https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/401/1910-01-01-The-Author-20-4.pdf 660791b0b70a71dfcc4b44453065e84c PDF Text Text JANUARY 1st, NOTICES. t º-t 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 to be the case. unless such is especially (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of the members the Society. e 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 HE List MEMBERS. OF º-º-º Authors, Members the Society published October, 1907, can now obtained the offices the Society the price July, 6d., post free 7#d. includes elections 1907, and will sold members and associates the Society only. dozen blank pages have been added the end of the list for the convenience of those who they are chronicled desire add future elections from month month these pages. as e personally responsible for the bona fides of the advertisers, the committee desire it to be stated that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case. of of to of of of of N in is is at to to to to ROM 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 WOL. XX. of º sº-0 February, 1909, the Trustees the 5th the Pension Fund the Society, after the secretary had placed before them the financial position the Fund, decided invest Corporation 3350 the purchase London per cent. Stock (1927 57). The amount purchased £438 2s. 4d., and added the list printed below. report that owing The Trustees are glad the generous answer the circular sent round 1908, they have been able the end invest to THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. FUND. e-º-o 2} * * avºy w-v- sº-0 PENSION Although care is exercised that no undesirable advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and never have accepted, any liability. Members should apply to the secretary for advice if special information is desired. in As there seems to be an impression among readers of The Author that the committee are to ADVERTISEMENTS. to A 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. LIST º-e of º-e at e LONDON. be of : AUTORIDAD, to TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS 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 oase 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, any other matter closely or in dealing with connected with the work of the Society. at VICTORIA. SIXPENCE. of : of 374 [PRICE It of NUMBER 1910. be 4. all TELEPHONE Monthly.) BY SHR WALTER BESANT. at XX.-No. of Authors. of WOL. Society to FOUNDED the Incorporated of (The Organ of �THE AUTHOR. in 250 0 () 200 0 0 200 () () 5 A. G. . 1 2 to in are to L. E. and donors which . C. COMMITTEE F. HE of at 50 of 31 to up an ;I . 6, on of in . E. 298. This increase over the annual election the Society since its congratulate foundation. The committee desire the members the increasing vitality the Society. brought Four resignations the total resignations for the year up number 79. The next matter that came before the committee largest of to by . 1 J. on . to to was the circular issued some the lending libraries, and letter received from the Publishers' Association setting out the resolutions passed that body. letter from Mr. Edmund Gosse which appeared the Times was also considered, with several other letters from members. The chairman, by a Donations. of A. G. E. A. A. NOTES. management met for the committee 1909, 39, last time, December Old Queen Street. The minutes the last meeting were read and signed. The com mittee then proceeded elect members and associates, bringing the total elections for the year is G. º-º-º D. 5, previous the present not included the lists printed above unavoidably held over the next issue. are Grindrod, Dr. 10, Hargrave, Mrs. Basil tº Aug. Stott, M. Oct. 15, Greig, James Oct. 15, Jacomb, Oct. 16, Hepburn, Thomas Oct. 16, Trevelyan, M. Oct. 16, Haddon Hall © º Oct. 22, Jessup, Oct. 25, Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard Dixon, Nov. Francis Helledoren, Nov. Tearle, Christian Dec. Tyrell, Miss Eleanor Dec. Dec. 17, Somerville, Miss Edith CE. 9, 4, 6, 5, donors of July July July and announcement. The names of those subscribers & 13, Gask, Miss Lilian 17, Rorison, Miss Edith 10, Voynich, Mrs. 11, Grier, Mrs. Julia M. & º 11, Field, 11, Barrington, Mrs. Russell Burmester, Miss Frances 9, 8, May June June June June subscribers April, 1909, have been deleted from 1909. April fresh e 4. 0 All Subscriptions. . 0 6 2 Total ............... #3,815 . 0 9 4.38 .............................. Shedlock, Miss Esmohd, Hewlett, Maurice Dec. Dec. 17, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie Dec. 17, Martin, Miss Violet Dec. T}ec. of 1927 57 & L. () H. () ... 228 247 258 1 Stock .................................... Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. New Zealand 34% Stock. . . . . . . . Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock Corporation London 25% Stock, 1 3 I 11 9 . 19 201 o 291. . () L. () . 500 Local Loans .............................. Victorian Government 3% Consoli dated Inscribed Stock ............... War Loan ................................. London and North-Western 3% Deben ture Stock .............................. Egyptian Irrigation Government Trust 4% Certificates ............... Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed Horne, June June 10, Muir, Ward June 10, Swan, Miss Myra June 17, Bradley, June 22, Trotére, July Harland, Mrs. July Sinclair, Miss May Aug. Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte Sept. 10, Hinkson, Katharine Tynan e Oct. 16, Hodson, Miss A. Oct. 16, Wasteneys, Lady § Oct. 18, Bell, Mrs. H. Turnbull, Mrs. Peveril Nov. e George, W. Nov. Nov. 25, Tench, Miss Mary . 0 H. A. 0 5, 8, 8, . . . . . . . . . . 31,000 4, 3, 24%.................... B. invested C. amount 7, the 9, 3, 1, Consols £100 over to more than 1907. W. 98 1909. A in H. . C. after some discussion, placed before the committee resolution he had drafted for the committee's consideration. The resolution its final shape was passed unanimously, and as in © P. II Ramsey a . 2, Olivia C. 20, Stephens, Riccardo May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. June S. S. 1, Dr. Burchell, Sidney 15, Linton, Stuart e e 19, Loraine, Lady 19, Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer is Sprigge, 5, Jan. April April April April April follows: �TISIES A CITISIOR, The committee of management of the Society of Authors have considered the letter addressed by the circulating libraries to the Publishers' Association and the They observe upon it that it is in the discretion of Press. the libraries to select what books they will offer to their customers, and that in point of fact this has always been done. The committee regard the demand for delay of publication to enable the libraries to make their selection as unwarrantable, and they cannot advise the publishers to assent to any such condition. They are ready at all times to delegate to a sub committee the duty of conferring with a similar body deputed by the Publishers Association, and will be pre pared to receive through that body and consider any further representation which the Libraries Association may desire to make. The secretary was instructed to forward it to the daily Press with a covering letter. The committee feel that the matter may become one of vital importance, and that they may be bound, if further action is taken, to consult all the members and to ascertain their opinion by referendum. In the meantime they have taken measures to appoint certain members of the society, under the presidency of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, chairman of the committee, to meet, if necessary, a sub-committee of the Publishers Association. After the meeting between these two bodies it will be easier for the committee to decide upon their future action. The next question before the committee was also one of importance. The chairman laid before the committee a letter which he had written to the Times in regard to the British Academy. The matter, after some discussion, was adjourned until the January meeting. Mr. Sidney Lee sent in the resignation of his Seat on the committee, stating that while he was greatly interested in the work, he felt that he Ought not to continue on the committee in view of the fact that he could not give to it the time and labour which it deserved. The committee, empowered under the constitution to fill up occa Sional vacancies, asked Mr. W. W. Jacobs to undertake the duties of committee man, and he has kindly consented to do so. It was decided, in accordance with the statement printed in another column, that the names of candidates for election to the committee should be returnable on or before Tuesday, February 15. Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, the committee's nominee to the Pension Fund Committee, resigned in due course and was unanimously re-elected. The notice in respect of the election of the society's nominee to the same committee is set out in another column. Mr. Arthur Rackham and Mr. Francis Storr were appointed a sub-committee to settle the Report, which will be in the hands of the members in the early months of 1910. The committee decided to increase the salary of the head clerk by 5s. per week. 99 The secretary laid before the committee a copy of the letter, which had already appeared in the |papers, from the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society on the censorship report. The committee also to issue a circular, if the Dramatic Sub Committee should so desire, with a view to calling a conference of the dramatists of the society. The Sub-Committee on the Price of Novels, agreed having collected certain evidence on the question presented to the com under their investigation, mittee of management an interim report based upon that evidence. The committee expressed their thanks to the sub-committee for the care which they had shown in dealing with the matter and Ordered the report to be printed in the columns of The Author. The committee sanctioned the purchase of a new typewriter for the office and an extension of the telephone service to the secretary's office. The first case which came before the com mittee related to a literary libel. The work of a member of the society had been translated into German without his authority, and with consider Unfortunately, the writer had able alterations. sold his copyright to the British publisher, but the committee were advised by the society's lawyer in Germany that this did not preclude him from taking action against the delinquent. The com mittee decided to take up the case. The secretary then reported the settlement of a dramatic infringement which had been taken up on the authority of the chairman. As it might have been necessary to apply for an injunction, the chairman had authorised proceedings without reference to the committee. The secretary read to the committee a letter of thanks from the mem ber on the satisfactory settlement of the dispute. The next case was also a dramatic case, and the member claimed accounts and money under an agreement for the performance of his work. This matter also the committee agreed to take up. Following these cases was one of an infringement by a paper in San of an author's copyright Francisco which had printed the work without authority. The committee decided to commence action for damages, and instructed the secretary to place the matter in the hands of a lawyer in that city. fº last question was one which the committee were asked to take to the Court of Appeal. The details of the case had been placed before the committee on a former occasion, when the com mittee, after close investigation of the papers, decided not to take the matter up. The case was subsequently heard and a verdict given against the plaintiff. The committee adjourned the matter to the January meeting, when further information and further particulars are expected. �A UTFIOIR, accounts, one has been carried through, while the negotiation. the course other two are still four The publishers have promised delivery. MSS., one case has been cases for the recovery answers have, the other three successful infringement yet, been received. One case negotiation. copyright the course still will, most probably, terminate satisfactorily, but injured attitude. the infringer adopts happens not infrequently, when the infringement provincial colonial has been committed paper, that the editor feels hurt that the author the gratis advertisement which not delighted satisfactory may advertisement receives. may not, but must lie with the author willing have such not decide whether gratis advertisement the use made Editors must not take this for his property. granted. the proper There have been two disputes agreements. reading These cases, like questions copyright, take some time infringement settle. It or a as in in its of to to in be to of to of to in is in to C8,SéS. The much these December Elections. 13, Claremont Ter race, Exmouth. Allinson, Alfred 4, Mrs. Walter Bantock, Granville W. G. Burn-Murdoch, have been placed the secretary's hands for settlement. usual, refer these, The majority There are six under this claims for money. heading. the hands Two have been placed get was impossible the Society's solicitors, any satisfactory reply. two the money has been paid and forwarded The remain the members. ing two are, yet, unsatisfied, but they have only recently come into the office. Of three claims for as to Earland, Miss Ada Everett, Miss Ethel Grisewood, F. to of is Heart Incorporated O. R. to In it as in as of in cases Eagle Queen Street, Hammer Smith, W. Northfield, shire Lodge, ; ( Levensis ) DURING the past month sixteen Road, Roseneath, Beal, N. W. Cases. Melbury Kensington, W. Broad Meadow, King's Norton. Norman 7, the publishers. Bagehot, . of by at is in be of of of it to of MSS. We have mentioned, frequently, Author, the reason why there often obtaining satisfaction difficulty in letters. The sub-committee then considered the interim report which had been drafted by the chairman. After a few verbal alterations had been made, the report was settled, and appears, in final form, this month's Author. As stated another page issue any has not yet been possible the report, This must, the subject. exhaustive survey necessity, the further deferred till the receipt February. expected The sub evidence which all the that date, consider committee will, then have evidence from authors, which will been arranged and tabulated, together with the evidence from booksellers (which needs most care ful classification), and also the further evidence Eight the cases from former months still matters abroad these refer Five remain open. open for the colonies, and are likely obtaining the delay come owing some time Three refer to the return of letters. answers in A MEETING of this sub-committee was held on Thursday, December 2. The secretary reported the receipt of a large mass of evidence from the booksellers, and of further evidence from novelists in answer to the circular of of of NOVELS. OF or PRICE ON THE SUB-COMMITTEE to by is or he to a it be at he is a by an It of as of of no of in ; It it or - relating to the summoning suggestion of Authors was, after a Conference of Dramatic till the next considerable discussion, adjourned meeting. A a January. in offices of the society. The Repertory Agreement was laid before the committee once more, and was gone through and Some slight alterations clause by clause. was and the secretary were made additions these in the Agree to incorporate instructed document ment and to submit the completed at their next meeting in to the sub-committee is The Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society of Authors met on Tuesday, December 7, at the Of in of SUB-COMMITTEE. DRAMATIC to TRIES 100 Berwick Arthur Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. Road, Havelock Croydon. Alton, Hants. 170, Kennington Park Road, S.E. Argyle Road, 411, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. �A CITISIOR. . 53, Street, W. e Upper Park Brook Lane, º BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. 53. 6. 9} x By 5. x S. n. 9 × 6. of 9 × T. A. : a m. ; NESBIT. × By 8 Stoughton. 5}. 281 pp. 6s. OF REFERENCE. BOOKS BIOGRAPHY. NATIONAL OF DICTIONARY Supplement. LEE. Edited by SIDNEY 5S. n. 1,400 pp, Smith, Elder. By EASY. ROSE GROWING MADE Coor. 18, 204 pp. Newnes. Vol. 22. 63. CLASSICAL. EURIPIDIS TIONE TOMUs Oxford ADNOTA BREVIQUE FABUL.E RECOGNOVIT CRITICA INSTRUXIT GILBERTUS MURRAY. (Oxford Classical Texts.) 43. III. Clarendom Press. º-º-º London Frowde. 3s. 6d. EDUCATION. 83 of 43 × By JAMES ALLEN. 6. THE MASTERY OF DESTINY. Reason, Ilfracombe. The Light 120 pp. By A. FOR GIRLS. BRITISH PHYSICAL EDUCATION F.R.G.S., and MRS. ALEXANDER. ALEXANDER, Company. McDougall's Educational 5%. 230 pp. 10s. 6d. n. 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 × 10 Hodder n. . Devon. The Grey House, Lym inge, Folkestone. Authors Club, S.W. £3. 3s. 6d. HARDING's LUCK. × . e Abbot, x Wyndham, Horace Young, Filson . e Newton 9% Wright, W. P. . E. T. Walkey, S. - St. Katharine's, Hook Heath, Surrey. 30, Kingberry Park, : . 5s. m. Richards. By HELEN MAR DAME THIN-PIN AND OTHER STORIES. GARET DIXON. Illustrated by RATE MARION RATHBONE. Birmingham Cormish Bros., Ltd. 6%. 214 pp. com Nine volumes, forming Hou THE CHILDREN s Library. plete Children's With an Introduction. By leather, 5%. Cloth, £2 2s. 6d. HALL CAINE. 1 Victoria Street, S.W. Illus Grant R. 21, Carlisle Mansions, THE YOUNG. By Rose HAIG THOMAs. 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Newte, Horace Articles 74. W. ROTHENSTEIN, Liverpool pp. in Drishame, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Wykeham Cave, High Martin, Miss Violet (Mar tin Ross) ART. CIVIC LIFE, THE SPORT CARICATUREs PALITY 7; N.W. F. 90, Broadhurst Gar Hampstead, dens, . edition. n. The Pavilion, Hamp ton Court Palace. BRITISH STONE MONUMENTs SIR NorMAN AND OTHER CONSIDERED. ASTRONOMICALLY K.C.B., F.R.S. LOCKYER, Second pp. 14s. Macmillan. 499 & . 8,0ueen's Gardens, W. : . 58. m. STONEHENGE or Beds. of Shanbrook, © ARCH.EOLOGY. By W. M. THE ARTS AND CRAFTs of ANCIENT Egypt. Foulis. 159 pp. FLINDERS PETRIE, F.R.S. 73 × : Brookfield e Ingpen, Roger. Jessel, Ernest Edward Law, Ernest . . Lazarus, Miss Olga House, 9 × Hicks, Miss Frances. OF hurst. by Hill, Hawk Elm Litt.D. 35 Harrison, Frederic, LL.D., other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it sabstantially aCCurate. 24 2, Club, Authors Court, Whitehall S.W. e . 101 8+ x Hales, A. G. 94 × TFIES �A DITISIOR, NATURAL THE BOOK OF FLOWERS. FRANCES MAITLAND. Co. 68. n. HISTORY. By KATHERINE TYNAN AND Smith, Elder 5}, 319 pp. . PAMPHILETS. THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STUDY OF WAR. An Inaugural Oxford, Lecture delivered before the University November 27, 1909. By SPENCER WILKINSON, Chichele Military History. Oxford Professor Clarendon Press. London Frowde. 1s. m. By WoRKING Wom EN AND THE POOR LAw. HUTCEIINSON. Women's Industrial Council. Id. of GARDENING. C. By REGINALD FARRER. THE ANNE QUEEN'S CHRONICLE. 7} x 43. 363 pp. Alston Rivers. 63. º By THEODORA's HUSBAND. Lou ISE MACK. 7% × 5. pp. 329 Alston Rivers. 6s. HARUM SCARUM'S FORTUNE. By ESME STUART. 73 × pp. 5. 312 Jarrold. 3s. 6d. By JEAN MIDDLEMASS. MIGNON'S PERIL. 7% × 5. 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By MICHAEL BARRINGTON. Chatto & Windus. 6s. 18. n. 7 9. x n. x A n. m. in. 5. × THE HINDRANCES To Good CITIZENSHIP. By JAMES × (Yale Lectures on the BRYCE. 5}. 138 pp. New Haven Yale Citizenship.) Responsibilities 68. n. University Press. London Frowde. : : of 2s. 6d. By H. C. MooRE. SONS OF THE EMPIRE. 8 × 5%. 251 pp. R. T. S. 28. A LITTLE FLEET. By JACK B. YEATs. 7 × 4}. Elkin Mathews. I s. n. By CHRISTINA GowANS FOR THE SAKE OF KITTY. WHYT.E. 7# x 5}. 348 pp, Collins. 3s. 6d. POLITICAL. 73 Partridge. PSYCHICA.L. HERE AND HEREAFTER (APRES LA MORT). BY LÉON DENIS. Translated by GEORGE FLEUROT. W. Rider G. BRAVE 8 × THE LIMBERSNIGS : THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE KEBOLE THE TALL. By FLORA and LANCELOT SPEED. London : Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd. 3s. 6d. CINDERELLA. By E. NESBIT. 64 × 4}. 38 pp. Sidg wick & Jackson. 6d. n. A GIRL OF THE FOURTH The Story of an Unpopular By A. M. IRVINE. Schoolgirl. 73 × 53. 332 pp. 73 73 × 5. JUVENILE. H. 1200 573 pp. n. 153. m. & Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C. REPRINTS. POCKET CARLYLE. Edited by ROSE GARDNER. 44, 264 pp. Routledge. 38. 6d. BosweLL's JoHNSON. Edited ROGER INGPEN. Bicen tenary Extra-Illustrated Edition. Parts 10, 11, 12. 7, 657 832. Sir Isaac Pitman. 6d. each. & n. THE In In. By the QUESTIONINGS ON CRITICISM AND BEAUTY. Right Honourable A. J. BALFOUR. Delivered in the Theatre, 24th, Sheldonian November 1909. (The Romances Lecture, 1909.) Oxford : Clarendon Press. London : Frowde. 2s. n. By CONSTANCE L. MAY BETWEEN COLLEGE TERMS. 5s. NARD. 8 × 53. 271 pp. Nisbet. by I,ITERARY. 7 x Sotheran. 10 × 9 × 5%, 464 pp. THE MAKING OF IRELAND AND ITS UNDOING, 1600. By ALICE STOPFORD GREEN. 9 × 53. Macmillan. 10s, m. POETRY. By RUDYARD OF THE ENGLISH. RIPLING. Illustrated by W. HEATH ROBINSON, 113 Hodder Stoughton. 158, HARVESTING. By M. WAITHMAN, 4%. 134 pp. Kegan Paul. 3s. 6d. By TIME's LAUGHINGSTOCKS, AND OTHER VERSEs. THOMAS HARDY. 206 pp. Macmillan. 4s. 6d. 