
competition organised by the Chicago Daily News
Company, has just been brought out in volume
form by Messrs. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, and is
being extensively advertised in America. The
British and Australian serial rights in the story
have been purchased by Messrs. Tillotson, of Bolton.
Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith, whose first novel, “The
Tramping Methodist,” was published by Messrs.
Geo. Bell & Son, has just issued, through the same
house, a second novel, which she calls “Starbrace.”
In this book Miss Kaye-Smith deals with life in
Kent and Sussex during the first half of the
eighteenth century, partly “on the roads” and
partly in the hunting field. The author depicts
the struggle between two utterly dissimilar natures
brought together by mutual love, and gives a study
of human cross-strains as exemplified in the hero's
character.
We regret that in our notice of Miss R. N.
Carey's new book last month we gave it an incorrect
title. Miss Carey's book is called “The Key of
the Unknown,” not “The King of the Unknown "
as stated. We tender our apologies to the author
for the slip.
Mrs. M. E. Stevenson, who has latterly only
been writing descriptive articles, has just completed
a novel, the scene of which is laid in Yorkshire.
The interest of this novel centres in two literary
sisters, who are launched into a domestic removal
and the care of two children by their brother and
his wife, who meanwhile go abroad, and subse-
quently start for a voyage round the world. In
this, however, they are arrested by an unexpected
development of events at home, which lead to a
climax. The title will probably be “The Maiden
Aunts,” or “Tommy's Aunts.” The story is laid
in a well-known and historical locality.
“The Enterprise of Ella : a Stock Exchange
Romance,” by Jay Jelf, is a love story of an English
girl who in her early days is thrown upon her own
resources, and eventually finds a haven in unex-
pected waters. Blended with the story is a picture
of the manners and methods of the Stock Exchange.
Mr. John Long is the publisher.
Mrs. de Crespigny’s new novel, “The Coming of
Aurora,” will be published by Mr. Eveleigh Nash
on July 7. It is a story of modern times, and
the first part takes place on the borders of France
and Switzerland, the second in North Wales.
There is a cover design by Miss Marjorie Murray.
Stories from the same writer have appeared in the
May issue of the Red Magazine, last month's
Storyteller, and the Car of June 9th.
Mr. Michael Barrington's first book, “The
Reminiscences of Sir Barrington Beaumont,”
dealt with social and political conditions ; his
second, “The King's Fool,” was a story of
romance. His latest work, “The Knight of the
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Golden Sword,” which is to be published in the
early autumn by Messrs. Chatto & Windus, while
giving a cynical picture of the England of the later
Stuarts and of the intrigues which brought about
the revolution of 1688, shows John Graham, the
last great champion of the fallen cause.
“The Shadow of the Ragged Stone" is the title
of a story by Charles F. Grindrod, published recently
by Mr. Elkin Mathews, which tells of the days of
Henry II., and presents the great struggle of that
reign between Church and State, between King and
prelate, between secular law and ecclesiastical rule.
DRAMATIC.
“A Merry Devil,” Mr. J. B. Fagan's new play,
was produced at the Playhouse on June 3. The
cast included Mr. Cyril Maude, Miss Winifred
Emery, and Miss Jessie Bateman.
The Irish Players' season at the Court Theatre
last month witnessed the production of two one-
act plays, by Lady Gregory and Mr. Norreys
Connell respectively. “Hyacinth Halvey,” Lady
Gregory's piece, portrayed Irish life and customs ;
while Mr. Connell's work, “An Imaginary Conver-
sation,” was a character study, which contrasted
the cold cynicism of Tom Moore with the passionate
enthusiasm of the revolutionist Robert Emmet.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's new play, “The Fires
of Fate,” was produced at the Lyric Theatre on
June 15. The chief character in the piece is
a young colonel, who, informed by his doctor that
he has probably only a year to live, abandons his
first thought of putting an immediate end to his
existence, in deference to the appeals of his brother (a
Nonconformist minister), who advances the orthodox
Christian objections, and the hope expressed by
the doctor of a possible recovery in the event of
the administration of a shock. The nature of the
shock which the colonel experienced, and the
result it produced, are told in the play, which is
interpreted by a cast including Mr. Lewis Waller,
Mr. A. E. George, Mr. Fisher White, and Miss
Auriol Lee.
Among the plays included by Miss Horniman,
in her recent repertory performances at the Coronet
Theatre, Notting Hill, were Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's
“Widowers' Houses” and Mr. John Galsworthy's
“The Silver Box.”
Mr. Arthur Dillon’s “Leto Suppliant,” shortly to
be published by Mr. Elkin Mathews, is modelled in
the form of Greek drama.
Mr. St. John Hankin's new play, “The Last of
the De Mullins,” which the Stage Society produced
at the Haymarket at the end of last year, has now
been published by Mr. A. C. Fifield at 1s. 6d. net.
POETRY.
“Elijah : An Ascent,” by F. Pritchard (Kegan
Paul & Co.), is a poem dealing with the last phase
in the life of the prophet Elijah, from an imaginative
and ethical standpoint. It is interspersed with
four songs. -
Mr. J. M. Stuart-Young, author of “Merely a
Negress,” etc., has ready for the press a volume of
tropical poems upon West Africa. The title chosen
is “The Seductive Coast,” and the book will be
published in the autumn by Mr. John Ouseley.
The first edition has already been subscribed for by
COasters.
Mr. Charles F. Grindrod has published, through
Mr. Elkin Mathews, a volume which contains, and
is entitled “Three Poems.” The first, is “An
Elegy,” in which the author plumbs the depths of
Sorrow and longing. Following this is a poem
called “The Two Spirits,” the spirits being Joy
and Sorrow, and the argument of the poem being
that each is indispensable to the other, and both
to God's purpose. The last poem, “The Lost
Soul,” is a soliloquy pregnant with religious
feeling.
BIOGRAPHY.
A series of historical articles, entitled, “Four
Forgotten Great Irishwomen,” by L. M. McCraith,
author of “A Green Tree,” will appear in the
Englishwoman's Review, commencing with the
current number. The articles deal with St. Brigit,
Queen Gorringlaith, Margaret O'Carroll (the
Bountiful), and Grainne O'Malley, the pirate.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Messrs. Siegle, Hill & Co. have published a
German translation of Mr. George Meredith’s
“Tragic Comedians,” which has been prepared by
Miss Ida Benecke, who has kindly promised the
proceeds of the sale to the Society's pension
fund.
“Clough's South African Parliamentary Manual”
is a work by Mr. O. Clough, containining a large
amount of information respecting the constitution
and governance of South Africa. The first part
of the book deals with the “non-parliamentary
colonies” of British South Africa, and gives par-
ticulars of the population and constitutional
information in respect of each territory. Parts 2,
3, 4, and 5 of the book are devoted respectively to
the South African self-governing colonies, viz., the
Cape of Good Hope, Natal, the Transvaal, and
Orange River Colony. A greater portion of the
volume, however, is set apart to South African
parliamentary procedure, both for public business
and private bills. The book is prefixed by a map
of British South Africa, showing all railway, tele-
graph, and telephone communication throughout
South Africa. The work is published by the
Central News Ageney of Cape Town, Pietermaritz-
burg, Bloemfontein, Pretoria, &c, &c.
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THE AUTHOR.
PARIS NOTES.
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REAT satisfaction is felt by French authors
with regard to the new Act in the American
Copyright Law, which comes into effect
from July 1, 1909. From henceforth it will, of
course, be much more easy for foreign authors to
secure copyright for their books, either in the
original language or in translations, throughout the
United States of America.
“Le Miroir aux Alouettes,” by J. de Mestral
Combremont, is another problem novel. The
characters are so well drawn and so living that it
might very well be a story from life transplanted
into a volume. It is the old, old story of the man
who marries believing himself to be in love, and
finds out afterwards that he is bound for life to
a woman who is not, and never can be, a companion
to him. He discovers too late that the woman of
kindred taste, whom he had always treated as a
friend, is the woman he should have married.
When the discovery comes to them both, she
decides to put the ocean between them. The
problem is therefore left for the future. Mere
absence cannot solve such a problem, the author
does not attempt to look into the future, and we
are left with a situation which demands a sequel.
There is a distinct tendency in the French literature
of to-day to leave questions open. Instead of
attempting to give us the final word, the author
frequently leaves us with a problem unsolved. In
Edouard Rod's recent books, and in those by
several other authors, this is the case. In the
book of which we have just spoken a sequel is
absolutely necessary.
“Pierre et Thérèse’’
Prevost’s new novel.
Anatole France has just published a volume
entitled “Les Sept Femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et
autres Contes Merveilleux.”
“Le Droit à la Force,” by Daniel Lesueur, is
both a roman feuilleton and a psychological study.
It is only in a few rare cases that an author
succeeds in writing a novel which is extremely
dramatic and at the same time an excellent study
of character. “Nietzschéene,” the last novel by
this same author, is now in its twenty-eighth
edition.
“Lettres de Barbey d'Aurevilly & Trebutien” is
a publication in two large-sized volumes, containing
the correspondence of D'Aurevilly with his friend
Trebutien from 1832 to 1856. Trebutien was
the publisher at Caen who helped D’Aurevilly to
bring out his first books. He published the
famous review entitled Revue de Caen, on which
D’Aurevilly founded all his hopes. The first
number of this review was the last one. The
is the title of Marcel
opening letter of this collection was written when
D'Aurevilly was only twenty-four years of age. It is
full of enthusiasm. The last one is dated twenty-four
years later, and is still more enthusiastic. During
the whole period of this correspondence Barbey
d'Aurevilly wrote letters to his friend, many of
which are masterpieces of description and wit.
There are no dull letters in the book. They are
all natural, full of life and interest, and are perhaps
even more curious and interesting to read to-day
than they were at the time they were penned.
