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XX.-No. of Wol. 31 The Annual Report for the current year. 18. the year (August and September omitted), devoted especially Published ten months Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. protection and maintenance Issued non-members, 6d., Back 5s. 6d. per annum, post free. Price Members gratis. 10s. 6d. per vol. numbers from 1892, of in The Author. (Out S. print.) of an by of the 3s. of Publication The Contract LUNGE, J.U.D. 2s. 6d. of Copyright Bill the Berne and With 1890. Convention, and the of of 1s. 6d. Action from its its Germany, 1878, Foundation. By WALTER BESANT 18. Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By in 1888 1892). of Committee, M. LELY. Record Lord Monkswell's Commission of By A of Authors. of Bill. J. American the at G. to of Report the Copyright (Chairman 9. An Exposition Extracts from of .7 8. Copyright Law Reform. The Society the by In of in S. of this work, compiled from SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Publication. By agreements proposed Publishers the Society's offices, the various forms account Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with the different clauses therein. fraud which have been made possible various kinds Being additional facts collected By HERBERT THRING. the Above. Addenda With comments the Methods. the Society since the publication the office 2s. advice. papers to of of of Production. 3s. 18. The Various Methods de .5 The Cost 3. 4. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. By SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Lettres. the Société des Gens The History .6 at to or the all to to 2. .1 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. ERNST prices net. of List Apply Members. Published October, 1907, price 6d. the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. [All Authors. to 12. Society of on 1s. by G. Forms ; of By Agreement issued by the Publishers' Association with Comments. 2nd Edition, Sir WALTER BESANT. 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[PRICE e º-º-º t-sº-0 HE OR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion unless such is especially stated THE Editor begs to inform members of the Authors' Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain - them on application. e º-e THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. t-sº-0 LYROM time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, WOL. XX. º-e LIST OF MEMBERS. NOTICES. the Committee to be the case. SIxPENCE. or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. AUTORIDAD, LONDON. of Monthly.) BY SIR WALTER BESANT. 1. NUMBER or, El u t b List of Members of the Society of Authors, published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. e sº-0 PENSION FUND. * N the 5th of February, 1909, the Trustees of the Pension Fund of the Society, after the secretary had placed before them the financial position of the Fund, decided to invest £350 in the purchase of Corporation of London 24 per cent. Stock (1927 57). The amount purchased is £438 2s. 4d., and is added to the list printed below. The Trustees are glad to report that owing to the generous answer to the circular sent round at the end of 1908, they have been able to invest more than £100 over the amount invested last year. 23%.............................. £1,000 0 0 0 500 Wictorian Government 3% Consoli dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11 War Loan 201 9 3 250 0 0 Consols Local Loans .............................. ................................. London and North-Western 3% Deben ture Stock .............................. 0 �AICTISIOR, TYHE of to to is is to of In of to to go to to by of of as E. at to of of he in be to of if to to to it, ; of of of of on to by to in of to in by on on to in by of of to of byis to to at to of are to are not included the lists printed above unavoidably held over the next issue. certain letters which had received from Mr. regard Thomas Hardy the presidency the society. The committee, after considering the views expressed Mr. Hardy the letters, decided repeat the invitation extended him the council, and confirm and endorse the opinion already expressed the council meeting. They are pleased state that Mr. Hardy has now accepted the presidency. printed the reply On another page the questions addressed Mr. Robert Harcourt (who member the society) the Chancellor the Exchequer regard income tax the moneys copyrights. received authors the sale The committee desire draw the special attention members the answers given. to of from the present announcement. The names those subscribers and donors which in in a to on a to to all it at S. S. of to We regret that we omitted chronicle dona Sprigge tion £5 from Mr. the beginning the year. We have now added the list. With this exception fresh subscribers and April, 1909, have been deleted donors previous of The secretary then reported the negotiations that had been carried with some the agents the question insurance for the benefit members the society. He stated that one agent was favourably disposed towards the suggestion three were against while one other had not replied his letter. The committee requested the secretary, during the vacation, make arrange adopt the ments with the agent who was willing Society's suggestion, and the matter was arranged satisfactorily, determined that the agent's name, with the amount the insurance guaranteed the society, should printed The Author. The chairman then laid before the committee is a 0 0 0 0 5 5 0 1 0 1 6 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 () 1 () 1 1 1 . . . . . . . . . © e . e o e © C. A. . 0 5 1 0 ... ... º . . C. B. A. P. . C. e . 5, 7, 2, 5, 8, 8, 10 15 0 () O 0 0 (0 0 0 0 1 1 1 10 50 Burchell, Sidney H. 15, Linton, Stuart 19, Loraine, Lady 19, Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer 20, Stephens, Riccardo May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. June Olivia Ramsey Horne, º June © June 10, Muir, Ward June 10, Swan, Miss Myra June 17, Bradley, June 22, Trotēre, H. July Harland, Mrs. July Sinclair, Miss May Aug. Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte Sept. 10, Hinkson, Katharine Tynan 0 () O O 5 10 e o o Q S. S. 1, 1909. Sprigge, S. S. Donations. Jan. April April April April April of on in 1 5 I 1 10 5 1 5 ... 5 0 1 0 O 1 I O 1 . . © tº . F. G. Grindrod, Dr. Mrs. Basil 10, Hargrave, 5 O O . ... . E. L. . º C. 11, Grier, Miss Julia M. 11, Field, 11, Barrington, Mrs. Russell Burmester, Miss Frances 9, 8, July Jaques, E. 10, T. June June June June July July © # 1909. 13, Gask, Miss Lilian May 17, Rorison, Miss Edith June 10, Voynich, Mrs. 5, After the minutes been is 4 Subscriptions. April of d. .............................. of () Total ............... #3,815 0 () 0 9 438 2 the previous meeting had read and signed, thirty-two members and associates were elected the society. The list printed another page. The total number elections for the current year 181. The com mittee are pleased notice that the number largely excess the number elected during the corresponding period 1908 and 1907. 1907 the elections up and including July totalled 135, 1908, 154. Two resignations brought the and resignations up sixty-five. The first question considered the committee fiction, and they decided was the sale price appoint fully into sub-committee five the matter. The names of those who have con sented act are follows: Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Charles Garvice, W. Hornung, W. W. Jacobs, Sprigge. and The reference to this sub-committee was the standard price fiction with special reference the production new copyright novels the price of 2s. 1 Street. 0 6 228 247 258 of 1927 57 last meeting the committee the Society Authors, before the vacation, was Monday, July 39, Old Queen held on 0 0 200 NOTES. e-º-e 0 S. ... Stock .................................. Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. New Zealand 33% Stock........... Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock Corporation London 23% Stock, COMMITTEE 0 of Egyptian Irrigation Government Trust 4% Certificates ............... #200 Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed at TISIES 2 �A CITISIOR, lay of in in before the Departmental the principle embodied 0-sº-0 of be as a is or an in in of July, there SINCE the last issue The Author have been thirty-four cases the secretary's hands, average seventeen cases each month. This heavy list for the holiday season. The cases may divided follows: There were five claims for the return of MSS. four these the Secretary was successful; the fifth came the office only just before the paper press. had gone The applications for money reached total thirteen, and are accounted for follows: In six the cheques have been recovered and forwarded the members. One case had be referred the Solicitors, who succeeded obtaining judgment the county court. The debt and costs have been paid, and cheque for the former sent the member. Two cases are still the course negotiation, the defaulting parties having promised make payment certain date. The time had press. not elapsed when The Author went In one case the defendant was found be in bank ruptcy, and the Society had register formal claim against his estate. Of the remaining three cases one has been placed the hands the solicitors the society, for the defendant made of to to to in in to to as a of to of in by a to to of a to in to a of to go is in by a the case and forward the accounts fixed date. Six cases have arisen where members have been unable obtain from the publishers accounts and money. Of these three have been successful. Two have been withdrawn from the society, the member was informed that most probably, the accounts were not delivered and the money not paid, necessary would take the matter into many occasions, court. The committee have, dealt with this point, and have urged upon members being prepared the absolute necessity take matters into court the Society's demands their behalf are not complied with. This position dealt with another column of The Author. In the remaining case the author has agreed wait as if is on to if of on to be a to in certain time. There were five cases for the ordinary delivery accounts. Of these two have been of J. dispute One case, dealing with the settlement agreement, has been satisfactorily carried through. Two cases have been placed the secretary's hands for the collection of accounts due under dramatic contracts. Neither of these in Great Britain, but the manager has promised into an MEETING of the Coypright Sub-Committee was at the offices of the society on June 24, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins in the chair. The business before the committee was the con sideration of a Bill for the protection of musical MacGillivray at composers, drafted by Mr. E. the suggestion of Sir Charles Williers Stanford. Sir Charles explained to the committee the neces sity for the provisions set out in the Bill, and stated that, in the present circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for composers to get publishers to accept a grant of a licence to publish in their contracts. They insisted upon a full assignment, even though they paid a royalty. The position of the composer was thus rendered impossible. After some discus sion the committee decided to report to the com mittee of management that they were in favour of the principle of the Bill, but that they left it to the committee of management to decide as to the expediency of extending the principle contained in the Bill to books in the publication of which the same difficulties exist in law, though not so frequently in actual practice. The committee also subsidiary instructed the secretary to obtain evidence from Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Mr. the three letters which had been sent him. The other two have only recently come the office. to A held response it SUB-COMMITTEE. toto no of º-º COPYRIGHT support Cases. on ruptcy. Committee, the Bill. a literary contributions for the benefit of charities. The committee thought the matter of importance, and instructed the editor of The Author to take notice of this custom in the columns of this paper. There were three cases considered. The first related to a demand for work supplied to a news paper but not paid for. The committee authorised proceedings on behalf of the author. In the second case the committee found it impossible to come to a decision without further information and a copy of the original contract, but granted full powers to the chairman to act during the vacation in any way In the third case, which he considered necessary. referred to an infringement in Denmark, the com mittee decided not to take further action, as they had been informed by their Danish lawyers that One of the offending parties had left Denmark and could not be traced, while the other was in bank 3 William Wallace, to In The committee granted the chairman, during the vacation, the powers and authorities vested in them, should any emergency arise calling for an immediate decision. Some letters were then laid before the committee relating to the list of novelists published in the June number of The Author. It was decided to take no further steps in the matter. The secretary then placed before the committee a letter received from a prominent novelist in regard to the requests made by certain persons forgratuitous to TFIES �A [ſº] IOR. Reiss, Miss Erna Road, Boscombe, Ennerdale, Lapwing Didsbury, Manchester. L. Miss Marie L. Ernest (Ernest Black) Shedlock, Simpson, Miss Violet Spurrell, H. University Rhodes College, Grahams town, South Africa. 13, Pembroke Gar dens, W. 26, Nevern Mansions, 4, Stott, M. Syrett, Jerrard. O. e Buckingham Palace Road, S.W. Grangermon, Wood side Park, N. Road, Clifton Crouch End, N. º-e PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. BOOKS keep WHILE every effort made by the compilers possible, they have this list accurate and exhaustive attaining this object owing some difficulty the fact that many the books mentioned are not sent the office consequence, rely necessary the members. largely upon lists literary and books which appear hoped, however, that members will other papers. to to Wells, Somerset. Carrig-Cleena, Maidenhead. 40, Elm Park Man sions, Chelsea, S.W. 170, 6, Turner, Edgar S.W. Park Place, James's, S.W. St. H. Schwarz, is East Liberty Place, Derby Avenue, North Finchley, N. Lodge, Owls Forest Lane, o Scroope Terrace, Cambridge. Yockley House, Cam berley. Wyche-Side, Malvern. 6, Walpole Road, Croydon. Place, 27, as Humphry, Mrs. ( Madge " º of Truth) Huntley, Mrs. Hope W. Hants. Ditchling, Sussex. . 10, Cavendish in cellor Scott © Raeburn Edinburgh. to to Hargrave, Mrs. Basil (Parry Truscott) Holmes, The Rev. Chan (W. dilly W. 50, as . , Vernon as Grindrod, Charles F. Groves, Capt. P. R. C. O'Connell, Mildred (Mau e e rice Patrice) O'Fallon, J. M. Athenæum. 31, Dover Street, W. Grosvenor Club, Picca it Furse, Mrs. Charles W. e - Tibbits, Annie 3, . º tain Scuttle) . Shawford, Burmester, Miss Frances G. Clifford, Miss Lucy N.W. Ladies' Club, Minck, J. Murray (Aitken © º Murray) Mummery, J. P. Lockhart . Fairleigh, Hants. 41, Grove End Road, Lyons, Capt. Gervais (Cap- is of In Elections. Miss Marie N.W. Richard of Boileau, 41, Grove End Road, - Lowry, Miss Mary G. by July Park, London, S.W. Kirmse, Madame Peek, W. Weepey) Street, - 58, Overstrand Man sions, Battersea D. e-º-º Kelly, Minnie Harding Charles Rann Kennedy, Kirmse, Denmark W.C. in During the vacation no case has been carried through the High Courts on behalf of the society's members, but three county court cases have been settled, and the debt and costs paid. 6, - is take some time owing to the distance between the parties, but as the paper is a responsible one it is hoped that the matter will be satisfactorily settled. One case of infringement in Great Britain has been settled, and the sum claimed by the author has been paid. One case, which was commenced early in the year against a paper in New Zealand, has also been settled, and the sum claimed has been paid to the author. º The society has been very successful in its foreign cases during the past year, as it has obtained com pensation for two infringements of copyright in New Zealand and one in Spain. There was one other matter beyond those included in the list set out above. One of the large publishing houses, owing to the necessity of making some alteration in the disposition of its shares and capital, had to obtain a voluntary winding-up order, and, in consequence, under the law, was bound to send notice of this to its various authors. This brought a considerable amount of correspondence to the secretary. The matter has, however, been satisfactorily explained and brought to a conclusion. All the cases open at the issue of the last number have been settled or handed over to the solicitors of the Society. Miss Agnes M. 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Madame Wassal, who has lately returned from Annam, where she has been living for three years, lecturing engagements open the subject Life Annam. Dr. Wassal, who was attached Nhatrang, made several the Pasteur Institute expeditions into the interior, and every possible Occasion was accompanied Madame Wassal, who opportunity studying not only thus obtained the Annamese, but the wild hill tribes. Applications for lectures should addressed The Lecture Agency, The Outer Temple, Strand, London, W.C. Royal Revenues, H., booklet which revealed an obsolete historical incident, exemplifying the self-abnegation the late Queen Victoria and the devotion of one of her counsellors. Mr. Elliot Stock the publisher the work, which obtainable the price 6d. nett. in à w J. In EDWIN, ABBOT. OF The to THEOLOGY. THE MESSAGE the Rev. Henry Lansdell, D.D., author Sacred Tenth, who had prepared for their information an account of the most ancient possession of the college, namely, the lordship or manor at Old Court, Greenwich. Mr. J. Ashby Sterry, who originated and has Bystander Written the popular column in the Graphic for considerably over eighteen years, has . now altogether retired from that paper. Miss M. A. Woods, author of The Characters of Paradise Lost, has just published, through Messrs. Baker & Son, of Clifton, Bristol, a work entitled A Study of Opposites. Miss Alice Henry has been appointed editor of the Woman's department of the Union Ilabour Advocate of Chicago, Ill. The Adventures of Lally Helsmark is a work written by Mr. Marshall Kelly and published by Mr. Henry Drane in three volumes, sub divided into four parts. The first part follows the Course of a man who, bred in the ancient faith, Chaplain, of of TECHNICAL. COMPRESSED AIR WORK AND DIVING : A Handbook Deep Water Diving and for Engineers, comprising the use of Compressed Air for Sinking Caissons and By Cyclinders, and for Driving Subaqueous Tunnels. G. W. M. BOYCOTT. New York : D. Wan Nostrand Co. 128 pp. $4 n. THE LIFE STORY OF SIR CHARLES BRIGHT, CIVIL ENGINEER : With which is incorporated the story of the Atlantic Cable and the first Telegragh to India and By CHARLES BRIGHT. 490 pp. the Colonies. New York : D. Wan Nostrand Co. $4.50. 9 a TFIES �A DTEIOR. the - next year. autumn publica tions include a modern romance, by Helen H. Watson (Mrs. Herbert A. Watson). Love: The Intruder, is the title of the story, the author of which has already written many stories for children, as well as some novels, the latter category includ ing Andrew Goodfellow and The Captain's The Religious Tract Society's at. Daughter. Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, The King's Mignon, is to be published shortly by Messrs. Everett & Co. The period covers the few months that elapsed between the murder of the Duc de Guise and his brother, the Cardinal, Blois, order the King (Henri III.) and the Jacques. assassination the evil king himself Clément. this setting the author tells by of of a, In to of of romance the period, and introduces the vicissitudes which the heroine, wife one of exposed. the worst the mignons, An amount, mystery, which surrounds her existence portion the end, also forms considerable of Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's latest story. Penny's new Indian story, entitled Mrs. The Unlucky Mark, has just been published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. to is a E. & in is a as by Messrs. Washbourne Co. are publishing A. Red Handed Saint, Miss Olive Katharine Parr, this autumn. The story another slum narrative, and has run serial The Universe, London, The Universe, Ohio, and the Catholic Standard, a. to in of & C. by is Philadelphia. The Unexplained the title given Gerrard, collection Indian stories Edith which Messrs. Digby, Long Co. have published. all, and they tell There are eight stories Indian life the hills and when travelling the of on by by plains. & a Sidney Paths Perilous, new novel Pickering, was published last month Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Miss Winifred James will produce, early this, month, Saturday's Children. book entitled published Sons, will Messrs. Blackie by cent Gossip from Old Note-books, some chapters of which have appeared in the St. James's Gazette. Mrs. M. H. Spielmann has published, through Messrs. Chatto and Windus, a volume called The Rainbow Book, in which are included sixteen tales of fun and fancy. The book has a coloured frontispiece and fourteen illustrations by Arthur Rackham, and twenty-two in black and white by Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rowntree, and C. Wilhelm. Mr. H. A. Wachell's new novel, The Paladin, during the which has been running serially current year in the Cornhill Magazine, was pub lished in book form in the last week of September by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. Mr. Wachell is now engaged upon some dramatic work. Only a Woman : An Unsuspected Heroine of the Reformation, by Edith C. Kenyon, author of A Girl in a Thousand, etc., will be published by the Religious Tract Society. This story, dealing with the times of Luther, ran as a serial through the pages of Our Own Gazette, and we understand has already been translated into Swedish. Shadow-Shapes is a new volume of short stories and sketches by Ella Erskine. It owes its title to one of the quatrains of Omar º We are no other than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go round with the by on Sylvia and the Secretary is a new novel by Olivia Ramsey (author of The Marriage of Lionel Glyde and The Girl from Catford ), which Mr. John Long has just published. Amongst the novels to be issued at the popular price of 28. in the autumn is a re-issue of the novels by the author of John Westacott. The first volume that Messrs. Chapman and Hall will produce is The Gleaming Dawn. This will be followed by The Cardinal's Page, and then will By come the River Stories : John Westacott, the Western Sea, etc. The author, Mr. James Baker, is now engaged upon a volume of Reminis publish by was mainly in midnight just been published by Mr. Elkin. Price 3s. 6d. nett. Dolf Wyllarde is publishing, this autumn, through Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co., a collection of short stories, entitled Tropical Tales, which are mostly based on a theory of the influence of climate upon human actions and characters. The author has adopted the plan of stating the tempera ture in each case. The same Writer, in addition to a certain amount of journalism and magazine work, is also writing a long novel which Messrs. Methuen & Co. will of about authors. a work which held It has Mathews. F. Girl with Feet of Clay, sun-illumined lantern master of the show. be a announced the publication of a new novel by Gertrude Atherton this spring. We understand that we were premature in this announcement and that the work in question will not be ready till the spring of 1910. by Hope The Diamond and the Rose, Protheroe, is a novel which has for its theme the sacrifice of a girl who releases her lover because of the knowledge which comes to her of her inherit ance of the taint of insanity. The Century Press are the publishers. Mr. Edgar Turner is publishing, this month, through Messrs. Stanley, Paul & Co., a new novel entitled The Submarine Girl, which, in title and in style, recalls the same author's first book, The of TISIES It 10 �A UTISIOR. of C. A. on of in & to of to to of J. by of is a of in is of is by is a E. by in of of & of to be by & J. & P. D. of H. of of of of on on of of J. ; - - in a be departments. in Francis Gribble's three monographs on Montreux, and Lausanne have been brought together single volume called The Geneva, published by {Lake which will of Mr. Geneva, on TRAVEL. of To Messrs. George Allen Sons' series, England, under the Memorials the Counties general editorship Ditchfield, the Rev. M.A., has been added Memorials Old Sussex, Percy Mundy. Mr. Mundy has had edited the assistance Mr. Hilaire Belloc, who con introductory chapter tributes the indi viduality Sussex; Dr. Cox, who writes the subject Sussex forests; Mr. Tavenor Perry, who writes Saxon architecture and many other writers distinguished their various of of an be is in by J. new work Mr. Ellard Gore, F.R.A.S., entitled Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies, pub the press, and will shortly lished Messrs. Chatto and Windus. A TOPOGRAPHY. by by SCIENCE. a by H. its of of } a of he of & to In G. avoiding Pastimes, R., M. verse, homely form and reverent spirit, which has been published Messrs. Kegan, Paul Co. The proceeds the sales are the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. The volume contains six illustrations, which add the attractiveness the production. Mr. K. Chesterton's first book, The Wild Knight, and Other Poems, was published nine years ago, and Messrs. M. Dent Co. are now preparing new edition, which will revised the author and contain many entirely new poems. to in to of history, the language the considers are often quite beyond the ken the ordinary individual. eight coloured plates there are addition nearly 250 photographic illustrations. Messrs. Methuen Co. are the publishers. natural large text-books, which Thoughts and collection go in to by to a is W. Percival Westell, British animal life, which the popularise the study author continues his efforts guide POETRY. to of of in to a NATURAL HISTORY. The YoungNaturalist, Perfection, Georgie Har A Vision greaves, describes the struggle being against agnostic precepts, and eventual victory over Morland, 16, Park them. Mr. Frank Mansions, Fulham, S.W., the publisher. in C. to by to of de a in of of of of a is of : of of in an of X. of & to J. its be is to is to in of a It of is in of of by a A. C. of S. F. Miss M. Batchelor has translated, with the Miles, assistance Mr. short history the Popes, which has lately been written Prof. Giessen, one Gustav Krüger, the foremost Germany. ecclesiastical historians concise and impartial account the Papacy from the earliest times the accession Pius Messrs. M. Dent Co. are the publishers the volume which bears the title The Papacy the Exponents. Idea and Miss Agnes Murphy, who has been commissioned write the biography Madame Melba, which published New York and London during October, Irishwoman who has travelled widely, and who, for some years, has filled the position personal representative Song. the Queen The book will contain number illustrations. Mr. John Lane has recently published new Maintenon, her work dealing with Madame life and time, 1635 1719, Charlotte Dyson. Recent research has led the discovery many new facts concerning one whom friends and foes alike acknowledge have been one the most remarkable figures French history, and Miss Dyson will probably, taking these facts into account,be able show the wife Louis XIV. new light. There are 17 illustrations the book. a BIOGRAPHY. Messrs. and Black. The scope the work rather biographical and historical than descrip tive. The scenery the lake having been copiously illustrated Hardwicke Lewis and Miss Mary Hardwicke Lewis, Mr. Gribble, the author, has mainly devoted his text anecdotal summaries the careers the celebrities, from Bonivard Byron, and from Calvin Voltaire, whose names are associated with Geneva, Vaud, and Chablais. Messrs. Hutchinson Co. have just published Sir Godfrey Lagden's work The Basutos, which the author, who spent the greater part thirty years Southern Africa and seventeen amongst the Basutos, traces their early origin and formation into tribe under the celebrated chief Moshish. Their struggles for ascendency with the Zulus and other tribes are first depicted, and then the rough story contest with the European pioneers. published The work, which two Volumes, 24S. nett, illustrated from series reproductions from photographs the author's collections. THEOLOGY. at an in of at the price of The illustrations are Frances Ewan, and the book deals with the vicissitudes two penniless girls Australian town. 11 . 6s. by TISIES �A DTEIOR. by in in of In the far in & A of & by in a of of or is of of it as of at by of G. on B. J. a interpreted by at of 4, on of was in at in by on of and which included Mr. Matheson Lang, Miss. Dorothy Thomas, and Mr. Eric Mayne. Sir Arthur Pinero's play, Mid-Channel, four acts, was produced the St. James's Theatre early September. The caste included Miss Irene Vanbrugh, Mr. Lyn Harding, and Mr. M. Lowne. The Whip was produced Mr. Cecil Raleigh collaboration with Mr. Henry Drury Lane Theatre, Thursday, Hamilton September with caste which were included Miss Jessie Bateman, Mr. Wincent Keightley, and Miss Madge. Clive, Mr. Cyril Fabian. C. of be of by be is of a to of is of a A of September caste at in in in of is at is in : an to of Everyman's Library. F. Mr. McCarthy's play The Proud Prince, an the well-known legend King Robert. Sicily, was produced the Lyceum Theatre adaptation 9, in in of of of is Since the last issue of The Author the dramatic Section the Society Authors has been well represented the stage. Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy, Sir Arthur Pinero, Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Shaw, Mr. Paul Rubens, Mr. Bernard Mr. Fagan, and Mr. Alfred Sutro, Mr. Anstey plays during the have each produced Vacation. of or a of apostolic succession from the records the during the first five primitive mother-churches Christianity. three centuries Christianity The Dawn Continental Europe the title Miss Caulfeild s book, which illustrated from photographs, and published 2s. 6d. nett. preparing Count Lützow new edition his Bohemia Historical Sketch, which first print. appeared 1896, and has long been out considerably altered and The new edition will enlarged. As Count Lützow has recently written history Bohemian literature, the last chapter the Sketch, which dealt with the literature Bohemia, has been omitted. On the other hand, extensive chapter has been added which deals with the history Bohemia from the year 1620 the present day. The first edition did not continue the history Bohemia beyond the year 1620. The new edition Bohemia: published about the Historical Sketch, will end the present year Messrs. Dent Co. up DRAMATIC. of A. F. S. Miss Caulfeild has published, through sketch, more Mr. Elliot Stock, less brief, the planting the Christian faith Continental Europe when the several nationalities were pagan. The author has included her history extracts of of a deals particularly with the two main schools who advocate respectively formality and inform ality design, and suggests definite principles for guidance. The book, which has 300 illustrations, published Mr. Fisher Unwin the price £1 1s. nett. is HISTORICAL. Practice, Mr. Raymond book which not occupied with the advocacy town planning the Garden City movement, but, assuming the desirability these, put before the reader seeks sketch town planning has been practised the past, and give some idea the different styles work. Unwin, It to of of of in on to to be in on of a in has republished Small volume some articles his which appeared recently the Morning Post the question Germany and sea power, 1912 P the tile given the volume (in which will found some hitherto unpublished matter) provides the clue writing the author's purpose one the gravest questions the day. Messrs. Pitmans are the publishers. the law. ARCHITECTURE. Town Planning Mr. Archibald Colquhoun J. they are regulated in POLITICAL. by of as wife, so in by Mr. Edward Jenks's book Husband and Wife the Law, published Messrs. M. Dent Co., explains the mutual relations husband and of On an it is in of in LAW. a The Internal Combustion book under notice deals with subjects the borderland between the several allied sciences (notably physics and chemistry) and the exclusively practical sides their application. necessarily mathematical The treatment certain parts, but does not demand any more average acquaintance with mathematics than the part the reader. Friends of by oil of E. Wimperis. "-the My Werner Laurie has just published French, Robert Harborough Sherard. this volume Mr. Sherard relates Paris, beyond those given further reminiscences Paris, and his observa his Twenty Years tions modern Social life France. Mr.T. Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co. announce the publication of a text-book on gas, and petrol engines for the use students and engineers, Mr. H. Engine REMINISCENCEs. at in The volume is to be published on subscription 15s, nett. ENGINEERING. in TRIES 12 . �THE AUTHOR. the Revue des, Deua Mondes. It is the history the sister-in-law of Louis XIV. As of Madame, in by of all as to is a it as by as a is as so us as of de by is in of of a as as in up is in of to by as to an in all of of et is of of la of is ; de by is a of by by et de G. by ; of of all in of is of last book written by Mme. Arvède Barine has been published in volume form since her death. It appeared in serial form in and published shortly Messrs. Dutton by Mr. Nash in HE of NOTES. º-º-º be PARIS by º-e by e de part. L Hygiène Soldats, Propreté, L Anti sémitisme. The author of this series of books has parts Germany, and his been travelling study the country and the Germans one the most impartial and thorough criticisms that has hitherto appeared. Blanche, Among recent books are La Chasse Gyp Thérèse, Pierre Marcel Prévost Polochon, Pawlowski; Le Partage l'Afrique (Fachoda), Gabriel Hanotaux. poems volume the Duchesse d'Uzès, née Mortemart, has just been published under the title Paillettes grises. The title itself trouvaille, and very many the poems are exquisite. Pierre de Coulevain's book On the Branch" A Miss Ella Erskine, the author of the piece, has also written a one-act play which she has called The White Hair. This piece has been acquired by the Scottish Repertory Theatre for productions in Glasgow and Edinburgh this autumn, and Miss Erskine has been engaged to play the leading America. in had desired he et his mother ing Mme. Arvède Barine's works. Jules Huret has now published another volume Germany. his studies The present one Berlin, chapters entitled and contains on l Avenir, La Vie Nocturne, Le Monde, Le Peuple, Les Ouvriers, Officiers to she was a typist) what should do. word too much. Mme. Barine was thoroughly well her subject, and possessed the secret giving, concisely possible, life-like portrait the person she was depicting. She was one writers, and spared no the most conscientious pains getting the information necessary from every possible source before commencing her book. education read her notes, no detail was neglected her which might add the interest the subject she had hand. This volume on Madame one of the most interest is A new one-act play called The Typist was produced on September 15 at the Garden Theatre in the Women of All Nations Exhibition at Olympia. There are three characters in the piece: Earl Dreighton (Mr. Walter Pearce), Mary Lister (a heiress impersonated by Miss Ella Erskine), and Johnson (a butler, taken by Mr. Louis Calvert). The theme relates to the attempt of the Earl to literature, Save the fortunes of his house through rather than by contracting an alliance with an heiress as suggested by his mother, and the play shows how he finally did unconsciously (by falling in love with an heiress under the impression that Bohemia, her life was by no means an uneventful Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, One. On marrying brother of Louis XIV., she was required to abjure her religion. With her German tastes and her independence of character she found Court etiquette most irksome, until she became fascinated by the Grand Monarch. It is this thread of romance which makes the history of the Duchesse d Orléans so interesting. We see her, in the freshness her girlhood, amusing the French Court her frankness and her daring speeches. She delights hunting and riding, and indefatigable all Outdoor exercises. Much later on we see her growing old, tormented her family troubles, withdrawing jealous Maintenon, Mme. possible from Court life. much Mme. Arvède Barine gives extracts from her letters her family, were, from her that we have her story, reading between the lines. The whole own lips, interesting book novel. There not It Leigh, and Miss Isabel Jay in the caste. The Showing-Up of Blanco-Posnet "--Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's one-act play was produced at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin during the last week in August, with Mr. O Donovan as Blanco, and Miss Mary O Neill as the mother. Mr. Alfred Sutro's play Making a Gentleman, was produced at the Garrick on Saturday, Septem ber 11, and was interpreted by a caste in which were included Mr. Arthur Bourchier, Miss Ethel Irving, and Mr. Kenneth Douglas. False Gods is a translation, for which Mr. J. B. Fagan is responsible, from La Foi, by M. Brieux, and was produced at His Majesty's Theatre on September 14, with a caste which included Sir Herbert Tree, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Henry Ainley, and Miss Evelyn D Alroy. Mr. F. Anstey's fantasy, The Brass Bottle, was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre just before The Author went to press. In the cast were Mr. Lawrence Grossmith, Miss Viva Birkett, and Mr. Rudge Harding. º, descendant of the Stuarts the story of this Princess is extremely interesting to English readers. A granddaughter of the Winter King of of Mr. Paul Ruben s Dear Little Denmark, described as a Danish musical incident in two acts, was produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre early last month, Mr. Huntley Wright, Miss Gracie 13 England �of at of of to of of be to Berlin" (Fasquelle). Blanche La Chasse de of Le in to so he et (Flammarion). (Lemerre). Thérèse Pierre Polochon (Fasquelle). l'Afrique (Fachoda) (Flammarion). Partage Paillettes grises (Lemerre). de to a * u º- w w in us v. at by THE SMART SET HEINEMANN PUBLISHING CO., LTD. ". to a as (Hachette). Madame" On in is It is M. in at ALYS HALLARD. M. of In . Jean Jacques her vindication else hitherto. Rousseau she has brought some astonishing revela Maury calls support her theory, and tions upon his readers admire the resolution and the this clever writer. Further British perseverance M. Maury acknowledges that Mme. Macdonald Rarely, has proved the plot against Rousseau. says, has any seeker after truth been fortunate being able finding proofs and show the Mme. d'Epinay have The memoirs evidence. weapon against Rousseau. always been used certainly interesting find now that these the instiga the author memoirs were altered Mme. Macdonald tion of Grimm and Diderot. the original manuscript with the altera shows She certainly has been most fortunate tions. has taken her researches among the archives. prove her assertions, but her her twenty years era for the disciples and admirers book marks of Rousseau. her victim. hand stained for ever with the blood the The torch-light threw the magnified shadow this The dramatic effect the wall. hand hoped that the play scene was intense. given again under the same conditions. may It it, reviews the on had devoted some pages to the and this Maury very As had aroused great curiosity. justly observes, Mme. Frederika Macdonald has gone more deeply into her subject than anyone of English edition, giving extracts from the green, and, con the witches out looked room, they witnessed groups from room ducted the tragedy. The most the different scenes effective one was when Lady Macbeth descended her own the Wide staircase, looking with horror be In the Revue Bleue M. Lucien Maury devotes book on four pages to Frederika Macdonald's The translation of this book into Rousseau. French has been greatly appreciated here. Several to on A UITISIOR. TISIES 14 as an N a in in by of & by of to in in to an in in : it in be to & & of to in & in of a to an in in of on in of It in of It to as of England serial rights meant the right that parts publishing novel serially, i.e., book in or be by to It to of at in be to Smart Set stated that the English rights were included, and the defendant company published abridged version one number the whole story the behalf was urged the magazine. defendants that they had acted innocently and regarding pursuance what they were justified authority from the plaintiff's agent America. the meaning Some evidence was given was stated Serial rights and magazine rights. a on by a is it in in Was arranged of a on on of of en of of of America, and rights Co. should that Messrs. Duffield dispose these rights for £100, which was divided equally between the plaintiff, the author, Co. and Messrs. Duffield apparently, misunderstanding, Owing Co., disposing the maga Messrs. Duffield The the publishers the novel zine rights plaintiff for the serial in H. on In by by an by by on et an on ; ; by the Macbeth" has been the representation Abbaye Saint Wandrille. The play has been entirely re-translated M. Maurice Maeterlinck, the and Mme. Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck, forgotten Lady Macbeth, will never rôle those spectators who had the good fortune picturesque old château The Abbaye resent. was which dates from the seventh century. M. and the eleventh century. reconstructed this chdteau during the Mme. Maeterlinck live pro them occurred summer months, and duce Macbeth, using the different rooms for the stage From the windows the guests the play. Mr. an et In on by et by anonymous writer; Chateau Napoléon Leonce les Bourbons, by Pingaud La Question d'Alsace, Lichtenberger and Questions extérieures, the September number there Victor Bérard. Darwiniens Charles Bouglé are articles Sedan, Cambridge, Commandant Picard anonymous writer Le Débarque and Allemagne. ment des Anglais this season in France The theatrical event russe, briand, novel entitled the copyright North, which was Lawrence England published the volume form January, 1909. The plaintiff claimed plaintiff injunction damages and restrain the defendant Company from publishing the novel the magazine called The Smart Set. England Before the book was published Co., the New York, applied Messrs. Duffield prietor of on paradoxale, Voltaire Fernand Caussy Philippe Gonnard Sainte and ses Curés, Napoléon III. the August numbers Hélène of the same review are articles on L Armée this case Mr. Heinemann, the well-known pub registered pro lisher, brought action Syrinx, as on de by of July there are interest Paris L Orthodoxie André Chevrillon the Revue ing articles by In an to It SERIAL RIGHTS. �TEIE AUTISIOR. it he to it if of it it at at to if in it an to all to a to an of of be no in a to it to be a of of to is of an it no is is on of on of of If is to a to it to if to to of be a in be to if on in of if ; all to a is or is be to is it a of a in it of of an of to if is a he of of by an as to in in be if an in a at difficulty. Such statement would, authors when contrary were made, course the facts, the fault lies with the member and not with the society. Again necessary impress upon mem bers that prevention better than cure but they desire place case the hands the secretary they must prepared, his demand neglected repudiated, ready their behalf By these means they will not take legal action. to of to of in a an at It of be be to on in º-º-º HE question the fighting strength the society has again arisen. From time time the society's reports and The Author the committee have insisted and persisted that those members who place their disputes the ready hands the secretary should take their cases into the courts such course essential. Some little time ago old member the society who had not made very much use the society's machinery came and laid three cases before the secretary, desiring that should take the matters hand immediately. agree The first was claim for moneys under publishers. ment from American firm The copyright second was claim for infringement under the Berne Convention, and the third was English publisher claim for royalties withheld through misinterpretation the terms the agreement. The secretary once proceeded take what action he could. In the first case he found out very that the American publisher was not in to of of as to in as LEGAL ACTION AND MEMBERS RESPONSIBILITIES. of to an in In at to be to be In be to as to of a of of an to a in to an to of in by the defendants discontinue the sale the number The Smart Set containing the novel injunction was not necessary, but the plaintiff damages and was entitled the usual inquiry the costs the action. HAROLD HARDY. sound financial position, and that would most probably necessary bring action enforce payment. He once communicated with the publisher. American the second case some further details were necessary order establish copyright, the infringement and once wrote the solicitors the society obtain their opinion upon the position. seemed quite clear, however, that the guilty party had been dealing with property that was not his, would necessary take the matter into court the infringement was clearly established. the third case the secretary read through the papers and agreement carefully, and, assured the mistake the interpretation the contract, wrote the publishers. He then informed the member the steps that had been taken, and that would any rate most probably essential but was necessary prepared to carry the matters through the courts. He pointed out the same time that the society's influence very often was bring dispute able settlement without going into court, though that influence the past would have been considerably weakened the important point committee had not made prepared that members should take legal action. The secretary received answer his com munication requesting him return the papers litigious disposition, the member was not and did not desire take legal action. To such member the society can doubt use advising contracts before they are signed, and keeping business out the hands doubtful and unsatisfactory publisher, but must evident the member on consideration, and others who read this statement, that useless ask demand, and then refuse, the society make repudiated, the demand allow the society management, take action. the committee during the twenty-five years the society's existence, had conducted business these lines, the society would have been the laughing stock publishers, editors, and literary robbers. The only danger that may arise action this kind that sometimes the member may go away from the society's office and may proclaim good that that the society cannot help of to an a in It to no to it for in for magazine rights was and that the expression not commonly used and had no distinctive meaning. On the other hand, it was said that in America news serial rights were divided into two groups paper syndicate rights and magazine right; " and that the latter included the right of publishing the whole of the novel in an abridged form if neces sary in one number of a magazine. It Was a common practice in America to abridge a work this purpose without consulting the author. giving judgment for the Mr. Justice Parker, plaintiff, said that impossible was the defen justify what they had done under any dants Duffield, authority obtained through Mr. who clearly had authority deal with the English rights. was case where, innocent party innocent the sense that they believed they had they had not infringed the right, though copyright. The plea innocence that sense Owing undertaking was not good law. 15 �A UTEIOR. MAGAZINE to of H. of Mandré The Master Hoaxer Some Neglected Aspects Pearson. by to la in E. of of : M. Dent Co. announce new editions Gulliver's Travels and Lamb's Tales from & Messrs. of in Shakespeare. Numerous coloured drawings and many illustrations black and white by Mr. Arthur Rackham, with specially designed end papers, will the salient features the pro duction. large paper edition There will each Volume, which will limited 750 copies, and subscription a price Will issued 21s. nett. which will raised after publication. of of to be a be be at be or By Harold Binns. be to of By Norman NINETEENTH CENTURY. Matrimony and the Man By Sidney Low. Letters. By André Beaunier. L Art Français Contemporain. By A. Debussy His Science and his Music. Keeton. By the Hon. Mrs. Alfred The Book Lismore. Lyttelton. J. of ; or as Horace Walpole. By Andrew NATIONAL REVIEW. in or a as as Cloche. By Hubert Ives. George Borrow Russia. By W. Roberts. Modern French Pictures. By George Hookham. The Shakespearean Problem. on or to to or be Bell. MONTH. Mandeville's Travels. of or of is be or to James de On to in Lang. : to in to a in or Such moneys received by an author, dramatist, composer are liable being the income income tax profession, and would treated earned income. By Kenneth FORTNIGHTLY. be to he to as or of in as or Reply: History. English Architecture in as to of to composers may regard Whether authors, dramatists, performing moneys received from the sale copyright right capital, and such not subject income tax and whether, view the fact that the duration composer's property an author's, dramatist's, his own forty-two years, by works has been limited statute life and seven years, whichever the longer period, the royalties and other payments which an author, dramatist, composer may obtain return for lease licence publish perform will assessed earned income whether they accrue due before after the death the author, dramatist, composer 7 By Edmund Gosse. Gide. CORNEIILL. a of to The Writings of he which had entered into, but finally Mr. Robert Harcourt, member the society, was kind enough undertake the duty, and put the following questions June 22, 1909, the Chancellor and received the reply set forth below : A H. as is of is the society saw this reply put the matter before the committee order put somewhat ascertain whether they desired regard similar questions the Chancellor the sale authors copyrights. The committee authorised the step suggested the secretary. There was some little delay owing the negotia Buxton Forman. CONTEMPORARY. is in : " By Maurice Meredithian. Byronic Memories. of in BOOK MONTHLY. the sells outright his patent rights, capital and regarded the sum realised from the Sale not taxed. Where an inventor has not parted with his patent rights, but allows another person work the royalty, the patent consideration the payment resulting income regarded unearned income derived from property. When the secretary A. on Chesterton Shaw Review by St. John Adcock. By Edward Thomas. The Country Books. History. By The Times Lieut.-Col. W. James. of of replied byF. C. arTy. B of in to of to of the Exchequer Where an inventor a a BOOKMAN. By Thomas Seccombe. Spencer Scott. Dr. Johnson's Literary Work. By By Sargisson. Dr. Johnson's Ancestry. The White Prophet: Review The Rev. William Johnson. as he (the Chancellor) was aware that the Inland Revenue Commissioners contended that the income of an inventor derived from patent royalties was, under the 1907, not Finance Act be treated earned income, but was liable the full tax 1s. the pound instead 9d. which was the rate allowed on incomes earned by other professional and scientific labours; and whether he would state upon what section the Act that contention was founded. CONTENTS. 0-º-º If of as to of º-º-º 1908, Sir Henry Kimber November put the following questions the Chancellor the Exchequer: tions earned. of to AND INCOME TAX. 26, The Chancellor following terms: b by his representatives of a N the hands The committee the society, observing the discrepancy put these replies, propose further question the Chancellor the Exchequer. 45 a w-ul---w AUTHORS But any payments received after his death would be income him, and could not from property left derived treated of is to all only strengthen their own position, but the position of their fellow authors, and Surely, the majority, the latter reason the higher ideal. in TISIES 16 �members. of or is or or to to It to is to to in of a of of to if or in º-e AUTHORS, DRAMATIC º-º-º it or in of of of (a.) Sale outright unsatisfactory. of an of to a is There are three forms three or more acts: is dramatic contract a in such contract should stipulate the contract for production the piece by certain date proper publication and for his name on the of of be price can for plays the performing right. This An author who enters into a in in of a if proper of to : of or a is It to to of of of of TO 3. It 2. * to a it is I. WARNINGS copyright. 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. are few standing rules observed an agreement. dealing There are four methods literary property : with Selling Outright. This sometimes satisfactory, transfer e per TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. e-Q-0 be ERE 1s. of in to a to to to to to | (3.) Always avoid EVER º- a v----w WARNINGS £1 (a A In in tº of (2.) The inspection those account books which belong right, the author. We are advised that this the nature common law right, which cannot be denied withheld. to is or 9. to The subscription the Society annum, £10 10s. for life membership. the four Such combinations are generally disastrous the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary the Society. 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 In 68,0S, so of to agreement are combinations do to 8. prevent authors from referring matters the Secretary the Society; some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. above mentioned. is a This The General. All other forms of of of to on it 7. stamp agreements. days first execution. Commission Agreement. The main points are production. (1.) Be careful obtain fair cost (2.) Keep control the advertisements. (3) Keep control the sale price the book. of to to to by of the Society. IV. a of to of a 6. No contract should be entered into With literary agent without the advice the Secretary the Society, accept without careful Members are strongly advised not publishers consideration the contracts with submitted literary agents, and are recommended them submit interpretation explanation them for and the Secretary what the proposed royalty means both sides. now possible for an author approximately ascertain the truth. From time time very important figures connected with royalties are published The Author. of a in be of Prospectus. behalf The Royalty System. perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form agreement. above all things necessary know to To a in to To To (1) B. 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: stamp agreements possible action readiness for upon them. keep agreements. (2) (3). enforce payments due according agreements. Fuller particu Society's iars the work can obtained the form III. This 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. bad is send Agreement 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 to the author. give up American, Colonial, Not Continental rights. give up rights. (5.) Not serial translation any publisher. (6.) Not bind yourself for future work any one solicitor well bind yourself for the future Octor A 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, the document to the Society for examination. Profit-Sharing º 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright experi and publishers' agreements do not fall within the Therefore, do not scruple to use ence of ordinary solicitors. the Society. II. agreement). º 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 special reason the Secretary will refer the case tº 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 all costs borne by the Society. Some agents endeavour managed by the Secretary . WERY member has a right to ask for and to receive Many agents neglect must be done within fourteen Secretary will undertake of or obtained. But the transaction should competent agent, with the advice the Society. º-º-º l, 17 of a HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. TTISIOR. be A TISIES (? play-bills. �AUTHOR, can be added to the warnings given for the of books and dramatic assistance of producers It must, however, be pointed out that, as authors. publisher from the musical rule, demands the musical a C9mposer 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 an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. 0-4-0 to in be a is of it of to is it a if be a to of ** wº -v-º--a REMITTANCES. CENARIOS, º-º-º All to of give the Society begs The Secretary that all remittances are acknowledged by return remittances should be crossed Lane, Smith's Bank, Chancery letter only. Union sent of notice post. London and by registered of typewritten 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. by of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing. by of to accepted. º-º-º be OF SCENARIOS. is of Communications and letters are invited by the all literary matters treated from the stand business, but on no other subjects whatever. point art Every effort will return articles which cannot made Editor be REGISTRATION of as of a remind members The Author begs them sent the Society that, although the paper producing would charge, the cost free great the Society very heavy charge the resources the Secretary the modest many members did not forward 58. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's the Offices Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. HE Editor or e º-e THE AUTHOR. º-º-º of {}-6 e to are referred to the Secretary of the Society. one guinea. on 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 fee of 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market object is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first is to obtain adequate publication. this assist the Society informing young writers its work and read Their MSS. can its existence. The term composition coach. treated by treated fiction, but poetry only works MSS. includes not possible, under and dramatic Works, and when The Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The competence and experience. Readers are writers branch of play 10. An author should remember that production of a 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. 0-Q-0 EMBERS will greatly on should be carefully for collaboration 9. Agreements drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. BRANCH, THE READING is consideration. in * h v-v-w to 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed They should never be included in English ingly valuable. a substantial agreements without the author obtaining of is the then forwarded Secretary, and the voucher members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble. is of great importance. rights in a 7. Authors should remember that performing A manager play are distinct from literary copyright. holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. or The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on part 6d. per 100 members for the fee of the Society's 100. The members stamps are kept safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the behalf rights can 5. Authors should remember that performing country, and be limited, and are usually limited, by town, This is most important. time. rights, but 6. Authors should not assign performing should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction MUSIC. STAMPING of one act are often sold outright, but it is a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum It is extremely of such fees in any event. the amateur rights of one-act plays should L"; of 4. Plays in better to obtain paid in advance important that be reserved. -º-º-º be (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 The likely to be small or difficult to collect. other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply also in this case. TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS, WARNINGS its (b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary between Percentages 5 gross receipts. An author should obtain a and 15 per cent. percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts Should in preference to the American system. A fixed obtain a sum in advance of percentages. date on or before which the play should be performed. or TISIE 18 �TISIE AUTISIOR. or be to on of If of of be of STANDING MATTER. to or on to be of to a its to be of we a to of a of of In at to a of in to of on be to is is of to to of be to MORAL OBLIGATIONS. of to by in a of by a WE were discussing with well-known English composer the other day the serious issues involved copyright publisher, and the the transfer fatal result the composer the event the assignment the contract the trustee after of to of to in of of a to of to it to of as a to its of to to of a committee formed shortly the July Author. Appli cation was made the Society Authors appoint delegate represent views before Unfortunately, the committee. the last meet ings the society's committees before the vacation had been held, was impossible obtain sanction represent the the appointment dramatist society officially, but the secretary circularised various members the dramatic profession, mem bers the society, order that they might per sonally give expression their views before the committee that had been appointed. Much the a dramatic plays, in of of interest to the censorship of ANOTHER question, writers, the question has been referred after the appearance We should like remind musical composers that the Society stamps their compositions, retain ing the stamps safe the office, and charging the usual fee 5s. per 1,000. The vouchers are forwarded the composers and the accounts for stamping rendered semi-annually. To all members we should like state that the agreements Society undertakes the stamping necessary and letters contract. All that that the agreement should sent the office within the prescribed time. The document will returned, the only charge made being the cost paid. the stamp duty which has The society also stores agreements behalf members, keeping them safe for this purpose. Some our members may have overlooked these matters, which we recall for their convenience. of be all ====== of * to SINCE the last issue of The Author the Depart mental Committee dealing with the Berlin Con vention has been taking further evidence on the many points connected with this very difficult subject. The Society of Authors has given every assistance in its power in the collection of evidence on the points suggested by the chairman and secretary of the committee. The president of L'Association Littéraire et Artistiques Inter nationale has given evidence before the committee on the question of the duration of copyright. We understand that all the evidence has now been taken, but that the committee will re-assemble in the autumn in order to consider their report. This report will be awaited with great interest by those who have any dealings with copyright property. it do it if or, a of paper often neglect READERS read standing matter, they read once, forget again. substance and not read may worth while, therefore, remind members one two points which the society endeavours advise and protect them. the beginning this year the society register plays. This established scenarios great convenience good has been found many may permitted our members, but call the members' attention once again existence. It PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. its its to all is its as or to of WE regret to record the death of Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey, which occurred at her residence, Sandilands, Putney, in July. Miss Carey joined the Society in 1891, and was a member up to the day of her death, as well as an annual subscriber to *. the Pension Fund since its inauguration. As a writer for girls she enjoyed a wide popularity, appearing in her first story, Nellie's Memories, 1868, and her last, The King of the Unknown, to which we referred in a previous issue, being published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. in September. In to masºmº, *mammº to WE have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. Thomas Hardy has accepted the presidency of the Society of Authors. of a THE SOCIETY's PRESIDENT. of in to -º-º-º an evidence has appeared the papers. One two members, owing what would appear inac Curate report which the society's name was men tioned, have obtained false idea the work the $90iety's committees and the attitude the society the matter. these members had taken the trouble read the columns The Author they would not have been misled and would have known what had taken place. We must refer members the Society's organ for full information. this case also the report the committee will awaited With great interest. Whatever view one may take the desirability the censorship whether against for continuance the matter one great importance dramatic writers. in GENERAL NOTES. 