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LIGHT COME, LIGHT 448 pp. Macmillan. FRANCES HODG Moffat, Yard Co. : AIRSHIPs, AEROPLANES, THE WORLD's AND DIRIGIBLES. Founded and edited by FRED T. JANE, By with a special chapter on Aerial Engineering. CHARLES DE GRAVE SELLs, M. Inst. C.E. 73 × 12%. Sampson Low. 21s. n. 374 pp. )6. Il. : 7s. 6d. n. ALL THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER. pp. son BURNETT. New York : SCIENCE. By CHARLES DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. E. B. POULTON, D.Sc. 94 × 6. 362 pp. Longmans. 103 B. TISIES �TISIES 104 A UſTSIOR, Mr. John Murray. Messrs. Greening & Co. have on their list a cheap edition of The Golden . Horseshoe '' by the same author. Messrs. Cassell & Co. have just issued a fresh and revised edition of Popular Fallacies Explained and Corrected, by A. S. E. Ackermann. The work covers a very wide field of fallaciousness domestic, legal, historical, technical and treats also of various fallacies connected with ourselves in addition to the members of the animal kingdom. The Mastery of Destiny is the title of a new volume by Mr. James Allen which has just appeared. The volume deals with the subject of re-birth, and touches upon Social questions and on Among the the training of the will and mind. subjects dealt with are The Science of Self-Control ; Cause and Effect in Human Conduct ; Cultivation of Concentration ; Practice of Meditation ; and The Joy of Accomplishment. G. P. Putnam's Sons are the publishers in America. The pen sketch in Mary C. Rowsell's novel of The Friend of the People has come under the notice of M. Buffenoir, Member of the Société des Gens de Lettres. Miss Rowsell is by his wish translating the articles for the purpose of publica They are illustrated by numerous tion in England. portraits of Robespierre, of which some bear special Among these is the picture portrait of interest. him in his room in the house of Duplay, in the Rue St. Honoré, and another is the cast of his head taken after the death by Madame Tussaud. Mr. John Tussaud has presented to the author of The Friend of the People two copyright photographs profile and full face of this memorial, and it will be added to the portraits which Mr. Buffenoir has with infinite pains and research collected. The matter in the December issue of Travel and Erploration is provided almost exclusively by members of the Society. Mrs. Bullock Workman tells of her ascent of the Nun Kun range of mountains in the Himalayas. Dr. J. Scott Keltie deals with notable fictitious narratives in travel and exploration, of which, perhaps, Baron Munchausen's adventures are a typical example. A Traveller in Travel is the title of an article in the same journal by Mr. A. R. Hope Moncrieff, who describes some of his experiences gleaned from book editor. his professional travels as a guide A review by Mr. E. A. Reynolds Ball of Sir |Ernest Shackleton s Record of his Antarctic Expedition is another item in this monthly. We regret that in our last issue we announced a book on Fossil Botany as by Miss M. C. Stokes, whereas the correct spelling of the author's name is Stopes. We tender our apologies to Miss Stopes for the error. Messrs. Cornish Bros., of Birmingham, have favoured us with a sumptuous volume of stories for children by Miss H. Margaret Dixon. Dame Thin-Pin and Other Stories is the title given to the collection. There are ten stories in all, and twelve accompanying illustrations by Kate Marion Rathborne and other artists. Mr. Andrew Melrose's new Two-hundred-and-fifty Guinea Prize Novel Competition, which closed on the 30th ult., has brought in 162 MSS., seven more than last year's competition produced. The adjudicators in the present competition are Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, Miss Mary Cholmondeley and Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, and Mr. Melrose's staff is at present busy making the selection of novels which will be submitted to them. As this competition is not for a first novel it has brought a number of MSS. from manifestly practised writers, and the task of classification is proportionately difficult, but it is hoped to put the selected list in the adjudi cators' hands before the end of the month, and that a declaration of the result may be made some time in January. Light Come, Light Go is a new work publication by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Ralph Nevill, the author, has gathered together in the volume a collection of announced for early gaming, gamesters, wagers anecdotes concerning and the turf. In addition to this, much informa tion is given about the public gaming tables, which were once such a conspicuous feature of the Palais Royal in Paris, and afterwards of Baden-Baden, Homburg, Ems, and other German spas. An entire chapter of the book is devoted to Monte Carlo, and a number of the various popular systems and methods of play are analysed and described. Printers' Ink, a weekly journal for advertisers, has published, from the pen of Mr. Edward Urwick, a series of Sonnets to the poster artists. Mr. William Patrick Kelly's new novel, The Senator Licinius, a romance of ancient Rome in the days of Caligula, has just been published by Messrs. Routledge. It forms the third of the author's series of historical romances, of which the two The Stonecutter The Assyrian Bride" are of Memphis. and already published. The fourth book of the series, A Romance of Athens in the Age of Pericles, will probably appear early next year. first Mr. Henry Frowde and Messrs. Hodder and following Stoughton have forwarded us the Christmas books for children :- Books of British Young Franctireurs, Ships, 5s. ; 3s 6d. ; Farm Babies, 5s. ; Stories from Grimm, 2s. 6d. ; Robinson Crusoe, 7s. 6d. net ; Loco motives of the World, Fights, speare, 3s. 6d. net ; 6d. net ; Ballads of Famous Lamb's Tales from Shake 5s. net ; Robinson Crusoe, 6d. net ; �TISIE AUTISIOR. its of of a is in of be a R. F. a & it of of of to all to in E. of in or be in in to C. E. in to of a in of of of a is in in in of to of of as on of is of of an of Central Asia. DRAMA. at of Mr. Richard Pryce's dramatic adaptations Mrs. Mann's stories, Freddy's Ship and The Eglamore Portraits, were staged the Playhouse a a of on December 1st. The first, which was produced under the title The Visit, deals with the humanising selfish woman as result her fulfilment of disagreeable duty. The longer piece, produced under the title Little Mrs. Cummim, treats battle between interfering mother newly-made benedict and in-law. of The . Who's Who' Year Book comprises the tables which were formerly a part of the larger volume. It includes lists of ambassadors, academies, clubs, societies, as well as many others which professional men and women will be glad to consult from time to time during the coming year. The Englishwoman's Year Book, which is writers of biographies. much discussed a Messrs. A. & C. Black copies of the year books issued from their house, viz., Who's Who, Who's Who? Year Book, The Englishwoman's Year Book, and The Writers' and Artists' Year Book. 23,000 Who s Who for 1910 Contains of exhausted, a second edition is of been an edition having in the press. We have received from byis Après la Mort, of which Messrs. Léon Denis William Rider & Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C., are the English, and Messrs. Brentano, of New York, the American publishers. The first a the continuity of the school with the ancient Cathedral Grammar School of St. Paul's, is carried down to modern times, so as to include an account of the revival of the fortunes of St. Paul s under the late head master, Mr. Walker. Here and Hereafter is the title which Mr. George G. Fleurot has given to his translation of The Life and Letters James Wolfe, by Beckles Willson, which Mr. William Heinemann publishes, the outcome much new material, including many unpublished hitherto letters placed great an the author's disposal. To possible Mr. Beckles Willson has allowed extent the letters tell the story. Her Majesty the Queen has had much pleasure Emily Shore's book, Iland accepting copy Babies and Sea-Babies. The current number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society contains instalment the revised translation the Bábar-Nāma, on which Mrs. Beveridge now working. The Fārghana, portion published the description a has received every assistance from the school authorities, and has secured access to various private MS. collections which throw light on the story of Dean Colet's foundation. The history, beginning with a consideration of the question of is in last month's Author. Chapman & Hall have published The History of St. Paul's School, by Michael F. J. McDonnell. In this work, which contains forty eight portraits and other illustrations, the author Messrs. Dulall, the Forest Guard. instead The book contains brief account the proceedings two tiger, rhino young Englishmen their pursuit ceros, elephant, bear, etc., the Bengal jungles. The chief character Dulall Sing, forest guard, subordinate the Forest Department, truthful, brave, faithful his employers, running into danger himself, while careful his charges. Messrs. Gibbings are the publishers. to published Many out accordance with modern custom. very considerable errata have been corrected, and slight number what seemed infelicities inaccuracies the English have been removed. Gouldsbury We offer our apologies Mr. for an error our notice of his book the last issue The Author, which we entitled Duall of Bunnikin a of 1s. met. ; as at Hall, in 2s. 6d. net ; Madam Mouse, Squirrel 1s. net ; Brown, 1s. net. Per haps itishardly correct to say that they are exclusively for children, as the illustrations are so beautiful and the get-up is so good that they would be likely to amuse and interest the older folk at this season of the year. The 6d. editions with their beautiful end-plates and their coloured frontispieces are wonderful at the price. The illustrated 18. books are exceedingly well got up, and the illustrations to two of them, by Mr. Cecil Aldin, are particularly clever. There is no need to recommend this artist's work. As presents these books ought to be exceed ingly welcome, and their price is within the range of almost every Christmas giver. The large number of illustrated books issued at this period of the year emphasises the importance of the article on colour illustration which was 2s. 6d. net; compendium now in thirtieth year, information for women, whatever department engaged. Education, sport, life they may philan industrial, and literature, professions, thropic work are few the more prominent questions which treats. Messrs. James Clarke Co. have issued third Weymouth s edition the late New Testa ment Modern Speech. This work, under the editorship Hampden-Cook, has been re-set Mr. new type, and, order add the interest the translation, conversations have been spaced a 6d. in Andersen, net; Children's Children's Dickens, so Shakespeare, Hans 2s. 6d. a Mungo Park, 6d. net ; net; White Kitten Book, 105 �A DITISIOR. a of of of of of of to to so all of at of of In no It us Buloz and Madame this book Madame Daudet takes with her through the literary Paris her time. to-day. The was quite another Paris from that Madame is a foreign invasion has, doubt, had certain influence on Paris, but the old world still there behind these modern buildings, and we are glad get some echoes from such books this Madame Daudet. The last chapters are better They are too sacred read the original. touch lightly. They begin from the year 1898, after Alphonse Daudet. the death Whenever leave home, says his widow, it my seems me always that shall find him return, but always the same disappointment. death, cannot resign myself his continued absence. Les Infernales the title of remarkable volume short stories, rather studies, Nikto. surprise This book comes all who know its author. Nikto one the most marvellous pupil Liszt, Teleffsen, musicians our times, Mikuli, Chopin's gifted pupil. To anyone and who has heard Chopin and Liszt interpreted Nikto, there seems mothing left hear these two great composers. With the force man woman, Nikto and the delicacy and intuition has discovered all the treasures hidden in the music. Execution, expression, fire, tenderness and deep feeling, Nikto interprets that there interpret. The hours spent the favoured few hearing her who are allowed the rare privilege explain and interpret the works her two masters forgotten. are hours that will never At present we discover that this great musician also talented writer. In all these stories we have the fire and passion the Slavonic soul described and painted artist. There are tragic stories terrible cruelty, there Breton idyll which exquisitely poetical, story diabolic revenge and study, tzigame music. the end the volume, Although Nikto Polish Russian, she has accomplished the task, almost impossible foreign writing her book Very authors, French. critic, Barbey many years ago pitiless that d Aurevilly, who was always more less hard women writers, wrote somewhat scathing article one Nikto s literary works. She dedicates Barbey her book to-day To the memory d Aurevilly, the admirable author Les Diaboliques, from The one whom scathed. Egeria like all writers merit could have necessary for Mlle. Louise Read, would not of as in it to in and Miss and of that Juliette Adam. of on C. Workman, Miss Nancy McIntosh Jessie Rose. passage, where the arrange room the end primitive that the last person ments were leave was requested turn out the gas. Madame Daudet then tells us some the other Paris Salons, that the Princess Mathilde all at in H. by is or, This latter piece was interpreted by a cast which included Miss Lottie Wenne, Mr. Kenneth Douglas, and Miss Marie Lohr. The King's Cup, by H. Dennis Braaley and E. Phillips Oppenheim was produced at a special maſſinée at the Adelphi Theatre on December 13th, 1909. The cast includes Mr. Nye Chart, Miss Nora Sevening and Mr. Paul Arthur. Sir William Gilbert's new opera, Fallen Fairies; The Wicked World, was produced the Savoy Theatre early December last. The music Edward German, and the cast includes Mr. to TISIES 106 I to of of of a of is as a or by a is to to is it of of of a is be of is of of of a to a of a is by an on in of of an he be of it a If of the foundation the Théâtre those days this was little In by of We read, too, Libre Antoine. to is a by all of of to a by by of or so de a in we of etC. is of of of to of of us a us of of of then at It by by a to to us her Own Salon the Marais, the Paris, and when we read the names the habitués can only envy the writer frequently the intellectual treats she must Among these names are Théuriet, have had. Blémont, Anatole France, Gil, Léon Allard, Sully Prudhomme, François Coppée, Hérédia, Pierre Nolhac, Haraucourt, Massenet, Pugno, Rollinat, tells old-world part of de la a so it in a us of us of a criticism Daudet gives Victor Hugo. of by a is of of a of us a d'Aurevilly. Flaubert description her first visit She tells her first meeting with the Goncourt brothers, who were become life-long friends, the reunions the Five, Flaubert, Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Tourgéneff and Zola, and then the Médan Group, Hennique, Céard Paul Alexis, Huysmans, Maupassant, and, later on, Rod. Madame Daudet terrible Madame on of a of is all to of During the lifetime fact. her husband her salon was rendezvous for the writers the day. Madame Daudet's parents were poets, that she had from her earliest years the greatest respect for literary work. Her mother and father published Vie, poetry entitled volume Les Marges and Madame Daudet gives letter from Madame Desbordes Valmore, who had just read manu script. She then tells her acquaintance with Mistral, Paul Arène and Francisque Sarcey. She portrait gives Barbey d'Aurevilly and the most charming letter from him Daudet. was slight misunderstanding caused written after I autour d'un groupe littéraire, Madame Alphonse Daudet, book the greatest interest lovers French litera ture. The widow the great novelist herself gifted poetess, and her memoirs gain much this CN OUVENIRS a by to º-º-º on I PARIS NOTES. �A DITFIOR, in an is It a " INTERIMI Wº REPORT. to of to us to of of of in to all of by no to of to of in of in of of of as to as as of all of to to be of of in of be in of be a of to an of at to the sub-committee appointed consider the question the price which new novels should be issued, think that we ought make interim report, having regard the Serious nature the present situation. We feel, also, that conclusive and comprehensive report upon the matter can hardly expected from us, remembering the variety directions sought, and the distinct which evidence must understanding that we have received that the results certain experiments the change price experiments are now new novels which being conducted will given us. seventy Our first step was invite the opinion eight novelists, almost being members our possible because Society, who were Selected far they seemed represent varying degrees position men and women letters and greatly Further, we popularity. different conditions inquiry gave preference our first letter those authors whose works we knew had been made the subject some experiments the lowering the original price issue. The result that inquiry was that thirty authors declared them opposed any systematic Selves uncompromisingly reduction the usual publishing price the new novel, viz., 6s., believing that the reduction would bring them, having regard the reduced royalties offered, return which would compen sate them for the loss which they would sustain not receiving the larger royalty upon the larger prices; seven authors believe the reverse this, but their convictions were not expressed with any great force instances. Of the remaining authors whom we wrote, fourteen were non-committal their statements, to to in certain them giving information answer our questions, but without expressing opinions and leaving make deductions from the facts; give useful nine stated that they were unable information, and from the remainder we have not yet heard. Much this unclassified evidence was of in is THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF NOVELS. º-0 in a in a is a w ~&h w to as at M. of a M. of is It le Juste, by the Théâtre Antoine Papillon, dit Lyonnais having great Louis Bénière, simple workman Who success. the story At (Fasquelle). Souvenirs autour d'un groupe littéraire Les Infernales (Lemetre). Paris Révolutionnaire" (Perrin). La Rue Saint Honoré" (Emile Paul). to of by by an is by is of all at It du is in on an is a of is. many interesting details, and makes one realize how full of past history Paris In recent number the Revue hebdomadaire, Jacques there article Selma Lagerlof, de Coussange, and another recent number the same magazine article Ernest Seillière grand Frédéric. on Le Ménage Brieux, given The play Susette, the Comédie Française, not intended an argument against divorce, but against divorce too easily obtained. the story child between parents who are loggerheads with each other. We see the suffering child this situation. M. Brieux has already treated this subject the Berceau, but Susette much stronger and more convincing play, ALYS HALLARD. of know is one of those whose works should not be neglected. Rodin's statue was inaugurated this last month, and a pilgrimage of lovers of literature set out from Paris to be present at the unveiling ceremony at St. Sauveur le Wicomte, in Normandy, Barbey d Aurevilly's birth-place. Among the new books we have another volume of G. Lenôtre's Paris Révolutionnaire" (Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers). The subjects treated are : Papa Tam, Les Meubles de M. Berthélemy, Le Ménage Tison, Herman, Montcairzain, L As de Pique, La fin de Thérèse Lavasseur, L'Evêque d Agra, Thomazeau, Madame Gasnier, l Améri caine, and Monsieur de Charette. The chapter on Thérèse Levasseur after Jean-Jacques' death is very curious and instructive, whilst the story of the Comtesse de Montcairzain would make the plot for a novel. La Rue Saint Honoré'' (de la Revolution à nos jours) is the second volume by Robert Hénard on this subject. It seems indeed as though this street must surely be more full of memories than any other street in Paris. We have a description of the scenes that took place there on the day of the taking of the Bastille, and on many other historical occasions. Marie Antoinette was taken down this Robespierre lived street on her way to execution. there. The famous Café de la Régence, the favourite resort of Musset, is still there. Under the Consulate and the Empire the Rue St. Honoré was a very fashionable resort. The volume gives extremely natural into fortune. parts. and simple play, amusing and pathetic comes us them to trouble about their future fame. Thanks to her unceasing devotion in publishing posthumous works of Barbey d Aurevilly, France has slowly, during the last twenty years, realized the fact that Rarely has any he was one of her great writers. Centenary been so universally féted in any country, and for a long time to come lectures, articles and books will prove to us that the author so few of us 107 * TISIE �THE A DITFIOR. of in as of to be in a as a of is to in to of of of at to be or of as us to to in of at to of be in to as no to be in in of in of to to of at of to of we of a 68. at to all in of in of of us, having particular knowledge One the France, wishes business side literature point out that even the days when the regular price the new novel France was Fr. 3.50, the leading French novelists, Daudet and Zola. among them, greatly regretted the lowering the of by of as all be as of ADDENDUM. of on of of in to a of is at experience authors, repeat the recommenda tion that the novelist should maintain the price the original production his works There large evidence that low price means circulation. ; at leading publishers, and received the actual in at be to of in of at be novels, prices lower author has suffered. opinion the weight we have consulted, a at at in at ; of at by by to he us us be he be a ; if it a Or to be in be an in us of of to of the issue new every case the Having, then, regard from those novelists whom the responsible remarks details which we have In to a on a on a a to to a of to 68, : at to it results than 6s. of b of 68. a we in as a on it at of of if a so be ; before the author would receive the amount equiva usually receives 3,000 that which copies 68., i.e., 48. 