The persons of whom D’Aurevilly speaks, Victor
Hugo, George Sand, Mme. Récamier, Maurice, and
Eugénie de Guérin, have now become historical
personages. It is interesting to read the opinion
of a contemporary like D'Aurevilly. The inaugura-
tion of the monument erected in honour of his
centenary is shortly to take place. The bust has
been executed by Rodin, and subscriptions are
still being received by the Société des Gens de
Lettres. Books, pamphlets, articles, and lectures
on Barbey d’Aurevilly have been the order of the
day for the last few years. It seems as though
there is a general wish to expiate the injustice with
which he was treated during his lifetime by this
posthumous glory in honour of his centenary.
Mademoiselle Read, the faithful friend who for the
last twenty years has been editing the thirty
volumes of his works, which she has brought out
since his death, is now reaping the reward of her
unselfishness and devotion.
The sixth volume of “Histoire de l’Art ’’ has
just appeared under the title of “Les Débuts de la
Renaissance.”
“La Legende de Jean Jacques Rousseau,” by
Frederika Macdonald, has been translated into
French by Georges Roth. This curious book shows
us, with the help of historical documents discovered
among the French archives by the author, that an
entirely false idea of Jean Jacques Rousseau's
character has come down to us, thanks to a plot
carried out by two literary men who were his con-
temporaries. The proofs of this plot are given by
the author. The subject is of the keenest interest,
and the discovery throws new light on much which
has hitherto seemed vague.
Another interesting book is the “Correspondance
entre Victor Hugo et Paul Meurice.”
“Le Congo français,” by F. Challaye, is a book
on the international question of the Congo by an
extremely able writer who has lived in the country
of which he writes. The subject of the French
colonies is being seriously considered now. Several
authors have consented to give lectures. A league
has been formed with a view to improving both the
moral and material situation of France throughout
the world. Pierre Mille, of whose remarkable
stories on life in the Congo we spoke recently, is
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also taking the matter up, and it is hoped that by
means of lectures and publications things may be
improved in some of the French colonies. With
such names as are on the committee of the league,
it seems probable that great schemes may be carried
through satisfactorily.
“Amor Vincit” is the title of the new novel by
Hélène Vacaresco. w
An English edition of Pierre de Couvelain's
“Sur la Branche” will appear shortly in England
and America under the title of “On the Branch.”
A committee has been formed to publish the
poems of the extraordinary man who signs his
works “ Humilis.” The Comte de Larmandie dis-
covered this poet and spoke of him to M. Saint-
Chamarand, director of La Poétique. Thanks to
their combined efforts, a committee was formed, and
the first volume is announced for this month. A
matinée was given by M. Saint-Chamarand recently,
when Madeleine Roch, of the Comédie Française,
and M. de Max recited some of the masterpieces
contained in this volume. -
A dinner was given recently by the Société des
Gens de Lettres in honour of Madame Juliette
Adam, who has now been a member of that society
for fifty years and who was presented by George
Sand. Speeches were made at this dinner by M.
Georges Lecomte, M. Michel Pelletier, and by
Madame Daniel Lesueur. Madame Juliette Adam
responded, and in a very touching speech thanked
all her friends for their good wishes. It will be
remembered that Madame Adam founded the
Nouvelle Revue, and that in its pages many of
the well-known French writers of to-day found
hospitality for the first time.
In the Revue de Paris for June 1, there are two
articles on the Duc d'Enghien: “L’Affaire du Duc
d'Enghien,” by Prince Murat, and “Murat et le
Duc d'Enghien,” by Comte de Mosbourg. There
is also a curious and interesting article on “L’Art
Japonais et la Figure Humaine,” by Louis Aubert,
and the continuation of Myriam Harry's novel,
“Madame Petit-Jardin.” -
In the Revue Hebdomadaire the Wicomte de
Reiset writes on “La Legende de Maria Stella,”
Philippe Henriot on “George Meredith,” and
Edward Rod on “Le Mouvement des Idées.”
ALYS HALLARD.
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“Le Miroir aux Alouettes” (Plon).
“Lettres de Barbey d'Aurevilly a Trebutien” (A. Blaizot).
“La Legende de Jean Jacques Rousseau " (Hachette).
“Correspondance entre Victor Hugo et Paul Meurice.”
(Fasquelle).
“Le Congo français" (Alcan).
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v-w---w
UNITED STATES NOTES.
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HE Spring which slew Swinburne, Meredith,
and Madame Modjeska, did not spare
- American authors. Marion Crawford, who
died at Sorrento on April 9, had a wide range of
interests, great versatility, and, above all, the
ability to tell a story. He wrote too much and too
quickly, and had passed his zenith when he died ;
but he remained readable to the last. It is gene-
rally admitted, that good as were “Mr. Isaacs” and
One or two of its successors, this author was at his
best in his Italian romances, of which the recently
issued “White Sister” was the last. Crawford had
intended to add to his large output a history of
Rome in the Middle Ages.
Mrs. Elinor Macartney Lane, who died at
Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 15, attracted
attention by her first novel, “The Mills of God,”
which appeared in 1901. This study of heredity
was followed by the historical romance, “Nancy
Stair.” Her posthumous story, “Katrine,” will
probably hardly quite rank with its popular
predecessors.
Others who have recently fallen out of the ranks
of American literature are Charles Warren Stoddard,
author of “South Sea Idylls,” and other books of
verse and travel (April 24); Samuel June Barrows,
the well-known penologist (April 21) ; Peter
Fenelon Collier, the enterprising publisher and
proprietor of Collier's Weekly (April 24); Ham-
mond Lamont, editor of the Nation and New York
Evening Post (May 6); Mrs. Wilson (née Augusta
Evans), author of the once vastly popular stories,
“St. Elmo " and “Vashti,” amongst others
(May 9); George Rice Carpenter, educationist
and biographer (April 8).
Mr. Paul Elmer More, the essayist, has become
fourth editor of the Nation. He had been
associate-editor for the last three years.
Prof. Bliss Perry, of Harvard, is to lecture
at the University of Paris and other French
universities during 1909–10.
Appleton's Magazine is to be discontinued after
the June number.
Prof. Eugen Kühnemann, of Breslau, who has
been German exchange professor at Harvard, has
written a study of President Eliot's career.
James Huncker's new volume of critical studies,
entitled “Egoists,” has been described as “like a
rapid series of electric sparks.” Its “supermen’’
include such diverse personalities as Nietzsche,
Stendhal, Bandelaire, and Pater.
Dr. Elroy McKendree Avery has been delivered
of the fifth volume of his “History of the United
States,” which deals with the revolutionary period.
It is said to show an advance upon previous
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volumes in literary restraint and to excel
some more pretentious works in accuracy and
balance. - -
Mr. Rockefeller’s “Random Reminiscences” will
probably have been read almost as widely in Europe
as here. Whatever may be thought of the Standard
Oil magnate, it cannot be denied that as an author
he has the virtues of simplicity and directness.
Thompson Seton’s “Biography of a Silver Fox”
is as good as its “Grizzly’’ predecessor. Curiously
enough it has incidents which closely resemble
some of those in Mr. Roberts's “Red Fox”
story.
Two books of American history which the Mac-
millan Company are issuing this season are likely
to be of permanent value. The one, Prof. Edmond
S. Meany’s “History of the State of Washington,”
tells the story of the great north-west. . The other,
Mrs. Schuyler Van Reusselaer's “History of the
City of New York in the Seventeenth Century,” is
an original study of the old Dutch settlement.
One of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s recent
publications, “Some Acrostic Signatures of Francis
Bacon,” is described as “an array of facts of the
plainest sort.” That the ciphers in it are not
accidental “can be determined,” we are told, “by
a simple mathematical calculation.” A few of the
“inferences” that may be drawn from Mr. Stone
Booth’s book are that Bacon not only wrote the
works of Shakespeare, but occasionally also used
the names of Marlowe and Spenser. Here indeed
is pasture for Baconians !
The “Life and Times of Laurence Sterne,” by
Prof. Wilbur L. Cross, of Yale, will doubtless be
read with interest on both sides of the Atlantic.
Americans have been divided in their reception
of Mark Twain’s “Is Shakespeare Dead 2 ” Is
Mr. Clemens to be numbered among good Baconians,
or is it only some of his fun ?
The publication of Ticknor's “Life and Letters”
has been put off until the autumn.
Mr. Frank B. Sauborn has much to say of the
Concord circle in his “Recollections of Seventy
Years.” He also relates his dealings with John
Brown, who will soon, he thinks, arrive at the
mythical stage. But he knew him as a very real
person, and as “the indispensable” man of the
Free Soil fight. Had it not been for his exploits,
emancipation would, in Sauborn's opinion, have
been delayed sixty years.
The event of the summer from a literary view-
point will be the appearance of James Lane Allen's
book, “The Bride of the Mistletoe.” The talented
author of “The Choir Invisible" has now been
silent for six years.
Probably by far the best work of fiction that
has appeared in the United States this year is
Judge Grant's Bostonian study, “The Chippen-
dales.” . The hero typifies successfully, if not
sympathetically, the Puritan conscience, which is
now becoming a rarity; the real force of the thing
is made to stand out triumphantly in its effect
upon the recalcitrant heroine, a fine creation.
A third character of note is Hugh Blaisdell, who
represents the man who is good because he finds it
ayS.
Another good piece of work from a novelist is
Alice Brown's “The Story of Myrza,” a powerful
presentment of a woman's self-imposed atonement.
A story which has been appearing anonymously
in Harper's has excited much curiosity. The
author appears to be a woman. She is strong in
plot and dialogue, but rather uneven in her
character delineation. The title of the book is
“The Inner Shrine.”
A publication of some note is Prof. Francis
Newton Thorpe's “The Statesmanship of Andrew
Jackson.” Seven letters which old Hickory wrote
on “Nullification ” are printed for the first
time. Occasionally, in the editor's opinion, the
writer approaches the eloquence of Lincoln.
Another encyclopædia It emanates from
Philadelphia and is to bear the name of the
Winston Company. Eight volumes of 500 pages
each represent its content, Dr. Annandale being
among the contributors.
“The Woman in Question,” by John Reed Scott ;
“Red Horse Hill,” by Sidney McCall; and Ellen
Glasgow’s “The Romance of a Plain Man,” are
three stories of modern life which are out of the
CODOIſlOIl.