19 �THE AUTHOR. can then obtain an injunction against the printer, have the pirated work destroyed, and the party so infringing unished. Sir Jordan adds that similar applications made through British consuls to local authorities in China against infringement by Chinese subjects of British copyright have met with success. am to inform you that there is no objection to the publication of this letter. am, J. I I Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, F. A. CAMPBELL. à º- -a wº ~-w SIR THEODORE 0-Q-0 Y the MARTIN. Sir Theodore Martin literature death of to a as as no a it be to of to in he of of as a as a a of of its doyen, and the Society loses Authors twenty-five years' standing. member letters; and He was solicitor well man practical affairs doubt the large experience which had gained the former capacity helped him realise from the outset that the work which the founders the society were setting out do was work which badly needed done. The law, has often been said, is jealous mistress and brooks rival. Most lawyers, therefore, who have discovered talent, well taste, for literature, have taken the earliest oppor no tunity quitting the law for the pursuits which pleased them better. Wilkie Collins did for one, and easy would cite other examples. Sir Theodore Martin, however, contrived follow both callings with equal success, and may adopting the policy said have done those strange people Odyssey who earned the toiling both night and day. His double wage office hours, during the greater part his pro fessional life, were from nine o'clock the morn ing until nine o'clock night. He then so we gather from some personal notes contributed few years ago Literature his relative, Mr. Robert be of by a to by a at in of by in a a to it of a it to an by or he of printed in of protests against the blatant Radicalism the motor 'bus. There may truth the ancient adage that hard work never kills ; but no J. be and Chinese subjects. Great Britain, as you are aware, has no treaty with China which deals with the question of copyright, but Sir Jordan states that a Chinese author wishing to protect his work usually sends a copy to the local authority begging warning the public that he will issue a proclamation against infringement. In case of infringement the author he I strain such excesses, would have found the willingness the spirit undermined the weak ness of the flesh. Sir Theodore Martin carried his carry burden lightly, and continued until advanced old age. Working harder than the average solicitor, larger output also produced letters; while books than the average man seems only the other day that was still con spicuous the old-fashioned Conservatism his of FOREIGN OFFICE, June 12, 1909. SIR,-With reference to your letter of February 24th last, am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that a despatch has now been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking upon the subject of the protection of British copyright in China against infringement by British - by We have much pleasure in printing, with the consent of the Foreign Office, the last letter received on the subject : Machray rested from his labours and refreshed himself for brief hour and half; but presently, 10.30, he sat down write, and often continued his desk until the clock struck two. Most men would have broken down under the of Office and ascertain what retribution, if any, could be obtained against piracy in that country, taking into consideration the fact that no treaty dealing with copyright exists between Great Britain and China. at at SOME months ago one of the members of the Society drew the committee's attention to the question of literary piracy in China, and the secretary was instructed to write to the Foreign it to COPYRIGHT. of CHINESE he to to it be so of the publisher's bankruptcy. The composer stated that although the assignee of the contract might not be bound by law to pay the royalties, the com poser's claim being merely one for damages against the bankrupt estate, yet he felt quite certain that no respectable music publisher would repudiate his obligation under the original contract. We were pleased to hear this expression of opinion. Business men, as a rule, do not take much cognisance of moral obligations, and the society has generally found moral force of little avail unless it can be backed up by legal pressure ; but we are compelled, with regret, to confess that our experience does not bear out the statement made by our friend the composer. We have known one publisher of books who has paid the royalties in full on taking up contracts from a bankrupt estate. We have known other publishers who have been only too willing to take advantage, in order to evade payment of royalties, of the doubtful wording of any contract, when they consider that this wording is covered by the legal decisions, and we have known publishers of music as well as of books equally ready to repudiate their moral liabilities in the circumstances. It is necessary to repeat, therefore, that no author or composer should trust to the morality of the issue, but should invariably insist upon a con tract which does not transfer the copyright either directly or impliedly to the publisher. a 20 �he by a he of in a to of it be in he poet unless loves him. He must first penetrated his spirit, and have steeped his ear the music his verse, before can reflect these under humorous aspect with success. Precisely because they fulfil those conditions, keep Theodore Martin's parodies are likely permanent place that class literature. in COPYRIGHT U.S. by of in to is in of in a is : as a as is to as in by is to of on a of of to as 1. e. A or of a or all of of by be if or or, or by by of or as of in a of in be of a be a to in or of a no be it in as to he brackets preferably periodical That the printed book section five, subsections (a) and (b) this Act, except the original text book foreign origin language languages copies accorded other than English, the text protection under this Act, except below provided, printed from type set within the limits shall the United States, either hand the aid typesetting machine, any kind from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein, produced the text lithographic process, photo-engraving process, process wholly performed within the then limits the United States, and the printing the performed within the text the said work shall limits the United States [which requirements shall extend also the illustrations within book consisting printed text and illustrations produced lithographic process photo-engraving process, except where either case the subjects represented foreign country]; but they shall are located SEC. 15. specified of by as of as no no follows, part of in of of of to promise, was omitted of no it in in we a In us of of to is of little offence their victims and, Sir Theodore justly claimed, for the same reason. one, quotes from Heine, Let ridicule mankind unless he loves them ; and he con tinues : said, let With less truth may one SEC. The proviso curtailing the rights musical authors mechanical reproductions. SEC. 13. The addition of the words and the copyright shall become void (in case non deposit copies), which makes double, indeed triple, penalty and involves forfeiture technicality, while denial proceed the right against infringers until such deposit made quite sufficient. SECS, 15 17. The manufacturing clauses, which prevent participation this country the Berne binding and Copyright Union, particularly illustration. The affidavit clause considered needlessly burdensome. less objectionable form, admissible com of of as of at a . . . be to a of to a of . . . as to a a a purpose higher than mere amusement, appeared the verses, with few exceptions, which subse quently became popular, degree we then little contemplated, the Bon Gaultier Ballads. Fortunately for our purpose there were then living thought not few poets whose style and manner were sufficiently marked make imitation easy, popular parody and sufficiently for their readily recognised. Never, characteristics probably, were verses thrown off, with keener writing them we had enjoyment. sense thought pleasant sur the public, and was prise when found how rapidly they became England, but also popular, not only America, which had come for no small share severe though well-meant ridicule. On the authors the Bon Gaultier Ballads, say, had fallen the mantle that the authors Rejected Addresses. Their parodies were well liked those their predecessors, and gave productions: by of of of of or an or of of he says, in which we ran In these papers, atilt, with all the recklessness youthful spirits, against such the tastes follies the day mirth, presented opening for ridicule the same time that we did not altogether lose sight as are the features which the unsatisfactory new code the friends unrestricted property rights intellectual et de a in be collaborator. Weekly.) Publishers' States HE following ce en et et en in of a kind Beaumont and Fletcher partnership with Professor Aytoun. His own account the partnership may read his memoir his DEFECTS. CODE e-º-º (Printed from the United in of of in to a in to no imposed restrictions the biographer. He could more give expression his own personality such volume than his various translations from the German and the Latin. The more critical public, therefore, will prefer judge him those Bon Gaultier Ballads which he wrote the heyday his youth and irresponsibility. course, was taken from The pseudonym, Rabelais. A moi, we read the master's pages, gloire d estre dict reputé n'est que honneur Bon Gaultier bon compaignon; nom Suis bien venu toutes bonnes compaignies Panta gruelistes. young man Sir Theodore, then about five-and-twenty, wrote under the signature for various magazines, first alone, and afterwards GRIB BLE. FRANCIS on of up of to of parody 21 Sir it at - events, had neither terror nor peril. The work which gained Sir Theodore his widest circle readers was indubitably his official Life the late Prince Consort, which devoted fifteen years his leisure. The mere fact that was official, while opening sources information which would not otherwise have been accessible, of for his vigorous constitution, AUTISIORs a all THE �A DITISIOR. an or of at if as all In to of of of in of of if or a if : as to in be if or or or or to to no if of or in of be ; or or in of by of or no in of of to in to as by in as thirty-first Congress the International Literary and Artistic Association was held Copenhagen 26, from June 21, join the Berne Denmark was the last and to but was anxious support continuous show her zealous the principles of 1909. Convention, to a of be AT COPENHAGEN, sº-0 HE if of it or in to of In or be e a for of a of be THE CONFERENCE of in * ~~ A. v-v-w to for byas or for is of of of for to In a (a) of by of SEC, 31. The importation clauses, while abso lutely prohibiting importation foreign-made copies even for the author himself, omit the words with the written consent the copyright pro prietor, from (d) first and third, emphasised publishers necessary secure the American market, previous 1891, and accord with our patent laws and the copyright provisions other countries. Omits, SEC. 53. view the voiding for non deposit, the desirable proviso; Provided, That regulations shall affect the breach such rules validity the copyright. supported These variations from the bill publishers are here recorded for possible use case of future movements for amendment. as of of or of or of or a of for or by of any posthumous work, any the case periodical any work other composite work, copyrighted corporate body (otherwise than assignee authors), the individual author employer hire, whom such work made fifty years from the date first publication; any work not specified (b) the case sub section this section, but including contribu periodical when such contribution, has tion been separately registered, the lifetime the fifty years after his death (or author and joint authors until fifty years after the work them); and death the last survivor shall executors, administrators, assigns the duty the application for such of In (a) this Act shall : That the copyright secured endure : by as in in of a of by all a a be of be to a as shall knowingly make false affidavit his having complied with the above conditions shall misdemeanor, and upon con deemed guilty punished viction thereof shall fine not more than one thousand dollars, and his rights and privileges under said copyright shall thereafter be forfeited. SEC. 23. Authors and publishers desired term accord, with the Berlin life and fifty years, agreement, embodied the following draft successor shall join renewal and extension. of in of to a of of or of of or or or or plates were made lithographic process, photo-engraving printing process were performed and the date the completion publication. the printing the book the date SEC. 17. That any person who, for the purpose obtaining registration copyright, claim of type was publish the work on less entitled continue payment the royalty stipulated the original agreement but such original assignment provision for the payment license contained royalty, the copyright shall renewed and extended only case the original assignee licensee his at set or of of of printing the text the said book has also been performed within the limits the United States. Such affidavit shall state also the place where and the establishment establishments which such in be of or, if of or by ; set or within the limits the United States from plates made within the limits the United States from type therein the text produced lithographic process, photo-engrav ing process, that such process was wholly performed within the limits the United States, and that the the copyright office the work published anonymously under assumed name, copyright shall subsist for the same period the work had been produced bearing the author's true name, provided that least one year before the expiration fifty years from the publication the true name date the author shall registered the copyright office. the above cases the term shall extend the end the expiration. calendar year SEC. 24. The bill omits the provision asked for publishers, with the concurrence the authors, known the Munroe-Smith proviso And provided further, That such subsisting copyright shall have been assigned license granted therein for publication, and such assign ment license shall contain provision for payment royalty, and the renewed copyright for the extended term provided this Act shall not assigned nor license therein granted such original assignee licensee his successor, said original assignee licensee his successor, shall neverthe T type of set he shall require an affidavit, under the official seal of any officer authorised to administer oaths within the United States, duly made by the person claim ing copyright or by his duly authorised agent or representative residing in the United States, or by the printer who has printed the book, setting forth that the copies deposited have been printed from such author, record date his death. by not apply to works in raised characters for the use of the blind, or to books published abroad in the English language seeking ad interim protection under this Act. SEC. 16. That in case the Register of Copyrights shall receive notice, upon information and belief, or shall have other reason to believe that the copies so deposited have not been manufactured within the limits of the United States as before provided, of TFIES 22 �THE AUTHOR, A. of a at a be a a no in a so in in is in as of of an of to is ; if it it in be be by a is of to it to a is of on to to of of on be to on is . a in is to to to . to to be a CABIN. by TOM'S in (Written for the Bath Classics. Published Cedric Chivers, Ltd., Bath. Printed these. columns the kind permission the author, with the consent the publishers.) of of more simple those whose judgment un first-hand knowledge the given work upon the author's. of is appraisement matter for trammelled effect produced contemporaries. a ITERARY is of UNCLE by to to to º-- ~ a v-u- by of of all up be to of to a of to at as of it t iſ likely, ideal will not account the reasons. put forward, adopt the policy retaliation, but will urge every nation come up the platform which they themselves stand. the recent Act passed the United States. higher platform. tendency we see rise slow, but still there The movement, indeed, movement, and we trust that the United States, copyright when next they bestir themselves alteration, will able come whole-heartedly the level the civilised European nations. by of to it to a is, a is It came it at of a in it to in of of or its to into existence after Norway, and joining the Berne Convention, found sign the additional Act hemselves unable aris. Mr. Oesterreith trusted that along the possible for nations, lines laid down would time, the course level their laws the present fixed. Convention Śweden, on tically per The Berlin Convention not fect convention, but the delegates the different. nations would appear that this has seemed the most perfect Convention obtainable under existing: conflicting opinions. circumstances and amidst many points passes beyond the Copyright Legislation the countries which were represented. The Convention fair ideal for which to: struggle, and those nations who get nearest the right laws. a of of its is on a in of to accept one two alternatives either see some decisions practically nullified and resultless, find some plan which might result development international protection, such that the countries which could not agree all particulars might accept the union with restric tions. This plan Mr. Oesterreith has named the system which prac differential system. If its in of of of do to of of upof to of at likely Convention affect the cause inter national copyright. |M. Albert Oesterreith read most important report the Berlin Revision. He said that the Conference that the Berlin Con having ference found itself the position point, and return. This doubt England have been suffer strong point, but we ing from this for long our connection with the United States that this argument will have but little weight. There has been certain England about retaliation. amount talk this same argument found support among those. suggested nations who take the higher ground, M. Taillefer, the result would indeed disas trous, and render international agreement almost. hopeless, but we cannot think that this will the case. We have been optimistic the past and OSt. Personally, are still so. we think admirable step that the Convention should have impossible been passed for even the present circumstances for any nation adow the whole the Convention, yet there lies before the legislature each country ideal towards which legislators will look when altering the copy little In its by to to be to an of of to to its in present form owing great extent the efforts the International Literary and Artistic Association during the past years, and We must feel deeply grateful for the work this body has done and for the results that has been able attain. We regret, therefore, that the discussion Copenhagen appears raised make not little doubtful how the passage the Berlin On the other hand, M. Taillefer pointed out the dangers which might result from the Berlin, the chief one being that. course adopted higher the countries whose copyright law took giving ground would great deal and getting: Some In It a be to is is to of of in all warmest description. We regret that the Society of Authors has never been represented at these annual gatherings. Its delegates should take a part, and a prominent part, in any Way assemblies which can copyright reform. further the cause No doubt any representative was due the absence the wealthy body. fact that the society not hoped, however, that the time will come when the society will able afford send representative annually these meetings. King Frederick The delegates were welcomed appropriate speech the Seventh, who made proposing the health the International Society. The sessions the Congress were devoted principally questions the investigation art and architecture and the application the industry, questions which arts not come within the scope the Society Authors. The greater part literary matter the time devoted was taken with the discussion the Berlin probable result. Convention and Rothlisberger, Professor the great copyright authority, and Secretary Berne, the Bureau who has always been most courteous and con Authors, assures Society siderate the us that the Convention the result the Berlin Conference has been moulded and posted a copyright, and gave the delegates a welcome of the 23. �THE A DfTHOR. 24 praising The third not much ours what we surprise, are sure, would Mrs. Stowe's the too, those zealous and somewhat shortsighted Abolitionists, could they know that nearly half century after the outbreak the Civil War, the most difficult, perhaps most menacing, problem confronting precisely America should the relation between the white population and that other, less and less black, yet never practice equal, and never wholly free. After these decades the nominal emancipa tion the negro, few indeed are the white house any part holds America to-day where the a is he at in a is it be is so as is of if a of as a of of all in be of a all of of of in on be no in of a of ; in of In in of of of a of is by by of of to to of in to of a is to by . to in by upof in to in former master. Hence her enthusiasm for the naif plan that America should give the slave his manur mission papers with one hand, and with the othe should open the door and politely, but firmly, wave him off the premises. Not even our ardent philanthropist could her inmost softl think the negro share citizenshi with Beechers and with Stowes the home fit of however, only fair Mrs. Stowe's perspiCacity say even though the admission provide, food for the ironist that the Reformer-novelist foresaw something the difficulty involved the jowl, with his life, cheek free negro's taking as of on of of of I of a to of I is, is or a of of is of of Abolitionists 1850 the hard reality these early years the twentieth century find ourselves con startling commentary upon the more fronted obscure elements the destiny nations. Here We are, after many days, face face with one those not-to-be-predicated results human action, which seems set history forever outside the realm science. to a so a It to on of at I a It To turn from the hopes indulged of an be to of a of a of an a of of to little in its of so it as to as a a as by on is by kindly, nevertheless sure that the woman would not have been set beside these grave and reverend to-day. tributes certain verdict have good story. said that this brave book also being read comes well out the test aloud, and out that other test hold ing the attention and sympathy, not only administrators and men the world, but also of youth. lay The laurel am proud the altar One humorous ill-pleased in a by of of a in be a in I born white child has to-day) and who had known youth the kindness and the sheltering black nurse's faithful arms. Between those days and now stretches the dismal swamp the Reconstruc newly filled with the tion period, and the air lingering poison left the more recent lynchings and race riots. in of it all of a to to g is a of in So a as Topsy, had its share skill that did not exhaust itself upon the moral issue. true there are those who believe that the ailing and housewife writing her book with poverty-ridden baby eye her knee, and the oven story wipe her did more means country slavery clean the stain than any single statesman any the Capitol, general the field. Lord Palmerston said Uncle Tom's Cabin : have not read novel for thirty years, but have read that book, rot only for the story, but for the statesmanship it. Lord Cockburn could declare the story had done more for humanity than was ever before accom plished any single book fiction. coloured citizen would received the footing brotherliness and respect accorded the refugee slaves on the northern side the Ohio river the eighteen-fifties. those days the fusing flame abolitionist ardour burned steady the North and the South was still fund that old patriarchal kindness the breasts white folk of men and women who had had negro playmates (as well of of its Through the mouth the least inhuman her slave-dealers she says: You Kentucky folks spile your niggers ; through and the story she shows,' that the most horrible threat which was Kentucky slave was his possible hold over being sold out that State. many To re-read the work after the lapse yea find one's early bias corrected gro perception temperance, the the scru filous fairness of the famous indictment. Two" other surprises await the latter-day reader long Uncle Tom. The work has worn for purpose, everywhere (except label novel with perhaps the Southern States) has come unquestionably accepted having played active part the awakening national conscience, that the new generation readers good will little prepared find the book story. Albeit Mrs. Stowe was not theme, but novelist using reform reformer using the novel weapon, the hand that drew Miss Ophelia, Uncle Tom, and the immortal It ' valour, and breeding ; for magnanimity, whose treatment of the negro she characterised exceptional patriarchal indulgence. as for of Mrs. Stowe's memory the record school boy's indignation hearing Uncle Tom's Cabin described classic. When finally overborne, said with the air one who breaks lance some classic, it's jolly dear cause: Well, even decent. . The frame mind that produced that appreciation flower the modern reader's second surprise. of To think of Uncle Tom s Cabin is for some of us to remember hearing that book described in our youth as a vicious travesty upon the institution of slavery as it existed in the Southern States. It is curious now to recall the fact that bitter resentment against Mrs. Stowe's work should have been perpetuated by Kentuckians in particular those Kentuckians Mrs. Stowe is never tired of �TISIE AUTISIOR, to by is in a byin is to to is . at se re i do he of its to e is at t is by of is it an so do to an h is in is to a of a of it at of it, of st of to a Y to tº an ja of to to at I to of a at by to a of in a in a of of of it in as by in ? if I as 2 at be to of of of ? in a a in to of to a is by at to a of of an to of at to : ilm to in a until the house was still for the night, and enjoyed borrowed bougie the light length disused garret. the silence day's march behind. Could Duty first, pleasure her heroine, have Charlotte Brontë, with her soul One's thoughts treated the incident otherwise bleak Haworth and her cheerful setting once any plans her own which threatened aside lie a is to in he to its For the elect wise so truthfully reflects nature. are as great offenders in this matter as the paid hacks writing to space. The latter might be for given for marking time a little at a crucial moment determined length, but to eke out the story to find the man who has one does not expect league with the printers, indeed one arrived not, and casts about for fresh knows that glution the mystery. Casterbridge *In Mr. Hardy s Mayor the instance occurs which strains credulity the inn when Elizabeth Jane the scene utmº returns from her interview with Henchard bearing woman Here her mother. note from him who years before, when Henchard's wife, was sold fair for five auction his cups Casterbridge Coming guineſs another man. supposed widowhood for the sole purpose keep the children who prefer read my letter there Did the last. once, and consume the venison Did then day every haste, flew shaft Esau s with The precious Willette. Thus Lucy Snowe M. letter from Bretton given into her hands be devoured class was not her desk Paul The cover with its were. mouthful address, the seal with its three clear letters was bounty and abundance for the present, and the stealthy exit from the description follows room, the acquisition the great the key dormitory, and the subsequent committal the precious document, shrouded silver paper her bureau, there drawer box case within grown-up to appears to be wilful procrastination or maddening inability to seize the golden opportunity on the part of characters in fiction often causes the novel-reader to throw aside his book in disgust, or at least to lay it down and question the likeness of certain passages to life. There are undoubtedly some amongst us who fail to utilise life's great moments; Mrs. Pullets, who withal slaves to dress, keep their best clothes under lock and key in an upper chamber, and never wear them out, but so few are these that they stand forth and the feel as notable landmarks in idiosyncrasy, ing becomes strong in encountering them repeatedly in novels of some defect in the mirror which other a HAT in º-º-º to THE PROCRASTINATION OF HAPPINESS IN FICTION. in of to º-e fly at e a ELIZABETH ROBINS. of be that half a century after she had described the brotherly-kindness of Indiana whites towards the negro, that these passages would sound as strange, as unrealisable, to Northern ears, as they did to any slave-holding Southerner in the ante-bellum days. Once more we are confronted by the impotence of the sword to right the most galling wrongs. Not by battles in the field by victories in the mind and heart of man shall the true emancipation come. giºs brought the her the answer the evening, although moved the course once, but she does not read description Elizabeth Jane's asks for Henchard, matter one would think Importance the direct communicati also Mr. Hardy sealed before her. On for Raye's lukewarm attitude genuinely disquieted He Circuit. girl who attracts him has not availed write, and when permission answe comes, request that she will hour, though the first for half he has received from her. And the whole raison d'être Weyman s Castle Inn, though the fac deplored his readers, means the heroine, who although behaviour her lover with emotion and happiness tion must needs postpone her acceptan more There for twenty-four hours. Hetty Sorrel, whom exacting househol prevent from opening the letters whic her through Adam Bede. thorne sent delivery come Mrs. Poyser s col heels her draw the beer, whilst the lighting pipe and hundred trivialities follow. Wonders that the poor girl, guessing the import the letter, does not contrive her bedroom before dark. course be made for must Allowance When by Whatever