6d. net. count, (2) That, leaving exceptional cases out does not appear probable that the author's proportionately enhanced circulation would lent sifting and classification. We have received scattered information from several authors who have actually experienced the of it is of is we at a to a at be in by a in lower prices than have given details showing that the experiments had failed. opinion from the publishers The consensus to the effect least, 12,000 (1) (a) that from 9,000 copies (the highest figure mentioned) must sold 2S. net (b) that 8,000 must sold 2s. 6d. net and (c) that 6,000 copies must sold 3s. net whose books have practically earned these advances they are not now willing make new contracts on the old terms. large amount We possess evidence from the booksellers upon the various questions involved, but this, which has only just reached us, requiress no or be to or to to be if in an to to be publishers who have issued new fiction a of from either for the the author, the publisher, the book the public. We propose collect further evidence from novelists during the time that must elapse before we can report finally. Our interim conclusion, that novelists would unwise allow themselves, their agents for them, enter into any contracts whereby agreed that the initial price the new novel should lower than 6s., much strengthened the replies which have received from the list publishers whom addressed letter asking whether the circulation obtained for novels pub Would, lished originally lower price than proportionate increase their opinion, result the price were lowered. The basis which we asked for information was 6s. novel of the ordinary length 100,000 words about 80,000 with circulation least 3,000 copies; and, further, we asked practicable pay would 28., author royalties 2s. 6d. 38. net high book rate 68. book and practicable would consider raising the Original price certain cases. We desire record our sense the valuable and courteous manner which our questions, necessarily searching nature, were responded the publishers. Several publishers said that the present moment they were not prepared answer definitely, name, because while one, who may mentioned his position has been made public his own letter Circular, viz., Mr. Heinemann, The Publishers pointed out that was the present important experiment moment engaged the alteration the prices which new novels issued, should the results which he would position February. inform Other benefit seller, reduction the price the original issue. On particular cases have this point figures relating proof been submitted the opinion. royalty could (3) That the same proportionate not offered upon the lower prices. On this point the publishers are very clear. Regarding these publishers, we do, thoroughly cognisant the business side the publication fiction the present conditions, competent guide and the probable developments result modifications those conditions, we think that their opinions constitute grave warning authors who may invited any issue new novels the ordinary length price below 6s. With regard the issue new novels cloth. binding 2s., we hope that the initial price this innovation not likely affect any large number writers. Few publishers will make the attempt produce new Work fiction such enormous quantities for first edition would required pay the author and recoup themselves. guarantee that the large prices There can payment which have been offered authors for serial rights and royalties advance under this system will maintained. We have definite information that, with regard the 7d. reprints, the publishers are already offering far smaller sums advance than the authors, first instance and that even the cases to 6s, and the deduction we have contains no definite argu lowering of the original to informatory to ourselves, drawn from it is that it ments in favour of the price of the new novel is 108 �THE A CITESIOR, an a a a of of of as of a is to , a of in of is of of in at in as in in of to of in of of he to - liability. or or to to is to of Of of of a of is of In of of of of A of of of of or of of of of a of of to a of A A of A A (f) to to be to to be to at to heon of to of is or or he or of of a a to it in is 3. The author guarantees the publisher that the said any existing work no way whatever violation copyright and that contains nothing libellous Scandalous character and that will indemnify the publisher from all suits claims and proceedings damages and costs which may be made taken incurred by against him on the ground that the said work an infringe copyright anything libellous ment contains scandalous. pay The publisher agrees the author and the accept the following royalties, that author agrees say : royalty (a) one shilling and sixpence per copy on all copies sold the English 6s. edition up sale two royalty thousand copies and afterwards 20 per cent. price the nominal published all copies sold this particular 6s. edition. royalty (b) fifteen per cent. the nominal published price any cheaper edition all copies sold editions. fifty royalty per (c) cent. the net profits derived copyright any). from the sale the American (if royalty fifty per cent. (d) the net profits derived Foreign rights (if any). from the sale royalty fifty per cent. (e) the net profits derived from the sale the Serial rights (if any). the event remainder sales, that when the royalty demand for the work has ceased, five per cent. of the net sum received. The publisher shall present the author twenty copies publication and shall sell the work him any may require further copies that the lowest trade price, charged all copies thus bought the general sales paid account and royalties the author on Same. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away for review other purposes the interests the work. up half-yearly Account sales shall be made Decem ber thirty-first and June thirtieth and delivered and settled making up within five months accounts, those dates. In thirteen copies shall reckoned twelve accordance with trade usage. of in or to in as be of is to to to he as of is be as the items the cost and the terms Sale) shall commensurate with the amount which putting into the adventure. The failure take these two precautions bound be attended with disastrous results the as is as 1. at 2. to of in to to as a is to a of ; is its in to on by be a or of a all if is, In the case of the novel, however, the position is different, and the author who is asked to bear any portion of the cost of production should refuse to do so. It may safely be claimed that the novel which is not published at the publisher's expense had better, in nine cases out of ten, remain unpub lished, that its author looks for financial If, however, the writer has reward for his work. firm conviction that his book possesses the potentialities commercial success, has some other equally weighty reason for desiring his book placed the market, and cares back his risking money production, belief two precautions are absolutely essential the first publish with house established reputation, and the second see that he retains such control the following case will show. That consideration the author paying the publisher the sum Ninety Five Pounds (Fifty Pounds signs this agreement, Thirty Pounds when the when type, and Fifteen Pounds from his whole the work share the sales the work) the publisher hereby agrees produce the work the best style print on good paper from new type bind suitable cloth trade demands warrant and publish the book the English edition the price Six Shillings per copy. The said payment Ninety Five Pounds shall constitute the author's sole 4. an author is asked by a publisher to contribute towards the production of his book, it is time for him to be on the alert. There are, it is true, certain books, the publication of which must be attended with a certain degree of risk, on account of the fact that they appeal only to very limited audiences, or because as a result of profuse illustrations or some other cause they are expensive to produce. In these cases, the bond ſides of a publisher who seeks to divide the risks with the author may be quite genuine, though even here the writer will be well advised to exercise a firm control over the expen diture, and ascertain beforehand whether, given a fair sale, the venture will prove profitable to himself. - to between hereinafter termed the author the one part and hereinafter termed the publisher the other part WHEREBY mutually agreed between the parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors administrators and assigns (or successors the case may be) follows: The author the writer and holds the copyright present entitled work which he has submitted the publisher with view his producing publishing and advertising the same the United Kingdom Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere on the following terms 5. º-e HEN author, made this 6. t production, OF AGREEMENT to Av--a A PUBLISHING TRANSACTION. over the work (both MEMORANDUM it CHARLES GARVICE. E. W. HORNUNG. W. W. JACOBS. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. a - Of 7. JDecember 2, 1909. below: of M. A. BELLOC-LOWNDES. (Signed) contract with certain author entered into publisher for the publication novel under agreement, the material parts which are printed A standard price to that figure. France has since been flooded with new novels at 9%d., and the result has been most disastrous to French literature as well as to French authors. It has meant that the great mass of writers have now to produce novels that are short and sensational, and dependent for their popularity upon their violent appeal. 109 �TRIE AUTHOR. it, a ; of is an in of of so on is If a to it of is it of in to by its of of to as a is of by is an it is to as an as we is & E. v. principle involved in HE HULTON Co., this LTD. case, to of is of by which has Lords, confirmed the House one which affects authors and journalists, particular importance and writers fiction. has now been laid down the highest court appeal, that action for libel no. defence show that the defendant wrote the defamatory statement with reference some imaginary person, and with intention of been it is by an in to no libelling the of to to a if to it to is byIf of plaintiff. the name the person adopted the writer that living person, seems follow from the jury may award damages any decision that individual who happens bear the name the prove that those who know evidence sufficient the plaintiff would necessarily think that the defamatory statement referred him. The libel was contained an article the Sunday Chronicle, published Manchester, Written the Paris correspondent and purporting Dieppe describe the life the occasion Incidentally the article certain motor-car races. being with mentioned Artemus Jones, woman who was not his wife, and described him as churchwarden Peckham and contrasted the austerity his parochial duties the English, imaginary to in in in of on a as at he JONES of as as is LIBEL WITHOUT INTENT. in it on is of to to a of of is to as to nothing which binds him advertise kill the book entirely. This might pay him well, would thereby secure himself the greater portion the £95. There no identity interest between the parties. While the author looks large sale recoup him for his outlay, the publisher, very often under this arrangement, independent profit the public entirely far concerned. The publisher has already made profit the production. He has little interest º of or to by of, as to how the money is to be spent, how the amount fixed is arrived at, nor is any mention made of the number of copies which the publisher will actually print, bind and publish for the payment asked. It is true that in section 4 (a) of the agreement the author is promised a different royalty after the sale of 2,000 copies, but this reference to 2,000 copies does not bind the publisher to anything, though it may deceive the author. Nowhere does Indeed, the publisher agree to print that number. under an agreement of this kind some publishers might produce a very small edition say, 400 neglecting 500 copies, and advertise it readers will notice that the agreement contains agree nothing to We should like, however, to state very briefly Some of the more serious objections. It will be noticed that the author is asked to provide a sum of money, not towards the cost of production of the work, but as consideration for certain acts which the publisher undertakes to perform. No information is given to the author a as he a is such by sign is of to It recommended of be a author could document. himself for future works. With such ment the present one the clause short of disastrous. ; Every clause is full of difficulties which would work out to the author's disadvantage. Indeed no as It is not necessary to offer any very exhaustive which, indeed, has comment on this document, been fully commented on in a previous issue of The Author. Moreover, there nothing which the author can demand from the publisher statement paid has been spent. how the amount He production, cannot demand details the cost cannot even demand any the copies printed his own, although his payment may have covered, and more than covered, their cost. The whole agreement thoroughly bad. To make matters Worse, the author binds himself the last clause the agreement for his next three books. Even grossly deplor were the agreement fair able, should still object author binding in 10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking the publication of the work hereinbefore mentioned, the agrees author to give to the publisher the first refusal, from one month of the date of the delivery of the manuscript, of the next three new novels which he may write, suitable for publication in 6s. volume form, and if the publisher accept all or any of them, they shall be published on terms to be mutually agreed upon. The term next three new novels " shall not include any novel which the author may have completed at the time of signing this agreement. the subsequent fate the book. the book selling, shows signs true that the publisher may find push profitable but the point remember that book which succeeds when published these terms does not because the publisher, but spite him. All that has happened that the publisher has committed judgment has accepted error book which has caught on. despite the circumstances surrounding publication. to 8. If any difference shall arise between the author and the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889. 9. The term PUBLISHER'' throughout this agreement shall be deemed to include the person or persons or Com pany for the time being carrying on the business of the said under as well its present as any future style and the benefit of this agreement shall be accordingly. transmissible a 110 �THE AUTEIOR. A a to a or is, it as of of at a it to do is is of ofof in for of for an be of a to of a to or a a to to a no of in by in as as he to by the member the editor also wrote that, owing advertising agents and, the long credit asked To to actual scene taking he of to in he inform you that this company s pay am directed The amounts, contributors are made quarterly. ments therefore, for June, July, and August, become payable: September, and you may inform Mr. X. that the soon complete, will receive his. amount for that period cheque for the amount due him. a an in of or I it an in reply. applied twice, but received payments Three months' remuneration being then due, the the the hands member placed the matter society. the secretary the company On application wrote the following note, signed The Manager : a of contributor has been eight years. The weekly paper for seven company paper has lately been sold knows nothing. The which the composition long con member, being somewhat loth break nection, agreed continue his contributions. The pay monthly. the paper had been custom Not receiving, when due, his first cheque under the new ownership, the member applied for payment, For his next short time. which was made is to in is MEMBER ON DEMAND, to of a by to no is of : he to of to as to be it no º-º-º of its in to in to of a of in a a be to HARDY. to is a or of a of is by the libel knew him to in in an as of to be a in on If QUARTERLY AND PAYING I in by : of a is be main by to of of be in the jury, and involves not person defamatory, the plaintiff. considerable The decision has been the subject comment, and novelists may feel Some alarm lest the name for One the chance selection novel may render them liable for characters person damages libel action brought defame and whose intention whom they had may have been unknown them. existence adapting names necessary Clearly some care novelists for imaginary characters, but the alarm distinction exaggerated. may There newspaper article fiction and between works describe an a at is in a in . HAROLD to it he in it if question fact for the plaintiff, my judgment this question fact only whether the language used libellous fair and ordinary meaning but whether the person referred persons who understood would purporting action tort, may other cases mentioned that infringement example, action Copyright, has been held that the absence defence, and innocent infringer intention damages although copyright may liable the Copyright. the existence did not know of to a he saying that defame the person intended not By being injured complaining the libel. publishing the libel the defendant imputed some thing disgraceful the plaintiff, who had none the complain because the defendant said less cause unintentionally. Lord Shaw stated that he did adopted the view expressed the Lord Chief his judgment Justice (Lord Alverstone), who Appeal had said The question, the Court disputed whether the article libel upon refer the then A it. point as follows: A libel is a tortious act. What does the tort consist of 2 In using language which others, knowing the circumstances, would reasonably think to be defamatory of the person person who complained of being injured by charge libel by cannot defend himself from real person tainable. is The defendants appealed upon the ground of mis direction, and upon the question whether the state ment could be libellous when it was not intended The Court of Appeal to refer to the plaintiff. dismissed the appeal. In the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn) expressed his opinion on the Mr. Justice Channell made this distinction clear the jury, which was approved by his direction Lords, when *The real said the House ought point which your verdict must turn ought not sensible and reasonable people reading was some imaginary think that this article Person, such have said Tom Jones, Mr. any Pecksniff, Mr. Stiggins, that sort literature used one reads name that you think that types reasonable person. If, all. not actionable Would think that, that, you hand, but think not the other mean some think that people would suppose It damages. f character seaside resort. real life generally regarded imaginary novel person, whereas the mention individual by descriptive narrative newspaper name supposed may reasonably real refer person. in Mr. Artemus Jones, a barrister, brought an action the publishers of the newspaper for libel. The evidence showed that the plaintiff was not a churchwarden, or a resident of Peckham, and that But witnesses were called he was not married. who said that they had read the article and thought that it referred to the plaintiff. The writer of the article stated, however, that he had never heard of the plaintiff, and that the name was suggested by the name of Artemus Ward, and was used merely for the purpose of representing a type of individual The jury found that it in the scene described. was a libel on the plaintiff, and awarded £1,750 against place on upon for of his proceedings heof suburb with the gaiety the Continent. 