Robert W. Chambers, in “Special Messenger,”
has added another to his vivacious tales; and
Alice Hegan Rice has presented another Sop to her
admirers. “In a Mysterious Way” is the title of
Anne Walmer's latest story.
Irving Bacheller’s “The Hand-made Gentle-
man” is a characteristic piece of work which will
be certain to appeal to many readers.
Mrs. Wharton’s metrical volume, “Artemis to
Actaeon,” Scarcely reaches the level of true poetry,
though it may be allowed to be accomplished
WeTSé.
Dr. Harry Thurston Peck’s “Studies in Several
Literatures” covers a wide range, and shows some
critical acuteness without being ever quite
illuminating. It is given to few mortals to be a
competent authority on Horner, Milton, Zola,
Emerson, the Detective Story, and “The Psychology
of the Printed Page.”
Advertising, according to Mr. George French, is
soon to be formulated into a science. Art and
science are to work together in the advertising
field. This is Utopia for auctioneers and
publishers, whatever it may be to the rest of
mankind.
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Mr. Filson Young has been following in the
steps of Mrs. Wapel and Elinor Glyn. In an inter-
view arranged by the New York Saturday Review,
he was not unduly flattering to American litera-
ture. Our novels he refused to admit as equal to
those of England, whilst as to American drama he
preferred to observe a discreet silence.
CHEAP EDITIONS.
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S stated in the last number of The Author, We
publish below the names of those novelists
who have sent in their cards since the first
list was issued, and who do not object to the
publication of their names.
Those who wrºdertake not to publish an edition of any
novel first issued at the price of 68. in a cheap form at
any time within two years from the date of its first
publication —
Alma-Tadema, Laurence.
Armstrong, Miss Frances.
Fursdon, Mrs.
Haggard, H. Rider.
James, Miss Winifred.
Osgood, Miss Irene.
Stockley, Mrs. Joan.
Those who do not wrºdertake :—
There are no fresh names to add to this list.
COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION.
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THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE.
TY HE members of Council of the Society of
Authors will no doubt call to mind the
statement in last year's report of the work
done by the Committee of Management to forward
the cause of copyright legislation. It might, how-
ever, be as well to repeat a few facts. In January,
1908, by the courtesy of the Board of Trade, the
proposals sent in by the Bureau at Berne, bearing
on the international meeting which was to take
place at Berlin in October, were laid before the
committee. Sir Henry Bergne kindly undertook
the arduous duty of going through the proposals
and reporting. His report was subsequently laid
before the Copyright Sub-Committee, and very
carefully considered. . It was finally, with a few
slight corrections and additions, referred to the
Committee of Management, and adopted. It was
then forwarded to the Board of Trade.
In June, the president of the Société des Gens de
Lettres came over to England, with the desire to
obtain the support of the English Society of
Authors at the Berlin Conference to certain pro-
posals which were being put forward by the French
authors, the chief point being the duration of
copyright. Monsieur Lecomte, the president, had
interviews with Sir Henry Bergne, the chairman
(Mr. Douglas Freshfield), Mr. Hawkins, and the
Secretary; and Mr. Freshfield was enabled to
introduce Monsieur Lecomte to the President of
the Board of Trade, who discussed the position
With him.
The committee were bound to keep these reports
confidential. But the mere fact that Sir Henry
Bergne was working so enthusiastically for the
Authors’ Society would be sufficient to carry con-
Viction that the reform of copyright legislation was
being dealt with along the right lines. The com-
mittee take this opportunity of again expressing
their deep sorrow at the sudden death of Sir
Henry Bergne at the Berlin Conference.
The result of the Berlin Conference has been
fully set out in the columns of The Author, in
the daily press, and in a Government Blue Book.
Immediately after the return of the delegates to
England, the secretary of the Society had a long
confidential interview with one of the officials of
the Board of Trade, discussing what had taken
place at the Berlin Convention, and what steps it
might be necessary to take to arouse public interest
in copyright reform. The result of this interview
was reported to the committee. The committee
then decided not to discuss their course of action
until the Blue Book had been issued, but proceeded
to make arrangements to call together a joint com-
mittee, consisting of representatives of the Authors'
Society, the Musical Publishers' Association, the
Publishers' Association, and the Copyright Associa-
tion. Sir Alfred Bateman and Mr. E. J. Macgillivray
represented the Society of Authors. The object of
calling together the committee was that all repre-
sentative copyright holders might be able to discuss
the position; that the differences of opinion, if there
were any, might be openly dealt with and settled ;
and that, if possible, a common line of action might
be adopted. The committee were successful in
their efforts. -
As soon as the Government Blue Book was
issued, the joint committee met together, and it
was decided that the delegates from the different
bodies represented should confer with their
members, should consider carefully the Blue Book
which had just been issued, and come together again
at a later date and report the result of their delibera-
tions. In the meantime, a Departmental Committee
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had been appointed by the Government to consider
the Berlin Convention and the statement set out
in the Blue Book. The joint committee met again
on March 31, at the offices of the society, and
the delegates from the different bodies put forward
the view of the situation taken by the several
associations which they represented. It was very
satisfactory to learn that the terms of the Berlin
Convention would receive the support of all the
bodies, though it was possible that on one or two
minor points the musical publishers might disagree.
The musical delegates, however, thought it more
than probable that for the sake of uniformity this
disagreement would be withdrawn.
The Committee of Management had thus obtained
the views of other representative copyright-holding
bodies. -
It became necessary for them at the same time
to gather evidence from the various bodies of
authors represented by the Society in order to be
ready to meet any demand that the Departmental
Committee might make.
In consequence, at the first meeting of the
Dramatic Sub-Committee in 1909, the secretary
made a statement of the present position, and the
members of the committee decided to study the
Blue Book and bring forward their suggestions at
the next meeting. Accordingly, at the meeting
held on March 30, Mr. Pinero set out an
exhaustive statement of the points on which it
would be necessary for the present law to be altered
in order to conform with the Berlin Convention, as
it was the unanimous opinion of the Dramatic Sub-
Committee that the domestic law of Great Britain
should be brought into uniformity with the
Convention as early as possible. Mr. Pinero's
points were discussed and approved with very slight
alterations. After Some negotiations, finally Mr.
Comyns Carr and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw consented
to act as representatives of the dramatic section of
the society, should the Departmental Committee
require to call their evidence. -
A meeting of the Copyright Committee was also
held, when Mr. MacGillivray, who had consented
to give evidence, laid before the committee a proof
of the evidence that would be necessary. This was
carefully considered by the Copyright Committee
and approved. Finally, the Copyright Committee
endeavoured to arrange for Sir Alexander Mackenzie
to give evidence on behalf of composers.” tº
It is unnecessary to discuss the many technical
alterations to which it may be necessary to call the
attention of the Departmental Committee, but the
* Since writing this report Sir Alexander Mackenzie
has consented to give evidence ; his proof has been prepared
and forwarded to the secretary of the Departmental
Committee.
great issues which the Committee of Management
have approved of are as follows:–
That the existence of Copyright should be for
life and fifty years.
That as soon as possible the domestic law of
Great Britain should be altered to bring it
into uniformity with the Berlin Convention.
That the committee consider it of great
importance for His Majesty's Government
to secure, if possible, the consent of the
Colonies to imperial legislation, but they
Consider that domestic legislation should
not be delayed, if it is impossible to secure
the consent of the Colonies within a
reasonable time.
The . Dramatic Sub-Committee approve the
principle, existing in practice in countries
other than Great Britain, and approved of
by the Berlin Convention, that public per-
formance of a dramatic piece should not be
publication, and dramatists, composers, and
authors alike are opposed to allowing
gramophone and cinematograph records to
be made without the sanction of the author
of the original. The committee trust the
members of the Council will approve the
action they have taken.
The committee would like to state at the same
time that their energies are not relaxed in any
Way. If, by public appeal in the papers, or by
other means, it is necessary to stir up interest in
the question, they will do so, and will continue to
use their best endeavours for the benefit of the
large number of authors, dramatic authors, and
composers whom they represent.
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SCHOLZ v. AMASIS, LTD., AND FENN.
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A SUCCESSFUL APPEAL.
HE Court of Appeal has reversed the decision
T of Mr. Justice Jelf, who had awarded the
plaintiff £200 damages for the infringement
of the plaintiff’s rights in his play, entitled “The
Son of the Sun.”
The plaintiff, Mr. W. Hermann Scholz, pro-
fessionally known as Mr. W. Gunn Gwennet, alleged
that Mr. Frederic Fenn, the author of the comic
opera, “Amasis,” which had been represented by
the defendant company, had appropriated a sub-
stantial and material part of his play, and he gave
certain particulars showing similarities in the plots,
characters, ideas and words, and scenic arrange-
ments of the two pieces. From the accumulated
evidence of such similarities, which in many
instances were of a trivial character, Mr. Justice
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Jelf, after reading and comparing both plays, came
to the conclusion that there had been copying, and
that he was unable to accept the statement of
Mr. Fenn that he had not seen the plaintiff's play
before he had written his own.
In the Court of Appeal the “similarities in ideas
and Words” were the main consideration ; but it
Was pointed out that similarities in plot and scenic
arrangements might have an important bearing
upon the question of conscious copying.
exhaustive examination of the alleged similarities,
however, the Court unanimously came to the con-
clusion that no one of the allegations, nor the
Combined effect of the whole of them taken
together, could fairly be said to establish a case
of infringement.
Dealing with the similarities cited by Mr. Justice
Jelf in his judgment, the Lord Chief Justice said:
“Those instances are put forward by the learned
judge as being the main similarities which force
him to disbelieve Mr. Fenn on oath. I cannot
possibly come to that conclusion. I think in
themselves they are far short of copying at all, and
they are still further short, in my opinion, of such
evidence upon which anyone is justified in drawing
the conclusion that the gentleman committed
deliberate perjury in the box, and is saying what
is untrue when he says that before the matter was
mentioned to him, he had never seen the plaintiff's
play or the book.”