were her misgivings, the actual Heaven. result of the failure to adopt her simple remedies No must have beggared her darkest imagining. One could have made Harriet Beecher Stowe believe discovering her first husband, she makes known her letter conveyed him her whereabouts daughter. sufficient evidence that she This person, yet introduce herself too perturbed it free. of the land the and of the brave Apparently she was to the end unconscious how charged with evil significance for the future of America was her quite typical Yankee eagerness to transfer all her dear black friends to Liberia, or to 25 �THE AUTHOR. of T is on a it of at a it if it is of or a to of its in to be is on is of a It a is it is it be to of is in a a of as at is be to is at a I of in or or or by to be as of in or of to of on bybe of by as in it as as of it, is on is a is to of to it. or or I of of an at is to it of in in on I is he of or do of º is O or in it is in or a of do it of of of on say. booksellers am not prepared both are excellent, but between them they not handle their wares with the common sense with which the grocer handles his pounds pots jam. tea What the book put seller can when almost beyond important belief. Not long ago saw railway station, the stall one the largest book-distributing agencies the United Kingdom, row the little volumes the Scott lishers The intentions of in a be to this or a in at to be to to be to be to of of to to at do be on MYRA SWAN. an to of in all or to of in of it if At of to * frighten them out hinder the state aralytic hysteria which appeared overtake them joy, and Jane Austen's Marianne crises parallel case, snatching Willoughby's letter which the servant delivers her the common working-table, and fleeing, deadly pale, from the room, seems the only woman worth her salt. The gods that not put themselves the trouble providing good things with the intention that they are not enjoyed Happi the utmost. put before hungry ness was never intended appetites the return system a sugared cake our midst not cut into, and many sermon youth, not should drummed into the ears only from the pulpit, but through the medium stage and literature, grasping the necessity comes. found most prominent There are exceptions rule, course. Some soldiers are brave, know several women who are more domesticated than the average man, some poets are imaginative, and few, very few, practical men are practical. any rate, But what called the book trade, the more the work done falls into the region the practical the worse done. On the whole, the present day, novels are better written, printed, published, advertised, and reviewed, than they are handled commerce, articles sold lent for fee over counter like any other article of commerce. We are always hearing that the book trade suggestions are made for bad way. All sorts improvement, but they are all, nearly all, trade, based the assumption that the the practical part being done well can being done very done. On the contrary, badly. Any improvement the book trade, and particularly affecting the sale novels, will achieved, not juggling with prices, pander strenuous efforts the part writers imaginary taste the public, more exciting advertisements, but, any other trade, bringing the article the obvious means sold lent into contact with the people who are likely buy borrow present there conspiracy keep. almost pub them apart. Whether this the fault a or a in a la as to t the lights the stereotyped how true men and women ought der given circumstances, the actors the ing examples, with the exception, perhaps, Snowe, deserved the lash some such sharp cold blood will individual members. its all is a of an f he rding commonplace, the writer novels but none the less exasperating that account, that for every person who buys his work borrows from library there another who would buy, and there are least twenty who they were aware would borrow its existence. There no reason whatever but removable defects the machinery distribution why novel that sells from one three thousand copies should not easily sell twice three times that number. things for the novelist, but This sad state pretty safe general not surprising. any particular class rule that the official virtue profession not the one that examination be It nt. he point duel between human nature ame personality, which after but the individual man woman pitted same property more general sense. est nature vue travers un tempera -º-º-º to with their creator's ideas of life. Never strength an author can trans aſsoever of * soul into his work, such as can help 2 race that is set before us, whether it he mouth of a fictitious man or woman, kes the form of a little moralising by would none of us wish to eliminate, ffend the canons of art or not. We anity Fair puppets for themselves, but ll more the countless peeps afforded us r dead hand that pulled the strings maxims given by great lights to less comes only in literature by the 2ealment of one's every day working seems that this digression has s CERTAIN PRACTICAL MATTERS. by collide ever so gently with those of her captious parent. Indeed the whole question resolves itself into the personality of the different authors, that personality of which, if the law-makers had their y, we should never be allowed a glimpse. not the men and the women whom you paint tour blood-brothers was Leonardo's advice artists of his day. Neither would we wish characters to be hung promiscuously like so a 26 Fº �of do fee I ? it 2 to is a a as du is of of to to do no to of A ? to bu I to t p is T as be o to he if so w it on a to be on to of ; is th by to to by to is it of of to t a is of I is all It at is it of be BY WM. BRETT PLUMMER. rights artists, journalists, the Author.) reserved INTRODUCTION. to as a we an be N the present day good illustrations are acknow ledged almost additional attraction open any publication. book for When we the first time does not our eye involuntarily, I or to is if it of to to of I of be a (All authors, by it (Compiled for the use advertisers, and others). of º-º-º to of or a is of it be to I to a it of I CHARLES MARRIOTT. * -v-º- ań. vºy *F THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING. is * a of of - a of is to is go I I be It go to is to be to be to a to to to ; a at of to to is of of of it If is a (varying) get your last book times, tried So-and-So's, but they hadn't got it ; and every People can write novelist can tell the same tale. course, but one's publisher for the book, people don't want one's bothered writing publisher. able What they want into shop and buy the book then and there. about said that the six shilling novel abolished, but until into any bookshop can and see, actually see and handle, within two days twenty any one publication, the last work living novelists shall could name offhand, believe that any serious attempt has been refuse not even sell the six shilling novel. made popular easy novel if borrow publication. don't know how within six weeks pays "a circulating many copies new novel stock, but library am convinced that informa librarian, publisher, and the advantage tion novelist, might obtained from the man who lends bicycles for hire. that the remembered Moreover, must books borrowers would-be buyers number very small one. who know what they want huge public that does not know what There grateful for being told. wants, but will Over have won the gratitude and over again acquaintances and writers earned the gratitude by introducing them novelists they had never they had of, never would have heard sell the men whose business been left things do not kno the fact remains that the practical selling novels not sufficiently practical where between the publisher and the machinery breaks down. The novels read are being written and publ want read them are the people that want they meet only Advertise accident. postcard, isn't much good there the postcard and between the receipt considered. the bookshop there, ought wh the spot, just grocer's the Epps' cocoa and the into Also the spot. mustard are there, every bookseller knew advantage about the books that are being publishe expected read them, but cannot know who wrote what, and when. least abolish that time Above all, publishers and booksellers superstition the public, and come down the taste the pu The taste the case. hard facts taste for trash, the sense intended, that Mrs. Harris. People want good novels, and are always grumbling because they can't get them." That merely means that they don't know where good I don't say great. plenty look for them but novels are being written and published, between the published novel and the possible buyer great gulf fixed. borrower there methods be I it to in to in It is It a in about week and you are leaving the town the day after to-morrow. said that people don't buy novels. Indeed, they seldom get the chance the most the mood. when they are buy novel. the world difficult thing dozen has been said me once has been said this state to is, to it, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Go into the average provincial bookshop, and, leaving out the three great and the half dozen or so notorious living writers of fiction, ask for the work of any fairly well-known novelist within a fortnight of publication. The chances are ten to when we But we can get one it is not there. Messrs. So-and-So' that send off our next order How much and how much to I an I not works. those novelists lend my special virtue; every one claim this But readers must have had the same experience. introduce the right novel whose business The The publishers the right person Few people read publishers' advertise reviewers great, ments; fewer still read reviews. people want read now immense number but, speaking generally, they not read the they would prefer read because they are brought their notice. in I 27 or every symptom of pride in his work, the man in charge of the stall had labelled them, New Only edition of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. Again, one shilling and sixpence per volume. learn that for many booksellers Mrs. Alfred Sidg are interchangeable wick and Miss Sedgwick names, Mrs. Henry Dudeney and Miss Sarah Doudney are one with interesting results in the schoolroom and, if may be forgiven the illustra tion it is believed by more than one practical man engaged in the sale and lending of novels, The As for Peter Simple. wrote that they, of course, were written by Miss Bensons, With for A CITISIOR, TISIE �is as f a it to as as of go or by of a as or at it be to ; be to of of to a it of " to he he (if if or So he at in or of by of in so as to or in of so a in a in to as | in a In of of or on by as a as In ! well. set or of a copper plate was covered with flowing bees'-wax, which melted get cold solid, when the picture was allowed produced was engraved upon with either The steel thin coating to of or in and others. this process, which was principally used for book-illustration, the artist rule depended upon himself alone, being artist and engraver it as a in or of the day were employed for the sketches. They were usually drawn pencil, painted wash on box-wood block one would make Phiz" be '' in of so to so in Wood-engraving expensive those days was that few publishers were brave enough risk entering the field, and Punch and the Illustrated paper-illustration London News had the world their own hands. All their cuts were woodcuts, and the best to I to a a century ago there were practically only HALF two well-known illustrated journals, and these made reputation through their illustrations that has lasted until the present day. allude the Illustrated London News and our old humorous friend Punch. artists or at Engraving. On Wood- and Steel-Plate an I. to to of to CHAPTER large full-page was especially the case double-page illustrations, when, reason four engravers their size, several perhaps, two helped cut the one block. This was necessary such instances where topical subject was required hurriedly, because time consequence, even was certain extent those easygoing days; the box-wood blocks were placed sections the hands several engravers, and joined together afterwards then screwed complete the total picture for printing. Therefore wood-engraving was costly, the best engravers commanded big salaries, and was fre quently the case that the wood-engraver earned considerably more than the artist himself. Each well-known artist had his favourite engraver. To wit Sir John Tenniel, the famous Punch cartoonist, would only allow one man engrave his cartoons. This chosen engraver was the late Mr. Joseph Swain, who personally retired from wood-engraving the same time Sir John Tenniel retired from Punch. As matter of fact they both finished their lives' work together artistic sense. The only other style artistic reproduction was copper either steel. this way the early editions Charles Dickens's works were illustrated it to is h or of ries art reproduction suitable for books, papers, magazines, catalogues. not my intention enter into the Lhnicalities the various processes, that give unnecessary, but the lay mind some idea of what can and what cannot be done. brush and water But the drawback this process was the fact that, after the artist had completed the sketch, had then into the hands the wood-engraver, who were not artistic the artist himself, were, yet had not the feeling even know ledge touch that particular artist) more often than, not ruined wood-pecking his the excellence the original. And was that the artist with name was nervous the engraver who had conceive his ideas. Not infrequently the engraver was nervous the artist, and occasionally had reason poor able cause the artist who made picture generally expected more from the engraver ought than have done. Consequently appreciated that the can talented artist was the engraver's mercy, who frequently spoiled misinterpreted his sketches, while other cases the engraver was the mercy the artist. to a at I in is or er to to as to to be of so be to of or in of a ready market more easily than one upon its letterpressentirely illustrating, whether ently the art choosing suitable illustrations whether understanding how illustrate wisely mically, cannot ignored. ays reproduction are now many and that the uninitiated they must hifusing. authors who wish their work be illus ave often very little idea the best way dure and not infrequently propose their printer something that either totally ticable or otherwise ineffective. my with this reason prominently fixed will endeavour to elucidate some of the with of of a all a to of f f ing sepia drawing It is a byits ey he In no 2 all If ordinary colour. or our fingers, seek for the pictures 2 there are none, is it not without some inner feeling of disappointment that we begin to con over the head-lines of the various chapters or rapidly glance through odd pages to try to glean tickly what it is about this hurry-scurry age, matter how excellent literary quality, always book nced suitable and well-produced illustrations. catch the eye more readily, and convey ickly general idea the mind some sort Contents. large per ookseller will tell you what books kinds are sold through the the illustrations alone, well-illustrated in run the pages through an THE AUTHOR, 28 �THE AUTHOR. of to i it of of is a \\ | | | | º| | º Variegatedtint. in By aid a W |||| these engraving-machines Even coarsetint. e er or there are many machines for cutting upon wood various ways, which few are here shown. of | It of to of in Waved line tint. | Zºº i. | º The solid box-wood. of º º often the favourite mode reproduction. goods there the above class good straight line mechanical ruling, and now | º/ T ſºlºiſi Øſº the --- Circular engraving. |||| - | | % the class For instance, of and steel-plate engraving, beautiful though both were when well executed, became almost obsolete when the so-called mechanical processes came into vogue; for the latter, besides being cheaper, were more generally dependable and quicker. For comparison : where a large Wood block would take an engraver, perhaps, an entire month to engrave, the same-sized plate or block could to-day be reproduced in a few hours. And although the so-called half-tone process." itself goods they wish illustrate. the case electro-plate and silver goºds, cutlery, bags and portmanteaus, tools and machines, agricultural implements, etc., better or But wood-engraving Many firms, too, who issue periodical catalogues, Prefer wood-engravings because their decision, glearness, and sharpness line. adapts ... ate into the uncoated or unprotected parts of the metal, and finally, when the wax was cleared away from the plate, the picture showed up engraved clearly upon it in the same way as an ordinary copper-plate heading or address-plate appears to-day. 29 In medium, or coarse needles a sort of scratching away down to the surface of the metal. The plate was then etched with acid, which of fine, º - M º § % | | * | ºW. - | | a of do as wood blocks has been reduced, the apprentices can this branch the work quite well after little practice. is be or of on be it in to to a is Apart from this mechanical work there yet small quantity the free-hand artistic wood engraving principally con found. This fined the large drapery houses, who still think that some their goods look best wood. Boot manufacturers, too, perfume-makers, and others cling affectionately many instances. With regard paid for the price that should to of of or to is or to it of an inventor desires some engine machine made noticeable, more prominently easy for the engraver elaborate the part required and minimise the detail features the surrounding portiorhs. |º Graduatedtint. of engineer important portion Crossedlines. to is it it. where or art, an in for mechanical and industrial articles than any thing else, because this particular branch || I shall allude fully later on) is un questionably not quite so artistic as a finely still, in the race for finished wood-engraving, saving time alone, it was bound to come in first at last, paradoxical though this may sound. Yet wood-engraving is not altogether eclipsed. There are many people to-day, especially advertisers, who insist upon having But used more (to which �A DITFIOR. to to of a an to all to: to an of in It is, of an is in . for he he is he a a is he ; to of of Form It, by to Literary Taste: How New Age Press. Bennett. 21 or is ; in * cº no be to - it so in of it to a is he in in to a of . be to is the cultiya there follow hints and instructions Begin with Lamb, Mr. the faculty. holds out hopes. and Bennett's prescription that the man who does begin with Lamb may end preferring the works the Wordsworth the halfpenny papers and the trick articles serials He insists, hºwever, the illustrated magazines. books, should buy plenty that the aspirant tion by is a I ; up to by at or satisfactory result them best, and, consequently, should be obtained. wood-engraver can engrave everything But why equally brilliant and that each branch poor, faculty, without which man says, merely not born. imperfect He creature. any can't feel can't hear; He can't see; And then can only eat his dinner. full sense; in of on a so or by an different requirements; some clever mechanical detail, landscape work, others floral some suited portraits and figures. perhaps smart To these given out that suits men individually the work at to R. | be of is a of is eminent. Arnold Bennett possesses degree the admirable quality enthusiasm. that literature is. He will not have distraction, and literary taste the taste, merely permanent say, for the things value. that accomplishment. literature merely \ % t-º-e many grades Then, too, there are wood may add medium, bad engraving good, and There atrocious. fourth degree very bad found, and plenty the fourth-degree work generally produced small men on their the larger firms own "who cannot get employed simply because they are not their trade. ordinarily large engraving firm they have it " TASTE AND STYLE. good example obtained the effects that can This rotating table. by mechanical wood engraving In be to at byin a -*- A_ Wy -º- --~~~ have) men who are suited be to of by 3. NS: ºf ...*&^ſ Sºrºº: Sºssº: (or should be of all If is buying and selling used blocks The kinds. price paid these firms for second hand woodcuts. perhaps generally varies from about seven according sixteen shillings per hundredweight the wood. the quality and condition My next instalment will concern photo-mechani line process. cal illustrations of à - - !\ I a V in & ºº so N N º NN s º S-4 sº in some instances \\ - ---T. that have been used are in repurchased the wood engravers. themselves for planing down, but although they produce the first place they much cost realise very little second hand, unless they can be: their original form. utilised again business alone of There are firms who make by Ş N original woodcut. Old wood blocks to > by a it § E= agº:= a a good job. it I an of it. is º RN and Taking the price wood blocks cursorily they might average say, from eighteenpence four square inch, according shillings the quality work required. and style given estimate should always advise that done, and also cases for the work sample handed the work guaranteed the same time. the customer you have wood block that needs alteration any particular part can always. incorrect He can the wood-engraver. remedied affected, generally plug and recut the part the small cost and without detriment a be or a of lly hand-work upon the amount upon This takes time, good-class necessary for may sound unkindly refrain say although from employing the smaller man for general work, because he cannot do it. be or in all of a by it in it, wood blocks, it is practically an impossibility to plan out any way of scaling the charges. An artistic or freehand wood-engraving would cost decidedly more than a merely mechanical one, as a man of natural artistic taste and proclivities the mechanical whereas would have to engrave photo probability teproduction would aphed direct upon the wood itself, and then straight paved circular lines series nich wood-engraving machinery would play :tant part. wood block always depends ost at TFIES 30 Arnold. �A UTSIORs I on is ºr I se on to so I a do to be I w at as a au as byit an po to So no I it I in of be it it I to is * of on I I I is I to to of of of a is it is of a it of to of is a to of if all I It of to fit do, were not for think would compromise thing that that sort the marble columns and implies. letters Your correspondent speaks indignation, flat refusals, etc., from publishers, judge not for me has yielded. whom he at his to he to to 79 beginner. Whatever individual authors may think will I. of to to an a order get land lower books the society's advice and place accept. He thinks author ought terms than take into that thºse who give the advice fail position the defenceless lishers I suggests (The Author, ranged too society's advice pub: satisfy the demands disregard living has had M. I. the is 1909) In high. that It THE SOCIETY'S ADVICE. DEAR jut fr t in I as do it if to is in º-º-º July, to he it. he or it be I In is CORRESPONDENCE. SIR,- A. if,to do is in on an an be to a or a upto is, to in world up to of might some importance only publish life and thought, were their own books. Most authors think the same am that which differ from most The point keep my only want not after big royalties. copyright. the other hand, The publishers, start with. demand the copyright stone steps, magnificent stair have been cases, past marble columns, classic busts, into the They palatial apartments various publishers. the copyright the this matter assure me that prove entirely mistaken. Authors' Society right. endeavour them that the Society business mutually profitable. line show them less than the society requires, but then They are Publishers are cast iron. new thing. affluent, and, like the Bourbons, they learn nothing They fight shy me and my and forget nothing. They will not compromise. manuscript. Nor even that on It a of of is on on is º-º-º of a to of all to all of of of a it large sale. insignificant withdrew the book. perhaps unlikely myself incur the col publishers, boycott but my offence publisheſ known, and certainly became since accepted my book. Naturally like my book. think it may too, fond delusion that others would like of a in he so say that he I a a a to it is it, he to It is it not only have We Aristotle and Meredith were muddle-headed. say the same might even have the authors the higher mathematics. the treatises Argument with Mr. Bennett this point, how lively appreciation ever, not incompatible with brightly written his pamphlet. the merits sage counsel those who, while fond and full reading, have not yet found the key which the literary unlocks the treasures enshrined previous ages. masterpieces We cordially wish They are the least coherent body lifetime. body, unionists existing, and perhaps, businesslike. publisher some time ago offered me ment which the society officially told me altered, but the main alt get tried preposter the publisher was refused A If Tennyson, play an indifferent tune brilliantly. If may, like Kant, play he is not a master of just say that Nor brilliant tune badly. style difficult muddle-headed follow implies may merely imply man whose intellect man. simply cannot enter into the acute that comprehending plain man's difficulty com plicated and carefully qualified proposition. Were otherwise we should 31 trust that the society will not lower their flag. ought not author man becomes When the society's He can act adult. cease disregard advice, should not What disregard set and then request the society blame the society lower standard; accepting their advice, remains unpublished. many cases acting may even that Society's advice would exclude new authors publication, and thus leave the ground cleare The simple question well-known authors. whether the society advises what say they do, and right? have every speak, inasmuch have myself remained the acted lished merely because again, regardless advice and would good Sequences, me seemed saying this, moreover, not hop effective trade union combination of autho I intentions of read them or not : an expression of opinion from which no reader of The Author is likely to dissent. If one wished to argue with Mr. Bennett, one might question some of his dicta about style. He lays down that style cannot be distinguished from matter, that style and matter are co-existent, and inseparable, and alike, that you cannot have good matter with bad style, and he denies that it is ever justifiable to say: Yes, this idea is fine, This is the sort of but the style is not fine. exaggeration that is provoked by perverse utterances of enthusiasts for style ; but it will not stand the test of close scrutiny. The ideas of Kant, to take a glaring instance, are very fine indeed, but the style of Kant is nothing less than execrable. We are quite sure that Mr. Bennett will not, on yet, Teflection, deny either of these propositions; taken in conjunction, they are quite fatal to his The writer, in fact, is in the position of a thesis. Tmusician who is at once composer and executant. he is a master of his instrument he may, like whether he has any immediate ing I TISIES �A LITHOR. to as d. £ S. of of a 3 8 4 - 9 5 it, - 5 it, to 2 - - a - I 2 4 - - ; 1. 1 6 7 - it 8 d - 5 - - - - 2 0 - of in an of - I all to In to no of no of at in I of to of I to of I a to it as a in it, ; as to a in J a it to Yours faithfully, a of to - be in is is as it as in ofH. read with interest Stuart Thompson's the June number The Author. As far novelists are concerned, cannot said expenditure that Nor there any capital frequently the case required, business, letter 1. in CAPITAL ExPENDITURE. I SIR,--I - he to º-e I it is AN AUTHOR'S Yours faithfully, EMILY SHORE. in is of e 2. I of or or all is after hardly worth more than the cost lost, and this paper and typewriting. The book itself not stolen unless be published without remuneration being made the author. For my two first novels never got more than royalties, and get half about £20 that had have recourse the secretary our society. used become life member. left that publisher, and got into the clutches another, bearing well-known name. yet only For my third novel have received royalties. £17 14s. 6d. This publisher his agreements stipulates that does not undertake send accounts and pay till five months after they are due. The last MS. sent him will half, any money for year and not bring hardly likely publish till anuary next yet have settle the typewriter's bill for Surely £11 0s. 2d. out the £17 14s. 6d. capital expenditure beyond novelists have few postage stamps. in ! of be of a or a an have not two more copies the who could not re-write the whole. only one copy that the publisher has I 2 a 7s of It writers who Same work, 10 in your last gºmber, Manuscript Or Waste Paper ? what the intrinsic value of MS. publisher who loses Surely destroys copy destroying author's MS. cannot accused property several pounds worth There are few 12 two to a a MS. the article º sºs two was failure altered and had July, 1908, re-typed published {º º tºº two copies 18 No. Published January, 1909, two *-8 {13 copies * 13 No. Published June, 1909 nyr rejected, No. Neither accept my publisher lay but told 12 aside for the present, two copies Accepted my publisher, two No. * sº * sº 11 copies agent recom Add this the employing mended the secretary. This man, the course year, never placed one my five stories. He charged advance #2 2s. press cutting agency, £1 1s. The payment Innumerable stamps for postage, and extra postage for rejected MSS., paper, ink, pens, and postage for correspondence, for which cannot give figures. Moreover, pay for the production have had the first five novels. future my publisher will produce them cost me. The small authors are the worst treated creatures on this earth. Talk the great shops sweating people the poor workers the slums, class are more sweated than we are. of OF As place gº º to to (DEAR VALUE in INTRINSIC A º-º-º SIR,-Referring Agent failed copies sº * in I a to a , a Yours faithfully, M. C. A. * 1906, to by J. if ell should like to express my interest in the ºated by H. A. He thinks novels they were cheap, and agree with Many travellers would buy new novel they had seen well reviewed, beguile when mere magazine would seem too ive luxury. - º 7. NEW NOVELS. OF sº of a J THE PRICE copies No. tº autumn, to º-º-º wº Published by I No. by I Published the spring, 1906, one copy 3. I No. it it I I to º I unless, indeed, some writers are disposed look upon postage stamps' capital expendi few typewriting. Take ture. Think the cost my own case. Typewriting Novels. Pills. he is I 4. fellow author whose living depends on his author ship. Personally have solved the living problem for myself in another way. have become a clerk. yield hope, would But under no circumstances, to marble columns. If publishers, as a class, were still human, it is likely that I should have so far ven way as to have got my books published nehow by this time. It is because, with certain tions perhaps, they have become Superhuman, upon the spirit shown by our friend in § ºr, that won t give way, and would rather y manuscripts cremated with me than be to serfhood. 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HERBERT THRING, Solicitor im Emgland to La Société des Gems de Lettres, 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY’s GATE, S.W. THE FAMILY READER is offering good prices for short stories of 5, ooo to Io, ooo words. interest. Typewritten copy, with price asked, to the Editor, 35, Surrey Street, Strand, W.C. Strong plots with a love AUTHORS AND ARTISTS. Special facilities for placing work of every description. Particulars from Manager, Literary Department, WIENER AGENCY, LD., 64, Strand, LONDON, AND TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK.  ## p. (#363) ################################################ C be El u t b or, (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT. Vol. XX.