11 �is by of be of to in of is in to to if of a to as of to a a as in or no of of A in by on of to a is by no on if to as a as be in to up I in in in is on to an by on to of of to to of it 1, to In as on to by A in it a to is of mas holidays. The Report such importance publish any that would have been mistake superficial comments upon the current issue The Author. considered criticism will be published due course. We are glad notice that the committee recommend extension the copyright term life and fifty years, with only two dissentient importance members. Another point the minority report issued. fact that there to is of to of no is be is a Report the Departmental Committee Copyright was issued the Law the public December 20, just The Author was going get the magazine out press. order January 1910, was necessary send Press earlier than usual on account the Christ an it, to is on a sº-0 in a to of of of of in HE it a of a equity, courtesy and good conform matter business. The Manchester Guardian conspicuous ..among daily papers Sending voucher copy. a it. of it be an on as to e of in be on in of to is it of on in to to a the contributor who has written pressed which proprietors should as in a of of a be on or of of an on as to he a in of a to of In of COUNTIES. THE BERLIN convenTION. in even when ordered advance through the usual channels. This happened case lately the hands the secretary the society. The protest should time seems have come when payment made against the system demand. The net result of leave the hands of the newspaper proprietors concerned consider able balance account not paid-for contributions. daily paper this must amount the case large sum year. the course publication, but paying The plan not only sending voucher copy the issue containing the article I HOME of print that should added that even the practice the paying publication, may be, best publications, although advance, undoubted step very special means ideal arrangement. authority the relations editors and con say that tributors writes me: should like publication great many think payment cases almost bad and, Some cases, even worse than payment quarterly. have known articles the big reviews held for two, and even three, years. businesslike, think editors, order ought really drop post-card they soon accept possible, pay decide article and, for articles accepted within the week. The dangling Way editors keep authors non publication and direct acceptance some times very unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike. he to he if as is is a is of It of is in to of at it be be to to is If a before the office staff and the printers have done any differentiation between stroke. there those whom payments are due, should not the expense those who have written the copy that the *staff and printers have handle. only one practice There connection with the payment contributors that bad the quarterly arrangement, and that payment impossible for demand. contributor see every issue every paper may send which work, and even orders copies cannot always Copies have been reported obtain them. out sent possible date, and behoves those the profession who value fair dealing resist. very glad should receive from readers papers which pay The Author the names quarterly demand, with view, the com publication mittee the Society approve, the names the journals these columns friendly cautionary measure, step remonstrance. I is an is, is to of all who has been a journalist his life, knows mo paper other than that referred which pays quarterly. informed, however, that some He exist. inequitable nevertheless, The arrangement begun and finished one. The contributor s work shillings postage, journals are increasingly owned companies, the directors which know little and care littlé journalism, there will for the traditions larger number doubt cases which the payment put off contributors the latest to had seen Authors Society, and added that if the quarterly arrangement did not fall in with his views he should tell him so. The member replied, with the cognisance of the secretary, that he regretted that he could not see his way to continue his contributions to the paper On a quarterly basis, and that when two applica tions for payment had been made without reply, the editor could have no complaint to make of the matter being placed in the society's hands. The member, as he expected, has heard nothing further, and he has done no more work. Finally, the Society s solicitors, under threat of a writ, obtained a cheque. There is a great deal to be said for the member's action in resisting, particularly in the case of a paper which belongs to a company the members of which are not known, an attempt to put off con tributors with quarterly payments. The writer, buy, and carries good deal those who have articles all member Even the Quarterly Review, which costs to to con pay As to no decided I had The editor regretted that the fit to communicate with the of company the tributors quarterly. It others, six A PrºTHOR. TISIES I 112 �TFIE AUTISIOR. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. to : or if a proper to It is of of of to - price can be of of an in or of of to a be It is 2. There are three forms in three or more acts: (a.) Sale outright to it sign an agreement without submitting the Secretary the Society Authors some com petent legal authority. extremely careful negotiating for well play with anyone except the production established manageT. of This is sometimes satisfactory, or to to to in a EVER dramatic contract for plays of the performing right. This unsatisfactory. An author who enters into stipulate such contract should the contract for production the piece certain date proper publication and for his name on the play-bills. is of a E RE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property AUTHORS, DRAMATIC 3. º-º-º copyright. dhw º --~~ - BOOKS. I. Selling it Outright. of of is or to a TO per WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF of (a of or a It is to to of of of WARNINGS transfer by a in 1s. in to a to to to to to (3.) Always avoid of £1 is : (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement. IO63.IlS. (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 or withheld. 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 annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. A In agreement are combinations forms the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from Secretary Society. the the Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. possible. Avoid agreements by letter The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are in The General. All other is a This main points are : production. Be careful obtain fair cost Keep control the advertisements. Keep control the sale price the book. if 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary 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. The (1.) (2.) (3.) of º: Commission Agreement. IV. of Prospectus. perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form agreement. above all things necessary know what the proposed royalty means both sides. now possible for an author approximately ascertain the truth, From time time very important figures connected with royalties are published The Author. of a 5. 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 Society s lars of the work can be obtained in the The Royalty System. This of 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. 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution, Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members, III. send to 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, the document to the Society for examination. A 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi Therefore, do not scruple to use ence of ordinary solicitors. the Society. Profit-Sharing Agreement bad - form agreement). this case the following rules should be attended sign any agreement pro (1.) Not which the cost part without the strictest investigation. duction forms give publisher putting the (2.) Not the the power profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements organs, by charging exchange his own advertise ments. Therefore keep control the advertisements. special charge for office expenses, (3.) Not allow unless the same allowance made to the author. give up American, Colonial, (4.) Not Continental rights. give up serial (5.) Not translation rights. any publisher. (6.) Not bind yourself for future work any one solicitor As well bind yourself for the future doctor | 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 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. in VERY II. obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of Society. the º-º-º 1. 113 �THE A DTHOR. They should never be included in English ingly valuable. agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. be carefully should for collaboration 9. Agreements drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should remember that production of a play is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. REGISTRATION º-e OF SCENARIOS e= \º º- e. w AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. º-º-º NCENARIOS, 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 One copy will be stamped and returned to the author tant. Copies and the other filed in the register of the Society. of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing. Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same aules, with the exception that a play will be charged for at the price of 2s. 6d. per act. BRANCH, THE READING 3 0 EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this branch of its work by informing young writers Their MSS. can be read and of its existence. The term treated as a composition is treated by a coach. not only works of fiction, but poetry MSS. includes and dramatic Works, and when it is possible, under Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The The Readers are writers of competence and experience. guinea. fee is one * º A w-upw M THE AUTHOR. T t-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 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. to e 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. Communications and letters are invited by the all literary matters treated from the stand Editor business, but on no other subjects whatever. point art Every effort will return articles which cannot made accepted. -º a vºy-º- w REMITTANCEs. 4 The Secretary that all remittances º-t the Society begs give notice post. by return are acknowledged London and All remittances should be crossed Union sent by registered Smith's Bank, Chancery Lane, letter only. of 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed MUSIC. º-º-º to 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and This is most important. time. rights, but 6. Authors should not assign performing should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. STAMPING of 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. be are or fees to the of where of cases be in can be added to the warnings given for the dramatic of books and assistance of producers authors. . It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with performing right and copyright. He should be especially careful therefore when entering into particular agreement, consideration and should take into an the warnings stated above. on except likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply also in this case. COMPOSERS. MUSICAL -o-º-e ITTLE of avoided L TO or of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always (e.) Sale WARNINGS 58. (b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary between Percentages gross receipts. 5 An author should obtain a and 15 per cent. gross receipts sliding percentage on the scale of Should in preference to the American system. percentages. A fixed of advance obtain a sum in date on or before which the play should be performed. be 114 �THE AUTHOR. H. M. to as to to be to A of be of be by proposed, and the which such candidate nomination each such candidate shall subscribed least three members the society. list the names the candidates nominated shall sent the members the society, with the annual report the Managing Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes to meeting in a be : is (4) The committee nominate the following candidates, being subscribing members of the Society, to fill the vacancies caused by the retire ment of one-third of the committee, according to the new constitution Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland. Mr. Comyns Carr. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw. Mr. Francis Storr. accordance with annual custom, and in order to give members of the society, should they desire to appoint a fresh member to the Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been thought advisable to place in The Author a complete statement of the method of election under the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Under that scheme the committee is composed of three members elected by the committee of the society, three members elected by the society at the general meeting, and the chairman of the society for the time being, ex officio. The three members elected at the general meeting when the fund was started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn during the past years resigned, and, submitting re-election, have been unanimously their names re-elected. Mr. Morley Roberts resigned and was Spielmann, re-elected 1909. This year Mr. under the rules the scheme, tenders his resigna tion, and submits his name for re-election. The put forward other names members have power under clause which runs follows: Any candidate for election the Pension Fund Com retiring imittee the members the society (not being writing member such committee) shall nominated the secretary least three weeks prior the general of pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of Association of the Society, the committee give notice that the election of members to the committee of management will be proceeded with in the following manner (1) One-third of the members of the present committee of management retire from office in accordance with Article 17. (2) The members desiring to offer themselves for re-election who have been nominated by the com mittee are Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. Comyns Carr, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Francis Storr. (3) The date fixed by the committee up to by the subscribing which nominations members of candidates for election to the new committee may be made is the 15th day of February. Is of IN THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. for ELECTION. º-e A ~y º- w A. w of e members. at COMMITTEE They to suggest any change at the present time. have therefore re-nominated the four retiringC so º-e Vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent a letter signed by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness to accept the duties of the post. Members desiring to exercise their powers under this rule must send in the name of the candidate 9, candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in all, on or before the 15th day of February, together With an accompanying letter written by the candi date, or candidates expressing readiness to accept nomination. The complete list of candidates will be printed in the March issue of The Auſ/or. Having regard to the fact that the present Com mittee have been in office just over a year, the com mittee consider it in the interest of the society not in e other number of tº the secretary, accompanied by 9, ment in order to be able to ascertain the rights and wrongs of agency claims. The verdict of the jury in the present case has, however, been given against the member of the Society to the extent of half the commission claimed by the agent, who accordingly obtained judgment for £21 10s. and costs. The present note is being written during the Christmas legal vacation, and the advisers of the Society are con sidering the propriety of applying for a new trial, so that the case is still to some extent sub judice, and further comment on it must be deferred for a short time. members, the of defendant for commission for agency work. The committee, before deciding to defend the case, took counsel's opinion, which was very strongly in favour of the Society's contesting the claim on the ground that the plaintiff had no cause of action. The committee, in addition, felt that it was most important to have some distinct judg hominate one or more subscribing than themselves, not exceeding by v. MAUGHAM. AN important case, of interest to members of the Society, has just been decided before Mr. Justice Channell and a special jury. The case was brought by Mr. W. Morris Colles, literary agent, against Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, dramatic author, and related to a claim made by the plaintiff on the The Committee remind the members that, under Article 19 of the amended articles of association, any two subscribing members of the society may of - at COLLES º-e to e of of at GENERAL NOTES. 115 �TFIES 116 at the general meeting shall Pension Fund Committee. In be elected to serve case any member should on A UſTISIOR. the desire to refer to the list of members, the list, taking the elections up to the end of July, 1907, was published in October of that year. This list is complete, with the excep tion of the thirty-eight members referred to in the short preface. All further elections have been duly notified in The Author. They can easily be referred to, as members receive a copy every month. It will be as well, therefore, should any of the members desire to put forward a candidate, to take the matter within their immediate consideration. The general meeting of the society has usually been held towards the end of February or the beginning of March. It is essential that all nominations should be in the hands of the secretary before the 31st of January, 1910. UNITED STATES NOTES. º-º-º EFORE these notes are in type the new American Academy, which has been in embryo for the last five years, will have fairly come to the birth. Of the sixty-two originally selected members, seventeen have dropped out of the ranks, the latest casualties having been H. C. Lea and Richard Watson Gilder. If the desirableness of the institution itself be conceded, few will, we think, be found to quarrel with the names, a list of which appeared in a recent number of the Chicago Dial. It will be agreed by most Americans that the book of the fall, if not the book of the year, has Retrospections been the veteran John Bigelow s of an Active Life. The three volumes cover no less a period than fifty years from 1817 to 1867 and there is said to be more to come. Much of it is concerned with the diplomatic life of Mr. Bigelow at Paris, where he played a notable part at a critical period of his country's fortunes. There are also notable personal estimates of Lincoln and Seward ; and historical points of interest, such as the death of Toussaint l Ouverture and the pro gress of the Monroe Doctrine, receive much atten tion. On the latter peril Mr. Bigelow is more cautious and conservative than the men of to-day. The third volume will be valuable to the historian for the mass of material in the shape of confiden tial correspondence concerning the unfortunate Mexican adventure of Napoleon III. notable biographical works are this season. There are George F. Parker s Recollections of Grover Cleveland, by his and the story of Fulton's achievements descendant Alice Craty Sutcliffe, both of which come from the Century Company; Home Letters Several other also signalising of General Sherman (extending from the West Point period in 1837 through the war till 1888), edited by M.A. De Wolfe. Howe, issued by Scribners ; The Diary of President James K. Polk, edited by Adlai E. Stevenson ; and Study of Stephen Douglas, by Clark E. Carr s the McClurg Company ; not to mention Emerson s Journals, Stanley s Autobiography, William Winter s Life and Art of Richard Mansfield, and Eugenie Paul Jefferson s Intimate Recollec tions of Joseph Jefferson. It is a veritable embarras de richesse. Vice-president Cleveland's and Polk's editor gives us some fine miscellaneous feeding in his Something of Men have Known, which is full & of good stories. Apropos of the Pigskin Library catalogue at the end of one of Mr. Roosevelt's recent Scribner articles, a writer in the Dial suggested that The Pigskin Library, edited by Theodore Roosevelt, I might not be a bad venture for some enterprising especially if he could announce the publisher, volumes as bound in skins of the distinguished editor's own procuring Judge Shute has followed up his Real Diary of a Real Boy with Farming It, which purports to be the narrative of his experiences as an amateur agriculturist in the region of Exeter, New Hamp shire. The judge makes free with the names of his friends and neighbours, nay more, with his own, his wife's and his children's, and does not stick too closely to his text. Yet there are some who charge him with fiction. Professor Wilbur L. Cross s Life and Times of Sterne, Laurence like Emerson's Journal, com bines biographical and literary interest. Five years ago the author, in his edition of Sterne, was the first to print The Journal to Eliza. In the present work he has used other unedited Although he has made his objective a material. personal rather than a literary life, it seems likely that the book, from its fulness, accuracy and fresh ness, will prove, in many aspects of the subject, a . definitive record. On October 21, the anniversary of the distin guished Harvard professor's death, the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship in the Archæo logical Institute of America was endowed by Mr. James Loch. Preference in the choice of lecturers is to be given to European scholars, but Americans are not to be wholly barred. Nearly the same day appeared, with the imprint of the Houghton, Mifflin Company, American Foreign Policy, by a Diplomatist, both the con tents and the authorship of which were calculated to excite no small interest. University Press comes From the Chicago The Armenian Awakening, by Leon Arpee, a �THE A LITH OFº. in of his of ; as of as in ; of of an or a or a many authors are blessed with pen, and give fluent themselves no anxiety how they shall begin, con