Mr. Fenn had also stated in his evidence at the
trial that he got the idea of his play from a well-
known work by Dr. Ebers, entitled “The Egyptian
Princess,” published many years ago, and a novel
by Mr. Henty, called “The Cat of Bubastes”; and
from the former book he had in fact taken seven-
teen names of the characters, including that of
“Amasis.” In both of these books the killing of
a cat in Egypt is referred to as a crime punishable
by death, and the situation arising from this cir-
cumstance formed a prominent incident in both
lavs.
p º: Justice Jelf, referring to Mr. Fenn's
evidence, observed that “Mr. Fenn was not above
taking what he wanted, to some extent at least,
from other books.”
Commenting upon this part of the judgment,
the Lord Chief Justice said, “If that means any-
thing, it means that Mr. Fenn was guilty of
something unworthy ; and, looking at it from the
point of view of a dramatic author, I must protest
against such an inference being drawn. . . . .
I believe the history of dramatic writing in this
world will show that what the great dramatic
authors have done is to go to old books and
history, and to take the facts from that history,
and then to build up their incidents, some real
and some imaginary. I believe the greatest play-
After an
Writers in the world, from Shakespeare downwards,
have done it. Therefore to suggest that a man is
to be discredited, because he is supposed to be not
above taking what he wanted from other books,
º: to me to be applying an entirely wrong
€SU.
Upon this point Mr. Justice Farwell said : “I
Was always under the impression that it was
desirable to learn what one could from former
publications, and so long as you do not copy you
are entitled to use all the information you can get;
and to my mind you ought to do so before you
attempt to instruct the world, even by a comic
opera.”
The appeal was allowed, and judgment entered
for the defendant, with costs of the trial and of
the appeal.
HAROLD HARDY.
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TriB A UTHOR.
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
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1. VERY 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 without
any cost to the member. Moreover, where, counsel's
opinion is favourable, and the sanction ºf the Committee
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved
member, and all costs borne by the Society.
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. Before signing any agreement whatever, send
the document to the Society for examination.
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you
are reaping no direct 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.
3. The Committee have 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 stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3). To enforce
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-
ians of the Society's work can be obtained in the
Prospectus.
6. 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
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
8. 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.
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.
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WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS
OF BOOKS.
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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
Iſlea,I\S.
(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.
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.
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EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-
petent legal authority.
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for
the production of a play with anyone except an established
manager.
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays
in three or more acts:—
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into
such a contract should stipulate in the contract
for production of the piece by a certain date
and for proper publication of his name on the
play-bills.
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(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 substantial
consideration.
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
10. An author should remember that production of a play
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract,
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in
the beginning.
II. 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. -
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOs.
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CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper
S forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS,
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L*. 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
* rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical
99mposer 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
should be especially careful therefore when entering into
ºn agreement, and should take into particular consideration
the warnings stated above.
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STAMPING MUSIC.
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The 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 Sociéty'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,
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THE READING BRANCH,
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EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
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.
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“THE AUTHOR.”
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HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of
T 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.
Communications and letters are invited by the
Editor on all literary matters treated from the stand-
point of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever.
Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot
be accepted.
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REMITTANCES.
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The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.
All Temittances should be crossed Union of London and
Smith's Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered
letter only.
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GENERAL NOTES.
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LORD TENNYSON.
THE centenary of the birth of the first president
of the society falls on the 5th day of August.
Such an event should not be passed over without
expressing a pious “In Memoriam.” As The
Author is not published in August and September,
this expression must fall in this number.
Many may say that any criticism or appreciation
of Tennyson is now out of date, and that nothing
new can be said. This is no doubt to some extent
true, but this is not our object. Our object is
first to recall to all members that Tennyson was
a great poet, and secondly that the Society was
honoured by having him as its first president
from the year of its foundation to the day of his
death.
Such a thought may arouse in the minds of some
the desire for a still closer cohesion of the highest
and lowest in the great art of literature, and may
induce others, if not because of the benefit they may
receive directly, still for the good of their humbler
brethren, to join the society. The spirit of fellow-
ship animated the late Poet Laureate. The same
spirit animated George Meredith.
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.
THERE has been some slight movement in
matters copyright in Canada. A Bill came before
the Canadian House, which was practically the
same as 6 Edw. VII. c. 36. It was introduced by
the Minister of Justice, at the request of Mr. J. F.
Edgar, barrister, of Toronto, who represented a
number of musical publishers. It related to
musical piracy only, and was introduced as an
amendment to the criminal code. It passed
the House of Commons, but was rejected by the
Senate.
The only other measure affecting copyright was
the amendment abbreviating the form of copyright
notice required to be printed on all Canadian
copyrights.
All that is now necessary is to print the words,
“Copyright, Canada, 190—, by A. B.”
COPYRIGHT AND THE BERLIN CONVENTION.
IN the June reviews there appeared two articles
on copyright—in the Wational Review under the
signature of Charles Whibley; in the Wineteenth
Century under the signature of W. Morris Colles.
The first dealt with copyright as a property. The
writer gave a short history of the struggle to obtain
recognition of copyright as a property, and drew
attention to the potent advocacy of Serjeant
Talfourd and to the unaccountable and irrational
opposition of Lord Macaulay. One quotation,
embracing as it does an extraordinary topsy-turvy-
dom of ideas, we cannot help repeating. “The
principle of copyright,” Lord Macaulay said, “is
this, it is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving
a bounty to writers.” - S
It is clear, however, from the later statements
contained in the article that the writer is not a
member of the society, for he confesses he does not
know what has been done by those who are interested
in copyright reform and boldly states that no effort
has been made to improve the law. It is needless
to repeat what has been done by the society in past
years ; the report in this month's Author will show
the action that has been taken recently. Some
effort should have been made to gather accurate
knowledge from accredited sources.
The line of argument adopted by Mr. Whibley is
not new, and the deductions he shows have been
stated frequently in these pages. When copyright
ceases, the profits arising from the property do not
accrue for the public benefit, but for the benefit of
the publishers.
If it is necessary to secure these for the public,
either the publishers should pay a royalty, or the
Government should publish and pay the profits into
the public purse.
Mr. Whibley proposes by these means to establish
a literary fund that asks no alms. The idea is
eminently sane,
II.
The second article is written in quite a different
spirit. It is written as a criticism of the action of
the delegates at the Berlin Convention as a note of
warning to those who desire uniformity. It is
impossible in the space at our disposal, though it
would not be difficult, to write an answer to the
arguments put forward. These are some of the
catch phrases :—“Instead of preserving and
strengthening it [the Berlin Convention] throws
the whole unionist system into the melting pot, and
complicates it by introducing new and dangerous
issues.” “There is every danger that as a result
they will retard instead of advancing the realisation
of these aims, and complicate instead of simplifying
the international system.”
And then what does the writer propose? “It is a
thousand pities that for the nonce, a short additional
Act of Berlin was not framed providing in the first
place for obviously innocuous addenda and corri-
genda.”
Could any suggestion be more fatal P The
result would have been that very complication he
so much fears. Some nations would adhere to the
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Berne Convention only, some to the Berne Con-
vention and the Act of Paris only, and some to the
Berne Convention, the Act of Paris, and what
would have been the Act of Berlin. -
There is no doubt that the course the delegates
adopted was the best. They saw the awful compli-
cation of short additional Acts. In a bold spirit
they grappled with a difficult issue and adopted the
only Sane course, an entirely new Convention.
It is true that all countries may not at once be
able to adopt its tenets. For these the lesser Berne
Convention is left. But all Governments have
before them an ideal at which to aim, and we must
offer to the delegates our hearty congratulations on
the broad and statesmanlike manner in which they
have dealt with the question.
Again this bogey of uniformity seems to stir up
weird alarms in the writer in another direction :
“Literary property itself is not homogeneous and
could, as regards the duration of copyright, usefully
be classified and differentiated. To claim protection
for life and fifty years for copyright property indis-
criminately is an insult to the public common sense.
Uniformity, whether international or domestic, can
be attempted at a cost which is wholly dispropor-
tionate to any practical advantages likely to result.”
The whole turn of the article is one of alarm and
fear, but it leaves us unmoved. If the present
Government, or any Government, pass a bad copy-
right law, that may be their fault or the fault of the
contending parties in Great Britain.
But the full result of the work of the delegates
is satisfactory and praiseworthy. It certainly
would be an irreparable calamity, to quote the
alarmist again, if, “in the effort to facilitate
international uniformity, we shattered the Anglo-
American Agreement, and split up British copy-
right into fractions.”
But where is the need 2
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT.
PROFESSOR ROTHLISBERGER, in an article deal-
ing with the United States law and United States
piracy that appeared in Le Droit d'Auteur, refers
to English authors in the following terms:—
“Let the English authors come out of their ‘splendid
isolation,” and attend the congresses where the moral and
material interests of the producers of intellectual works
are discussed ; let them organise, in accord with the
publishers, an opposition to the normal treatment of
which they are the victims; let them appeal to the
international solidarity which is very vital in the unionist
centres guided by the International Literary and Artistic
Association—and they will soon both obtain Satisfaction,
and render a greater service to the cause of copyright than
they can render by taking any extreme measures.”
We do not quite understand to what Professor
Rothlisberger refers. If he refers to the yearly
Congresses held by the International Literary and
Artistic Association, we can only say that the
matter has been before the committee of the
Society of Authors on several occasions. The
Society cannot afford to pay a representative to
attend these Congresses. The result of the Con-
gresses appears to be more theoretical than practical.
The committee have found it impossible on various
former occasions to obtain volunteers to attend
each Congress, on account of the expense involved.
Authors are not a wealthy class.
If, however, Professor Rothlisberger refers to the
Berne, Paris and Berlin Congresses, we can only
reply that the matter rests with the Government.
It is true that the French Government (always
kind to literary and artistic productions) appointed
delegates from some of their most famous authors
to attend the Berlin Congress, but this was not
done by the British Government, though we are
pleased to know that Sir Henry Bergne, who did
represent Great Britain, was a valued member of
the committee of the society, and knew, from
holding this position, the views of authors and
of the society on the matter of legislation.
TENNYSON.