-No. 1. OCTOBER 1st, 1909. [PRICE SIxPENCE. TELEPHONE NUMBER : 374 WICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : AUTORIDAD, LONDON. NOTICES. —t-sº-0– OR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. THE Editor begs to inform members of the Authors' Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. - —e—º-e— THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. —t-sº-0– LYROM time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin- ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, WOL. XX. or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. —e—º-e— LIST OF MEMBERS. —º-º-º- HE List of Members of the Society of Authors, published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. —e—sº-0— PENSION FUND. * N the 5th of February, 1909, the Trustees of the Pension Fund of the Society, after the secretary had placed before them the financial position of the Fund, decided to invest £350 in the purchase of Corporation of London 24 per cent. Stock (1927–57). The amount purchased is £438 2s. 4d., and is added to the list printed below. The Trustees are glad to report that owing to the generous answer to the circular sent round at the end of 1908, they have been able to invest more than £100 over the amount invested last year. Consols 23%.............................. £1,000 0 0 Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0 Wictorian Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11 War Loan ................................. 201 9 3 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock .............................. 250 0 0  ## p. (#364) ################################################ 2 TISIES AICTISIOR, Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ............... #200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed Stock .................................. ... 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. 228 () () New Zealand 33% Stock........... 247 9 6 Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Corporation of London 23% Stock, 1927–57 .............................. 438 2 4 Total ............... #3,815 1 0 Subscriptions. 1909. # S. d. April 13, Gask, Miss Lilian © O 5 May 17, Rorison, Miss Edith . O 5 June 10, Voynich, Mrs. E. L. I 1 June 10, Jaques, E. T. . 1 I June 11, Grier, Miss Julia M. ... O 5 June 11, Field, C. º © . 0 5 June 11, Barrington, Mrs. Russell . 0 10 July 8, Burmester, Miss Frances 1 1 July 9, Grindrod, Dr. G. F. tº . 1 1 July 10, Hargrave, Mrs. Basil . ... O 5 Donations. 1909. Jan. 1, Sprigge, S. S. Q o 5 0 0 April 5, Burchell, Sidney H. . ... O 5 0 April 15, Linton, C. Stuart e ... O 5 0 April 19, Loraine, Lady . º . () 10 0 April 19, Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer 1 0 0 April 20, Stephens, Riccardo . . 1 1 0 May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. C. P. 1 1 0 June 2, “Olivia Ramsey” e 0 10 6 June 7, Horne, A. B. º o . 50 0 0 June 10, Muir, Ward © . 1 1 0 June 10, Swan, Miss Myra . () 5 (0 June 17, Bradley, A. C. e . 1 0 0 June 22, Trotēre, H. . © © . 1 1 0 July 8, Harland, Mrs. e o . () 10 O July 8, Sinclair, Miss May . e . 15 0 () Aug. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte 1 1 0 Sept. 10, Hinkson, Katharine Tynan . 1 1 0 We regret that we omitted to chronicle a dona- tion of £5 from Mr. S. S. Sprigge at the beginning of the year. We have now added it to the list. With this exception all fresh subscribers and donors previous to April, 1909, have been deleted from the present announcement. The names of those subscribers and donors which are not included in the lists printed above are unavoidably held over to the next issue. COMMITTEE NOTES. —e-º-e— TYHE last meeting of the committee of the Society of Authors, before the vacation, was held on Monday, July 5, at 39, Old Queen Street. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and signed, thirty-two members and associates were elected to the society. The list is printed on another page. The total number of elections for the current year is 181. The com- mittee are pleased to notice that the number is largely in excess of the number elected during the corresponding period of 1908 and 1907. In 1907 the elections up to and including July totalled 135, and in 1908, 154. Two resignations brought the resignations up to sixty-five. The first question considered by the committee was the sale price of fiction, and they decided to appoint a sub-committee of five to go fully into the matter. The names of those who have con- sented to act are as follows: Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Charles Garvice, E. W. Hornung, W. W. Jacobs, and S. S. Sprigge. The reference to this sub-committee was “the standard price of fiction with special reference to the production of new copyright novels at the price of 2s.” The secretary then reported the negotiations that had been carried on with some of the agents on the question of insurance for the benefit of members of the society. He stated that one agent was favourably disposed towards the suggestion ; three were against it, while one other had not replied to his letter. The committee requested the secretary, during the vacation, to make arrange- ments with the agent who was willing to adopt the Society's suggestion, and if the matter was arranged satisfactorily, determined that the agent's name, with the amount of the insurance guaranteed to the society, should be printed in The Author. The chairman then laid before the committee certain letters which he had received from Mr. Thomas Hardy in regard to the presidency of the society. The committee, after considering the views expressed by Mr. Hardy in the letters, decided to repeat the invitation extended to him by the council, and to confirm and endorse the opinion already expressed at the council meeting. They are pleased to state that Mr. Hardy has now accepted the presidency. On another page is printed the reply to the questions addressed by Mr. Robert Harcourt (who is a member of the society) to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in regard to income tax on the moneys received by authors on the sale of copyrights. The committee desire to draw the special attention of members to the answers given.  ## p. (#365) ################################################ TFIES A CITISIOR, 3 The committee granted the chairman, during the vacation, the powers and authorities vested in them, should any emergency arise calling for an immediate decision. - Some letters were then laid before the committee relating to the list of novelists published in the June number of The Author. It was decided to take no further steps in the matter. The secretary then placed before the committee a letter received from a prominent novelist in regard to the requests made by certain persons forgratuitous literary contributions for the benefit of charities. The committee thought the matter of importance, and instructed the editor of The Author to take notice of this custom in the columns of this paper. There were three cases considered. The first related to a demand for work supplied to a news- paper but not paid for. The committee authorised proceedings on behalf of the author. In the second case the committee found it impossible to come to a decision without further information and a copy of the original contract, but granted full powers to the chairman to act during the vacation in any way he considered necessary. referred to an infringement in Denmark, the com- mittee decided not to take further action, as they had been informed by their Danish lawyers that One of the offending parties had left Denmark and could not be traced, while the other was in bank- ruptcy. ——º-º- COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE. A MEETING of the Coypright Sub-Committee was held at the offices of the society on June 24, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins in the chair. The business before the committee was the con- sideration of a Bill for the protection of musical composers, drafted by Mr. E. J. MacGillivray at the suggestion of Sir Charles Williers Stanford. Sir Charles explained to the committee the neces- sity for the provisions set out in the Bill, and stated that, in the present circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for composers to get publishers to accept a grant of a licence to publish in their contracts. They insisted upon a full assignment, even though they paid a royalty. The position of the composer was thus rendered impossible. After some discus- sion the committee decided to report to the com- mittee of management that they were in favour of the principle of the Bill, but that they left it to the committee of management to decide as to the expediency of extending the principle contained in the Bill to books in the publication of which the same difficulties exist in law, though not so frequently in actual practice. The committee also instructed the secretary to obtain subsidiary evidence from Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Mr. In the third case, which William Wallace, to lay before the Departmental Committee, in support of the principle embodied in the Bill. –0-sº-0– Cases. SINCE the last issue of The Author in July, there have been thirty-four cases in the secretary's hands, or an average of seventeen cases each month. This is a heavy list for the holiday season. The cases may be divided as follows: There were five claims for the return of MSS. In four of these the Secretary was successful; the fifth came to the office only just before the paper had gone to press. The applications for money reached a total of thirteen, and are accounted for as follows:—In six the cheques have been recovered and forwarded to the members. One case had to be referred to the Solicitors, who succeeded in obtaining judgment in the county court. The debt and costs have been paid, and a cheque for the former sent to the member. Two cases are still in the course of negotiation, the defaulting parties having promised to make payment by a certain date. The time had not elapsed when The Author went to press. In one case the defendant was found to be in bank- ruptcy, and the Society had to register a formal claim against his estate. Of the remaining three cases one has been placed in the hands of the solicitors of the society, for the defendant made no response to the three letters which had been sent to him. The other two have only recently come to the office. One case, dealing with the settlement of a dispute on an agreement, has been satisfactorily carried through. Two cases have been placed in the secretary's hands for the collection of accounts due under dramatic contracts. Neither of these is in Great Britain, but the manager has promised to go into the case and forward the accounts by a fixed date. Six cases have arisen where members have been unable to obtain from the publishers accounts and money. Of these three have been successful. Two have been withdrawn from the society, as the member was informed that most probably, if the accounts were not delivered and the money not paid, it would be necessary to take the matter into court. The committee have, on many occasions, dealt with this point, and have urged upon members the absolute necessity of being prepared to take matters into court if the Society's demands on their behalf are not complied with. This position is dealt with in another column of The Author. In the remaining case the author has agreed to wait a certain time. There were five cases for the ordinary delivery of accounts. Of these two have been  ## p. (#366) ################################################ 4 TISIES A [ſº] IOR. successful ; two are still in the course of negotia- tion ; and one has only recently come to the office. Finally, there are three cases of infringement of copyright. One dealing with the infringement of an author's copyright in Canada must necessarily take some time owing to the distance between the parties, but as the paper is a responsible one it is hoped that the matter will be satisfactorily settled. One case of infringement in Great Britain has been settled, and the sum claimed by the author has been paid. One case, which was commenced early in the year against a paper in New Zealand, has also been settled, and the sum claimed has been paid to the author. º The society has been very successful in its foreign cases during the past year, as it has obtained com- pensation for two infringements of copyright in New Zealand and one in Spain. There was one other matter beyond those included in the list set out above. One of the large publishing houses, owing to the necessity of making some alteration in the disposition of its shares and capital, had to obtain a voluntary winding-up order, and, in consequence, under the law, was bound to send notice of this to its various authors. This brought a considerable amount of correspondence to the secretary. The matter has, however, been satisfactorily explained and brought to a conclusion. All the cases open at the issue of the last number have been settled or handed over to the solicitors of the Society. During the vacation no case has been carried through the High Courts on behalf of the society's members, but three county court cases have been settled, and the debt and costs paid. —e-º-º- July Elections. Boileau, Miss Marie Fairleigh, Shawford, Hants. Burmester, Miss Frances G. Clifford, Miss Lucy . 3, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge. Furse, Mrs. Charles W. Yockley House, Cam- berley. Grindrod, Charles F. . Wyche-Side, Malvern. Groves, Capt. P. R. C. , 6, Walpole Road, Croydon. Hargrave, Mrs. Basil (Parry Truscott) Holmes, The Rev. Chan- Ditchling, Sussex. East Liberty Wells, cellor Scott . Somerset. Humphry, Mrs. (“Madge " Carrig-Cleena, of Truth) º Maidenhead. Huntley, Mrs. Hope 40, Elm Park Man- sions, Chelsea, S.W. Kelley, Miss Agnes M. 6, Denmark Street, - W.C. - Kelly, Minnie Harding Kennedy, Charles Rann 58, Overstrand Man- sions, Battersea Park, London, S.W. Kirmse, Madame 41, Grove End Road, N.W. - Kirmse, Richard 41, Grove End Road, N.W. Lowry, Miss Mary G. Ladies' Athenæum. Club, 31, Dover Street, W. Lyons, Capt. Gervais (Cap- Grosvenor Club, Picca- tain Scuttle) º e dilly W. Minck, J. Murray (Aitken 50, Raeburn Place, Murray) © º Edinburgh. Mummery, J. P. Lockhart 10, Cavendish Place, - W. O'Connell, Mildred (Mau- rice Patrice) e e O'Fallon, J. M. 27, Derby Avenue, North Finchley, N. Peek, W. Vernon (W. Forest Lodge, Owls Weepey) © Road, Boscombe, Hants. Reiss, Miss Erna Ennerdale, Lapwing Lane, Didsbury, Manchester. Schwarz, Ernest H. L. Rhodes University (Ernest Black) College, Grahams- town, South Africa. Shedlock, Miss Marie L. 13, Pembroke Gar- dens, W. Simpson, Miss Violet 26, Nevern Mansions, S.W. 4, Park Place, St. James's, S.W. Spurrell, H. G. F. Stott, M. D. Syrett, Jerrard. 170, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W. Tibbits, Annie O. Grangermon, Wood- side Park, N. Turner, Edgar . o . 6, Clifton Road, Crouch End, N. —e—º-e— BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 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  ## p. (#367) ################################################ THE AUTHOR. 5 FRENCH IDIOMATIC ExPRESSIONs witH ENGLISH EXPRESSIONS. By FRED. Rothwell, B.A. (London). 7% × 5. 208 pp. Sands. 2s. 6d. In - FRENCH-ENGLISH, ENGLISH-FRENCH DICTIONARY. By ºup LATHAM. 74 × 5. 1,176 pp. Routledge. S. g HELOISE DE J. J. ROUSSEAU, avec préface critique de FRANK A. HEDGCOCK in French (Dent's Edition of Classiques Français Nouvelle). J. M. Dent & Co. THE GOLD BUG, AND OTHER TALEs. By EDGAR ALLAN POE, 118 pp. FAIRY TALEs. By the BROTHERS GRIMM. 126 pp. HANS ANDERSON's FAIRY TALEs. 118 pp. (Blackie's English Texts. Edited by W. H. D. ROUSE, Litt.D.). 6% x 43. Blackie. 6d. each. “THE RED CODE” (1909). The N. U.T. edition. By J. H. YOXALL and E. GRAY. Seventeenth year (revised to September, 1909). 83 × 53. 418 pp. National Union of Teachers. 1s. n. o-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it substantially accurate. ARCH AEOILOGY. SURVEYING FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTs. By SIR Norm AN LOCKYER, K.C.B. 9 x 6. 120 pp. Macmillan. 4s. n. ARCELITECTURE. TOWN-PLANNING IN PRACTICE. An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. By RAYMOND UNWIN. 10 x 7%. 416 pp. Fisher Unwin. 218, n. BIOGRAPHY. GENERAL Wol, FE. By EDWARD SALMON. 73 x 5. 248 pp. Edited by W. H. HuTTON, B.D. Sir Isaac Pitman. 3s. 6d. n. THE ADVENTURES OF A CIVIL ENGINEER : Fifty years On Five Continents. By C. O. BURGE. 83 × 5%. 320 pp. Alston Rivers. 7s. 6d. n. THE STORY OF HAMPSHIRE : A History for Schools. By the ºw. TELFORD WARLEY. 7 × 4}. 207 pp. Black. ls. 6d. GEORGE BERNARD SHAw. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 7# × 5%. 258 pp. Lane. 5s. n. THE PAPACY : The Idea and its Exponents. A Short History of the Popes. By Prof. Gustav Krüger. Trans- lated by F. M. S. Batchelor and C. A. Miles. 270 pp. Unwin. 5s. n. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF JAMES WOLFE. By BECKLES WILSON. 9 × 6. 522 pp. Heinemann. 18s. n. MEMOIR AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS W. NEWMAN. By J. 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THE FACULTIES AND THEIR POWERS. A contribution to the History of University Organization. By C. H. FIRTH, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. 9 × 6. 43 pp. Oxford : Black- well. London : Simpkin Marshall. 1s. n. THE GIRLs’ SCHOOL YEAR-BOOK. (Public Schools,) Fourth Year. April, 1909–April, 1910. Edited by H. F. W. DEAN.E. 73 × 5. 591 pp. Swan, Sonnen- schein. 2s. 6d. n. ENGINEERING. THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. By H. E. WIMPERIS, M.A. 114 illustrations and diagrams, 326 pp. Constable. 6s. n. FICTION. STARBRACE. By SHEILA. KAYE-SMITH. 73 × 5. Bell. 6s. SYLVIA AND THE SECRETARY. 73 × 5. 318 pp. Long. 6s. THE SECRET PAPER. By WALTER WooD. 319 pp. Cassell. 68. THE LADY IN GREY. By MRS. FRED REYNoLDs. 73 × 5. 342 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 6s. HER OWN PEOPLE. By MRs. B. M. CROKER. TURNSTILE OF NIGHT, Hurst & Blackett. 7d. A PROFESSIONAL RIDER. By MRs. EDWARD KENNARD. 389 pp. By OLIVIA RAMSEY. 84 × 5. THE By MRS. C. N. WILLIAMSON, Cheap re-issue. 7+ x 5. 296 pp. Stanley Paul. 1S. n. 2835 MAYFAIR. By FRANK RICHARDSON. 74 × 43. 310 pp. Werner Laurie. 1s. n. THE GREAT AMULET. By MAUD DIVER, 7} x 5. 406 pp. Blackwood. 18. n. THE FORBIDDEN THEATRE. By KEIGHLEY SNOWDEN. 7; x 4%. 295 pp. Werner Laurie. 6s. A WILLAGE TEMPTRESS. By FRED WHISHAw. 84 × 5. 319 pp. Everett. 6s. PHILIP LOVELUCK. By CHARLES OWEN. 320 pp. Everett. 6s. THE LADY CALPHURNIA ROYAL. By ALBERT DORRING- TON and A. G. STEPHENS. 73 × 5. 374 pp. Mills & Boon. 68. A ROMANCE OF THE NURSERY. By L. ALLEN HARKER. (Revised and enlarged edition.) 7% x 5. 317 pp. Murray. 68. LovE's Fool, : THE CONFESSIONS OF A MAGDALEN. By MRS. STANLEY WIRENCH, 73 x 43. 318 pp. Long. 1S. n. THE DIAMOND AND THE ROSE. 242 pp. Century Press. 6s. MULTITUDE AND SOLITUDE. By JOHN MASEFIELD. 8 x 5+, 300 pp. Grant Richards. 68. SHOES OF GOLD. By HAMILTON DRUMMOND. 8 x 5. 320 pp. Stanley Paul. 68. OLIVER. By HENRY C. FF. CASTLEMANN. 318 pp. John Long. 68. MR. 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THE ISLE OF MAN, described by AGNES HERBERT ; with a foreword by A. W. MOORE ; and 32 colour plates by DONALD MAXWELL. 270 pp. Jane Lane Co. $3.50 n. TRAVEL. WASHED BY FOUR SEAS. By H. C. WOODS. An English Officer’s travels in the Near East ; with an introduction by SIR MARTIN CONWAY ; illustrated by 62 photographs taken by the Author. Brooklyn, New York : A. Wessels Co. 316 pp. $2.50 n. à w —h- a- ~--- LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL NOTES. —e—º-e— MISCELLANEOUS. & 4 HE Annals of Psychical Science,” founded in January, 1905, has changed hands. Mr. Dudley Wright, the assistant editor, has succeeded Mrs. Laura I. Finch as editor, the last named joining the Editorial Board, which already includes such well-known names in the world of psychical research as Sir William Crookes, Camille Flammarion, Prof. Lombroso, Prof. Charles Richet, and Col. Albert de Rochas. Premises have been secured in the west end of London for the proposed Psychical Research Club, which will now shortly be opened. Mr. Wynton Hope has been appointed secretary, and all communications respecting the club should for the present be addressed to him c/o “The Annals of Psychical Science,” 110, St. Martin's Lane, London, W.C. The summer number of The Car contains an article by Maude C. Knight, called “An Argyll in the West.” The members of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society paid a visit in July, by permission of the trustees, to Morden College, Blackheath, where they were received by the Chaplain, the Rev. Henry Lansdell, D.D., author of “The Sacred Tenth,” who had prepared for their information an account of the most ancient possession of the college, namely, the lordship or manor at Old Court, Greenwich. Mr. J. Ashby Sterry, who originated and has Written the popular “Bystander ’’ column in the Graphic for considerably over eighteen years, has now altogether retired from that paper. . Miss M. A. Woods, author of “The Characters of Paradise Lost,” has just published, through Messrs. Baker & Son, of Clifton, Bristol, a work entitled “A Study of Opposites.” Miss Alice Henry has been appointed editor of the Woman's department of the “Union Ilabour Advocate ’’ of Chicago, Ill. “The Adventures of Lally Helsmark’ is a work written by Mr. Marshall Kelly and published by Mr. Henry J. Drane in three volumes, sub- divided into four parts. The first part follows the Course of a man who, bred in the ancient faith, Wanders into the thickest stress of atheistic prac- tice. In the second part reference is made to the difference between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and to modern faiths. An individual is introduced whose progress through certain engineering workshops and docks is traced in the third part, which contains descriptions of the life found there and such reflections as genuinely spring out of this. Part four concerns the faith of man in all ages, and his practice in this. Madame Wassal, who has lately returned from Annam, where she has been living for three years, is open to lecturing engagements on the subject of “Life in Annam.” Dr. Wassal, who was attached to the Pasteur Institute of Nhatrang, made several expeditions into the interior, and on every possible Occasion was accompanied by Madame Wassal, who thus obtained an opportunity of studying not only the Annamese, but the wild hill tribes. Applications for lectures should be addressed to The Lecture Agency, The Outer Temple, Strand, London, W.C. “Royal Revenues,” by H. R. H., is a booklet in which is revealed an obsolete historical incident, exemplifying the self-abnegation of the late Queen Victoria and the devotion of one of her counsellors. Mr. Elliot Stock is the publisher of the work, which is obtainable at the price of 6d. nett. FICTION. “Major Weir” by K. L. Montgomery, has been brought out in a popular shilling edition by Mr. Fisher Unwin. An article on “Allen Raine,” by the same author, appeared in the June number of The Treasury. - In our United States notes some time ago we  ## p. (#372) ################################################ 10 TISIES A DTEIOR. announced the publication of a new novel by Gertrude Atherton this spring. We understand that we were premature in this announcement and that the work in question will not be ready till the spring of 1910. “The Diamond and the Rose,” by Hope Protheroe, is a novel which has for its theme the sacrifice of a girl who releases her lover because of the knowledge which comes to her of her inherit- ance of the taint of insanity. The Century Press are the publishers. - Mr. Edgar Turner is publishing, this month, through Messrs. Stanley, Paul & Co., a new novel entitled “The Submarine Girl,” which, in title and in style, recalls the same author's first book, “The Girl with Feet of Clay,” a work which was mainly about authors. “Sylvia and the Secretary” is a new novel by Olivia Ramsey (author of “The Marriage of Lionel Glyde’’ and “The Girl from Catford”), which Mr. John Long has just published. Amongst the novels to be issued at the popular price of 28. in the autumn is a re-issue of the novels by the author of “John Westacott.” The first volume that Messrs. Chapman and Hall will produce is “The Gleaming Dawn.” This will be followed by “The Cardinal's Page,” and then will come the River Stories : “John Westacott,” “By the Western Sea,” etc. The author, Mr. James Baker, is now engaged upon a volume of “Reminis- cent Gossip from Old Note-books,” some chapters of which have appeared in the St. James's Gazette. Mrs. M. H. Spielmann has published, through Messrs. Chatto and Windus, a volume called “The Rainbow Book,” in which are included sixteen tales of fun and fancy. The book has a coloured frontispiece and fourteen illustrations by Arthur Rackham, and twenty-two in black and white by Hugh Thomson, Bernard Partridge, Lewis Baumer, Harry Rowntree, and C. Wilhelm. Mr. H. A. Wachell's new novel, “The Paladin,” which has been running serially during the current year in the Cornhill Magazine, was pub- lished in book form in the last week of September by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. Mr. Wachell is now engaged upon some dramatic work. “Only a Woman : An Unsuspected Heroine of the Reformation,” by Edith C. Kenyon, author of “A Girl in a Thousand,” etc., will be published by the Religious Tract Society. This story, dealing with the times of Luther, ran as a serial through the pages of Our Own Gazette, and we understand has already been translated into Swedish. “Shadow-Shapes” is a new volume of short stories and sketches by Ella Erskine. It owes its title to one of the quatrains of Omar — º “We are no other than a moving row of magic shadow-shapes that come and go round with the sun-illumined lantern held in midnight by the master of the show.” - It has just been published by Mr. Elkin. Mathews. Price 3s. 6d. nett. Dolf Wyllarde is publishing, this autumn, through Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co., a collection of short stories, entitled “Tropical Tales,” which are mostly based on a theory of the influence of climate upon human actions and characters. The author has adopted the plan of stating the tempera- ture in each case. The same Writer, in addition to a certain amount of journalism and magazine work, is also writing a long novel which Messrs. Methuen & Co. will publish next year. The Religious Tract Society's autumn publica- tions include a modern romance, by Helen H. Watson (Mrs. Herbert A. Watson). “Love: The Intruder,” is the title of the story, the author of which has already written many stories for children, as well as some novels, the latter category includ- ing “Andrew Goodfellow ’’ and “The Captain's Daughter.” Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, “The King's Mignon,” is to be published shortly by Messrs. Everett & Co. The period covers the few months that elapsed between the murder of the Duc de Guise and his brother, the Cardinal, at. Blois, by order of the King (Henri III.) and the assassination of the evil king himself by Jacques. Clément. In this setting the author tells a, romance of the period, and introduces the vicissitudes to which the heroine, wife of one of the worst of the mignons, is exposed. An amount, of mystery, which surrounds her existence to the end, also forms a considerable portion of Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's latest story. Mrs. F. E. Penny's new Indian story, entitled “The Unlucky Mark,” has just been published by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. Messrs. Washbourne & Co. are publishing “A. Red Handed Saint,” by Miss Olive Katharine Parr, this autumn. The story is another slum narrative, and has run as a serial in The Universe, London, The Universe, Ohio, and the Catholic Standard, Philadelphia. “The Unexplained” is the title given to a. collection of Indian stories by Edith C. Gerrard, which Messrs. Digby, Long & Co. have published. There are eight stories in all, and they tell of Indian life on the hills and when travelling on the plains. “Paths Perilous,” a new novel by Sidney Pickering, was published last month by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. - Miss Winifred James will produce, early this, month, a book entitled “Saturday's Children.” It will be published by Messrs. Blackie & Sons,  ## p. (#373) ################################################ TISIES A UTISIOR. 11 at the price of 6s. The illustrations are by Frances Ewan, and the book deals with the vicissitudes of two penniless girls in an Australian town. - BIOGRAPHY. Miss F. M. S. Batchelor has translated, with the assistance of Mr. C. A. Miles, a short history of the Popes, which has lately been written by Prof. Gustav Krüger, of Giessen, one of the foremost ecclesiastical historians in Germany. It is a concise and impartial account of the Papacy from the earliest times to the accession of Pius X. Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. are the publishers of the volume which bears the title of “The Papacy : the Idea and its Exponents.” Miss Agnes Murphy, who has been commissioned to write the biography of Madame Melba, which is to be published in New York and London during October, is an Irishwoman who has travelled widely, and who, for some years, has filled the position of personal representative of the Queen of Song. The book will contain a number of illustrations. Mr. John Lane has recently published a new work dealing with “Madame de Maintenon, her life and time, 1635–1719,” by Charlotte C. Dyson. Recent research has led to the discovery of many new facts concerning one whom friends and foes alike acknowledge to have been one of the most remarkable figures in French history, and Miss Dyson will probably, taking these facts into account,be able to show the wife of Louis XIV. in a new light. There are 17 illustrations to the book. NATURAL HISTORY. “The YoungNaturalist,” by W. Percival Westell, is a guide to British animal life, in which the author continues his efforts to popularise the study of natural history, avoiding the language of the large text-books, which he considers are often quite beyond the ken of the ordinary individual. In addition to eight coloured plates there are nearly 250 photographic illustrations. Messrs. Methuen & Co. are the publishers. SCIENCE. A new work by Mr. J. Ellard Gore, F.R.A.S., entitled “Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies,” is in the press, and will shortly be pub- lished by Messrs. Chatto and Windus. TRAVEL. Mr. Francis Gribble's three monographs on Geneva, Montreux, and Lausanne have been brought together in a single volume called “The {Lake of Geneva,” which will be published by Messrs. A. and C. Black. The scope of the work is rather biographical and historical than descrip- tive. The scenery of the lake having been copiously illustrated by J. Hardwicke Lewis and Miss Mary Hardwicke Lewis, Mr. Gribble, the author, has mainly devoted his text to anecdotal summaries of the careers of the celebrities, from Bonivard to Byron, and from Calvin to Voltaire, whose names are associated with Geneva, Vaud, and Chablais. . Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. have just published Sir Godfrey Lagden's work on “The Basutos,” in which the author, who spent the greater part of thirty years in Southern Africa and seventeen amongst the Basutos, traces their early origin and formation into a tribe under the celebrated chief Moshish. Their struggles for ascendency with the Zulus and other tribes are first depicted, and then the rough story of contest with the European pioneers. The work, which is published in two Volumes, at 24S. nett, is illustrated from a series of reproductions from photographs in the author's collections. THEOLOGY. “A Vision of Perfection,” by Georgie Har- greaves, describes the struggle of a being against agnostic precepts, and its eventual victory over them. Mr. Frank H. Morland, of 16, Park Mansions, Fulham, S.W., is the publisher. } POETRY. “Thoughts and Pastimes,” by M. E. R., is a collection of verse, homely in form and reverent in spirit, which has been published by Messrs. Kegan, Paul & Co. The proceeds of the sales are to go to the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. The volume contains six illustrations, which add to the attractiveness of the production. Mr. G. K. Chesterton's first book, “The Wild Knight, and Other Poems,” was published nine years ago, and Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. are now preparing a new edition, which will be revised by the author and contain many entirely new poems. TOPOGRAPHY. To Messrs. George Allen & Sons' series, “Memorials of the Counties of England,” under the general editorship of the Rev. P. H. Ditchfield, M.A., has been added “Memorials of Old Sussex,” edited by Percy D. Mundy. Mr. Mundy has had the assistance of Mr. Hilaire Belloc, who con- tributes an introductory chapter on the indi- viduality of Sussex; of Dr. Cox, who writes on the subject of Sussex forests; of Mr. J. Tavenor- Perry, who writes on Saxon architecture ; and of many other writers distinguished in their various departments. - -  ## p. (#374) ################################################ 12 TRIES A DTEIOR. The volume is to be published on subscription at 15s, nett. ENGINEERING. Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co. announce the publication of a text-book on gas, oil and petrol engines for the use of students and engineers, by Mr. H. E. Wimperis. “The Internal Combustion Engine "-the book under notice—deals with subjects in the borderland between the several allied sciences (notably physics and chemistry) and the exclusively practical sides of their application. The treatment is necessarily mathematical in certain parts, but it does not demand any more than an average acquaintance with mathematics On the part of the reader. - POLITICAL. Mr. Archibald Colquhoun has republished in a Small volume some articles of his which appeared recently in the Morning Post on the question of Germany and sea power, “1912 P’’—the tile given to the volume (in which will be found some hitherto unpublished matter)—provides the clue to the author's purpose in writing on one of the gravest questions of the day. Messrs. Pitmans are the publishers. HISTORICAL. Miss S. F. A. Caulfeild has published, through Mr. Elliot Stock, a sketch, more or less brief, of the planting of the Christian faith in Continental Europe when the several nationalities were pagan. The author has included in her history extracts from the records of apostolic succession in the five primitive mother-churches during the first three centuries of Christianity. “The Dawn of Christianity in Continental Europe” is the title of Miss Caulfeild’s book, which is illustrated from photographs, and is published at 2s. 6d. nett. Count Lützow is preparing a new edition of his “Bohemia : A Historical Sketch,” which first appeared in 1896, and has long been out of print. The new edition will be considerably altered and enlarged. As Count Lützow has recently written a history of Bohemian literature, the last chapter of the “Sketch,” which dealt with the literature of Bohemia, has been omitted. On the other hand, an extensive chapter has been added which deals with the history of Bohemia from the year 1620 up to the present day. The first edition did not continue the history of Bohemia beyond the year 1620. The new edition of “Bohemia: A Historical Sketch,” will be published about the end of the present year by Messrs. Dent & Co. in “Everyman's Library.” REMINISCENCEs. Mr.T. Werner Laurie has just published “My Friends the French,” by Robert Harborough Sherard. In this volume Mr. Sherard relates further reminiscences of Paris, beyond those given in his “Twenty Years in Paris,” and his observa- tions of modern Social life in France. LAW. Mr. Edward Jenks's book “ Husband and Wife in the Law,” published by Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co., explains the mutual relations of husband and wife, so far as they are regulated by the law. ARCHITECTURE. “Town Planning in Practice,” by Mr. Raymond Unwin, is a book which is not occupied with the advocacy of town planning or the Garden City movement, but, assuming the desirability of these, seeks to put before the reader a sketch of town planning as it has been practised in the past, and to give some idea of the different styles of work. It deals particularly with the two main schools who advocate respectively formality and inform- ality of design, and suggests definite principles for guidance. The book, which has 300 illustrations, is published by Mr. Fisher Unwin at the price of £1 1s. nett. DRAMATIC. Since the last issue of The Author the dramatic Section of the Society of Authors has been well represented on the stage. Mr. Justin Huntly McCarthy, Sir Arthur Pinero, Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Mr. Paul Rubens, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, Mr. Alfred Sutro, Mr. J. B. Fagan, and Mr. F. Anstey have each produced plays during the Vacation. Mr. McCarthy's play “The Proud Prince,” an adaptation of the well-known legend King Robert. of Sicily, was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on September 4, and was interpreted by a caste which included Mr. Matheson Lang, Miss. Dorothy Thomas, and Mr. Eric Mayne. Sir Arthur Pinero's play, “Mid-Channel,” in four acts, was produced at the St. James's Theatre early in September. The caste included Miss Irene Vanbrugh, Mr. Lyn Harding, and Mr. C. M. Lowne. “The Whip” was produced by Mr. Cecil Raleigh in collaboration with Mr. Henry Hamilton at Drury Lane Theatre, on Thursday, September 9, with a caste in which were included Miss Jessie Bateman, Mr. Wincent Clive, Mr. Cyril Keightley, and Miss Madge. Fabian. .  ## p. (#375) ################################################ THE AUTHOR. 13 Mr. Paul Ruben’s “Dear Little Denmark,” described as a Danish musical incident in two acts, was produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre early last month, Mr. Huntley Wright, Miss Gracie Leigh, and Miss Isabel Jay in the caste. “The Showing-Up of Blanco-Posnet "--Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's one-act play—was produced at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin during the last week in August, with Mr. O’Donovan as Blanco, and Miss Mary O’Neill as the mother. Mr. Alfred Sutro's play “Making a Gentleman,” was produced at the Garrick on Saturday, Septem- ber 11, and was interpreted by a caste in which were included Mr. Arthur Bourchier, Miss Ethel Irving, and Mr. Kenneth Douglas. “False Gods” is a translation, for which Mr. J. B. Fagan is responsible, from “La Foi,” by M. Brieux, and was produced at His Majesty's Theatre on September 14, with a caste which included Sir Herbert Tree, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Henry Ainley, and Miss Evelyn D’Alroy. Mr. F. Anstey's fantasy, “The Brass Bottle,” was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre just before The Author went to press. In the cast were Mr. Lawrence Grossmith, Miss Viva Birkett, and Mr. Rudge Harding. A new one-act play called “The Typist” was produced on September 15 at the Garden Theatre in the Women of All Nations Exhibition at Olympia. There are three characters in the piece: Earl Dreighton (Mr. Walter Pearce), Mary Lister (a heiress impersonated by Miss Ella Erskine), and Johnson (a butler, taken by Mr. Louis Calvert). The theme relates to the attempt of the Earl to Save the fortunes of his house through literature, rather than by contracting an alliance with an heiress as suggested by his mother, and the play shows how he finally did unconsciously (by falling in love with an heiress under the impression that she was a typist) what his mother had desired he should do. Miss Ella Erskine, the author of the piece, has also written a one-act play which she has called “The White Hair.” This piece has been acquired by the Scottish Repertory Theatre for productions in Glasgow and Edinburgh this autumn, and Miss Erskine has been engaged to play the leading part. —e—º-e— PARIS NOTES. —º-º-º- HE last book written by Mme. Arvède Barine has been published in volume form since her death. It appeared in serial form in the Revue des, Deua Mondes. It is the history of “Madame,” the sister-in-law of Louis XIV. As º, descendant of the Stuarts the story of this Princess is extremely interesting to English readers. A granddaughter of the “Winter King ” of Bohemia, her life was by no means an uneventful One. On marrying Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV., she was required to abjure her religion. With her German tastes and her independence of character she found Court etiquette most irksome, until she became fascinated by the Grand Monarch. It is this thread of romance which makes the history of the Duchesse d’Orléans so interesting. We see her, in all the freshness of her girlhood, amusing the French Court by her frankness and her daring speeches. She delights in hunting and riding, and is indefatigable in all Outdoor exercises. Much later on we see her growing old, tormented by her family troubles, jealous of Mme. de Maintenon, withdrawing as much as possible from Court life. Mme. Arvède Barine gives us extracts from her letters to her family, so that we have her story, as it were, from her own lips, by reading between the lines. The whole book is as interesting as a novel. There is not a word too much. Mme. Barine was thoroughly well up in her subject, and possessed the secret of giving, as concisely as possible, a life-like portrait of the person she was depicting. She was one of the most conscientious of writers, and spared no pains in getting all the information necessary from every possible source before commencing her book. It is an education to read her notes, as no detail was neglected by her which might add to the interest of the subject she had in hand. This volume on “Madame’’ is one of the most interest- ing of Mme. Arvède Barine's works. Jules Huret has now published another volume of his studies of Germany. The present one is entitled “Berlin,” and contains chapters on “l’Avenir,” “La Vie Nocturne,” “Le Monde,” “Le Peuple,” “Les Ouvriers,” “Officiers et Soldats,” “L’Hygiène et la Propreté,” “L’Anti- sémitisme.” The author of this series of books has been travelling in all parts of Germany, and his study of the country and of the Germans is one of the most impartial and thorough criticisms that has hitherto appeared. Among recent books are “La Chasse de Blanche,” by Gyp ; “Pierre et Thérèse,” by Marcel Prévost ; “Polochon,” by G. de Pawlowski; “Le Partage de l'Afrique (Fachoda), by Gabriel Hanotaux. A volume of poems by the Duchesse d'Uzès, née Mortemart, has just been published under the title of “Paillettes grises.” The title itself is a trouvaille, and very many of the poems are exquisite. Pierre de Coulevain's book “On the Branch" is to be published shortly by Mr. Nash in England and by Messrs. Dutton in America.  ## p. (#376) ################################################ 14 TISIES A UITISIOR. In the Revue Bleue M. Lucien Maury devotes four pages to Frederika Macdonald's book on Rousseau. The translation of this book into French has been greatly appreciated here. Several of the reviews had devoted some pages to the English edition, giving extracts from it, and this had aroused great curiosity. As M. Maury very justly observes, Mme. Frederika Macdonald has gone more deeply into her subject than anyone else hitherto. . In her vindication of Jean Jacques Rousseau she has brought some astonishing revela- tions to support her theory, and M. Maury calls upon his readers to admire “the resolution and the British perseverance of this clever writer.” Further On M. Maury acknowledges that Mme. Macdonald has proved the plot against Rousseau. Rarely, he says, has any seeker after truth been so fortunate in finding proofs and in being able to show the evidence. The memoirs of Mme. d'Epinay have always been used as a weapon against Rousseau. It is certainly interesting to find now that these memoirs were altered by the author at the instiga- tion of Grimm and Diderot. Mme. Macdonald shows us the original manuscript with the altera- tions. She certainly has been most fortunate in her researches among the archives. It has taken her twenty years to prove her assertions, but her book marks an era for the disciples and admirers of Rousseau. In the Revue de Paris of July there are interest- ing articles by André Chevrillon on “L’Orthodoxie paradoxale,” by Fernand Caussy on “Voltaire et ses Curés,” and by Philippe Gonnard on “Sainte Hélène et Napoléon III.” In the August numbers of the same review are articles on “L’Armée russe,” by an anonymous writer; on “Chateau- briand, Napoléon et les Bourbons,” by Leonce Pingaud ; on “La Question d'Alsace,” by H. Lichtenberger ; and on “Questions extérieures,” by Victor Bérard. In the September number there are articles by Charles Bouglé on “Darwiniens a Cambridge,” by Commandant Picard on “Sedan,” and by an anonymous writer on “Le Débarque- ment des Anglais en Allemagne.” The theatrical event of this season in France has been the representation of “Macbeth" at the Abbaye of Saint Wandrille. The play has been entirely re-translated by M. Maurice Maeterlinck, and Mme. Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck, in the rôle of Lady Macbeth, will never be forgotten by those spectators who had the good fortune to be resent. The Abbaye is a picturesque old château which dates from the seventh century. It was reconstructed in the eleventh century. M. and Mme. Maeterlinck live in this chdteau during the summer months, and it occurred to them to pro- duce “Macbeth,” using the different rooms for the stage of the play. From the windows the guests looked at the witches out on the green, and, con- ducted in groups from room to room, they witnessed the different scenes of the tragedy. The most effective one was when Lady Macbeth descended the Wide staircase, looking with horror at her own hand stained for ever with the blood of her victim. The torch-light threw the magnified shadow of the hand on the wall. The dramatic effect of this scene was intense. It is to be hoped that the play may be given again under the same conditions. ALYS HALLARD. “Madame" (Hachette). “Berlin" (Fasquelle). “La Chasse de Blanche” (Flammarion). “Pierre et Thérèse’’ (Lemerre). “Polochon’” (Fasquelle). Le Partage de l'Afrique (Fachoda)” (Flammarion). “Paillettes grises” (Lemerre). *—º- a w—u—w HEINEMANN v. “THE SMART SET ". PUBLISHING CO., LTD. SERIAL RIGHTS. N this case Mr. Heinemann, the well-known pub- lisher, brought an action as registered pro- : prietor of the copyright in a novel entitled “Syrinx,” by Mr. Lawrence North, which was published in volume form in England by the plaintiff in January, 1909. The plaintiff claimed damages and an injunction to restrain the defendant Company from publishing the novel in the magazine called The Smart Set. Before the book was published in England Messrs. Duffield & Co., of New York, applied to the plaintiff for the serial rights in America, and it Was arranged that Messrs. Duffield & Co. should dispose of these rights for £100, which was to be divided equally between the plaintiff, the author, and Messrs. Duffield & Co. Owing to a misunderstanding, apparently, Messrs. Duffield & Co., in disposing of the “maga- zine rights” in the novel to the publishers of The Smart Set stated that the English rights were included, and the defendant company published an abridged version of the whole story in one number of the magazine. It was urged on behalf of the defendants that they had acted innocently and in pursuance of what they were justified in regarding as an authority from the plaintiff's agent in America. Some evidence was given as to the meaning of Serial rights and magazine rights. It was stated that in England “serial rights” meant the right of publishing a book or novel serially, i.e., in parts  ## p. (#377) ################################################ TEIE AUTISIOR. 15 and that the expression “magazine rights” was not commonly used and had no distinctive meaning. On the other hand, it was said that in America serial rights were divided into two groups—“news- paper syndicate rights” and “magazine right; "— and that the latter included the right of publishing the whole of the novel—in an abridged form if neces- sary—in one number of a magazine. It Was a common practice in America to abridge a work for this purpose without consulting the author. Mr. Justice Parker, in giving judgment for the plaintiff, said that it was impossible for the defen- dants to justify what they had done under any authority obtained through Mr. Duffield, who clearly had no authority to deal with the English rights. It was a case where, an innocent party– innocent in the sense that they believed they had the right, though they had not—infringed a copyright. The plea of innocence in that sense was not good in law. Owing to an undertaking by the defendants to discontinue the sale of the number of The Smart Set containing the novel an injunction was not necessary, but the plaintiff was entitled to the usual inquiry as to damages and the costs of the action. HAROLD HARDY. LEGAL ACTION AND MEMBERS’ RESPONSIBILITIES. —º-º-º- HE question of the fighting strength of the society has again arisen. From time to time in the society's reports and in The Author the committee have insisted and persisted that those members who place their disputes in the hands of the secretary should be ready to take their cases into the courts if such a course is essential. Some little time ago an old member of the society who had not made very much use of the society's machinery came in and laid three cases before the secretary, desiring that he should take the matters in hand immediately. The first was a claim for moneys under an agree- ment from an American firm of publishers. The second was a claim for infringement of copyright under the Berne Convention, and the third was a claim for royalties withheld by an English publisher through misinterpretation of the terms of the agreement. The secretary at once proceeded to take what action he could. In the first case he found out that the American publisher was not in a very sound financial position, and that it would most probably be necessary to bring an action to enforce payment. He at once communicated with the American publisher. In the second case some further details were necessary in order to establish the infringement of copyright, and he at once wrote to the solicitors of the society to obtain their opinion upon the position. It seemed quite clear, however, that as the guilty party had been dealing with property that was not his, it would be necessary to take the matter into court if the infringement was clearly established. In the third case the secretary read through the papers and agreement carefully, and, assured of the mistake in the interpretation of the contract, wrote to the publishers. He then informed the member of the steps that had been taken, and that it would most probably be essential—but at any rate it was necessary to be prepared—to carry the matters through the courts. He pointed out at the same time that the society's influence very often was able to bring a dispute to settlement without going into court, though that influence in the past would have been considerably weakened if the committee had not made it an important point that members should be prepared to take legal action. The secretary received an answer to his com- munication requesting him to return all the papers as the member was not of a litigious disposition, and did not desire to take legal action. To such a member the society can no doubt be of use in advising on contracts before they are signed, and in keeping business out of the hands of a doubtful and unsatisfactory publisher, but it must be evident to the member on consideration, and to others who read this statement, that it is useless to ask the society to make a demand, and then refuse, if the demand is repudiated, to allow the society to take action. If the committee of management, during the twenty-five years of the society's existence, had conducted business on these lines, the society would have been the laughing stock of publishers, editors, and literary robbers. The only danger that may arise on an action of this kind is that sometimes the member may go away from the society's office and may proclaim that the society is no good—that it cannot help authors when in difficulty. Such a statement would, if it were made, of course be contrary to the facts, as the fault lies with the member and not with the society. Again it is necessary to impress upon all mem- bers that prevention is better than cure ; but if they desire to place a case in the hands of the secretary they must be prepared, if his demand on their behalf is neglected or repudiated, to be ready to take legal action. By these means they will not  ## p. (#378) ################################################ 16 TISIES A UTEIOR. only strengthen their own position, but the position of all their fellow authors, and Surely, to the majority, the latter reason is the higher ideal. a ––45– a w-ul---w AUTHORS AND INCOME TAX. —º-º-º- N November 26, 1908, Sir Henry Kimber put the following questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer:- “If he (the Chancellor) was aware that the Inland Revenue Commissioners contended that the income of an inventor derived from patent royalties was, under the Finance Act of 1907, not to be treated as earned income, but was liable to the full tax of 1s. in the pound instead of 9d. which was the rate allowed on incomes earned by other professional and scientific labours; and whether he would state upon what section of the Act that contention was founded.” The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied in the following terms:— “Where an inventor sells outright his patent rights, the sum realised from the Sale is regarded as capital and is not taxed. Where an inventor has not parted with his patent rights, but allows another person to work the patent in consideration of the payment of a royalty, the resulting income is regarded as unearned income derived from property.” When the secretary of the society saw this reply he put the matter before the committee in order to ascertain whether they desired to put somewhat similar questions to the Chancellor in regard to the sale of authors’ copyrights. The committee authorised the step suggested by the secretary. There was some little delay owing to the negotia- tions which had to be entered into, but finally Mr. Robert Harcourt, a member of the society, was kind enough to undertake the duty, and on June 22, 1909, he put the following questions to the Chancellor and received the reply set forth below :— “Whether authors, dramatists, or composers may regard moneys received from the sale of copyright or performing right as capital, and as such not subject to income tax ; and whether, in view of the fact that the duration of an author's, dramatist's, or composer's property in his own works has been limited by statute to forty-two years, or life and seven years, whichever is the longer period, the royalties and other payments which an author, dramatist, or composer may obtain in return for a lease or licence to publish or perform will be assessed as earned income whether they accrue due before or after the death of the author, dramatist, or composer 7” Reply: “Such moneys received by an author, dramatist, or composer are liable to income tax as being the income of a profession, and would be treated as “earned income.’ But any payments received after his death would be income derived from property left by him, and could not b treated in the hands of his representatives as earned.” The committee of the society, observing the discrepancy of these replies, propose to put a further question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. MAGAZINE CONTENTS. –0-º-º- BOOKMAN. Johnson. By Thomas Seccombe. Dr. Johnson's Literary Work. By H. Spencer Scott. Dr. Johnson's Ancestry. By C. F. Sargisson. B The White Prophet: Review by The Rev. William arTy. Chesterton on Shaw : A Review by A. St. John Adcock. The Country Books. By Edward Thomas. “The Times " History. By Lieut.-Col. W. H. James. BOOK MONTHLY. Meredithian. By Maurice Buxton Forman. Byronic Memories. CONTEMPORARY. The Writings of Mandré Gide. By Edmund Gosse. CORNEIILL. Architecture in English History. By Kenneth Bell. FORTNIGHTLY. The Master Hoaxer : James de la Cloche. Lang. Some Neglected Aspects of Horace Walpole. By Norman Pearson. By Andrew MONTH. Mandeville's Travels. By Harold Binns. NATIONAL REVIEW. George Borrow in Russia. By Hubert Ives. Modern French Pictures. By W. Roberts. The Shakespearean Problem. By George Hookham. NINETEENTH CENTURY. Matrimony and the Man of Letters. By Sidney Low. L’Art Français Contemporain. By André Beaunier. Debussy : His Science and his Music. By A. E. Keeton. The Book of Lismore. By the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton. Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co. announce new editions of “Gulliver's Travels” and “Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.” Numerous coloured drawings and many illustrations in black and white by Mr. Arthur Rackham, with specially designed end papers, will be the salient features of the pro- duction. There will be a large paper edition of each Volume, which will be limited to 750 copies, and Will be issued at 21s. nett. On subscription—a price which will be raised after publication.  ## p. (#379) ################################################ TISIES A TTISIOR. 17 (? HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. —º-º-º- l, WERY member has a right to ask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case tº the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion 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. B. 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- iars 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 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. The 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. • –—º-–a v----w * WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. —e-Q-0– 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. tº º 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. º well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or Octor | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are — (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are :— (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement In 68,0S, (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld. (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright. ——e—º-e— WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS, —º-º-º- EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with anyone except an established 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.  ## p. (#380) ################################################ 18 TISIE AUTHOR, (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. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con- tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. -6–e {} REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS. —º-º-º- CENARIOS, typewritten 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 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, -º-º-º- 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 a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical C9mposer 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 an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. –0-4-0– STAMPING MUSIC. 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 Society's safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble. * —h- v-v-w THE READING BRANCH, –0-Q-0– 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. —e—º-e— “THE AUTHOR.” —º-º-º- HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 58. 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. * * —º-- a -v- wº REMITTANCES. —º-º-º- The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. All remittances should be crossed Union of London and Smith's Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only.  ## p. (#381) ################################################ TISIE AUTISIOR. 19 GENERAL NOTES. -º-º-º- THE SOCIETY's PRESIDENT. WE have much pleasure in announcing that Mr. Thomas Hardy has accepted the presidency of the Society of Authors. • *mammº masºmº, WE regret to record the death of Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey, which occurred at her residence, Sandilands, Putney, in July. Miss Carey joined the Society in 1891, and was a member up to the day of her death, as well as an annual subscriber to the Pension Fund since its inauguration. *. As a writer for girls she enjoyed a wide popularity, her first story, “Nellie's Memories,” appearing in 1868, and her last, “The King of the Unknown,” to which we referred in a previous issue, being published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. in September. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. SINCE the last issue of The Author the Depart- mental Committee dealing with the Berlin Con- vention has been taking further evidence on the many points connected with this very difficult subject. The Society of Authors has given every assistance in its power in the collection of evidence on the points suggested by the chairman and secretary of the committee. The president of L'Association Littéraire et Artistiques Inter- nationale has given evidence before the committee on the question of the duration of copyright. We understand that all the evidence has now been taken, but that the committee will re-assemble in the autumn in order to consider their report. This report will be awaited with great interest by those who have any dealings with copyright property. * ====== ANOTHER question, of interest to all dramatic writers, the question of the censorship of plays, has been referred to a committee formed shortly after the appearance of the July Author. Appli- cation was made to the Society of Authors to appoint a delegate to represent its views before the committee. Unfortunately, as the last meet- ings of the society's committees before the vacation had been held, it was impossible to obtain sanction to the appointment of a dramatist to represent the society officially, but the secretary circularised various members of the dramatic profession, mem- bers of the society, in order that they might per- sonally give expression to their views before the committee that had been appointed. Much of the evidence has appeared in the papers. One or two members, owing to what would appear to be an inac- Curate report in which the society's name was men- tioned, have obtained a false idea of the work of the $90iety's committees and the attitude of the society on the matter. If these members had taken the trouble to read the columns of The Author they would not have been misled and would have known what had taken place. We must refer members to the Society's organ for full information. In this case also the report of the committee will be awaited With great interest. Whatever view one may take as to the desirability of the censorship—whether for or against its continuance—the matter is one of great importance to all dramatic writers. STANDING MATTER. READERS of a paper often neglect to read its standing matter, or, if they read it once, forget its substance and do not read it again. It may be worth while, therefore, to remind members of one or two points on which the society endeavours to advise and protect them. In the beginning of this year the society established a register of scenarios of plays. This has been found a great convenience to a good many of our members, but we may be permitted to call the members' attention once again to its existence. We should like to remind musical composers that the Society stamps their compositions, retain- ing the stamps in a safe at the office, and charging the usual fee of 5s. per 1,000. The vouchers are forwarded to the composers and the accounts for stamping rendered semi-annually. To all members we should like to state that the Society undertakes the stamping of agreements and letters of contract. All that is necessary is that the agreement should be sent to the office within the prescribed time. The document will be returned, the only charge made being the cost of the stamp duty which has to be paid. The society also stores agreements on behalf of members, keeping them in a safe for this purpose. Some of our members may have overlooked these matters, which we recall for their convenience. MORAL OBLIGATIONS. WE were discussing with a well-known English composer the other day the serious issues involved by the transfer of copyright to a publisher, and the fatal result to the composer in the event of the assignment of the contract by the trustee after  ## p. (#382) ################################################ 20 THE AUTHOR. the publisher's bankruptcy. The composer stated that although the assignee of the contract might not be bound by law to pay the royalties, the com- poser's claim being merely one for damages against the bankrupt estate, yet he felt quite certain that no respectable music publisher would repudiate his obligation under the original contract. We were pleased to hear this expression of opinion. Business men, as a rule, do not take much cognisance of moral obligations, and the society has generally found moral force of little avail unless it can be backed up by legal pressure ; but we are compelled, with regret, to confess that our experience does not bear out the statement made by our friend the composer. We have known one publisher of books who has paid the royalties in full on taking up contracts from a bankrupt estate. We have known other publishers who have been only too willing to take advantage, in order to evade payment of royalties, of the doubtful wording of any contract, when they consider that this wording is covered by the legal decisions, and we have known publishers of music as well as of books equally ready to repudiate their moral liabilities in the circumstances. It is necessary to repeat, therefore, that no author or composer should trust to the morality of the issue, but should invariably insist upon a con- tract which does not transfer the copyright either directly or impliedly to the publisher. CHINESE COPYRIGHT. SOME months ago one of the members of the Society drew the committee's attention to the question of literary piracy in China, and the secretary was instructed to write to the Foreign Office and ascertain what retribution, if any, could be obtained against piracy in that country, taking into consideration the fact that no treaty dealing with copyright exists between Great Britain and China. We have much pleasure in printing, with the consent of the Foreign Office, the last letter received on the subject :— FOREIGN OFFICE, - June 12, 1909. SIR,-With reference to your letter of February 24th last, I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to inform you that a despatch has now been received from His Majesty's Minister at Peking upon the subject of the protection of British copyright in China against infringement by British and Chinese subjects. Great Britain, as you are aware, has no treaty with China which deals with the question of copyright, but Sir J. Jordan states that a Chinese author wishing to protect his work usually sends a copy to the local authority begging that he will issue a proclamation warning the public against infringement. In case of infringement the author can then obtain an injunction against the printer, have the pirated work destroyed, and the party so infringing unished. Sir J. Jordan adds that similar applications made through British consuls to local authorities in China against infringement by Chinese subjects of British copyright have met with success. I am to inform you that there is no objection to the publication of this letter. I am, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, F. A. CAMPBELL. à —º- - a wº ~-w SIR THEODORE MARTIN. –0-Q-0– Y the death of Sir Theodore Martin literature loses its “doyen,” and the Society of Authors a member of twenty-five years' standing. He was a solicitor as well as a man of letters; and no doubt the large experience of practical affairs which he had gained in the former capacity helped him to realise from the outset that the work which the founders of the society were setting out to do was work which badly needed to be done. The law, it has often been said, “is a jealous mistress and brooks no rival.” Most lawyers, therefore, who have discovered a talent, as well as a taste, for literature, have taken the earliest oppor- tunity of quitting the law for the pursuits which pleased them better. Wilkie Collins did so for one, and it would be easy to cite other examples. Sir Theodore Martin, however, contrived to follow both callings with equal success, and he may be said to have done it by adopting the policy of those strange people in the “Odyssey” who earned a double wage by toiling both night and day. His office hours, during the greater part of his pro- fessional life, were from nine o'clock in the morn- ing until nine o'clock at night. He then—so we gather from some personal notes contributed a few years ago to Literature by his relative, Mr. Robert Machray—rested from his labours and refreshed himself for a brief hour and a half; but presently, at 10.30, he sat down to write, and often continued at his desk until the clock struck two. Most men would have broken down under the strain of such excesses, or would have found the willingness of the spirit undermined by the weak- ness of the flesh. Sir Theodore Martin carried his burden lightly, and continued to carry it until an advanced old age. Working harder than the average solicitor, he also produced a larger output of books than the average man of letters; while it seems only the other day that he was still con- spicuous by the old-fashioned Conservatism of his printed protests against the blatant Radicalism of the motor 'bus. There may be no truth in the ancient adage that “hard work never kills”; but  ## p. (#383) ################################################ THE AUTISIORs 21 for his vigorous constitution, at all events, it had neither terror nor peril. - The work which gained Sir Theodore his widest circle of readers was indubitably his “official” Life of the late Prince Consort, to which he devoted fifteen years of his leisure. The mere fact that it was official, while opening up sources of information which would not otherwise have been accessible, imposed restrictions on the biographer. He could no more give expression to his own personality in such a volume than in his various translations from the German and the Latin. The more critical public, therefore, will prefer to judge him by those “Bon Gaultier Ballads” which he wrote in the heyday of his youth and irresponsibility. The pseudonym, of course, was taken from Rabelais. “A moi,” we read in the master's pages, “n'est que honneur et gloire d’estre dict et reputé Bon Gaultier et bon compaignon; en ce nom Suis bien venu en toutes bonnes compaignies de Panta- gruelistes.” Sir Theodore, then a young man of about five-and-twenty, wrote under the signature for various magazines, first alone, and afterwards in “a kind of Beaumont and Fletcher partnership” with Professor Aytoun. His own account of the partnership may be read in his memoir of his collaborator. “In these papers,” he says, “in which we ran atilt, with all the recklessness of youthful spirits, against such of the tastes or follies of the day as presented an opening for ridicule or mirth, at the same time that we did not altogether lose sight of a purpose higher than mere amusement, appeared the verses, with a few exceptions, which subse- quently became popular, to a degree we then little contemplated, as the “Bon Gaultier Ballads.” . . . Fortunately for our purpose there were then living not a few poets whose style and manner of thought were sufficiently marked to make imitation easy, and sufficiently popular for a parody of their characteristics to be readily recognised. . . . Never, probably, were verses thrown off, with a keener sense of enjoyment. In writing them we had no thought of the public, and it was a pleasant sur- prise to us when we found how rapidly they became popular, not only in England, but also in America, which had come in for no small share of severe though well-meant ridicule.” On the authors of the “Bon Gaultier Ballads,” that is to say, had fallen the mantle of the authors of “Rejected Addresses.” Their parodies were as well liked as those of their predecessors, and gave as little offence to their victims—and, as Sir Theodore justly claimed, for the same reason. “Let no one,” he quotes from Heine, “ridicule mankind unless he loves them ’’; and he con- tinues :— “With no less truth may it be said, let no one parody a poet unless he loves him. He must first be penetrated by his spirit, and have steeped his ear in the music of his verse, before he can reflect these under a humorous aspect with success.” Precisely because they fulfil those conditions, Sir Theodore Martin's parodies are likely to keep a permanent place in that class of literature. FRANCIS GRIB BLE. U.S. COPYRIGHT CODE DEFECTS. —e-º-º- (Printed from the United States Publishers' Weekly.) HE following are the features in which the new code is unsatisfactory to the friends of unrestricted property rights in intellectual productions: SEC. 1. e. The proviso curtailing the rights of musical authors as to mechanical reproductions. SEC. 13. The addition of the words “and the copyright shall become void” (in case of non- deposit of copies), which makes a double, indeed triple, penalty and involves forfeiture on a technicality, while denial of the right to proceed against infringers until such deposit is made is quite sufficient. SECS, 15–17. The manufacturing clauses, which prevent participation by this country in the Berne Copyright Union, particularly as to binding and illustration. The affidavit clause is considered needlessly burdensome. A less objectionable form, admissible as a com- promise, was as follows, part in brackets preferably omitted : SEC. 15. That of the printed book or periodical specified in section five, subsections (a) and (b) of this Act, except the original text of a book of foreign origin in a language or languages other than English, the text of all copies accorded protection under this Act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein, or, if the text be produced by lithographic process, or photo-engraving process, then by a process wholly performed within the limits of the United States, and the printing of the text of the said work shall be performed within the limits of the United States [which requirements shall extend also to the illustrations within a book consisting of printed text and illustrations produced by lithographic process or photo-engraving process, except where in either case the subjects represented are located in a foreign country]; but they shall  ## p. (#384) ################################################ 22 TFIES A DITISIOR. not apply to works in raised characters for the use of the blind, or to books published abroad in the English language seeking ad interim protection under this Act. SEC. 16. That in case the Register of Copyrights shall receive notice, upon information and belief, or shall have other reason to believe that the copies so deposited have not been manufactured within the limits of the United States as before provided, he shall require an affidavit, under the official seal of any officer authorised to administer oaths within the United States, duly made by the person claim- ing copyright or by his duly authorised agent or representative residing in the United States, or by the printer who has printed the book, setting forth that the copies deposited have been printed from type set within the limits of the United States or from plates made within the limits of the United States from type set therein ; or, if the text be produced by lithographic process, or photo-engrav- ing process, that such process was wholly performed within the limits of the United States, and that the printing of the text of the said book has also been performed within the limits of the United States. Such affidavit shall state also the place where and the establishment or establishments in which such type was set or plates were made or lithographic process, or photo-engraving process or printing were performed and the date of the completion of the printing of the book or the date of publication. SEC. 17. That any person who, for the purpose of obtaining registration of a claim to copyright, shall knowingly make a false affidavit as to his having complied with the above conditions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- viction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and all of his rights and privileges under said copyright shall thereafter be forfeited. SEC. 23. Authors and publishers desired a term of life and fifty years, in accord, with the Berlin agreement, as embodied in the following draft : That the copyright secured by this Act shall endure : (a) In the case of any posthumous work, or of any periodical or other composite work, or of any work copyrighted by a corporate body (otherwise than as assignee of the individual author or authors), or by employer for whom such work is made for hire, for fifty years from the date of first publication; (b) In the case of any work not specified in sub- section (a) of this section, but including a contribu- tion to a periodical when such contribution, has been separately registered, for the lifetime of the author and for fifty years after his death (or if a work by joint authors until fifty years after the death of the last survivor of them); and it shall be the duty of executors, administrators, or assigns of such author, to record in the copyright office the date of his death. In a work published anonymously or under an assumed name, copyright shall subsist for the same period as if the work had been produced bearing the author's true name, provided that at least one year before the expiration of fifty years from the date of publication the true name of the author shall be registered in the copyright office. In all of the above cases the term shall extend to the end of the calendar year of expiration. SEC. 24. The bill omits the provision asked for by publishers, with the concurrence of the authors, known as the Munroe-Smith proviso : And provided further, That if such subsisting copyright shall have been assigned or a license granted therein for publication, and if such assign- ment or license shall contain provision for payment of royalty, and if the renewed copyright for the extended term provided in this Act shall not be assigned nor license therein granted to such original assignee or licensee or his successor, said original assignee or licensee or his successor, shall neverthe- less be entitled to continue to publish the work on payment of the royalty stipulated in the original agreement ; but if such original assignment or license contained no provision for the payment of royalty, the copyright shall be renewed and extended only in case the original assignee or licensee or his successor shall join in the application for such renewal and extension. SEC, 31. The importation clauses, while abso- lutely prohibiting importation of foreign-made copies even for the author himself, omit the words “with the written consent of the copyright pro- prietor,” from (d) first and third, emphasised by publishers as necessary to secure the American market, as previous to 1891, and in accord with our patent laws and the copyright provisions of other countries. SEC. 53. Omits, in view of the voiding for non- deposit, the desirable proviso; Provided, That no breach of such rules or regulations shall affect the validity of the copyright. These variations from the bill as supported by publishers are here recorded for possible use in case of future movements for amendment. * ~~ A. v-v-w THE CONFERENCE AT COPENHAGEN, —e—sº-0– HE thirty-first Congress of the International T Literary and Artistic Association was held at Copenhagen from June 21, to 26, 1909. Denmark was the last to join the Berne Convention, but was anxious to show her zealous and continuous support of the principles of  ## p. (#385) ################################################ THE AUTHOR, 23. copyright, and gave the delegates a welcome of the warmest description. We regret that the Society of Authors has never been represented at these annual gatherings. Its delegates should take a part, and a prominent part, in all assemblies which can in any Way further the cause of copyright reform. No doubt the absence of any representative was due to the fact that the society is not a wealthy body. It is to be hoped, however, that the time will come when the society will be able to afford to send its representative annually to these meetings. The delegates were welcomed by King Frederick the Seventh, who made an appropriate speech in proposing the health of the International Society. The sessions of the Congress were devoted principally to the investigation of questions of art and architecture and the application of the arts to industry, questions which do not come within the scope of the Society of Authors. The greater part of the time devoted to literary matter was taken up with the discussion of the Berlin Convention and its probable result. Professor Rothlisberger, the great copyright authority, and Secretary of the Bureau at Berne, who has always been most courteous and con- siderate to the Society of Authors, assures us that the Convention — the result of the Berlin Conference—has been moulded and posted in its present form owing in a great extent to the efforts of the International Literary and Artistic Association during the past years, and We must feel deeply grateful for the work this body has done and for the results that it has been able to attain. We regret, therefore, that the discussion raised at Copenhagen appears to make it not a little doubtful how the passage of the Berlin Convention is likely to affect the cause of inter- national copyright. |M. Albert Oesterreith read a most important report on the Berlin Revision. He said that the Conference — that is, the Berlin Con- ference—found itself in the position of having to accept one of two alternatives—either to see some of its decisions practically nullified and resultless, or to find some plan which might result in a development of international protection, such that the countries which could not agree to all particulars might accept the union with restric- tions. This plan Mr. Oesterreith has named the “differential system.” It is a system which prac- tically came into existence after Norway, and Śweden, on joining the Berne Convention, found hemselves unable to sign the additional Act of aris. Mr. Oesterreith trusted that along the lines laid down it would be possible for all nations, t iſ the course of time, to level up their laws to the Convention as at present fixed. On the other hand, M. A. Taillefer pointed out Some of the dangers which might result from the course adopted at Berlin, the chief one being that. the countries whose copyright law took a higher ground would be giving a great deal and getting: little in return. This is no doubt a point, and a strong point, but we in England have been suffer- ing from this for so long in our connection with the United States that this argument will have but little weight. There has been a certain amount of talk in England about retaliation. If this same argument found support among those. nations who take the higher ground, as suggested by M. Taillefer, the result would indeed be disas- trous, and render international agreement almost. hopeless, but we cannot think that this will be the case. We have been optimistic in the past and are still so. Personally, we think it OSt. admirable step that the Convention should have been passed ; for even if it is impossible the present circumstances for any nation to adow the whole of the Convention, yet there lies before the legislature of each country an ideal towards which its legislators will look when altering the copy- right laws. The Berlin Convention is not a per- fect convention, but to the delegates of the different. nations it would appear that this has seemed the most perfect Convention obtainable under existing: circumstances and amidst conflicting opinions. In many points it passes beyond the Copyright Legislation of the countries which were represented. The Convention is a fair ideal for which to: struggle, and those nations who get nearest to the ideal will not be likely, on account of the reasons. put forward, to adopt the policy of retaliation, but will urge every nation to come up on to the platform on which they themselves stand. In the recent Act passed in the United States. we see a tendency to rise to a higher platform. The movement, indeed, is slow, but still there is . a movement, and we trust that the United States, when next they bestir themselves to copyright alteration, will be able to come whole-heartedly to . the level of the civilised European nations. a —º-- a- v-u- ~ “ UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.” (Written for the Bath Classics. Published by Cedric Chivers, Ltd., Bath. Printed in these. columns by the kind permission of the author, with the consent of the publishers.) ITERARY appraisement is a more simple- matter for those whose judgment is un- trammelled by first-hand knowledge of the effect produced by given work upon the author's. contemporaries.  ## p. (#386) ################################################ 24 THE A DfTHOR. To think of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin’’ is for some of us to remember hearing that book described in our youth as a vicious travesty upon the institution of slavery as it existed in the Southern States. It is curious now to recall the fact that bitter resentment against Mrs. Stowe's work should have been perpetuated by Kentuckians in particular— those “Kentuckians ' Mrs. Stowe is never tired of praising for magnanimity, valour, and breeding ; whose treatment of the negro she characterised as exceptional for its patriarchal indulgence. Through the mouth of the least inhuman of her slave-dealers she says: “You Kentucky folks spile your niggers”; and all through the story she shows,' that the most horrible threat which it was possible to hold over a Kentucky slave was his being sold out of that State. To re-read the work after the lapse of many is to find one's early bias corrected by a yea gro g perception of the temperance, the scru filous fairness of the famous indictment. Two" other surprises await the latter-day reader of “Uncle Tom.” The work has worn for so long its label of a novel with a purpose, everywhere (except perhaps in the Southern States) it has come to be So unquestionably accepted as having played an active part in the awakening of a national conscience, that the new generation of readers will be little prepared to find the book so good as a story. Albeit Mrs. Stowe was not a novelist using reform as a theme, but a reformer using the novel as a weapon, the hand that drew “Miss Ophelia,” “Uncle Tom,” and the immortal “Topsy,” had its share of a skill that did not exhaust itself upon the moral issue. It is true there are those who believe that the ailing and poverty-ridden housewife—writing her book with a baby on her knee, and an eye on the oven— did more by means of a story to wipe her country clean of the stain of slavery than any single statesman at the Capitol, or any general in the field. Lord Palmerston said of “Uncle Tom's Cabin’”: “I have not read a novel for thirty years, but I have read that book, rot only for the story, but for the statesmanship of it.” Lord Cockburn could declare the story had “done more for humanity than was ever before accom- plished by any single book of fiction.” One is nevertheless sure that the kindly, humorous little woman would not have been ill-pleased to set beside these grave and reverend tributes a certain verdict of to-day. I have said that this brave book is also a good story. It comes well out of the test of being read aloud, and out of that other test of hold- ing the attention and sympathy, not only of administrators and men of the world, but also of youth. The laurel I am proud to lay on the altar of Mrs. Stowe's memory is the record of a school- boy's indignation at hearing “Uncle Tom's Cabin’” described as a classic. When finally overborne, he said with the air of one who breaks a lance in some dear cause: “Well, even if it is a classic, it's jolly decent.”. The frame of mind that produced that flower of appreciation is the modern reader's second surprise. The third is not so much ours as what we are sure, would be Mrs. Stowe's—the surprise, too, of all those zealous and somewhat shortsighted Abolitionists, could they know that nearly half a century after the outbreak of the Civil War, the most difficult, perhaps most menacing, problem confronting America should be precisely the relation between the white population and that other, less and less black, yet never in practice “equal,” and never wholly “free.” After all these decades of the nominal emancipa- tion of the negro, few indeed are the white house- holds in any part of America to-day where the coloured citizen would be received on the footing of brotherliness and respect accorded the refugee slaves on the northern side of the Ohio river in the eighteen-fifties. In those days the fusing flame of abolitionist ardour burned steady in the North ; and in the South was still a fund of that old patriarchal kindness in the breasts of white folk—of men and women who had had negro playmates (as no well- born white child has to-day)—and who had known in youth the kindness and the sheltering of a black nurse's faithful arms. Between those days and now stretches the dismal swamp of the Reconstruc- tion period, and the air is newly filled with the lingering poison left by the more recent lynchings and race riots. To turn from the hopes indulged by Abolitionists in 1850 to the hard reality of these early years of the twentieth century is to find ourselves con- fronted by a startling commentary upon the more obscure elements in the destiny of nations. Here We are, “after many days,” face to face with one of those not-to-be-predicated results of human action, which seems to set history forever outside the realm of science. It is, however, only fair to Mrs. Stowe's perspi- . Cacity to say—even though the admission provide, food for the ironist—that the Reformer-novelist foresaw something of the difficulty involved in the free negro's taking up life, cheek by jowl, with his former master. Hence her enthusiasm for the naif plan that America should give the slave his manur mission papers with one hand, and with the othe should open the door and politely, but firmly, wave him off the premises. Not even our ardent philanthropist could in her inmost softl think of the negro as fit to share citizenshi with Beechers and with Stowes in the home  ## p. (#387) ################################################ TISIE AUTISIOR, 25 of the brave and the land of the free. Apparently she was to the end unconscious how charged with evil significance for the future of America was her quite typical Yankee eagerness to transfer all her dear black friends to Liberia, or to Heaven. Whatever were her misgivings, the actual result of the failure to adopt her simple remedies must have beggared her darkest imagining. No One could have made Harriet Beecher Stowe believe that half a century after she had described the brotherly-kindness of Indiana whites towards the negro, that these passages would sound as strange, as unrealisable, to Northern ears, as they did to any slave-holding Southerner in the ante-bellum days. Once more we are confronted by the impotence of the sword to right the most galling wrongs. Not by battles in the field—by victories in the mind and heart of man shall the true emancipation come. ELIZABETH ROBINS. —e—º-e— THE PROCRASTINATION OF HAPPINESS IN FICTION. —º-º-º- HAT appears to be wilful procrastination or maddening inability to seize the golden opportunity on the part of characters in fiction often causes the novel-reader to throw aside his book in disgust, or at least to lay it down and question the likeness of certain passages to life. There are undoubtedly some amongst us who fail to utilise life's great moments; Mrs. Pullets, who withal slaves to dress, keep their best clothes under lock and key in an upper chamber, and never wear them out, but so few are these that they stand forth as notable landmarks in idiosyncrasy, and the feel- ing becomes strong in encountering them repeatedly in novels of some defect in the mirror which other- wise so truthfully reflects nature. For the elect are as great offenders in this matter as the paid hacks writing to space. The latter might be for- given for marking time a little at a crucial moment to eke out the story to its determined length, but one does not expect to find the man who has “arrived ” in league with the printers, indeed one knows that he is not, and casts about for a fresh glution to the mystery. *In Mr. Hardy’s “Mayor of Casterbridge” an instance occurs which strains credulity to the utmº : the scene at the inn when Elizabeth Jane returns from her interview with Henchard bearing a note from him to her mother. Here is a woman who years before, when Henchard's wife, was sold ilm in his cups by auction at a fair for five guineſs to another man. Coming to Casterbridge in supposed widowhood for the sole purpose of discovering her first husband, she makes known to him her whereabouts in a letter conveyed by her daughter. This is sufficient evidence that she is too perturbed to introduce herself in person, yet When the answer is brought to her by the giºs the course of the evening, although moved at . of it, she does not read it at once, but i asks for a description of Elizabeth Jane's re by Henchard, a matter one would think of se Importance to the direct communicati sealed before her. Mr. Hardy is also for Raye's lukewarm attitude in “On Circuit.” He is genuinely disquieted girl who attracts him has not availed h permission to write, and when an answe request that she will do so comes, he do it for half an hour, though it is the first he has received from her. And the whole raison d'être of Weyman’s “Castle Inn,” though the fac means to be deplored by his readers, is t behaviour of the heroine, who although with emotion and happiness at her lover tion must needs postpone her acceptan for twenty-four hours. There is more e Hetty Sorrel, whom exacting househol prevent from opening the letters whic thorne sent to her through Adam Bede. heels of its delivery come Mrs. Poyser’s col to draw the beer, whilst the lighting of her pipe and a hundred trivialities follow. Y Wonders that the poor girl, guessing the import of the letter, does not contrive to st to her bedroom before dark. Allowance must of course be made for tº grown-up children who prefer to “keep the ja to the last.” “Did I read my letter there an then 2 Did I consume the venison at once, and with haste, as if Esau’s shaft flew every day ?” Thus Lucy Snowe in “Willette.” The precious letter from Bretton given into her hands by M. Paul at her desk in class was not to be devoured in a mouthful as it were. “The cover with its address, the seal with its three clear letters was bounty and abundance for the present,” and the description follows of a stealthy exit from the room, the acquisition of the key of the great dormitory, and the subsequent committal of the precious document, shrouded in