tinue, leave off, others are afflicted with kind paralysis, and labour under unaccountable friction, which obstructs them every turn and makes composition herculean task. This difficulty speech, isin writing very much what stammering bring out the words and thing say the effort being wholly disproportionate the result extra ordinary exertions are made, and after all the outcome more than ordinary speaking. The two disorders, moreover, appear me alike this, that both more less are due certain nervousness. the author, inflamed with ideas, could but compose himself, could lay aside exces sive anxiety, and confront his subject squarely, at : to a to is in a to a be to to to or he If in is is I of no be would doubt more prosperously delivered Indeed, suppose most people his thoughts. find that what written for private purposes done much more expeditiously and freely than what written for publication, and often better done Still, say that into the bargain. not mean writing difficulty complaint superficial may Sage precept that cured two for, the contrary, quickness slowness are qualities deeply embedded our nature that we never outlive them, but show our tendency one the other almost our every act. Nor suggest any means that the mark an inexperienced writer indifferent slow and in or ; or so to do I is be in of be to is it I in do to so by or of is a is a of Lost Borders, collection short stories by Harry Austin, distinguished for certain forceful simplicity. Mr. Chambers's new story called The Danger Mark; that Miss Elizabeth Robins, The Floren º-e HILE on it a of clef. as at e is as of be to a of in à DIFFICULTY IN WIRITING. or in in his Martin Eden, did Thomas Nelson Page John Marvel's Assistant. The Southerner, book some force but slender artistic merit, seems the nature roman in justice ; a ; & is as of to of is at present, not unduly prominent just Messrs. Holt are publishing for Professor Yale, A Guide the Short Story English. Happy Hawkins has been hailed some quarters the best story the West since The Virginians. The author Robert Alexander Wason the publishers, Small, Maynard Co. Mr. Marion Crawford's posthumous Stradella good love story was Jack London did himself Fiction though Canby, in as of a º- a v-u-w is welcome a of American Wood Engravers. no be in to to the curious. is on by a its military heroes: and other York, Watson Gilder (died New November 18), editor the Century Maſſazine, Scribner's Monthly, and other periodicals, distin guished poet and municipal reformer and Laffan, publisher William the New York quarter century, and author Sun Richard of do of of of of is a & (H. Holt pursuit extraction well Versailles, October 26), the Civil War, but well those Alex Hannibal, Ander, of a to of in to in of It Years and Half the United States Co.) 1798 1802 they were will con of at a publisher Col. Theodore Dodge (died leg Who lost liberty and history, lived write by is & to be undertaken his granddaughter, Moffat Yard Co. being her publishers. Messrs. Scribner are undertaking the Memorial Edition Meredith the United States. James Edward Rogers has essayed defend The large spirit. American Newspaper We examining fifteen thousand not envy him his task journals, but are constrained applaud his thorough Chicago that repels the attack neSS. the foe, not the headquarters the Yellow Press. The reprint John Davis s Travels Four Stedman the New old power Moccasin Ranch. The a in Who was in a to is It announced that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph lecturing tour begin Pennell are America January next, their subjects being Whistler, Illustration, Artist and Man, The History and Engraving. The Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence displays bya its by some cynics also be held to the secret may bear upon the subject. On November 15 the new buildings of the Boston Art Museum were opened. The Museum has acquired some valuable Greek sculptures, and is increasing deservedly high reputation. novel My obituary list includes Henry Charles Lea Philadelphia (who died October 24), the dis tinguished historian the Inquisition and author other works on Spanish and ecclesiastical history, to Dr. Edith Abbott's Women in Industry, which is issued by Messrs. Appleton. Why American Marriages Anna A. Rogers's Fail (Houghton, Mifflin) we will not disclose Hamlin Garland Veying atmosphere a M.as In view of the raging, tearing suffrage agitation, they may, however, like their attention drawn to The latter a Henry James's Italian Hours" hardly needs Comment in The Author, and the same may perhaps be said of W. D. Howells's Seven Cities, which most of your readers will have seen or read about. Frame. Theatre. time for years to come. of publication likely to be often referred to in the 117 �be go to a a on as to : at is he so at to to we by it is to to a to as is it ; SO A an a is to a : of is at of he at It is he be at ; go a of by of to of to up is to in to or to all in to I in to in us ; of fit to of to of a is It a so an to an to of in of to is of in a to of is it to . a in be to is to so on to of he a to to an is great tie, have already mentioned anxiety. person from pushing and not only prevents adequately forward his work, but makes what does write calculated and halting, depriving him his proper freedom, and the grace that naturally accompanies unconscious and unimpeded attending action. Instead his business, and saying what say, has got author Very often mainly intent upon making impression. This pre-occupation appear advantage, this exces mistake, brings constant sive caution not make hesitation, hampers the movements, and, thus interrupting, cools and dries the stream eloquence. To avoid slovenly writing but due the reader; but guardedness, which retards the pen far more, only shows distrust. Hence positive help often author make less to to at of is, in They are both best avoided drag alien malter. Other writing causes obstruction the free course begin are trying find examples, trying end particular way, trying special words phrases, avoiding dissonance, and seeking variety expression for these and many other considerations prevent from putting down the first thing that comes into our heads. despatch But perhaps the chief hindrances Writing are moral Among these their nature. write about. determining not to so a to in as it is is an It If this digression he it, so I if ; by of returning from the difficulty take the main theme again, and trying bring any special observation also that within the scope the subject we have undertaken Akin a is in a in of is is ; in of do to brings mentioned. temporary halt whenever what the writer say diverges from what about has just said. point piece To pass smoothly from point writing, that the whole runs without abrupt jerks and changes, manage not always easy paradoxical, and thus, the very effort fluency may hinder fluency, the writer pausing that the reader may afterwards the better on. to to to to to in a to it nothing all. Next, transition must a or I to : it at as of is to a to being consequent and connected author aims necessarily often exercised and how shall dispose his matter. This particular difficulty greatest the beginning, and diminishes with the progress the work for first hundred alternatives present themselves, but beginning once made one thing leads good beginning gives impetus, and another. just carries one along well allow little delay here, and not from impatience rush blindly in. At the same time better write waiting something near would, than what indefinitely for the exact expression write or in or be to in of in in is in so to bring moments what will take him weeks properly out. He has the guiding points, the may take essence the thing mind but that communicable shape, steady development, rumina This, then, tion, required. one the ready writing. obviated, hindrances thinking before we begin great extent, least write, and making the subject perfectly clear ourselves; for the more definite idea the slips into Words. more easily The question order and arrangement writing we delay. another fertile cause had nothing else but put down the thoughts they of he a to is to be at to I on it I an in a a is it is Yet where the author write, who does not know that labour desperate severe labour very often, and sometimes encounter which he wrestles and contends as with adversary On such occasions have often asked myself what that impedes me, and why cannot get and despatch my business. For doubtless much that retards us these instances brought has only view set aside, least made less formidable. To this end shall fluency, here notice some the hindrances writing. expedition, bringing conceptions earth, The first lies and making them specific. What we think for ourselves done as were in skeleton here we are immediate contact with the ideas themselves, the merest tracery suffices; we know what we once, and have no need mean enter into details, arguments and long explanations. But Writing we have communicate thoughts, that say, we have make other people understand, other people feel. This necessitates certain radical transformation the idea, which what before was diffuse condensed into something definite, vapour turned into rain. To corner may express our thoughts this way, and make them stand and deliver, often presents the greatest difficulty for thoughts are far becoming words, from immediately has been maintained, that person may conceive few came into our heads, and like madman, there would indeed self-respecting little excuse for stopping. But rambling is it. find such difficulty in just to to express oneself with a struggle. Everyone knows so ; everyone knows that there has been no lack even among the greatest authors to give proof what Vasari says in allusion to some drawings of Michael Angelo that the hammer of Vulcan was necessary to bring Minerva from the head of Jupiter. Swift even goes so far as to assert that common fluency of speech is owing to scarcity of matter and scarcity of words: people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door, he remarks. When we consider it in the abstract it certainly seems that writing ought to be a very easy thing, for it is nothing but putting down what you have to say. It really is hardly credible that a man can that this is not as TriB Anthor. 118 �TFE A CITFIOR. it a so by is of a as a a all a it. of is it to of of on to of a by an is us of a to of on be If to of to of '' on as as in if be so be to a on so to a It at of to a go a all on to to is It a of it us a a of a to of a no be it ,' a of of of be to I But these, after all, are good reviews, and they are read for chastening, the bad may be recalled for comfort. Not much the first bad review you ever received, which you read with pained incredulity that anyone could found say such unkind, unfair things about book good, but those which other critics had found that came little later, looking back which you are tempted wonder how you ever dared writing setting question all. was your teeth and sitting tight, for the unpleasant staying power that outlasts even that review has the delightfully kind one that makes you yourself day. about smiling But you lived writing, and through somehow, and went triumph nowadays you have certain feeling when the reviewers tell you how good your earlier books were. true they are not flattering those the present. We expected better work and than this from the hand that gave they say. In Mr. Smith pro masterpiece, even classic, and the present duced book reveals, sad falling-off from his earlier on to in to ; so exceed his deserts. Ah, but the question Works were thrilling romances making adventure, desirous the Fat Boy the flesh Creep. And they recalled Jane Austen they began quietly, went quietly, because ended quietly; they never stirred the blood; they Were more painstakingly decorous than even her books to to up in is I fairly certain go to or to of by I to so be in of it. to or ; ALLISTON. his works balanced others which dis agreeable recall, but the reviewer who wishes kind does not always praise the right thing. you are the sole European authority the manners and customs the Elecampane Indians, jars upon you jovial person writing find your book A thrilling narrative, but we think less its main theme than does the author. Anyone can Write about Indians, and what appeals the racy account the doings the Voyage out. We knew author once who was compared, year after year, certain paper High praise, one would say, and Jane Austen. of go as to of of to ; he : it or to to a in to to NORMAN authors never read reviews of their own they inform Works or credulous world. Others not only read them, but when they good review, cut are favoured with out and keep Others again, noble few, cut out the notices they receive, good and bad, and paste them into book. This book serves means Self-chastening when the author conscious feeling uplifted. Not only are the best notices a on in an in at he to or in be is to of to all attentive; these are the points we even when Having made our diagnosis, set out consider. They are, prescribe the remedies. remains course, several; but interminable, must not and therefore shall content myself with giving But, single specific. may longer that appeal healthy, sick man for advice how let me this pass over my own opinions, and conclude with the sententious maxim of Cobbett : Sit down write what you have thought, and not think what you shall write. OME * by a it is no ; of to in at a in in WRITER. is is is to of to in in I as BY A in a to a of is of of in in in In to less than first seemed he does not like come right out with and must then either beat about the bush, waste time belated improvisa tion. To avoid this, we must fatten our market, or, chickens before we bring them other words, make sure that we have something tell before preparing tell style, the question say nothing here writing, not about being about difficulty difficulty writing, technique the arts, just factory there power the question transmission, quite apart from that the style and quality the goods manufactured. What introduces needless friction what makes writer gape about, and dilly-dally, and fritter away his time and energy what impedes his utterance, it THE REVIEWER AND HIS LITTLE WAYS. is at or an lie it. an undertaking of his work, and not to be too con cerned about the success of obligation given To under write given length manner another thing that prevents easy progress; for man thus put out his natural stride, and moves under constraint. any produced But the worst effect dis electricity which inclination a negative sort repels ideas and scatters attention. When we are this mood, dawdling unavoidable. Some slight aversion generally experienced this kind commencing write, since requires certain interval work up the circulation the mind. Time and place, again, have great influence the happiness composition for, whatever people may say, there more fancy author not being able any time write with equal ease any place, than his not being able Still, sleep whenever wherever wishes. Control does much master any undue fastidious ness this particular, speaking above the reduction ideas from the form which we dwell upon them for ourselves that which they must embodied others, become transmissible omitted notice that hesitation often caused the poverty conveyed. the thought At the last moment the writer discovers that his idea contains much 119 �A DITFIOR. a or in no a be a it, is it in a to to of is in to be it, a to be a so of It in be it in a If is it is to as to is of to if he to in at to a by of of a of of is the Moon, quest the prudence in an in no by of be a a in of he P if a of is to a is in by in to us to we is a or a we 2), to hash by your plot in makes of when in of ; is a in by as so of is of as as the Mountains party proceeds whither the treasure the title. (Observe specify whether the treasure which fails animal, vegetable, mineral.) The principal dashing characters are Lord Hugo Stoneybroke, nobility, Colonel Trueheart, sprig soldier without fear and without reproach, and Angela Verifayre, beautiful heiress. There are adven derring-do galore tures and deeds (no one, surely, would deprive the hard-hearted poor reviewer these two indispensable words way which and the love-story ends will revealing. not wound our readers Too much like the publisher's puff, you will say but the puff never made use publisher's reviews already Every reviewer nature, and omniscient a in he to of at of of of on a a string extricate their books with difficulty from bag containing various materials for home dress making and cake for tea. He would see them weighing critically the merits two novels the pages and closeness print. score number They discern catalogue once the publishers' which, with the aid paper cardboard, thick six-shilling length the little gem which pads out twenty minutes and stamped ran through laid exploring of be in a a he of in in to of is is in unpardonable There another sin the length. reviewer s eyes, and that Here again his interest runs directly counter that the Lordly reader. his seclusion, with his weekly dose fiction delivered at his door neat parcel from the office, has never waited circulating library, watching the women who this book to of by the spoken a can correctly be a ghost of a at a in in to to as a a as a intermittently troubled a author remains problem whether of as widower. ? of it is to of of every character any stage. Sometimes excess o'erleap himself. resentment leads him Of certain novel reviewer said that the heroine was preordained die because former book, post-dated, her husband appeared widower. But the gentleman referred did not appear all, save ghost, the other book, and the reach the end. Of course Lord Hugo and the last, but frankly, we were not heroine marry sufficiently interested them find out how they young and did it. Then the author, point out that the innocent, writes timidly whole object the book show why the beauteous Angela did not espouse the gay Hugo, but her father s old comrade-in-arms, and the editor appends his communication the sarcastic requested, but note :- We print this letter say that we infinitely prefer our are bound reviewer's ending the author's, which strikes jejune the extreme. The unhappy author degrees, and learns the recovers from the blow unequal invaluable lesson that contest which your opponent bound have the last Word. Why should not the reviewer give up the long book pretence reading through little-known author Even he likes the book, his tender mercies are cruel, for writes his synopsis notice the form the plot Why should there not generally all wrong. formula this kind in which the publisher enclosing would doubt assist list the characters ? The Pink Lobelia. The scene he by to he on it in he is in a of a is is to be '' in ; of is to of a so in of political intrigue the delineation which |Mr. Smith has often proved himself master. The next instalment does provide the required excitement, and with beating heart you await commendation, only receive this dash cold water : The story well written, and some the scenes are very striking but we cannot feel much interest these politics something But there thankful for even frenzy here, for many reviewer driven sequel a thing that readers the discovery delight and demand. No matter how complete itself, the book washes his hands the perceives moment not the first appearance with the seal his high approval, and they reject unhesitatingly. slight What use would alleviating production toothache cold gone time, and the head would nothing more there would read. As well set hungry man. cream meringue before brought the reviewer could only see fault, not the length the book that but the necessity for pretending have tried through. read The pretence results notice something like this : The Pink Lobelia' novel that suffers from being interminable. We have spent many weary hours over and failed as of of in he of in its methods. In some surprise, you look up the review of the masterpiece in question, and find that the reviewer's love to it was so carefully dissembled that he had no hesitation in kicking it downstairs immediately on its appearance. And if your first books were better than you were ever allowed to suspect at the time, so also your personal dignity stood higher in the reviewer's estimation. Mr. Smith should really not have come down to this line of business, he says now, with pained surprise, and you wonder how any descent was possible from the extremely low level at which your reputation stood. If it be permitted to the trodden worm to indulge a grievance against treader, you might find one the Occasional your critic. inconsistency We cannot but trust, says, that the next instalment the story we shall get plenty that romantic of TISIES 120 purporting �in of of Tut in or A of a of by a be to on a in in is an If in a If of he be to be be us in by is Is of it than her own. adverse reviewer had made this confession, would have been greeted with protest. Storm there any difference Principle when the reviewing favourable and done one interested the success the book? just, then, even Let the reviewer. horrid, can can also Very, very nice. can obstinately pervert the most Original your characters into Something actions old insight and commonplace, can also display into their motives that surprises you. And purr when you are pleased. There likes you 9ne, literary journal which has the delightful sending the author copy habit the issue Containing the review. One says delightful" with