—º-º-º-
HE first president of the Society of Authors
was a shy man and one who could not suffer
fools gladly. These two facts having been
made public property, there is no indiscretion or
bad taste in referring to them. There is, how-
ever, some danger that a reputation thus earned
may prove misleading. It may cause posterity,
who personally will be as interested, as we are, in
the personalities of great men, to be blind to one
important point. This point is one of which the
Society of Authors has every reason to be aware and
to be thankful for—his sense of good comradeship.
Tennyson, however reserved he might have been in
his intercourse with the world—“ the World, the
world, all ear and eye, and with such a foolish heart
to interpret eye and ear”—however cordially he may
have hated fools and prigs, was, nevertheless,
essentially like his own Lancelot, “a kindly man
moving among his kind.” The loss which the
society has suffered from the death of George
Meredith calls this fact to mind. Nothing could
have shown Tennyson's sense of good comradeship,
his loyalty to his craft, more forcibly than his
acceptance of the first presidency of the Society.
Now that the society is established as a recognised
force, now that its name is a household word with
all men and women who have to do with letters, we
are apt to forget that the early fostering of it was
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a period of doubt and dread to its parents. The
society in its early days was surrounded by enemies,
and, worse still, by indifferent and scoffing onlookers.
The enemies are not dead, but they have been
rendered powerless for evil. The indifference and
the scoffing still continue, but wax fainter. In
those days it was quite on the cards that the
Society would not live. It was therefore no small
thing for the greatest and most popular man of
letters of his day to lend the weight of his name to
support the Society in its first struggles for existence.
Had the Society of Authors perished, as its enemies
devoutly hoped it would, in a sea of ridicule, the
name and reputation of its first president must
have been involved in the fiasco and have suffered
loss accordingly. Tennyson knew this quite well
when his faith and courage and loyalty prompted
him to step forward at all risks to himself and to
cover the infant society with the shield of his great
influence. It was a splendid act of unselfishness,
a noble proof of the sense of good comradeship in
the heart of the man. That the infant has proved
itself an infant Hercules is largely due to the fact
that in its hour of need Lord Tennyson came
forward as its champion.
This sense of good fellowship we find reflected in
his work. His friendships were warm friendships
and loyal. “Fitz” and “Brooks,” above all Arthur
Hallam, have gained a posthumous fame, which
might otherwise have been denied to them, even to
Fitzgerald, had it not been for the association of their
names with that of Tennyson. Whether or no the
splendid monument which he raised to Arthur
Hallam will endure through the ages no one can
Say ; it has touched the hearts of millions of
sorrowful men and women in our times as nothing
else has touched them. But we are still too near
to Tennyson to be able to judge with any degree
of certainty of his work. While the touch of a
Vanished hand still lingers upon our hands, while
we feel the warmth of it and can even count the
Weakening pulse-beats, our judgment must perforce
be held in suspense. It is not for us—it will be
for Our children's children—to say what is great,
What is permanent, for in this matter greatness and
permanency are the same, in his work. The judg-
ment of the future is the ordeal by fire through
which the work of every man must pass. Perhaps
very little, perhaps much more than we think of
Tennyson's work will come out of this fire un-
Scathed. And yet we all find an irresistible
fascination, utterly idle as we know it to be, in
attempting to anticipate the judgment of futurity.
Whenever two or three men and women interested
in literature are gathered together, and fall into
talk of the work of Tennyson, they invariably come
to arguing among themselves, sometimes with con-
siderable bitterness, as to what will and what will
not endure. On one point all are agreed, and that
is with regard to some of the lyrics.” “A handful,
a Gargantuan handful,” as a writer in the Tºmas
recently put it, will live. This is common ground
of agreement. Exactly which lyrics they are upon
which this anticipated immortality is to be conferred
is a matter of dispute. Generally it is felt that
this “handful” will be drawn mainly from his
earlier lyrical work, with, of course, “Sunset and
Evening. Star,” and that wonderful piece of bird
music “The Thrush.” But here must all guess-
work stop. Will “Maud’ live 2–4 Maud,” which
is commonly regarded as the greatest of his more
ambitious efforts—or “The Idylls,” which have
appealed so strongly to the imaginations of two
generations P or “In Memoriam,” in which the
men and women of his day found their cloudy hopes
and fears, their dim aspirations and doubtings,
minted into “current coin”? Who can say? Mean:
While, of this we can bear witness, that loyalty—a
loyalty to his friends which never failed, a loyalty
shown in innumerable passages in his poetry, a
loyalty to the best and highest traditions of his
Country, a loyalty to his fellow men of letters—was
the characteristic mark of the first president of the
Society of Authors.
E. P. L.
* *º-
AUTHORS’ AGENTS.
—º-º-º-
WAS much interested in an article on the
literary agent, by “X. Y. Z.,” which was
printed in a recent issue of The Author. The
Writer takes as his text Mr. H. G. Wells's remark
that the agent is an “indispensable middleman,”
and in two columns bristling with arguments, he
endeavours to show that to the majority of authors
an agent is a serious handicap. Now, the question
of the employment or non-employment of the agent
is one of great importance to all classes of writers,
and therefore it is well worth while to examine
the arguments brought forward by “X. Y. Z.” in
his attempt to prove the uselessness of the agent.
“X. Y. Z.” naturally draws on his own experience,
which is limited to dealings during fifteen months
with one agent, who is, he says, “one of the best
known men in his profession.” This agent may
be well known, but, according to “X. Y. Z.,” he
is not conscientious, for after selling the serial
rights of a novel, he “made no attempt to place
the story as a volume.” Of the five long stories
entrusted to this man, all that he could do was to
place the serial rights of one for £30; the author,
however, withdrawing the remaining manuscripts,
placed the serial and book rights of one, the serial
rights of another, and cannot dispose of any rights
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in the other two. Of sixteen short stories the
agent sold the British serial rights of three for,
respectively, £10 10s, £412s. 6d., and £7 18. 9d. ;
and the author subsequently sold the British serial
rights of one for £8 5s., all serial rights of another
for £15 15s., and the copyrights of others for
£3. 3s., £1 10s., £1 1s., £2 2s., and £3 38.
“X. Y. Z.” does not see that the agent had made
the author's task easier by sending him lists of the
papers where the stories had been offered and
rejected ; nor does he comment upon the fact that
the agent had offered six stories he could not
dispose of to no less than fifty-one editors.
I have given these statistics because they are
essential to the forming of a conclusion as to the
position, from the financial point of view, of
“X. Y. Z.,” though this would have been made still
more clear if “ K. Y. Z.” had mentioned the length
of the stories, for short stories may be anything
from 1,200 to, say, 7,000 words. My contention
is that an author who has to submit, through his
agent and himself, one short story nine times
before selling the copyright for £1 10s., and
another twenty-nine times before obtaining an
offer for the copyright of £1 1s., which he is “very
glad to get,” is wrong to employ an agent. What-
ever his literary merits may be, he has, practically
speaking, no commercial value ; and, until there
is a demand for his work, he can do as well for
himself as any agent can do for him. I must
confess I cannot understand how an agent, “one of
the best known men in his profession,” who does
not ask for an advance fee, can have thought it
worth while to have accepted such a client, a client
for whom he has to submit, without result, four
short stories in thirty-two quarters, the copyrights
of which are afterwards disposed of by the author for
the total sum of £716s. I go further, and say that,
unless he had great faith in the literary qualities of
“X. Y. Z.” to work, he had no right, either in
justice to himself or the author, to accept such a
client. In support of this, let me quote from an
article in the Fortnightly Review for August, 1906,
on “The Commercialisation of Literature and the
Literary Agent,” by Mr. Curtis Brown, who writes
with a thorough knowledge of the subject :—
“Much that has been written about the literary
agent has been futile, because the writers have not
understood that authors can be divided into two
classes: first, those whose work the publisher
doesn’t particularly want ; and second, those whose
work the publisher does want, or would want if he
knew of it; and that it is only with the second
class that a sound literary agent has, or should
have, to do. Unless an author's work gives decided
promise, he is of little interest to the publisher, or
to the first-class agent. No agent, except one who
takes ‘retainers,’ can afford to spend much time
over him. He can generally find a market for his
Work as well as a good agent, and better than a
bad agent ; and he can afford a more thorough
canvass than either. . . . The only agent who
really counts, either for the author, or with the
publisher, or with his own banker, is the one who
sells the kind of work for which publishers are in
competition, and who takes advantage of that
competition to get the best market price for the
author.”
Here we have the case in a nutshell, and put so
clearly and forcibly that it is unnecessary to com-
ment on it; it is quoted here as an effective
rejoinder to “ X. Y. Z.” It is worth no first-class
agent's while to offer short stories the copyright of
which the author disposes of for a guinea, which
he is “glad to get.” We are all of us glad to get
guineas, but to obtain a guinea by selling the copy-
right of a short story, however welcome the guinea
may be, would leave most writers anything but
gay.
All sorts of stories are told to the discredit of
agents. A publisher told me of one who offered
him a novel at a high price, and told him that five
thousand copies of the author's last book had been
Sold. The publisher, being suspicious, made
inquiries, and learnt that the sales amounted to
about six hundred copies. Now, by such a lie, an
agent might get a big royalty, with a considerable
sum on account—he might get this once from a
publisher too trusting to doubt his statement, or
too careless to require such corroboration as could
be afforded by a sight of the statement of sales of
the last book of the author in question. This
particular publisher was too shrewd to be caught
napping ; but suppose he had been, if the agent
had put his statement in writing, or uttered it
before a third person, would not an action lie for
the recovery of money obtained by fraudulent mis-
representation ? Anyhow, the most wily agent
could never in this way trick even the most confiding
publisher twice. I hear, too, of agents who are
careless in their contracts, and when the author, in
consequence, gets into difficulty, try to keep him
from consulting the Society, so that their faults
shall not be exposed; of dishonest agents, who mis-
represent the sums they receive; and of others who
are really publishers' agents in disguise, and try at
the expense of their clients to favour the firm with
which either directly or indirectly their interests
are allied.