silver paper to a case within a box in a drawer of her bureau, there to lie until the house was still for the night, and by the light of a borrowed bougie to be enjoyed at length in the silence of of a disused garret. Duty first, pleasure a day's march behind. Could Charlotte Brontë, with her soul in her heroine, have treated the incident otherwise ? One's thoughts fly at once to bleak Haworth and her cheerful setting aside of any plans of her own which threatened to  ## p. (#388) ################################################ 26 THE AUTHOR. collide ever so gently with those of her captious parent. Indeed the whole question resolves itself into the personality of the different authors, that personality of which, if the law-makers had their y, we should never be allowed a glimpse. not the men and the women whom you paint tour blood-brothers ” was Leonardo's advice artists of his day. Neither would we wish characters to be hung promiscuously like so s with their creator's ideas of life. Never- aſsoever of strength an author can trans- * soul into his work, such as can help 2 race that is set before us, whether it he mouth of a fictitious man or woman, kes the form of a little moralising by would none of us wish to eliminate, ffend the canons of art or not. We anity Fair puppets for themselves, but ll more the countless peeps afforded us r dead hand that pulled the strings maxims given by great lights to less comes only in literature by the 2ealment of one's every day working nt. It seems that this digression has he point of a duel between human nature ame personality, which after all is but the f an individual man or woman pitted he same property in a more general sense. est la nature vue a travers un tempera- rding to the lights of the stereotyped t as to how true men and women ought to der given circumstances, all the actors in the ing examples, with the exception, perhaps, of * Snowe, deserved the lash or some such sharp hinder to frighten them out of the state of aralytic hysteria which appeared to overtake them in crises of joy, and Jane Austen's Marianne in a parallel case, snatching at Willoughby's letter which the servant delivers to her at the common working-table, and fleeing, deadly pale, from the room, seems the only woman worth her salt. The gods that be do not put themselves to the trouble of providing good things with the intention that they are not to be enjoyed to the utmost. Happi- ness was never intended to be put before hungry appetites on the return system—a sugared cake in our midst not to be cut into, and many a sermon should be drummed into the ears of youth, not only from the pulpit, but through the medium of stage and literature, on the necessity of grasping it if it comes. MYRA SWAN. º CERTAIN PRACTICAL MATTERS. -º-º-º- O the writer of novels it is a commonplace, T but none the less exasperating on that account, that for every person who buys his work or borrows it from a library there is another who would buy, and there are at least twenty who would borrow it if they were aware of its existence. There is no reason whatever but removable defects in the machinery of distribution why a novel that “sells” from one to three thousand copies should not easily “sell’” twice or three times that number. This is a sad state of things for the novelist, but it is not surprising. It is a pretty safe general rule that the official virtue of any particular class or profession is not the one that on examination in cold blood will be found most prominent in its individual members. There are exceptions to this rule, of course. Some soldiers are brave, I know several women who are more domesticated than the average man, some poets are imaginative, and a few, a very few, practical men are practical. But in what is called “the book trade,” at any rate, the more the work to be done falls into the region of the practical the worse it is done. On the whole, at the present day, novels are better written, printed, published, advertised, and reviewed, than they are “handled ” as articles of commerce, to be sold or lent for a fee over a counter like any other article of commerce. We are always hearing that the book trade is in a bad way. All sorts of suggestions are made for its improvement, but they are all, or nearly all, based on the assumption that the “trade,” the practical part of it, is being done as well as it can be done. On the contrary, it is being done very badly. Any improvement in the book trade, and particularly as affecting the sale of novels, will be achieved, not by juggling with prices, or by strenuous efforts on the part of writers to pander to an imaginary “taste of the public,” or by more exciting advertisements, but, as in any other trade, by the obvious means of bringing the article to be sold or lent into contact with the people who are likely to buy or borrow it. At present there is almost a conspiracy to keep. them apart. Whether this is the fault of pub- lishers or booksellers I am not prepared to say. The intentions of both are excellent, but between them they do not handle their wares with the common sense with which the grocer handles his pounds of tea or pots of jam. What the book- seller can do when he is put to it is almost beyond belief. Not long ago I saw at an important railway station, on the stall of one of the largest book-distributing agencies in the United Kingdom, a row of the little volumes in the “Scott Fº  ## p. (#389) ################################################ TISIE A CITISIOR, 27 With every symptom of pride in his work, the man in charge of the stall had labelled them, “New edition of the Novels of Sir Walter Scott. Only one shilling and sixpence per volume.” Again, I learn that for many booksellers Mrs. Alfred Sidg- wick and Miss Sedgwick are interchangeable names, Mrs. Henry Dudeney and Miss Sarah Doudney are one—with interesting results in the schoolroom—and, if I may be forgiven the illustra- tion—it is believed by more than one practical man engaged in the sale and lending of novels, that I wrote “Peter Simple.” As for “The Bensons,” they, of course, were written by Miss Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler. Go into the average provincial bookshop, and, leaving out the three great and the half dozen or so notorious living writers of fiction, ask for the work of any fairly well-known novelist within a fortnight of publication. The chances are ten to one it is not there. “But we can get it, when we send off our next order to Messrs. So-and-So'—that is, in about a week—and you are leaving the town the day after to-morrow. It is said that people don't buy novels. Indeed, they seldom get the chance when they are in the mood. It is the most difficult thing in the world to buy a novel. If it has been said to me once it has been said a dozen times, “I tried to get your last book at (varying) So-and-So's, but they hadn't got it’’; and every novelist can tell the same tale. People can write to one's publisher for the book, of course, but people don't want to be bothered writing to one's publisher. What they want is to be able to go into a shop and buy the book then and there. It is said that the six shilling novel is about to be abolished, but until I can go into any bookshop and see, actually see and handle, within two days of publication, the last work of any one of twenty living novelists I could - name offhand, I shall refuse to believe that any serious attempt has been made to sell the six shilling novel. It is not even easy to borrow a novel—if it is at all popular— within six weeks of publication. I don't know how many copies of a new novel it “pays "a circulating library to stock, but I am convinced that informa- tion to the advantage of librarian, publisher, and novelist, might be obtained from the man who lends bicycles for hire. Moreover, it must be remembered that the number of would-be buyers or borrowers of books who know what they want is a very small one. There is a huge public that does not know what it wants, but will be grateful for being told. Over and over again I have won the gratitude of acquaintances—and earned the gratitude of writers —by introducing them to novelists they had never * of, never would have heard of if they had been left to the men whose business it is to sell or lend for a fee those novelists’ works. I do not claim this as a special virtue; every one of my readers must have had the same experience. But whose business is it to introduce the right novel to the right person 2 The publishers ? The reviewers ? Few people read publishers' advertise- ments; fewer still read reviews. A great, immense number of people want to read now but, speaking generally, they do not read the no they would prefer to read because they are brought to their notice. How much of this state of things is du and how much to methods I do not kno the fact remains that the practical bu selling novels is not sufficiently practical where between the publisher and the p machinery breaks down. The novels t want to read are being written and publ the people that want to read them are they meet only by accident. Advertise by postcard, isn't much good ; there is th between the receipt of the postcard and to the bookshop to be considered. T ought to be there, on the spot, just as wh into a grocer's the Epps' cocoa and the mustard are there, on the spot. Also it w an advantage if every bookseller knew so about the books that are being publishe cannot be expected to read them, but he o least to know who wrote what, and when. Above all, it is time to abolish that superstition of publishers and booksellers the “taste of the public,” and come down hard facts of the case. The “taste of the pu in the sense intended, that is a taste for trash, Mrs. Harris. People want good novels, and t are always grumbling because they can't get them." That merely means that they don't know where to look for them ; plenty of good—I don't say great. —novels are being written and published, but between the published novel and the possible buyer or borrower there is a great gulf fixed. CHARLES MARRIOTT. * —º- ań. vºy -v- *F THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING. —º-º-º- BY WM. BRETT PLUMMER. (Compiled for the use of authors, artists, journalists, advertisers, and others). (All rights reserved by the Author.) INTRODUCTION. N the present day good illustrations are acknow- I ledged to be an additional attraction to almost any publication. When we open a book for the first time does not our eye involuntarily, as we  ## p. (#390) ################################################ 28 THE AUTHOR, run the pages through our fingers, seek for the pictures 2 If there are none, is it not without some inner feeling of disappointment that we begin to con over the head-lines of the various chapters or rapidly glance through odd pages to try to glean tickly what it is all about 2 In this hurry-scurry age, no matter how excellent he its literary quality, a book is always nced by suitable and well-produced illustrations. ey catch the eye more readily, and convey ickly to the mind some sort of general idea Contents. ookseller will tell you what a large per- f books of all kinds are sold through the f the illustrations alone, a well-illustrated ing a ready market more easily than one upon its letterpressentirely ently the art of illustrating, whether in choosing suitable illustrations or whether of understanding how to illustrate wisely mically, cannot be ignored. ays of reproduction are now so many and that to the uninitiated they must be at hifusing. authors who wish their work to be illus- ave often very little idea as to the best way dure and not infrequently propose to their er or printer something that is either totally ticable or otherwise ineffective. with this reason prominently fixed in my I will endeavour to elucidate some of the ries of art reproduction suitable for books, papers, magazines, or catalogues. Lhnicalities of the various processes, as that is unnecessary, but to give to the lay mind some idea of what can and what cannot be done. CHAPTER I. On Wood- and Steel-Plate Engraving. HALF a century ago there were practically only two well-known illustrated journals, and these made a reputation through their illustrations that has lasted until the present day. I allude to the Illustrated London News and our old humorous friend Punch. Wood-engraving in those days was so expensive that few publishers were brave enough to risk entering the field, and so Punch and the Illustrated London News had the world of paper-illustration in their own hands. All their “cuts '' were woodcuts, and the best artists of the day were employed for the sketches. They were usually drawn in pencil, or painted in ‘wash ’’ on a box-wood block as one would make f h is not my intention to enter into the an ordinary sepia drawing with a brush and water- colour. But the drawback to this process was the fact that, after the artist had completed the sketch, it had then to go into the hands of the wood-engraver, who (if he were not as artistic as the artist himself, or even if he were, yet had not the feeling or know- ledge or touch of that particular artist) more often than, not ruined by his “wood-pecking” the excellence of the original. And So it was that the artist with a “name " was nervous of the engraver who had to conceive his ideas. Not infrequently the engraver was nervous of the artist, and occasionally had reason- able cause to be ; as the artist who made a poor picture generally expected more from the engraver than he ought to have done. Consequently it can be appreciated that the talented artist was at the engraver's mercy, who frequently spoiled or misinterpreted his sketches, while in other cases the engraver was at the mercy of the artist. It was especially so in the case of large full-page or double-page illustrations, when, by reason of their size, several—perhaps, two or four—engravers helped to cut the one block. This was necessary in such instances where a topical subject was required hurriedly, because time was to a certain extent a consequence, even in those easygoing days; so the box-wood blocks were placed in sections in the hands of several engravers, and then screwed or joined together afterwards to complete the total picture for printing. Therefore wood-engraving was costly, as the best engravers commanded big salaries, and it was fre- quently the case that the wood-engraver earned considerably more than the artist himself. Each well-known artist had his favourite engraver. To wit—Sir John Tenniel, the famous Punch cartoonist, would only allow one man to engrave his cartoons. This chosen engraver was the late Mr. Joseph Swain, who personally retired from wood-engraving at the same time as Sir John Tenniel retired from Punch. As a matter of fact they both finished their lives' work together in an artistic sense. | The only other style of artistic reproduction was either on copper or steel. In this way the early editions of Charles Dickens's works were illustrated by “Phiz" and others. In this process, which was principally used for book-illustration, the artist as a rule depended upon himself alone, being artist and engraver as well. ! The steel or copper plate was covered with a thin coating of melted of flowing bees'-wax, which was allowed to get cold or set solid, when the picture to be produced was engraved upon it with either  ## p. (#391) ################################################ THE AUTHOR. 29 fine, medium, or coarse needles—a sort of scratching away down to the surface of the metal. The plate was then “etched ” with acid, which ate into the uncoated or unprotected parts of the metal, and finally, when the wax was cleared away from the plate, the picture showed up engraved clearly upon it in the same way as an ordinary copper-plate heading or address-plate appears to-day. But wood-engraving and steel-plate engraving, beautiful though both were when well executed, became almost obsolete when the so-called “mechanical” processes came into vogue; for the latter, besides being cheaper, were more generally dependable and quicker. For comparison : where a large Wood block would take an engraver, perhaps, an entire month to engrave, the same-sized plate or block could to-day be reproduced in a few hours. And although the so-called “half-tone process." T | % ſºlºiſi Øſº º º Zºº | i. | º º / º \\ | W |||| (to which I shall allude fully later on) is un- questionably not quite so artistic as a finely finished wood-engraving, still, in the race for saving time alone, it was bound to come in first at last, paradoxical though this may sound. Yet wood-engraving is not altogether eclipsed. There are many people to-day, especially advertisers, who insist upon having it. But it is used more for mechanical and industrial articles than any- thing else, because in this particular branch of art, where an engineer or inventor desires some important portion of an engine or machine made more prominently noticeable, it is easy for the engraver to elaborate the part required and to minimise the detail or features of the surrounding portiorhs. Many firms, too, who issue periodical catalogues, Prefer wood-engravings because of their decision, glearness, and sharpness of line. It adapts itself better to the class of goods they wish to illustrate. ... For instance, in the case of electro-plate and silver goºds, cutlery, bags and portmanteaus, tools and machines, agricultural implements, etc., it i often the favourite mode of reproduction. In the above class of goods there is a good of straight line or mechanical ruling, and now The solid box-wood. Waved line tint. | º | | | | | º Variegated tint. there are many machines for cutting or er upon wood in various ways, of which a few e are here shown. By aid of these engraving-machines the | Even coarse tint. Circular engraving. |||| | | - --- M - º º W. | § - % * | | | | | |º Graduated tint. Crossed lines. wood blocks has been reduced, as the apprentices can do this branch of the work quite well after a little practice. Apart from this mechanical work there is yet a small quantity of the free-hand or artistic wood- engraving to be found. This is principally con- fined to the large drapery houses, who still think that some of their goods look best on wood. Boot- manufacturers, too, perfume-makers, and others cling affectionately to it in many instances. With regard to the price that should be paid for  ## p. (#392) ################################################ 30 TFIES A DITFIOR. wood blocks, it is practically an impossibility to plan out any way of “scaling ” the charges. An artistic or freehand wood-engraving would cost decidedly more than a merely mechanical one, as a man of natural artistic taste and proclivities would have to engrave it, whereas in the mechanical teproduction it would in all probability be photo- aphed direct upon the wood itself, and then paved by a series of straight or circular lines nich wood-engraving machinery would play an :tant part. ost of a wood block always depends lly upon the amount of “hand-work’ upon it. This takes time, and a good is necessary for a good-class “job.” E= agº:= § > Ş N \\ º ---T. N - º º & V RN - º s - à N N N º ! \ NS: ...*&^ſ ºf Sºrºº: 3. Sºssº: S-4 --~~~ sº % This is a good example of the effects that can be obtained by mechanical wood engraving on a rotating table. Then, too, there are so many grades of wood- engraving—good, medium, bad ; and I may add a fourth degree—very bad or atrocious. . There is plenty of the fourth-degree work to be found, and it is generally produced by small men “on their own "who cannot get employed by the larger firms simply because they are not up to their trade. In an ordinarily large engraving firm they have (or should have) men who are suited to different requirements; some clever at mechanical detail, some suited to floral or landscape work, others perhaps smart at portraits and figures. To these men individually the work is given out that suits them best, and, consequently, a satisfactory result should be obtained. cº But no wood-engraver can engrave everything or be equally brilliant in each branch ; and that is why Bennett. I say—although it may sound unkindly—refrain from employing the smaller man for general work, because he cannot do it. Taking the price of wood blocks cursorily they might average—say, from eighteenpence to four shillings a square inch, according to the quality and style of work required. I should always advise that an estimate be given in all cases for the work to be done, and also a sample of the work guaranteed to be handed to the customer at the same time. - If you have a wood block that needs alteration or is incorrect in any particular part it can always. be remedied by the wood-engraver. He can “plug’’ it and recut the part so affected, generally at a small cost and without detriment to the original woodcut. Old wood blocks that have been used are in some instances repurchased by the wood engravers. themselves for planing down, but although they cost so much to produce in the first place they realise very little second hand, unless they can be: utilised again in their original form. There are firms who make a business alone of buying and selling used blocks of all kinds. The price paid by these firms for second hand woodcuts. generally varies from about seven to perhaps sixteen shillings per hundredweight according to: the quality and condition of the wood. My next instalment will concern photo-mechani- cal illustrations by “line " process. -*- A_ -º- Wy TASTE AND STYLE.” —t-º-e— \ | R. Arnold Bennett possesses in an eminent. degree the admirable quality of enthusiasm. He will not have it that literature is. merely a distraction, and literary taste—the taste, that is to say, for the things of permanent value. in literature—merely an accomplishment. It is, he says, a “faculty,” without which man is a poor, imperfect creature. “He is merely not born. He can't see; he can't hear; he can't feel in any full sense; he can only eat his dinner.” . And then there follow hints and instructions for the cultiya- tion of the faculty. “Begin with Lamb,” is Mr. Bennett's prescription ; and he holds out hopes. that the man who does begin with Lamb may end by preferring the works of Wordsworth to the serials in the halfpenny papers and the trick articles in the illustrated magazines. He insists, hºwever, that the aspirant should buy plenty of books, * “Literary Taste: How to Form It,” by Arnold. New Age Press. 21-  ## p. (#393) ################################################ TISIES A UTSIORs 31 whether he has any immediate intentions of read- ing them or not : an expression of opinion from which no reader of The Author is likely to dissent. If one wished to argue with Mr. Bennett, one might question some of his dicta about “style.” He lays down that “style cannot be distinguished from matter,” that “style and matter are co-existent, and inseparable, and alike,” that “you cannot have good matter with bad style,” and he denies that it is ever justifiable to say: “Yes, this idea is fine, but the style is not fine.” This is the sort of exaggeration that is provoked by perverse utterances of enthusiasts for style ; but it will not stand the test of close scrutiny. The ideas of Kant, to take a glaring instance, are very fine indeed, but the style of Kant is nothing less than execrable. We are quite sure that Mr. Bennett will not, on Teflection, deny either of these propositions; yet, taken in conjunction, they are quite fatal to his thesis. The writer, in fact, is in the position of a Tmusician who is at once composer and executant. If he is a master of his instrument he may, like Tennyson, play an indifferent tune brilliantly. If he is not a master of it, he may, like Kant, play a brilliant tune badly. Nor is it just to say that a style difficult to follow implies a muddle-headed man. It may merely imply a man whose intellect is so acute that he simply cannot enter into the plain man's difficulty in comprehending a com- plicated and carefully qualified proposition. Were it otherwise we should not only have to say that Aristotle and Meredith were muddle-headed. We might even have to say the same of all the authors of all the treatises on the higher mathematics. Argument with Mr. Bennett on this point, how- ever, is not incompatible with a lively appreciation of the merits of his pamphlet. It is brightly written and full of sage counsel to those who, while “fond of reading,” have not yet found the key which unlocks the treasures enshrined in the literary masterpieces of previous ages. We cordially wish it a large sale. —º-º-º- CORRESPONDENCE. —º-º-º- THE SOCIETY'S ADVICE. DEAR SIR,-‘A. M. I.” suggests (The Author, July, 1909) that “the society's advice is ranged too high.” In order to satisfy the demands of pub: lishers land to get a living he has had to disregard the society's advice and place his books at lower terms than an author ought to accept.” He thinks that thºse who give the advice “fail to take into defenceless position of the 79 beginner. Whatever individual authors may think fit to do, I trust that the society will not lower their flag. When a man becomes an author he ought not to cease to be an adult. He can act on the society's advice, or disregard it. What he should not do is to disregard it and then request the society to set up a lower standard; or blame the society if, in accepting their advice, he remains unpublished. I may even be that in many cases acting on t Society's advice would exclude new authors fr publication, and thus leave the ground cleare well-known authors. The simple question t is, whether the society advises what is ju right? I say they do, and I have every ºr speak, inasmuch as I have myself remained lished merely because I acted on the se advice—and would do so again, regardless Sequences, if it seemed to me to be good a In saying this, moreover, I do not hop effective trade union combination of autho lifetime. They are the least coherent body unionists existing, and perhaps, as a body, businesslike. A publisher some time ago offered me at ment which the society officially told me w I tried to get it altered, but the main alt was refused by the publisher as preposter withdrew the book. So insignificant an au myself is perhaps unlikely to incur the col boycott of publishers, but my offence po became known, and certainly no publisheſ since accepted my book. Naturally I like my book. I think—it may fond delusion—that others would like it too, even that it might be of some importance in world of life and thought, were it only publish Most authors think the same of their own books. * The point on which I differ from most is that I am not after big royalties. I only want to keep my copyright. The publishers, on the other hand, demand the copyright to start with. I have been up stone steps, magnificent stair- cases, past marble columns, classic busts, into the palatial apartments of various publishers. They assure me that in this matter of the copyright the Authors' Society is entirely mistaken. I prove to them that the Society is right. I endeavour to show them a line of business mutually profitable. It is less than the society requires, but then it is a new thing. Publishers are cast iron. They are affluent, and, like the Bourbons, they learn nothing and forget nothing. They fight shy of me and my manuscript. They will not compromise. Nor will I. I think I would compromise if it were not for the marble columns and all that that sort of thing implies. Your correspondent speaks of letters of indignation, flat refusals, etc., from publishers, to whom he has yielded. It is not for me to judge a  ## p. (#394) ################################################ 32 TFIES A LITHOR. fellow author whose living depends on his author- ship. Personally I have solved the living problem for myself in another way. I have become a clerk. But under no circumstances, I hope, would I yield to marble columns. If publishers, as a class, were still human, it is likely that I should have so far ven way as to have got my books published nehow by this time. It is because, with certain tions perhaps, they have become Superhuman, º upon the spirit shown by our friend in ºr, that I won’t give way, and would rather y manuscripts cremated with me than be to serfhood. It was only by getting into erhaps a somewhat hard condition of mind that I was able to produce such writings [e produced, and therefore I am merely der a necessity of habit long continued, not now do otherwise. I am, etc., § SIGMA, —º-º-º- THE PRICE OF NEW NOVELS. J should like to express my interest in the ºated by “H. J. A.” He thinks novels ell if they were cheap, and I agree with Many travellers would buy a new novel they had seen well reviewed, to beguile a , when a mere magazine would seem too ive a luxury. Yours faithfully, - - M. C. A. —º-º-º- INTRINSIC VALUE OF A MS. (DEAR SIR,-Referring to the article in your last gºmber, “Manuscript Or Waste Paper ?” what 7s the intrinsic value of a MS. 2 Surely a publisher who loses or destroys a copy of an author's MS. cannot be accused of destroying property of several pounds’ worth ! There are few writers who have not two or more copies of the Same work, or who could not re-write the whole. It is after all only one copy that the publisher has lost, and this is hardly worth more than the cost of paper and typewriting. - The book itself is not stolen unless it be published without remuneration being made to the author. Yours faithfully, EMILY SHORE. —e—º-e— AN AUTHOR'S CAPITAL ExPENDITURE. SIR,--I read with interest H. Stuart Thompson's letter in the June number of The Author. As far as novelists are concerned, it cannot be said that “Nor is there any capital expenditure required, as is frequently the case in business, on this earth. unless, indeed, some writers are disposed to look upon a few “postage stamps' as capital expendi- ture.” Think of the cost of typewriting. Take my own case. Typewriting Novels. Pills. £ S. d. No. 1. Published the spring, 1906, one copy - wº tº sº * - 2 8 3 No. 2. Published autumn, 1906, two copies - º * “ sº - 4 12 10 No. 3. Agent failed to place it, two copies - º gº sºs º - 5 5 9 As it was a failure I altered it, and had - it re-typed ; published July, 1908, two copies - {º tºº •º - 4 18 2 No. 4. Published January, 1909, two copies - *-8 - - {- - 6 13 1. No. 5. Published June, 1909 * - 5 13 1 No. 6. Neither accept d nyr rejected, but told by my publisher to lay it aside for the present, two copies - 7 12 8 No. 7. Accepted by my publisher, two copies - sº * * sº - 11 0 2 Add to this the employing of an agent recom- mended by the secretary. This man, in the course of a year, never placed one of my five stories. He charged in advance #2 2s. - The payment to a press cutting agency, £1 1s. Innumerable stamps for postage, and extra postage for rejected MSS., paper, ink, pens, and postage for correspondence, for all which I cannot give figures. Moreover, I have had to pay for the production of the first five novels. In future my publisher will produce them at no cost to me. The small authors are the worst treated creatures Talk of the great shops sweating the poor workers in the slums, no class of people are more sweated than we are. For my two first novels I never got more than about £20 in royalties, and to get half of that I had to have recourse to the secretary of our society. I used it to become a life member. I left that publisher, and got into the clutches of another, bearing a well-known name. For my third novel I have received as yet only £17 14s. 6d. in royalties. This publisher in his agreements stipulates that he does not undertake to send in accounts and pay till five months after they are due. The last MS. sent in to him will not bring in any money for a year and a half, as he is hardly likely to publish it till J anuary next ; yet I have to settle the typewriter's bill for it, £11 0s. 2d. out of the £17 14s. 6d. Surely novelists have “capital expenditure” beyond a few “postage stamps.” - Yours faithfully,  ## p. 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