fear and trembling, for hitherto, like the sun-dial, the paper has marked only sunny hours. Would sent the notice was bad one The resdy with the answer, Critic the Hearth double-quick Rather and time 2 a if a of to is he an he of of an t on LAW to * of no in of of of the Omission in is, 2 no on but such as of the article immensely. what does appear, needless put forward the same objections that we have put forward previous occasions; but we might repeat that the portion the article Ilaw and agreements Letters which refers the least satisfactory. The article the Royalty Agree ment still unchanged. The writer states, after setting out the parties agreement A With regard it is value on is to of on on to : an to in no he a is by is of is in an in he our last year's review, important things the United States Copyright Act and the cases that have been tried reduces the is an of is a of a to of LETTERS. important Copyright Act The standing matter which has been reprinted the whole, satisfactory; we mentioned this passed if be to is to is it of AND seems be no variation from the issue last year under the heading Law and Letters the new Literary Year importance Book. Has case been tried during the past year Has the United States as is HERE BOOK. º-e to a of of it in is to it THE LITERARY YEAR to is a as it a is in of of on to a is ! in is on on a of of a and tags relative she herself reviewed the volume under Various pen-names several periodicals, and later Wrote for the edition included certain series signed with initials other the introduction that he to is of of to If purpose, there writer with pick another crow which you will often have with the reviewer. When you have spent months impeccable labour the preparation index, securing the modest hope word jpraise from paper which strong such disappointing matters, find the point altogether ignored, and your book treated merely jumping-off place for the gambols expert whose views are not yours. But even more galling, when you have written, say, Socialist your own pet Socialist novel, and reviewed daily, discover that its message belittled and you had its anticipations ridiculed, precisely thank The Primrose Messenger for the notice. discreetly touched, for The subject one involved the whole question man s working for paper whose political opinions Oddly enough, there does not share. reciprocity about the thing. You never find your Socialism unexpectedly commended The Primrose Messenger. Akin this grievance that the existence Every author the multiple reviewer. con enemy who writes against vinced that has each his books turn Several papers, and there are some who can produce presumptive mis-spellings he If It in it he is a he of of has reviewed. you are the fact authors themselves are not wholly innocent this Tespect. certain novelist recently made, allowed made for her, the calm confession that the appearance book poems If of a of in in Guilty, and that verdict there are not two people whose historical studies ended presumably with the Norman Conquest running amuck the critical world. this type reviewer knows too little about his subject charge find any other fault, can always bring plagiarism. What matters that review ing two successive weeks two novels which appeared almost simultaneously smart say: Mr. Brown-Jones will never and easy flattery while Mr. want for the sincerest form Smith lives and writes, and the public, which publication, credits knows nothing about dates him with much critical acumen, Half the charges plagiarism which afflict the modern author are based upon ignorance the common authority upon which both writers have drawn, and goodly proportion the remainder the fallacy that the writer has read everything that the reviewer Hastings ended evidence 121 Spºch appearing with suspicious reiteration. be in a of in is it to of If by is is it in of a to Summarise that merely shows that Homer still nods occasionally. When mistake occurs fact, matters because the reviewer has gone for his holiday, and his work being done you doubt this, make the office-boy. complaint any such mistake the journal appears, and see. Which One hopes that the reviewer (or office-boy) who recently placed the Peninsular War the fifties the same that Some years ago reviewed The Great Proconsul under the impression that the trial Warren it it, THE AUTHOR. �I a be or a to to he ; a to to he in in do so do it, to to It be in in of of of an of to to of to an it to of to a as in or to on be a in Regular Contributors, Contributors, Lances Editing. More practised and Some Dangers writers, and those with the imaginative gift referred to, will not need an editor has be told that goes his needs, and Settled convictions article without saying that the more closely story approximates commends them the more itself ; but even these may derive amusement, instruction, from editor's where they need fifty-four manuscripts sent him stories batch, their edges and thus joined sheets pasted scroll several form one above the other kinds, including covering letters feet long appeals for charity, and containing one instance accept wager depended the information that rejection. believe ourselves Most ance least, than the editors who tactful more so, of as º-º-º it is as a is It to of is - by another hand. be in of its of another review imagination for moment into themselves his what may reflect editor's chair, and point his physical his official capacity, view brother and mental limitations and weaknesses profit Foster's Mr. These should read with man. chapters entitled Some Corre Some Callers, Contributors, spondents, Free Would of necessary assistance -the as giving the Literary Year Book is inclined to avoid it and does not give the necessary assistance itself, it is a useless book from the author's point of view that is from the point of view of those persons alone agreement for advice. forms who study This little review does not deal with the other These will be dealt with the book. details society Many clearness. tolerable with selves seeing not always succeed who write, but print, may study his pages with their work advantage, and draw inferences for their own guidance from the advice which does not alto gether omit, and from his experiences with those who wrote for him, with others whom he wanted write write for him, with those who wished appreciate the characteristics for him but failed help him his paper, with those who sought editing and with others who with advice the commended him and showed their interest added need hardly his efforts. success important proportion the lessons conveyed that those for the consideration and assimilation who worry editors with manuscripts wholly unsuited the periodicals which they conduct, and then complain editorial discrimination, thus lack making the way harder for others who seek approach from the outside, and obtain acceptance new or occasional contributors. time Much advice has been given from time The Author, derived from many the pages project impossible Sources, those who find to licence to publish, limited in most cases to volume form, and do not think of asking for a transfer of copyright. We must repeat that, in a review of an important subject like forms of agreement, the contracts One should be drawn in favour of the author. The and irrefutable. reason for this is clear publishers make it the business of a lifetime, or ought to make it their business, to have a knowledge of copyright law and of contracts. Their very agreements show that they have studied It is the author their own interests in this matter. that desires help, for many men write books but These are essen do not live by their books. They can, of course, tially in need of guidance. become members of the Society of Authors, but there are still some who have not heard of the society's existence. In that case they would no doubt desire to turn to some book of reference, and if that book of reference did not mention the suggest that possible book may long elaborated without being either formal conjecture that probably Mr. drawn-out, and Foster's contributors, even when imparting useful more his readers, exhibited information dexterous craftsmanship than his but, nevertheless, says should speak for them the matters which as plant, etc., shall forth with belong to and become It would be the property of the publisher, etc. most interesting to know from where this form of agreement was obtained. We are glad to say that there are very few authors and they get fewer year by year who are foolish enough to assign their copyright, and the great majority of publishers, especially those whose names for many years have stood high in the publishing trade, only take a kaleidoscopic rather whole, the book and hope than formal and long-drawn-out, will not fault. be accounted in Royalty Agreement proceeds thus, or to this effect: that the copyright and That in consideration if, THE AUTHOR. 122 it in a to at to us of a on in all of a to as so at of or and Co. be Everett & Experiences : of A Record by Ernest Foster. London : * An Editor's Chair Happenings, or an it to no of of : ; in : in to attempt has been made speak for themselves, nor, beyond being arranged elaborate them any particular order groups, are they presented ; a a no in by of of as of | \ of in R. simple ERNEST FOSTER narrates his and straightforward style some experiences (assell's Safurday editor ('hºms, disarming criticism an Journal and saying foreword editor's literary style In the belief that the matters dealt with will an as º-º-º to to AN EDITOR'S CHAIR. �A UſTISIOR. to be is to of a or of of be a of be to of is or,It are 9r of or a in a in in as is of to bean to to " an a is or it C. to to. to in we by to as a if in of it to of its be or to to a of as so of or no be a on to to the and submitted be interviewed sented Operation, but objected have their words written process which need hardly the spot, down point out would the interviewer resorted dangerous purpose, but merely for dark for employed accuracy, and much for the sake Did they his own. his subject the benefit escape loophole order that leave Wish opinion which they had cause after statement ashamed were fastened upon them, Wards paternity and attribute they might deny - of be to it to or 2 of We the interviewer the inventive faculty answer the questions, must leave them the one possibly the reader may find matters which speak for themselves, and under better than We do. stand E. A. A. of of a FICTION THROUGH THE AGES.* t º-º us the impression RANSOME gives his Way man who writes because that enjoying himself. His book has both the qualities and the defects commonly discoverable Being himself motive. work done from such in is A History Jack, 7s. 6d. llet, Story-telling, by complained that some anecdotes which he had narrated had been borrowed by another Writer, and settled the question of whether they might have been derived from a common source by declaring ingenuously that he had invented them himself. Somewhat diverting anecdotes, by the Way, are narrated by Mr. Foster in two chapters devoted to describes a of the system by which contributions from unknown contributors are not paid for till a reasonable time after their appearance. One of Mr. Foster's stories is of a man who Lucas) Duncan We may sympathise with those who feel nervous having their words taken down, but this was not They con the cases referred the motive of acknowledge, as no doubt he should do, that editors in the position of Mr. Foster are beyond suspicion, and may say A thief ought to be punished in the interests of justice and of honest men; if you intend to say nothing about it pay me for the contribution At the of which you have had the advantage. worst you will only pay twice over, and even then my story is worth more. Authors who take up such an attitude ought not, however, to complain Mr. familiar one. debtedness as it public the ease with which such frauds are perpe trated ; but the author who, perhaps, differs from him in disposition or opinion, may decline to candid conversation cold print gentleman. beguiling lady But still, With interview everyone knows nowadays what indulge deliberately conver means, and stipulate interviewer and then sation with confidential, savours treated that imbecility. Even less comprehensible, however, No notes, please, which Mr. the injunction his interviewer (he acknowledges Foster publication R. steps to punish the guilty, and to contribute to the future protection of authors and editors by so doing. It must be remembered that an editor who, though he may have published a stolen article in good faith, declines to prosecute, and is even unwilling to acknowledge the fraud perpetrated upon him, acts precisely as he would do who deliberately lifted '' the matter himself as a means of obtain ing cheap copy for his paper. He may, in fact, be actuated by clemency, or he may fear to make Interviews and Interviewing, and to the Diffi We can all of us culties of the Interviewer. understand, even without personal experience, that Some of the great people of the earth (and of the small ones) are very willing to be interviewed, and appreciate less easy not. that others indeed, condition those the mental attitude, interviewed, Who, after expressing willingness actually answering questions volubly, suddenly published. impose condition that nothing course, accounted for by sudden This may, the change the effect realisation mind a had some pressing payments to make. Among Smbjects of general interest to authors Mr. Foster discusses Plagiarism add Coincidence in a chapter which describes somewhat euphemisti cally as direct plagiarism " that fraud upon editors and authors which consists in copying an article from one periodical and forwarding it as an Original manuscript to another. Mr. Foster seems to think the attitude of plagiarised '' authors to have been unduly severe towards himself, or even rapacious, when they suggested pecuniary compen sation for the infringement (involuntary on the It is submitted, editor's part), of their rights. however, that such cases are to be determined according to circumstances. An author may be willing to waive a claim for compensation, and to assist an editor in bringing a knave to justice, if the editor on his part will take active and energetic 123 at reject our stories so that few will apply as a warning to themselves Mr. Foster's anecdote of a contributor who sent a manuscript with an intima tion that it was much too good for Cassell's Saſur day, Journal, but that high-class magazines kept stories so long that it was offered on condition that a cheque was sent on acceptance, as the author * TRIES Arthur Ransome. �AICTFIOR. to in try a I it It as in º-e on is of 2 do It by of on a at to be in of to is of of the descendants the distinguished writers who form the Society Authors' Council, let these they cannot put clever men get work and see things right if to to he his DEAR SIR,--Mr. W. Shaw Sparrow hits the nail copyright-expired the head with his remarks Marlborough and Welling works. the Dukes property earned ton may live illustrious ancestors, why should not the descendants Dickens and Thackeray the same thing monstrous think that while Charles Dickens' Works are selling their hundreds thousands every year, his granddaughters should forced draw Civil List pensions, and very small ones that. As obvious that similar fate awaits Yours faithfully, R. WARREN BELL. S. to º-º-º is REVIEWERS AND REVIEWED. A. J. H. of I in be books cannot be reviews accepted failure. not the critic, do it is a in to or of I of I a of of in to - the book. a to is of J. H. of it It of of I in a may coincidence. that the office those particular editorial offices upon which have late inflicted my manuscripts not know cardboard, and are the game involving sheets rap of all it, be be it So merely boys the opinion that book reviews are not worth However, from one's fingers. A.'s quite clear that his publishers did own story they possibly could make financial success am a of I to by in DEAR SIR,-My sympathies are entirely with your correspondent Mr. Bertram Smith this matter. His sad experience has also been mine. Recently, goaded fury protest, have written upon the sheet cardboard enclosed with my MSS. my name and address, and below Please return this card with manuscript. may far this has had the desired effect, but : is a is great arbiter book not the publisher, and certainly not the author the public. As the writer two three books which were fortunate enough secure the position favourable opinion the critics, am my faith and con state that notwithstanding my publishers, and notwithstanding the fidence good reviews that welcomed the appearance the books, still, from view, neither financial point my publishers nor myself scored very highly. is SMASHED MANUSCRIPTS. The or criterion either of success of º-º-º a as of value CORRESPONDENCE. of it to in he in A. it it he or a in be DEAR SIR,--I read the letter signed opinion with considerable interest, and am may that the answer found Mr. Eveleigh P., Nash's article M. which that pub produced was lisher states that the first book reviewed adversely, yet the work achieved con Viewing both these cases siderable success. every conceivable light, seems me that the in to of if it he to my ART AND TAXATION. it produces the best critical results. and Mr. Ran some might have followed with more success had had either more space shorter list subjects; but writes pleasantly, though has placed himself conditions which was almost impossible for him more than superficial. in he few cards is It to as save Yours faithfully, Fox FRENCH. e is he ; bybe judged, not by occur and the author must what has omitted, but what has included. His merit that he treats novelists human beings, and endeavours show how their books are related their lives. That Sainte-Beuve's method. the most readable, Case, may possibly has mine. mania ! or a a short book, however, which does not profess text-book, such omissions are bound be to In is of is in of MM. Paul Bourget and Anatole France. Madame de Staël was the first of those who sounded what Mr. Courtney has called the feminine note Jane, fiction. Corinne the source whether Miss Corelli aware her debt not. criticism May plan it such masters of such of by has been hailed as and as all nothing about either Madame de Staël or Benjamin Constant, though both of them mark epochs and have influenced their successors. Constant's Adolphe analysis, was the first of novels with the photographic mounts. advise Mr. Bertram Smith not bitten necessitating If interested, he is generally interesting ; but he is not complete, or systematic, or careful of propor tion. 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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. ADVERTISEMENTS. As there seems to be an impression among readers of The Author that the committee are personally responsible for the bona fides of the advertisers, the committee desire it to be stated that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case. Although care is exercised that no undesirable advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and never have accepted, any liability. Members should apply to the secretary for advice if special information is desired. * *—a w-v- vºy THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. —º–sº-0– ROM 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 WOL. XX. 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 oase 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, 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. —e-º-o- 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 3350 in the purchase of Corporation of London 2} per cent. Stock (1927–57). The amount purchased is £438 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 2s. 4d., and is  ## p. (#476) ################################################ 98 THE AUTHOR. more than £100 over the amount invested in 1907. Consols 24%.................... . . . . . . . . . . 31,000 0 0 Local Loans .............................. 500 () () Victorian Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11 War Loan ................................. 201 9 3 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock .............................. 250 0 () Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ............... 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed Stock .................................... 200 () () Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. 228 () () New Zealand 34% Stock. . . . . . . . ... 247 9 6 Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Corporation of London 25% Stock, 1927–57 .............................. 4.38 2 4. Total ............... #3,815 1 0 Subscriptions. 1909. April 13, Gask, Miss Lilian & May 17, Rorison, Miss Edith June 10, Voynich, Mrs. E. L. June 11, Grier, Mrs. Julia M. June 11, Field, C. . & º June 11, Barrington, Mrs. Russell July 8, Burmester, Miss Frances July 9, Grindrod, Dr. G. F. July 10, Hargrave, Mrs. Basil Aug. 5, Stott, M. D. . tº Oct. 15, Greig, James Oct. 15, Jacomb, A. E. Oct. 16, Hepburn, Thomas Oct. 16, Trevelyan, G. M. . Oct. 16, “Haddon Hall” Oct. 22, Jessup, A. E. © º Oct. 25, Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard Nov. 5, Dixon, A. Francis . Nov. 6, Helledoren, J. Dec. 4, Tearle, Christian Dec. 9, Tyrell, Miss Eleanor . Dec. 17, Somerville, Miss Edith CE. Donations. 