It would be impertinent for me to warn other
authors against these classes of agents, and, indeed,
such a warning could only be effective if names
were given. There is yet another class of agent
dangerous to the author, and that is the good man
of business, absolutely honest, yet a trifle careless
and somewhat dilatory. The man is probably too
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valuable to be abandoned, for the really first-class
agents with a connection in England and America
can be counted on the fingers of one hand ; and,
with a trifle of that tact for which authors are so
distinguished, he can usually be induced to do his
best.
Disraeli said that every country has the Jews it
deserves, and perhaps I may venture to say that
every author has the agent he deserves. The
truth of the matter is that an author selects an
agent with far less discrimination than he selects
his tailor, usually because he does not recognise
that once his work is a marketable commodity of
some importance the agent is a most valuable
instrument. He would not dream of appointing
as an executor a man of whom he knows little or
nothing ; but, with a minimum of inquiry, or even
the chance word of an acquaintance, he will make
over to some agent the disposal of his literary
work ; whereas, if I may so put it, it is really
so much more important to choose with care one's
doctor than one's undertaker.
TIEWIS MELVILLE.
jº -*- ſº-
—sº-w-
ON READING ALOUD.
—º-º-º-
S I listened a little while since to a literary
man of eminence whose foible it is to
play the garrulous autobiographer in mixed
company, he grumbled to me that one of his
recent hosts in the country had the detestable
habit of reading aloud in the evening, to the
ruin of good talk. I can conceive of Dr. Johnson
uttering a similar complaint, with a blunter dogma-
tism, and that naturally causes one to examine the
situation more closely, since one has the suspicion
at the back of one's mind that the Doctor was
never wrong ; and yet none the less my own feeling
is that it is in such a house that I should like to stay.
For some of the pleasantest memories I shall ever
have are connected with reading aloud, and so
little do I think the habit detestable that I once
meditated bringing together in one book a collec-
tion of extracts suitable for reading aloud at odd
times, for the use of those derelicts (like myself)
who like to be lulled by the human voice. As a
child I heard much of Dickens in this way, all
Jacob Abbott (whom I adored), Ruskin’s “King
of the Golden River,” together with a host of
other stories which I have since discovered had
little charm of their own, but which read in those
gentle tones—in that sweet monotony—were more
fascinating than any of the music to which one's
adult ears have listened.
I hope that reading aloud will continue to be
encouraged in schools, against the revival of
interest in it that the swing of the pendulum
should ensure. My own schooldays in several
establishments were sweetened by it, although
the example of the master who was most addicted
to this pleasant art may be held to have been
a little dangerous. He was a handsome and (I
now conjecture) profligate Scotchman, with a
world's record for some athletic feat—I think for
throwing the hammer—and a tendency to be on
sponging terms with the older boys and frankly
piratical terms with the younger, for he still
possesses (or at least I do not) a silver pencil of
mine to which he took a fancy. What branch of
learning he had under his control I forget
completely, but what I can remember, with
minute fidelity, is the entertainment that he
substituted for it ; for it was his genial and
popular habit to place beneath the text-book
from which he should have instructed us—and
indeed did affect to instruct us when any authority
or a messenger from another class-room entered
— either a play of Shakespeare or a novel of
Ouida (his two authors), from one of which he
read to us with fine feeling so long as the coast
was clear. He was a born reader, his only fault
being that he felt too much, and I can still see
the tears streaming down his face over “A Leaf
in the Storm’’ and “A Dog of Flanders,” and other
pathetic histories by that generous romantic crea-
ture, now cold, who in the seventies was read
from the Thames to Tokio, wherever Englishmen
assembled.
I wonder where you are now, sir? You may
Reep my pencil. -
Later, it was my fortune—reading aloud being
still a cultivated art—to hear both the brave and
spirited Brandram and the wistful Clifford Harrison.
Brandram I most esteemed, and I look round
among the entertainers to-day for any who com-
pensate us for his loss or give anything as good.
Samuel Brandram alone at his desk reading Shake-
speare or Dickens could be as arresting as an actor
with all the accessories of stage illusion. I was
born too late to hear Dickens in person, but I once
heard his son, who, however, came far behind
Brandram. Will authors ever again read their
works in public 2 Will there ever again be penny
readings 2 I had the idea a few years ago of
trying to induce a comedian to read “Mr. Dooley”
in a music hall, just as an experiment, but no one
thought anything of the project.
It is perhaps a little alarming for me to be
Saying so much of the professionals—the readers
who are not ashamed either of displaying emotion
or of rising to the innocent falsetto in which
Brandram used to pitch the remarks of Master
Harry Walmers, junior, in the story of “Boots at
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the Holly Tree Inn.” For the reading aloud that
really counts is such reading as so exasperated my
friend the autobiographer when he was staying in
the country and wanted to talk: reading by readers
who have no dramatic gift whatever, intelligent
humorous persons of kindly nature (this of course
goes with the art) without vocal modulation or
mimicry. For such the ironical authors are the
best—Arnold, for example, in “Friendship's Gar-
land,” which reads aloud wonderfully, or that essay
by him on America that appeared in the Nineteenth
Century in the month in which he died, and has, I
believe, never been republished, possibly out of con-
sideration (surely an over - sensitiveness) for the
feelings of the nation under the switch. If any
one wants an agreeable half-hour let him procure
that number of the Wineteenth Century and turn to
an article entitled “Civilization in the United
States,” and having mastered it let him then read
it aloud to a congenial company. Bagehot is
almost everywhere good to read aloud, but for
a trial trip begin with his diverting account of
Crabb Robinson. Leslie Stephen in places could
not be better, but too much did he control his
mischief. Gibbon goes admirably for a while, but
monotony is soon inevitable from the see-saw
symmetry of his sentences. Goldsmith is always
good. Heine's prose in Leland's translation is
easy to the unemotional reader and of course
immensely diverting and awakening. Hazlitt
reads aloud almost as well as any man ; but to
read Lamb aloud is a mistake—you want your eye
on the words and the stops: an intermediary breaks
the chain. Cowper's letters are perfect.
Other good books for the undramatic reader
occur to me—and there is little point in suggest-
ing material for the others, since their gifts
can re-create anything, and is not all Dickens
to hand, never to be exhausted, and Thackeray,
and Mr. Hardy (but not Mr. Meredith : let no one
think to obtain him vicariously l), and the adorable
W. W. Jacobs and the Misses Somerville and Ross P
But, as I say, there is no need to name the writers
that require from the reader something of the
actor's treatment. Among other good books for
the reader with but one voice and one manner, and
no desire for creation, I would name Stevenson's
“Fables” and Dr. Garnett's stories in “The
Twilight of the Gods,” particularly that little
masterpiece, beyond (I think) even Anatole France,
entitled “Abdallah the Adite,” and Mr. Whiteing's
early satire “The Island,” and a book of genuine
stealthy fun that was published some ten years ago
under the title “The Wallet of Kai Lung,” in
which irresistible use is made of the mechanism of
Chinese courtesy by an author possessed of true
humour.
And what of the reader P Ah, there, I think,
we touch upon great virtue. If I were the Record-
ing Angel I would be very gentle with readers
aloud, whatever they had done at other times: not
Only from a general admiration of their kindness,
but from my own particular private horror of the
suffering which my own reading aloud costs me.
It makes me hoarse, it makes me sleepy beyond
drugs, and it twists my tongue, after a little, more
than anything ever sung by Mr. Wilkie Bard. And,
lacking the needful power of seeing two lines ahead
(as John Roberts used to see two cannons ahead), I
am continually falling into wrong stresses and mis-
understandings, which annoy me like little stings.
But the intense physical weariness which reading
aloud produces—the yawns and the irritations—
this is often so bad that I never reach the late
stages at all. Hence a veneration of the patient
untiring reader aloud which I am unable fittingly
to express.
E. W. LUCAS.
THE NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.
—º-º-º-
NE of the oldest similes in the world compares
human life to a tree, with its roots planted
deep in the organic life of the past, its
highest leaves quivering in the winds that herald
the future, its branches lightning-struck in parts
by war and revolution, but its firm trunk still acting
as a channel to convey the sap of life from the roots
of instinct. And, like the tell-tale grove of King
Midas, it is the leaves that reveal the story of the
tree's inner life, by them we judge of the activity
or sloth of the force that works at the heart of each
cell. The tree of life, too, has its whispering leaves.
We find them in the arts, which are always the
clearest index of the power of the life-force at every
period of human history. The Middle Ages, seeing
existence as a conflict of spirit and matter, give us,
for art, the Lives of the Saints and the Gothic
Cathedral, with its frozen vision of forces arrested
in infinite forms of conflict ; the Renaissance, rioting
in the pride of life, throws down the gauntlet in
challenge to all the passions. So it is with every
period whose arts have come down to us, for the
tree of life is always in foliage somewhere.
Intellectually we are now closing one age and
rapidly entering upon another. . We have come to
the end of a great age of analysis; we are starting
on a time when linking, synthesis, will be the main
preoccupation of all thinkers and practical men.
The scientist, having carried the analysis of matter,
as we know it, to the confines where it impinges on
matter that to our senses is half spiritual, finds
himself at the jumping-off place, where he must
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either stop or penetrate into the unknown fastnesses
of the unseen. By a reverse process, the religious
thinker finds himself brought up sharp by problems
of physical science whenever he deals with the
question of personal responsibility. In politics
and economics, beneath the forces that make for
war, there moves the ever-stronger spirit that
draws nation to nation and race to race.
As always, this special feature of our time is
beginning to be reflected in our arts, and particularly
in that most vivid art of all—literature : the most
vivid and therefore the most indiscreet, for it is
still in the spoken, or in its offspring, the written
word, that the most intimate Secrets are told. For,
although music seems to be able to tell us the way
we came, literature can tell us that much more
interesting thing, the way we are going, by showing
us the birth of our ideals, the vague ideals, as yet
unrealised, that will be the every-day principles of
our descendants.
And with the dawn of democracy and the conse-
quent vast increase in the number of the articulate
classes, it is the novel that has become the chief
mouthpiece of letters, for in an age when literature
has left the study for the street, the workshop, the
villa and the factory, it can no longer move in the
strict bonds of academic rule, but will adopt as its
mode of expression the widest form of art that is
consonant with definite expression at all. This
form of art is the story.
Looking backward over the literary history of
Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire, we find
four great outstanding cycles of story, each express-
ing the ideal of the age that evolved it : first, the
Lives of the Saints, developing for fourteen centuries
the ideal of bodily purity; second, the tales of the
trouvères with their vision of chivalry; third, the
romances and dramas of the sixteenth century with
their incarnation of the love of life; and finally, the
novel of the last two centuries, which, linked with
that of our time, is probably destined to become
the most vital of the whole series.
At first sight there would seem to be one feature
in which the fiction of this last cycle is notably
lacking, namely, in a central point round which its
works can centre. For the task of the three former
cycles was to incarnate in a typical figure the ideals
of the time, to personify the thought-form its love
had created ; in the romances of the trouvères it
was the knight ; in the Renaissance tale, the lover ;
in the Lives of the Saints, those lonely figures who
haunt desert shrines or crouch on pillars of pain.
But where is the ideal figure who emerges from
the groaning shelves on which are stacked the
novels that start with Defoe, and continue with
Tolstoy, with George Meredith, with Thomas
Hardy, with Björnson and Anatole France and
with the younger descendants of these ?
It is neither saint nor sinner, weakling nor
Hercules, the figure that steps down from these
shelves, but a compound of all these, the compound
called man. For the age that begins in 1776 with
a discussion of the common basis of the physical
life of man in the “Wealth of Nations,” that
blazes into a lava flood in the liberty, equality and
fraternity of 1789, the ideal task is to clothe in
flesh and blood the essential qualities of the human.
Hence it is neither knight, nor lover, nor saint,
but man per se, that is the type figure of this age's
fiction. In other words, the task of the novelist
to-day is synthetic : he has to link knight and lover
and Saint into one conception, for man is all these,
and many more things than these.
And to carry out his work he must strive in the
most secret places of the heart of man. In that
fact lies the key to the whole future of the novel
as a work of art. The school that began with a
life-like chronicle of the most commonplace happen-
ings, that was a matter of tool-boxes, umbrellas
and wheat-grains in Defoe, that became with
Richardson an analysis of sentiment and a bluff
picture of lusty happenings in Fielding, is destined
to follow in the paths of science and deal with the
very atom of the soul of man. But in saying that
what may be called “the master-novel” will become
more and more psychological, we by no means
exclude the social novels of manners: these
“abstract and brief chronicles” will still continue
to perform the service they have always performed
—the widening of the bonds of sympathy and
comprehension between class and class, between
type and type—but they will take the psychological
conclusions, the laws of character, given them by the
deeper novels, much as the compiler of a text-book
uses the conclusions of a great scientist. The
social and political novels will be the manuals of
human biology, but the masters will devote their
energies to other work—to the great spiritual
pictures that stand out in the sphere of human
investigation, like “The Origin of Species,” or
“The Data of Ethics” in other fields.
But if the goal be one for all these teachers
through story, the methods of approaching it are
as varied as their personalities. Meredith takes
the keen blade of wit to pierce the mind of man.
Hardy shows his soul winnowed by the flails of
fate, Björnson reveals it as woven in the looms of
heredity, while Anatole France steeps it in the
testing solution of his irony, and Tolstoy lays
violent hands on the chords of his heart. For the
story is of all forms of art the widest in its appeal.
It can plunge us in fathomless seas of evil, or lift
us on the wings of holiness, and for this reason
story-telling in the past has always been the key
wherewith the wayfaring man has unlocked his
heart.
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285
In some southern cities it is usual before a bull-
fight for the band to go through the streets playing
a peculiar tune over and over again. After a short
time strangers who have no inherited associations
with its message yet come under its spell. They,
like the citizens, are seized with the thirst for
blood, they long to see death and suffering. Many
stories have that power, the power of a Savage
tune. -
Take a second instance: a picture of a grey Sea,
of waves heaving under a cloud-cap that allows no
ray of sunlight to pierce it. It is a monochrome
by Claud Monet, and as one looks, one knows why,
in writing of Eternity, it was expressly said that
there shall be no sea there, for this is a visual
representation of the sorrow of the sea. A few
stories produce the effect of this monochrome, and
between the noble wonder at the awe of desert
places and the base kinship of Savagery lies the
whole gamut of human emotion—the novelist's
province. It is a goodly heritage.
M. P. WILLCOCKS.
—e—º-e——
MANUSCRIPT 2 OR WASTE PAPER 2
—º-º-º-
THINK I have shown, in a former paper, the
desirability of compelling reviewers to sign
their articles. The value of a literary notice
depends entirely on the name of the writer; and
author and public have a right to this guarantee to
the worth of a review. -
I now call attention to several other points on
which professional writers are placed in a very
different position from that of the members of any
other learned vocation. -
In the first place, the intrinsic value of a MS. is
scarcely admitted by English law. If “a common
carrier" (e.g., a railway company) loses a MS., the
sender has no claim unless he declares the value to
be over £10 and pays carriage accordingly at the
time of handing the MS. to the carrier. There is
no great hardship in this, as the law is the same for
all classes of goods; but suppose a publisher loses
a MS., is he responsible 2. There is very consider-
able doubt about it ; but there is none about your
claim against a tailor who loses the coat you have
entrusted to him. Is this fair P and ought not
writers to insist on an alteration of the law P
Surely the work of a man's brains is entitled to as
much respect as the production of his hands.
Opinions differ, even among lawyers, concerning
an author's right of recovery for a lost MS. I have
known the price of a MS. to be recovered in a
county court, and, on the other hand, have seen
a plaintiff fail in his claim against a publisher in a
higher court. A publisher returned a MS. to the
Writer of this article minus half the chapters.
Two Solicitors of reputation (one of them registrar
to a county court) expressed the opinion that he
had no cause of action against the publisher,
although there was manifest carelessness. Here it
is obvious that a MS. is treated as if it were of less
importance than a loaf of bread ; but the popular
idea is that authors are case-hardened against
starvation—as they have need to be What is
Wanted is that a man should have the same legal
rights in his writings that he has in his chairs and
tables—or a woman in her husband 1
From the law courts I drop to free libraries.
The books in these institutions should be
“standard” works—not the productions of modern
writers, unless they are paid for. No society,
corporate or private, Ought to be allowed to pur-
chase a copy of a book and make it the common
property of many hundreds of readers. Clearly the
author is robbed by such a proceeding. The
writer of a modern book ought to be paid a
royalty every time a copy of it is lent out of a
library—at any rate a public library. In many
places it is the rich and not the poor who make the
greatest use of these institutions; and I protest
against the meanness which pays a penny for that
which ought to cost 6s. or 10s. The committee
of a library buy two or three copies of a book
with a name ; and those two or three copies
go through the hands of, perhaps, two or three
thousand persons, many of whom would buy copies
if it were not for the blessed (blessed is not exactly
what I mean) free library. The readers pay a
penny “towards the expenses.” Why should not
each borrower pay the author another penny ? Or
those Carnegie chaps, who are so anxious to stock
the brains of Mr. Hodges with other men's
thoughts, might pay it for them ; and, of course,
pay it with a handsome margin. “Thou shalt not
muzzle the ox,” you know.
To meet possible objections (for alas ! the great
Darwin does not always agree with me), I may say
that I have not been able to find evidence that the
fear that authors would suffer if their books were
barred free libraries is well founded. On the
contrary, my position is that if well-to-do people
could not induce the ratepayers to buy a book for
them they would buy it themselves; and I have
some evidence that corporations obtain copies of
current works at reduced rates, which is doubly
unfair to authors. Free libraries, also, might be
compelled to buy so many copies at net ; and, say,
500 pennies per copy, royalty in advance. , Sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander ; and if the
production of a book costs a penny, 500 pennies or
£500 per copy, there are still several universities,
etc., which demand their free copies, especially if
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THE AUTHOR.
the book is an expensive one. I wonder what the
tailors would say if they demanded free suits every
time the fashion changed But there is a differ-
ence between brains and money, as I remember
that enterprising gentleman, the Claimant, once
explained. -
However, not to ask too much to begin with, I
desire to see an author’s “copy" made property—
real, tangible, undisputable property: so that a poor,
threadbare, half-starved writer (the righteous are
always oppressed) may be able to enter a court
and, if a judge tells him he ought to have kept a
copy, answer, “Gammon and now I want the
spinach "; and I hope to see him get it, too.
PAUL FOUNTAIN.
SOME NEW LITERARY WIALUATIONS.*
—º-º-º-
NANIMITY of opinion, or even a wide
agreement regarding the conclusions pre-
sented in a critical work, is neither to be
expected, nor possible. The very nature of the
work forbids it. The critic has, it is true, for one
part of his public a number of people who either
dare not or cannot form for themselves definite
estimates of the value of what they read. These
good folk come to him to provide them with ready-
made opinions, and are generally a tractable flock,
prepared jurare in verba magistri. But the rest,
the more intelligent readers, who already possess
views of their own, of necessity criticise the critic's
observations ; and his work has thus to take its
chance before a number of tribunals where the last
appeal is practically to personal tastes of an incon-
ceivable variety. But whilst the critic's work is
thus more than any others exposed to criticism, the
critic himself holds an unassailable position so long
as he is scrupulously accurate. And this is the
position of Mr. Wilkinson. Differences of opinion
will no doubt exist concerning some of his con-
clusions. To his punctilious accuracy it is possible
only to bow. And saying this amounts to saying
that “some literary valuations” represent a
contribution to critical literature deserving of
attention.
The range is wide : Howells as a man of letters;
Matthew Arnold as critic and poet ; Tennyson as
an artist in lyric verse ; Edmund Clarence Stead-
man as a man of letters; John Morley as a critic
of Diderot and Voltaire ; and Tolstoi. The
* William Cleaver Wilkinson.
Wagnall's Company. 1909.
London : Funk and
estimate of Howells is likely to be read with more
enjoyment than anything else in the book. It is
an admirable appreciation without exaggeration,
and an excellent example of criticism of the most
delicate kind.