1909. Jan. 1, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. . April 5, Burchell, Sidney H. April 15, Linton, C. Stuart April 19, Loraine, Lady . e e April 19, Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer April 20, Stephens, Riccardo © May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. C. P. June 2, “Olivia Ramsey’” ;I 1 II June 7, Horne, A. B. June 10, Muir, Ward June 10, Swan, Miss Myra June 17, Bradley, A. C. June 22, Trotére, H. . July 8, Harland, Mrs. o July 8, Sinclair, Miss May . Aug. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte & Sept. 10, Hinkson, Katharine Tynan . Oct. 16, Hodson, Miss A. L. e Oct. 16, Wasteneys, Lady . Oct. 18, Bell, Mrs. G. H. § Nov. 3, Turnbull, Mrs. Peveril . Nov. 4, George, W. L. e Nov. 25, Tench, Miss Mary Dec. 1, Shedlock, Miss T}ec. 3, Esmohd, H. W. Dec. 9, Hewlett, Maurice . e Dec. 17, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie . Dec. 17, Martin, Miss Violet 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. 5 I 1 1 2 COMMITTEE NOTES. —º-º-º- HE committee of management met for the last time, in 1909, on December 6, at 39, Old Queen Street. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed. The com- mittee then proceeded to elect 31 members and associates, bringing the total elections for the year up to 298. This is an increase of 50 over the largest annual election to the Society since its foundation. The committee desire to congratulate the members on the increasing vitality of the Society. Four resignations brought the total number of resignations for the year up to 79. The next matter that came before the committee was the circular issued by some of the lending libraries, and a letter received from the Publishers' Association setting out the resolutions passed by that body. A letter from Mr. Edmund Gosse which appeared in the Times was also considered, with several other letters from members. The chairman, after some discussion, placed before the committee a resolution he had drafted for the committee's consideration. The resolution in its final shape was passed unanimously, and is as follows:–  ## p. (#477) ################################################ TISIES A CITISIOR, 99 “The committee of management of the Society of Authors have considered the letter addressed by the circulating libraries to the Publishers' Association and the Press. They observe upon it that it is in the discretion of the libraries to select what books they will offer to their customers, and that in point of fact this has always been done. The committee regard the demand for delay of publication to enable the libraries to make their selection as unwarrantable, and they cannot advise the publishers to assent to any such condition. “They are ready at all times to delegate to a sub- committee the duty of conferring with a similar body deputed by the Publishers’ Association, and will be pre- pared to receive through that body and consider any further representation which the Libraries’ Association may desire to make.” The secretary was instructed to forward it to the daily Press with a covering letter. The committee feel that the matter may become one of vital importance, and that they may be bound, if further action is taken, to consult all the members and to ascertain their opinion by referendum. In the meantime they have taken measures to appoint certain members of the society, under the presidency of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, chairman of the committee, to meet, if necessary, a sub-committee of the Publishers’ Association. After the meeting between these two bodies it will be easier for the committee to decide upon their future action. The next question before the committee was also one of importance. The chairman laid before the committee a letter which he had written to the Times in regard to the British Academy. The matter, after some discussion, was adjourned until the January meeting. Mr. Sidney Lee sent in the resignation of his Seat on the committee, stating that while he was greatly interested in the work, he felt that he Ought not to continue on the committee in view of the fact that he could not give to it the time and labour which it deserved. The committee, empowered under the constitution to fill up occa- Sional vacancies, asked Mr. W. W. Jacobs to undertake the duties of committee man, and he has kindly consented to do so. It was decided, in accordance with the statement printed in another column, that the names of candidates for election to the committee should be returnable on or before Tuesday, February 15. Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, the committee's nominee to the Pension Fund Committee, resigned in due course and was unanimously re-elected. The notice in respect of the election of the society's nominee to the same committee is set out in another column. Mr. Arthur Rackham and Mr. Francis Storr were appointed a sub-committee to settle the Report, which will be in the hands of the members in the early months of 1910. The committee decided to increase the salary of the head clerk by 5s. per week. The secretary laid before the committee a copy of the letter, which had already appeared in the |papers, from the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society on the censorship report. The committee agreed also to issue a circular, if the Dramatic Sub- Committee should so desire, with a view to calling a conference of the dramatists of the society. The Sub-Committee on the Price of Novels, having collected certain evidence on the question under their investigation, presented to the com- mittee of management an interim report based upon that evidence. The committee expressed their thanks to the sub-committee for the care which they had shown in dealing with the matter and Ordered the report to be printed in the columns of The Author. The committee sanctioned the purchase of a new typewriter for the office and an extension of the telephone service to the secretary's office. The first case which came before the com- mittee related to a literary libel. The work of a member of the society had been translated into German without his authority, and with consider- able alterations. Unfortunately, the writer had sold his copyright to the British publisher, but the committee were advised by the society's lawyer in Germany that this did not preclude him from taking action against the delinquent. The com- mittee decided to take up the case. The secretary then reported the settlement of a dramatic infringement which had been taken up on the authority of the chairman. As it might have been necessary to apply for an injunction, the chairman had authorised proceedings without reference to the committee. The secretary read to the committee a letter of thanks from the mem- ber on the satisfactory settlement of the dispute. The next case was also a dramatic case, and the member claimed accounts and money under an agreement for the performance of his work. This matter also the committee agreed to take up. Following these cases was one of an infringement of an author's copyright by a paper in San Francisco which had printed the work without authority. The committee decided to commence action for damages, and instructed the secretary to place the matter in the hands of a lawyer in that city. fº last question was one which the committee were asked to take to the Court of Appeal. The details of the case had been placed before the committee on a former occasion, when the com- mittee, after close investigation of the papers, decided not to take the matter up. The case was subsequently heard and a verdict given against the plaintiff. The committee adjourned the matter to the January meeting, when further information and further particulars are expected.  ## p. (#478) ################################################ 100 TRIES A UTFIOIR, DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. The Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society of Authors met on Tuesday, December 7, at the offices of the society. The Repertory Agreement was laid before the committee once more, and was gone through clause by clause. Some slight alterations and additions were made and the secretary was instructed to incorporate these in the Agree- ment and to submit the completed document to the sub-committee at their next meeting in January. - A suggestion relating to the summoning of a Conference of Dramatic Authors was, after considerable discussion, adjourned till the next meeting. SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF NOVELS. A MEETING of this sub-committee was held on Thursday, December 2. The secretary reported the receipt of a large mass of evidence from the booksellers, and of further evidence from novelists in answer to the circular letters. The sub-committee then considered the interim report which had been drafted by the chairman. After a few verbal alterations had been made, the report was settled, and appears, in its final form, in another page of this month's Author. As stated in the report, it has not yet been possible to issue any exhaustive survey of the subject. This must, of necessity, be deferred till the receipt of the further evidence which is expected in February. The sub- committee will, at that date, consider all the evidence from authors, which will by then have been arranged and tabulated, together with the evidence from booksellers (which needs most care- ful classification), and also the further evidence of the publishers. Cases. DURING the past month sixteen cases have been placed in the secretary's hands for settlement. The majority of these, as is usual, refer to claims for money. There are six under this heading. Two have been placed in the hands of the Society's solicitors, as it was impossible to get any satisfactory reply. In two the money has been paid and forwarded to the members. The remain- ing two are, as yet, unsatisfied, but they have only recently come into the office. Of three claims for accounts, one has been carried through, while the other two are still in the course of negotiation. The publishers have promised delivery. Of four cases for the recovery of MSS., one case has been successful ; in the other three no answers have, as yet, been received. One case of infringement of copyright is still in the course of negotiation. It will, most probably, terminate satisfactorily, but the infringer adopts an injured attitude. It happens not infrequently, when the infringement has been committed by a colonial or a provincial paper, that the editor feels hurt that the author is not delighted at the gratis advertisement which he receives. It may be a satisfactory advertisement or it may not, but it must lie with the author to decide whether or not he is willing to have such a gratis advertisement made by the use of his property. Editors must not take this for granted. There have been two disputes as to the proper reading of agreements. These cases, like questions of infringement of copyright, take some time to settle. Eight of the cases from former months still remain open. Five of these refer to matters abroad or in the colonies, and are likely to be open for some time to come owing to the delay in obtaining answers to letters. Three refer to the return of MSS. We have mentioned, frequently, in The Author, the reason why there is often much difficulty in obtaining satisfaction in these C8,SéS. December Elections. Allinson, Alfred 13, Claremont Ter- race, Exmouth. 4, Melbury Road, Kensington, W. Broad Meadow, King's Bagehot, Mrs. Walter Bantock, Granville . Norton. Beal, N. W. Roseneath, Queen Street, Hammer- Smith, W. Burn-Murdoch, W. G. Northfield, Berwick- (“Levensis”) shire ; Arthur Lodge, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh. 7, Havelock Road, Croydon. Alton, Hants. 170, Kennington Park Road, S.E. 411, Argyle Road, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Eagle Heart Incorporated O. Earland, Miss Ada Everett, Miss Ethel F. Grisewood, R. Norman  ## p. (#479) ################################################ TFIES A CITISIOR. 101 Hales, A. G. . e Authors’ Club, 2, Whitehall Court, S.W. Harrison, Frederic, LL.D., Elm Hill, Hawk- Litt.D. hurst. Brookfield House, Shanbrook, Beds. Hicks, Miss Frances. Ingpen, Roger. e © Jessel, Ernest Edward . 8,0ueen's Gardens, W. Law, Ernest . . . The Pavilion, Hamp- ton Court Palace. 90, Broadhurst Gar- dens, Hampstead, N.W. Drishame, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. Wykeham Cave, High- trees, Loughton, Essex. 17, Bryanston Street, Portman Square, W. 9, Lyon Road, Harrow. Lazarus, Miss Olga . Martin, Miss Violet (Mar- tin Ross) Newte, Horace Palmer, Miss Richardson, Harry Handel Sherren, Wilkinson . Authors’ Club, 2, Whitehall Court, S.W. Somerville, Miss Edith CE. Drishane House, Skib- bereen, Co. Cork, Ireland. 54, Lower Mount Street, Dublin. 27, Cadogan Gardens, S.W. 21, Carlisle Mansions, Victoria Street, S.W. St. Katharine's, Hook Heath, Surrey. Stephens, James Strachey, Lady Sylvan, F. Tyrrell, Eleanor . Walkey, S. . 30, Kingberry Park, - Newton Abbot, Devon. Wright, W. P. e The Grey House, Lym- inge, Folkestone. Wyndham, Horace . . Authors’ Club, S.W. Young, Filson . e . 53, Upper Brook Street, Park Lane, W. —e—º- BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. —º-º-º- WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep this list as accurate and as exhaustive as possible, they have some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it sabstantially aCCurate. - ARCH.EOLOGY. THE ARTS AND CRAFTs of ANCIENT Egypt. FLINDERS PETRIE, F.R.S. 73 × 53. 58. m. STONEHENGE AND OTHER BRITISH STONE MONUMENTs By W. M. 159 pp. Foulis. ASTRONOMICALLY CONSIDERED. By SIR NorMAN LOCKYER, K.C.B., F.R.S. Second edition. 9} x 6. 499 pp. Macmillan. 14s. n. ART. THE SPORT OF CIVIC LIFE, or ART AND THE MUNICI- PALITY CARICATUREs of PROMINENT CITIZENs. Articles by W. ROTHENSTEIN, F. RUTTER, and others. 94 × 74. 24 pp. Liverpool : Handley, 2d. BIOGRAPHY. US FOUR. By S. MIACNAUGHTAN. 7; x 5. Murray. 6s. THE DAUPHINES CE FRANCE. 284 pp. By FRANK HAMEL. 9 × 53. 413 pp. Stanley Paul. 16s. n. MICHAEL SERVETUs. By W. OSLER, M.D., F.R.S. 9 × 6. 35 pp. Frowde. 1s. r. DR. JOHNSON AND MIRs. THRALE. Including Mrs. Thrale's unpublished journal of the Welsh Tour made in 1774, and much hitherto unpublished Correspondence of the Streatham Coterie, by A. M. BROADLEY. With an Introductory Essay (74 pp.), by T. SECCOMBE. 9 × 53. 338 pp. Lane. 16s. n. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. THE DOLL's DIARY. By Rose HAIG THOMAs. trated by JOHN HASSALL. 10 × 7%. 100 pp. Richards. 5s. m. DAME THIN-PIN AND OTHER STORIES. By HELEN MAR- GARET DIXON. Illustrated by RATE MARION RATHBONE. 8+ x 6%. 214 pp. Birmingham : Cormish Bros., Ltd. THE CHILDREN’s Hou R. Nine volumes, forming a com- plete Children's Library. With an Introduction. By HALL CAINE. 83 × 5%. Cloth, £2 2s. 6d. m. ; leather, £3. 3s. 6d. m. Illus- Grant HARDING's LUCK. By E. NESBIT. 8 × 5}. 281 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 6s. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Vol. 22. Supplement. Edited by SIDNEY LEE. 9% x 63. 1 5S. n. 1,400 pp, Smith, Elder. By E. T. Coor. ROSE GROWING MADE EASY. 204 pp. Newnes. 18, m. CLASSICAL. EURIPIDIS FABUL.E RECOGNOVIT BREVIQUE ADNOTA- TIONE CRITICA INSTRUXIT GILBERTUS MURRAY. TOMUs III. 7} x 43. (Oxford Classical Texts.) Oxford : Clarendom Press. London : Frowde. 3s. 6d. n. EDUCATION. THE MASTERY OF DESTINY. By JAMES ALLEN. 43 × 6. 120 pp. “The Light of Reason,” Ilfracombe. BRITISH PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS. By A. ALEXANDER, F.R.G.S., and MRS. ALEXANDER. 83 × 5%. 230 pp. McDougall's Educational Company. 10s. 6d. n.  ## p. (#480) ################################################ 102 THE A DITISIOR, AN AFTERNOON TEA PHILOSOPHY. By W. R.TITTERTON. 6% x 4%. 95 pp. F. Palmer. 1s. 6d. m. THE G.B.S. CALENDAR : A QUOTATION FROM THE Works OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW For EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. Selected by MARION NIxoN. Second edition. 6# X 4%. 91 pp. Palmer. 18. n. MISC ELLANEOUS. FARTHEST FROM THE TRUTH; A Series of Dashes. By the authors of “Wisdom While you Wait,” and GEORGE MORROW. 73 × 4%. 91 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman. Is... n. BRITANNIA's CALENDAR OF HEROES. Compiled by KATE, STANWAY. With an Introduction by the Rev. the Hon. E. LYTTELTON, B.D. 73 × 5. 412 p}}. Allen. 5s. n. THE ONE LIFE. A FREE AND OCCASIONAL PAPER. By JOHN TREVOR. Horsted Keynes, Sussex. THE KILLARTAN HISTORY BOOK. By LADY GREGORY. Illustrated by R. GREGORY, 7} x 5. ls. 6d. p. THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. Vol. for 1909. 12 × 9. 864 pp. Rice, 7s. 6d. FICTION. WHAT LAY BENEATH. By “COO-EE.” (WILLIAM SYLVES- TER WALKER). 301 pp. Ouseley. 6s. 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A HISTORY OF SARAWAK UNDER ITS Two WHITE RAJAHS, 1839–1908. By S. BARING-GOULD and C. A. BAMPFYLDE, F.R.G.S., late President of Sarawak. 9 × 5%, 464 pp. Sotheran. 153. m. THE MAKING OF IRELAND AND ITS UNDOING, 1200– 1600. By ALICE STOPFORD GREEN. 9 × 53. 573 pp. Macmillan. 10s, m. JUVENILE. THE LIMBERSNIGS : THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE KEBOLE THE TALL. By FLORA and LANCELOT SPEED. London : Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd. 3s. 6d. CINDERELLA. By E. NESBIT. 64 × 4}. 38 pp. Sidg- wick & Jackson. 6d. n. A GIRL OF THE FOURTH The Story of an Unpopular Schoolgirl. By A. M. IRVINE. 73 × 53. 332 pp. Partridge. 2s. 6d. BRAVE SONS OF THE EMPIRE. By H. C. MooRE. 8 × 5%. 251 pp. R. T. S. 28. - A LITTLE FLEET. By JACK B. YEATs. 7 × 4}. Elkin Mathews. I s. n. FOR THE SAKE OF KITTY. By CHRISTINA GowANS WHYT.E. 7# x 5}. 348 pp, Collins. 3s. 6d. I,ITERARY. QUESTIONINGS ON CRITICISM AND BEAUTY. By the Right Honourable A. J. BALFOUR. Delivered in the Sheldonian Theatre, November 24th, 1909. 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WAITHMAN, 7 x 4%. 134 pp. Kegan Paul. 3s. 6d. n. TIME's LAUGHINGSTOCKS, AND OTHER VERSEs. By THOMAS HARDY. 73 × 5. 206 pp. Macmillan. 4s. 6d. n. ENGLAND, AND OTHER POEMs. By LAURENCE BINYon. 73 × 5. 88 pp. Flkin Mathews. 3s. 6d. m. THE BORDER BREED. GEORGICS AND PASTORALS AND OTHER POEMS. By SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS, BART. 8 × 53. 448 pp. The St. Catherine Press. 3s. 6d. in. POLITICAL. THE HINDRANCES To Good CITIZENSHIP. By JAMES (Yale Lectures on the New Haven : Yale 68. n. BRYCE. 73 × 5}. 138 pp. Responsibilities of Citizenship.) University Press. London : Frowde. PSYCHICA.L. HERE AND HEREAFTER (APRES LA MORT). BY LÉON DENIS. Translated by GEORGE G. FLEUROT. W. Rider & Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C. REPRINTS. THE POCKET CARLYLE. Edited by ROSE GARDNER. 7 x 44, 264 pp. Routledge. 38. 6d. n. BosweLL's JoHNSON. Edited by ROGER INGPEN. Bicen- tenary Extra-Illustrated Edition. Parts 10, 11, & 12. 10 × 7, 657–832. Sir Isaac Pitman. 6d. In each.  ## p. 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TOPOGRAPHY. THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By E. THOMAS. 7 × 5. 244 pp. Dent. 3s. 6d. In. —e—º-e— BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY MEMBERS. —º-º-º- ANTHOLOGIES. SOME FRIENDS OF MINE : A R ALLY OF MEN, By E. V. LUCAs. 362 pp. New York : Macmillan & Co. $1.25 n. ART. CoNSTABLE. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour. By C. LEWIS HIND. 80 pp. New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co. Boards, 650. m. ; leather, $1.50 m. BIOGRAPHY. MR. POPE : HIS LIFE AND TIMES. illustrations. By GEORGE PASTON. New York: Putnam. $6.50 m. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: Their best-known Tales. By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA. A. SMITH. Illus- trated in colour. By MAXFIELD PATRISH. 339 pp. New York : Scribner. $2.50. DRAM.A. THE MASQUERADERs : A Play in Four Acts. By HENRY ARTHUR JONES. 135 pp. New York : Samuel French. 50c. FICTION. DAPHNE IN FITzRoy STREET. By E. NESBIT. New York : Doubleday, Page & Co. $1.50. With twenty-six 364 + 382 pp. 417 pp. THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER. 