The most valuable portion of the work, however,
is certainly that dedicated to a searching analysis
of the actual value of the writings, whether critical
or poetical, of Matthew Arnold. To discover the
small merits of most of Matthew Arnold's poetical
efforts is, indeed, a task that hardly requires the
abilities of a critic of Mr. Wilkinson's calibre.
But these poems do sorely need to be relegated
to the position which they deserve. The long
tyranny of Matthew Arnold's criticism has won for
them, from a public too long accustomed to take
their author au Sérieua, an appreciation very much
above their actual merit. And they are only too
likely to enjoy this undeserved vogue so long as the
delusion that some boundless wisdom is embodied
in all that Matthew Arnold has written continues
to prevail. That delusion ought never to have
existed. Unhappily it has existed for a long time,
and, unhappily, is still to be encountered ; so that
any one who takes up arms against it is doing good
work. Mr. Wilkinson makes the assault scientifi-
cally. He sets down, side by side, the oracles
delivered by Matthew Arnold and the actual
unadorned facts. Out of this ordeal Matthew
Arnold comes very badly; in fact, Mr. Wilkinson
accuses him of being a “loose thinker,” and proves
his indictment up to the hilt.
The great need that this should be done, and
done drastically, makes the two articles on Matthew
Arnold as critic and poet by far the most important
part of the work, and one that should recommend
it to a wide circle of readers. But other portions
of the book will be also found well worth reading.
The very graceful appreciation of the American
poet Steadman may be particularly mentioned. In
his criticism of Tennyson as an artist in lyric
verse, Mr. Wilkinson, whilst insisting upon much
that is undoubtedly true, seems here and there to
make rather too little allowance for the privileges of
poetry. In his estimate of Tolstoi he confesses
that his sense of the Russian novelist’s greatness
has its limitations, inasmuch as he finds Tolstoi
wanting in “final soundness and justness of judg-
ment.” To disagree with that is impossible. But
the question naturally suggests itself, Is any great-
ness in an author possible without those two
qualities 2 te
Mention has been already made of Mr. Wilkin-
son's accuracy. The temperate character of all
that he writes also deserves to be noticed. Many
of the questions which are discussed are of great
delicacy, and the skill with which they are handled
should secure the book a wide appreciation.
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TISIES A CITISIORs
287
CORRESPONDENCE.
—e-º-e—
LITERARY AGENTs.
SIR,--Mr. H. G. Wells seems to express a
reasonable enough view of the financial questions
that arise between author and agent, and of the
reforms necessary, on the supposition that these
agencies are indispensable.
But in my opinion the literary agent too often
adds a new terror to an already struggling pro-
fession. He will not accept a MS. on a percentage
commission alone, however high. He demands a
fee of a guinea, not returnable if he fails, like a
doctor who takes no fee if you live, but one if you
die. If the agent fails you lose a guinea; and as
many young authors have hundreds of MSS.
returned, and have few guineas to waste, the
increasing prevalence of the literary agent is a
great misfortune. Whereas, in the old days, you
risked 2d. in stamps, very soon, when everything
will need to be submitted through an agent, you
will risk a guinea.
In the theatrical profession young actors are met
at every turn by similar agents, and it becomes a
Question of pay, pay, pay, to get even an introduction,
to a manager.
And the very fact that literary agents claim that
they can get things accepted which, coming from
the author, were refused by the same editor, is a
bad sign. It shows that many editors are more
and more unwilling to consider MSS. except
through agents. -
(a.) If the agent is becoming indispensable,
then he is gaining a monopoly, and this should
not be allowed.
(b.) If the agent is not indispensable, then let
us dispense with him.
Yours, etc.,
ASHMORE WINGATE.
—º-º-º-
REVIEWERS AND REVIEWED.
DEAR SIR,--I enclose a notice of my novel,
“The Ways of Men,” received this morning, which
seems to me a very good specimen of the sort of
notice which inflicts an unfair, but probably
unintentional, injury on the novelist. My first
impulse on receiving it was to write to the editor
of the Notts Daily Guardian, pointing out
that by telling the whole story down to the bitter
end, his reviewer has robbed his readers of any
incentive to read the book itself, especially as he
does not remotely suggest that there are any
interesting side issues, or anything in the novel to
make it enjoyable, apart from the main motive.
Two considerations make me conquer the impulse.
The first : that one cannot complain of a review
on any grounds without danger of being classed
With a certain class of thin-skinned writers,
generally novices, who object to every review of
their work unless it is altogether laudatory. The
Second consideration is that the thing is done, and,
So far as my book is concerned, I have nothing to
gain by crying over spilt milk.
It has occurred to me that the society might do
Something to mitigate the evil—if I am right in
thinking it is one—either by preparing a circular,
and sending it to all the reviewing papers, to point
out the unfairness of “giving away ” the end of a
story, or, indeed, of telling more than is necessary
to show probable readers the character of the book
and theme, or by preparing a printed form of com-
plaint, to be filled up with details, and sent out
to the editor of any paper who permits one of
these unfair notices to appear. I think that the
members of the society would be pleased to send
on to you all the notices they receive to which
they think that objection can be taken on this
Score, and that a remonstrance made in the name
of the society would carry more weight than
Occasional remonstrances made by individual
sufferers.
Yours faithfully,
HERBERT FLOWERDEW.
THE PRICE OF NEW NOVELS.
DEAR SIR,-The interesting report on the 7d.
novel which appeared in the April Author contains
much with which everyone will agree, but there
is a sentence near the end which I think is
open to question. The distinguished writers who
sign the report say—“Whatever policy authors
may adopt as to reprints, they must maintain the
6s. standard for first editions. . . .” But they do
not tell us why. -
If there is one thing absolutely beyond dispute,
I should say it is that new novels are too dear.
Does any one with an income of less than £500
a year ever buy a new novel ? And yet there is
an immense reading public eager to read the latest
fiction, if it had the chance. Why cannot this
public be tapped
The modern tendency is to lower prices in every
direction. Food is cheaper, travelling is cheaper,
amusements are cheaper, but the new novel remains
at 4s. 6d. This fact excludes nine-tenths of the
population from ever seeing a new novel.
During the last two or three months I have read
various reviews, notices, and comments, on new
books, and the effect on my mind has been to make
me desire to read some half-dozen new novels.
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TISIE AUTISIOR.
At the moment I call to mind the following:
“Araminta,” “Septimus,” “Tono Bungay,” “The
Gifted Family.” I may say that the desire is not
a passionate one. It is not strong enough to induce
me to go without a new hat or curtail my modest
lunch in order to satisfy it. Nevertheless, if
those books had been easily available at a reason-
able price, I should have bought them. There
must be tens of thousands of people in a like case.
This brings me to my point. I gather from the
opening of the report published by you that rival
publishers can be got together in one room to
discuss a matter affecting their common interest.
Let Mr. Longman, Mr. Macmillan, Mr. R. Smith,
Mr. Methuen, and Mr. Hutchinson have another
meeting and agree to arrange with their authors
for the publication of all new novels in paper covers
at 1s. 6d. -
The thing would have to be done dramatically,
as it were, so as to impress on the public that they
were really getting for 1s. 6d. a .68. novel,
minus the cloth binding. There would have to be
some preliminary big space advertising, which,
however, would be supplemented by many articles,
interviews, and paragraphs, which such a revolution
in the book trade would naturally elicit.
Imagine the first effect of such a reform. All
the cheap magazines would be swept off the front
of the bookstalls, and in their place would be piles
of new novels. This, too, just at the time when
these very books were being discussed in the daily
and weekly papers.
The books would sell as readily as magazines.
Moreover, being paper-covered, they would dis-
appear in the same mysterious manner that
magazines disappear, whereas a cloth-bound book
is passed from hand to hand for years.
Authors and book publishers do not yet seem to
see that the whole problem is one of price. “There
are millions of potential readers in the country who
cannot get books for want of book-shops,” says the
report. I don’t deny the “millions,” but if the
books were produced at the right price, the question
of distribution would solve itself. -
Yours faithfully
H. J. A.
—º-º-º-
THE SOCIETY'S ADVICE.
DEAR SIR,--There has been a good deal lately
in The Author about members signing agreements
without the society's advice. There is one point
which I think has not been mooted—about the
most serious that I know in connection with this
subject. -
I give my own experience as probably typical :-
When my first book was published, I asked the
society's advice, and succeeded in having one or
two clauses in the agreement altered in consequence,
but my publisher flatly refused to accept the most
important alteration. As I could not afford a
rupture with him, I was obliged to withdraw that
item, bind myself to allow him the first refusal of
my second novel, and sell the entire copyright to
him at a price the society warned me was
insufficient.
Exactly the same history occurred with my
second novel (which my first publisher had refused,
perhaps fortunately for me).
With my third, by the society's advice, I asked
for a rising royalty, and received in consequence a
letter of indignation from a third publisher, who
informed me that if his terms were not acceptable,
he would return the MS. As I was utterly unable
to afford a rupture with that firm, I withdrew the
request, and accepted a royalty of 3d. on each copy
sold—for all time !
Since then I have placed two more books
successfully—but without advice, and probably at
much lower terms than an author ought to accept.
But what is to be done 2 Authors who depend
upon their pen for a living are not free to quarrel
with their publishers—they cannot afford to do so,
and I have three times at least very nearly come to
loggerheads through having followed the society's
advice /
Success with two or three books by no means
Secures a novelist's position, and whatever the
ethics of the case may be, authors who have to
make a living cannot possibly afford to haggle over
their agreements. It has occurred to me to
wonder whether the society’s advice is ranged too
high, and whether it fails to take into consideration
the defenceless position of the beginner
A. M. I.
THE GRAFTON GALLERIES.
SIR,--The Honorary Committee of the Exhibi-
tion of “Chosen Pictures" at these Galleries
request the honour of the company of the Incor-
porated Society of Authors at a special view of
the exhibition on Wednesday July, 7, from three
to six o'clock.
Will you kindly convey this invitation to your
members through your next publication on
July 1, with an intimation that cards of admis-
sion will be supplied to those of your members
desiring to attend, on application to the Secretary
of the Grafton Galleries, 8, Grafton Street, W.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
FRANCIS HOWARD.
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