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An account of the first journey to the South Magnetic Pole. In two vols. 366 + 451 pp. Philadelphia : Lippincott. $10 m. —e—“Q-6– LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL NOTES. OBERT AITKEN'S new novel, “The Ilantern of Luck,” which has recently been published in the United States and also in Canada, will be issued on this side early in 1910 by  ## p. (#482) ################################################ 104 TISIES A UſTSIOR, Mr. John Murray. Messrs. Greening & Co. have on their list a cheap edition of “The Golden Horseshoe '' by the same author. . Messrs. Cassell & Co. have just issued a fresh and revised edition of “Popular Fallacies Explained and Corrected,” by A. S. E. Ackermann. The work covers a very wide field of fallaciousness—domestic, legal, historical, technical—and treats also of various fallacies connected with ourselves in addition to the members of the animal kingdom. “The Mastery of Destiny” is the title of a new volume by Mr. James Allen which has just appeared. The volume deals with the subject of re-birth, and touches upon Social questions and on the training of the will and mind. Among the subjects dealt with are The Science of Self-Control ; Cause and Effect in Human Conduct ; Cultivation of Concentration ; Practice of Meditation ; and The Joy of Accomplishment. G. P. Putnam's Sons are the publishers in America. The pen sketch in Mary C. Rowsell's novel of “The Friend of the People” has come under the notice of M. Buffenoir, Member of the Société des Gens de Lettres. Miss Rowsell is by his wish translating the articles for the purpose of publica- tion in England. They are illustrated by numerous portraits of Robespierre, of which some bear special interest. Among these is the picture portrait of him in his room in the house of Duplay, in the Rue St. Honoré, and another is the cast of his head taken after the death by Madame Tussaud. Mr. John Tussaud has presented to the author of “The Friend of the People” two copyright photographs —profile and full face—of this memorial, and it will be added to the portraits which Mr. Buffenoir has with infinite pains and research collected. The matter in the December issue of Travel and Erploration is provided almost exclusively by members of the Society. Mrs. Bullock Workman tells of her ascent of the Nun Kun range of mountains in the Himalayas. Dr. J. Scott Keltie deals with notable fictitious narratives in travel and exploration, of which, perhaps, Baron Munchausen's adventures are a typical example. “A Traveller in Travel ” is the title of an article in the same journal by Mr. A. R. Hope Moncrieff, who describes some of his experiences gleaned from his professional travels as a guide- book editor. A review by Mr. E. A. Reynolds Ball of Sir |Ernest Shackleton’s “Record of his Antarctic Expedition ” is another item in this monthly. We regret that in our last issue we announced a book on “Fossil Botany ” as by Miss M. C. Stokes, whereas the correct spelling of the author's name is Stopes. We tender our apologies to Miss Stopes for the error. Messrs. Cornish Bros., of Birmingham, have favoured us with a sumptuous volume of stories for children by Miss H. Margaret Dixon. “Dame Thin-Pin and Other Stories” is the title given to the collection. There are ten stories in all, and twelve accompanying illustrations by Kate Marion Rathborne and other artists. Mr. Andrew Melrose's new Two-hundred-and-fifty Guinea Prize Novel Competition, which closed on the 30th ult., has brought in 162 MSS., seven more than last year's competition produced. The adjudicators in the present competition are Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, Miss Mary Cholmondeley and Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, and Mr. Melrose's staff is at present busy making the selection of novels which will be submitted to them. As this competition is not for a first novel it has brought a number of MSS. from manifestly practised writers, and the task of classification is proportionately difficult, but it is hoped to put the selected list in the adjudi- cators' hands before the end of the month, and that a declaration of the result may be made some time in January. “Light Come, Light Go” is a new work announced for early publication by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Ralph Nevill, the author, has gathered together in the volume a collection of anecdotes concerning gaming, gamesters, wagers and the turf. In addition to this, much informa- tion is given about the public gaming tables, which were once such a conspicuous feature of the Palais Royal in Paris, and afterwards of Baden-Baden, Homburg, Ems, and other German spas. An entire chapter of the book is devoted to Monte Carlo, and a number of the various popular systems and methods of play are analysed and described. Printers' Ink, a weekly journal for advertisers, has published, from the pen of Mr. Edward Urwick, a series of Sonnets to the poster artists. Mr. William Patrick Kelly's new novel, “The Senator Licinius,” a romance of ancient Rome in the days of Caligula, has just been published by Messrs. Routledge. It forms the third of the author's series of historical romances, of which the first two — “The Stonecutter of Memphis.” and “The Assyrian Bride"—are already published. The fourth book of the series, “A Romance of Athens in the Age of Pericles,” will probably appear early next year. Mr. Henry Frowde and Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton have forwarded us the following Christmas books for children :-‘‘Books of British Ships,” 5s. ; “Young Franctireurs,” 3s 6d. ; “Farm Babies,” 5s. ; “Stories from Grimm,” 2s. 6d. ; “Robinson Crusoe,” 7s. 6d. net ; “Loco- motives of the World,” 5s. net ; “Ballads of Famous Fights,” 3s. 6d. net ; “Lamb's Tales from Shake- speare,” 6d. net ; “ Robinson Crusoe,” 6d. net ;  ## p. (#483) ################################################ TISIE AUTISIOR. 105 “Mungo Park,” 6d. net ; “Hans Andersen,” 6d. net; “White Kitten Book,” 2s. 6d. net; “Children's Shakespeare,” 2s. 6d. net ; “Children's Dickens,” 2s. 6d. net; “Madam Mouse,” 1s. net ; “Squirrel Hall,” 1s. met. ; “Bunnikin Brown,” 1s. net. Per- haps itishardly correct to say that they are exclusively for children, as the illustrations are so beautiful and the get-up is so good that they would be likely to amuse and interest the older folk at this season of the year. The 6d. editions with their beautiful end-plates and their coloured frontispieces are wonderful at the price. The illustrated 18. books are exceedingly well got up, and the illustrations to two of them, by Mr. Cecil Aldin, are particularly clever. There is no need to recommend this artist's work. As presents these books ought to be exceed- ingly welcome, and their price is within the range of almost every Christmas giver. The large number of illustrated books issued at this period of the year emphasises the importance of the article on colour illustration which was published in last month's Author. Messrs. Chapman & Hall have published “The History of St. Paul's School,” by Michael F. J. McDonnell. In this work, which contains forty- eight portraits and other illustrations, the author has received every assistance from the school authorities, and has secured access to various private MS. collections which throw light on the story of Dean Colet's foundation. The history, beginning with a consideration of the question of the continuity of the school with the ancient Cathedral Grammar School of St. Paul's, is carried down to modern times, so as to include an account of the revival of the fortunes of St. Paul’s under the late head master, Mr. Walker. “Here and Hereafter ’’ is the title which Mr. George G. Fleurot has given to his translation of Léon Denis’ “ Après la Mort,” of which Messrs. William Rider & Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C., are the English, and Messrs. Brentano, of New York, the American publishers. The first edition having been exhausted, a second edition is in the press. We have received from Messrs. A. & C. Black copies of the year books issued from their house, viz., “Who's Who,” “‘Who's Who? Year Book,” “The Englishwoman's Year Book,” and “The Writers' and Artists' Year Book.” “Who’s Who’’ for 1910 Contains biographies. The “ . Who's Who' Year Book” comprises the tables which were formerly a part of the larger volume. It includes lists of ambassadors, academies, clubs, societies, as well as many others which professional men and women will be glad to consult from time to time during the coming year. “The Englishwoman's Year Book,” which is 23,000 now in its thirtieth year, is a compendium of information for women, in whatever department of life they may be engaged. Education, sport, literature, professions, industrial, and philan- thropic work are a few of the more prominent questions of which it treats. Messrs. James Clarke & Co. have issued a third edition of the late R. F. Weymouth’s “New Testa- ment in Modern Speech.” This work, under the editorship of Mr. E. Hampden-Cook, has been re-set in new type, and, in order to add to the interest of the translation, all conversations have been spaced out in accordance with modern custom. Many errata have been corrected, and a very considerable number of what seemed to be infelicities or slight inaccuracies in the English have been removed. We offer our apologies to Mr. C. E. Gouldsbury for an error in our notice of his book in the last issue of The Author, which we entitled “Duall” instead of “Dulall, the Forest Guard.” The book contains a brief account of the proceedings of two young Englishmen in their pursuit of tiger, rhino- ceros, elephant, bear, etc., in the Bengal jungles. The chief character is Dulall Sing, a forest guard, a subordinate in the Forest Department, truthful, brave, faithful to his employers, running into danger himself, while careful of his charges. Messrs. Gibbings are the publishers. “The Life and Letters of James Wolfe,” by Beckles Willson, which Mr. William Heinemann publishes, is the outcome of much new material, including many hitherto unpublished letters placed at the author's disposal. To as great an extent as possible Mr. Beckles Willson has allowed the letters to tell the story. Her Majesty the Queen has had much pleasure in accepting a copy of Emily Shore's book, “Iland- Babies and Sea-Babies.” The current number of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society contains an instalment of the revised translation of the Bábar-Nāma, on which Mrs. Beveridge is now working. The portion published is the description of Fārghana, so much discussed by writers on Central Asia. DRAMA. Mr. Richard Pryce's dramatic adaptations of Mrs. Mann's stories, “Freddy's Ship” and “ The Eglamore Portraits,” were staged at the Playhouse on December 1st. The first, which was produced under the title of “The Visit,” deals with the humanising of a selfish woman as a result of her fulfilment of a disagreeable duty. The longer piece, produced under the title of “Little Mrs. Cummim,” treats of a battle between a newly-made benedict and an interfering mother- in-law.  ## p. (#484) ################################################ 106 TISIES A DITISIOR. This latter piece was interpreted by a cast which included Miss Lottie Wenne, Mr. Kenneth Douglas, and Miss Marie Lohr. “The King's Cup,” by H. Dennis Braaley and E. Phillips Oppenheim was produced at a special maſſinée at the Adelphi Theatre on December 13th, 1909. The cast includes Mr. Nye Chart, Miss Nora Sevening and Mr. Paul Arthur. Sir William Gilbert's new opera, “Fallen Fairies; or, The Wicked World,” was produced at the Savoy Theatre early in December last. The music is by Edward German, and the cast includes Mr. C. H. Workman, Miss Nancy McIntosh and Miss Jessie Rose. PARIS NOTES. —º-º-º- “CN OUVENIRS autour d'un groupe littéraire,” by Madame Alphonse Daudet, is a book of the greatest interest to all lovers of French litera- ture. The widow of the great novelist is herself a gifted poetess, and her memoirs gain much by this fact. During the lifetime of her husband her salon was a rendezvous for the writers of the day. Madame Daudet's parents were poets, so that she had from her earliest years the greatest respect for literary work. Her mother and father published a volume of poetry entitled “Les Marges de la Vie,” and Madame Daudet gives us a letter from Madame Desbordes Valmore, who had just read it in manu- script. She then tells us of her acquaintance with Mistral, Paul Arène and Francisque Sarcey. She gives us a portrait of Barbey d'Aurevilly and the most charming letter from him to Daudet. It was written after a slight misunderstanding caused by a terrible criticism of Flaubert by d'Aurevilly. Madame Daudet gives us a description of her first visit to Victor Hugo. She tells us of her first meeting with the Goncourt brothers, who were to become life-long friends, of the reunions of “the Five,” Flaubert, Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Tourgéneff and Zola, and then of the “Médan Group,” Hennique, Céard Paul Alexis, Huysmans, Maupassant, and, later on, Rod. Madame Daudet tells us then of her Own Salon in the Marais, the old-world part of Paris, and when we read the names of the habitués we can only envy the writer the intellectual treats she must so frequently have had. Among these names are Théuriet, Blémont, Anatole France, Gil, Léon Allard, Sully Prudhomme, François Coppée, Hérédia, Pierre de Nolhac, Haraucourt, Massenet, Pugno, Rollinat, etC. We read, too, of the foundation of the Théâtre Libre by Antoine. In those days this was a little room at the end of a passage, where the arrange- ments were all so primitive that the last person to leave was requested to turn out the gas. Madame Daudet then tells us of some of the other Paris Salons, of that of the Princess Mathilde and of that of Madame Buloz and of Madame Juliette Adam. In this book Madame Daudet takes us with her through the literary Paris of her time. It was quite another Paris from that of to-day. The foreign invasion has, no doubt, had a certain influence on Paris, but the old world is still there behind all these modern buildings, and we are glad to get some echoes from it in such books as this of Madame Daudet. The last chapters are better read in the original. They are too sacred to touch on lightly. They begin from the year 1898, after the death of Alphonse Daudet. “Whenever I leave home,” says his widow, “it seems to me always that I shall find him on my return, but it is always the same disappointment. I cannot resign myself to death, to his continued absence.” “Les Infernales” is the title of a remarkable volume of short stories, or rather studies, by Nikto. This book comes as a surprise to all who know its author. Nikto is one of the most marvellous musicians of our times, a pupil of Liszt, of Teleffsen, and of Mikuli, Chopin's gifted pupil. To anyone who has heard Chopin and Liszt interpreted by Nikto, there seems mothing left to hear by these two great composers. With the force of a man and the delicacy and intuition of a woman, Nikto has discovered all the treasures hidden in the music. Execution, expression, fire, tenderness and deep feeling, Nikto interprets all that there is to interpret. The hours spent by the favoured few who are allowed the rare privilege of hearing her explain and interpret the works of her two masters are hours that will never be forgotten. At present we discover that this great musician is also a talented writer. In all these stories we have the fire and passion of the Slavonic soul described and painted by an artist. There are tragic stories of terrible cruelty, there is a Breton idyll which is exquisitely poetical, a story of diabolic revenge and a study, at the end of the volume, of tzigame music. Although Nikto is a Polish Russian, she has accomplished the task, almost impossible to foreign authors, of writing her book in French. Very many years ago that pitiless critic, Barbey d’Aurevilly, who was always more or less hard on women writers, wrote a somewhat scathing article on one of Nikto’s literary works. She dedicates her book to-day “To the memory of Barbey d’Aurevilly, the admirable author of ‘Les Diaboliques,’ from The one whom he scathed.” If all writers of merit could have an Egeria like Mlle. Louise Read, it would not be necessary for  ## p. (#485) ################################################ TISIE A DITFIOR, 107 them to trouble about their future fame. Thanks to her unceasing devotion in publishing posthumous works of Barbey d’Aurevilly, France has slowly, during the last twenty years, realized the fact that he was one of her great writers. Rarely has any Centenary been so universally féted in any country, and for a long time to come lectures, articles and books will prove to us that the author so few of us know is one of those whose works should not be neglected. Rodin's statue was inaugurated this last month, and a pilgrimage of lovers of literature set out from Paris to be present at the unveiling ceremony at St. Sauveur le Wicomte, in Normandy, Barbey d’Aurevilly's birth-place. Among the new books we have another volume of G. Lenôtre's “Paris Révolutionnaire" (Vieilles maisons, vieux papiers). The subjects treated are : Papa Tam, Les Meubles de M. Berthélemy, Le Ménage Tison, Herman, Montcairzain, L’As de Pique, La fin de Thérèse Lavasseur, L'Evêque d’Agra, Thomazeau, Madame Gasnier, l’Améri- caine, and Monsieur de Charette. The chapter on Thérèse Levasseur after Jean-Jacques' death is very curious and instructive, whilst the story of the Comtesse de Montcairzain would make the plot for a novel. “La Rue Saint Honoré'' (de la Revolution à nos jours) is the second volume by Robert Hénard on this subject. It seems indeed as though this street must surely be more full of memories than any other street in Paris. We have a description of the scenes that took place there on the day of the taking of the Bastille, and on many other historical occasions. Marie Antoinette was taken down this street on her way to execution. Robespierre lived there. The famous Café de la Régence, the favourite resort of Musset, is still there. Under the Consulate and the Empire the Rue St. Honoré was a very fashionable resort. The volume gives many interesting details, and makes one realize how full of past history Paris is. In a recent number of the Revue hebdomadaire, there is an article on “Selma Lagerlof,” by Jacques de Coussange, and in another recent number of the same magazine is an article by Ernest Seillière on “Le Ménage du grand Frédéric.” The play “Susette,” by M. Brieux, given at the Comédie Française, is not intended as an argument against divorce, but against divorce too easily obtained. It is the story of a child between parents who are at loggerheads with each other. We see all the suffering of a child in this situation. M. Brieux has already treated this subject in the “Berceau,” but “Susette” is a much stronger and more convincing play, At the Théâtre Antoine “Papillon, dit Lyonnais le Juste,” by M. Louis Bénière, is having great success. It is the story of a simple workman Who comes into a fortune. It is an extremely natural and simple play, amusing and pathetic in parts. ALYS HALLARD. Souvenirs autour d'un groupe littéraire’ (Fasquelle). “Les Infernales " (Lemetre). * Paris Révolutionnaire" (Perrin). “La Rue Saint Honoré" (Emile Paul). —&h– w ~–w THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF NOVELS. ——º-0– INTERIMI REPORT. Wº the sub-committee appointed to consider the question of the price at which new novels should be issued, think that we ought to make an interim report, having regard to the Serious nature of the present situation. We feel, also, that a conclusive and comprehensive report upon the matter can hardly be expected from us, remembering the variety of directions in which evidence must be sought, and the distinct understanding that we have received that the results of certain experiments in the change of price of new novels—which experiments are now being conducted—will be given to us. Our first step was to invite the opinion of seventy- eight novelists, almost all being members of our Society, who were Selected as far as possible because they seemed to us to represent varying degrees of position as men and women of letters and greatly different conditions of popularity. Further, we gave preference in our first letter of inquiry to those authors whose works we knew had been made the subject of some experiments in the lowering of the original price of issue. The result of that inquiry was that thirty authors declared them- Selves uncompromisingly opposed to any systematic reduction of the usual publishing price of the new novel, viz., 6s., believing that the reduction would bring to them, having regard to the reduced royalties offered, no return which would compen- sate them for the loss which they would sustain by not receiving the larger royalty upon the larger prices; seven authors believe the reverse of this, but their convictions were not expressed with any great force in all instances. Of the remaining authors to whom we wrote, fourteen were non-committal in their statements, certain of them giving information in answer to our questions, but without expressing opinions and leaving us to make deductions from the facts; nine stated that they were unable to give useful information, and from the remainder we have not yet heard. Much of this unclassified evidence was  ## p. (#486) ################################################ 108 THE A DITFIOR. informatory to ourselves, and the deduction we have drawn from it is that it contains no definite argu- ments in favour of the lowering of the original price of the new novel from 6s, either for the benefit of the author, the publisher, the book- seller, or the public. We propose to collect further evidence from novelists during the time that must elapse before we can report finally. Our interim conclusion, that novelists would be unwise to allow themselves, or their agents for them, to enter into any contracts whereby it is agreed that the initial price of the new novel should be lower than 6s., is much strengthened b the replies which we have received from the list of publishers to whom we addressed a letter asking whether the circulation obtained for novels pub- lished originally at a lower price than 68. Would, in their opinion, result in a proportionate increase if the price were lowered. The basis on which we asked for information was a 6s. novel of the ordinary length of about 80,000 to 100,000 words with a circulation of at least 3,000 copies; and, further, we asked if it would be practicable to pay an author royalties on a 28., a 2s. 6d. Or a 38. net book at so high a rate as on a 68. book ; and if it would be practicable to consider raising the Original price in certain cases. We desire to record our sense of the valuable and courteous manner in which our questions, necessarily of a searching nature, were responded to by the publishers. Several publishers said that at the present moment they were not prepared to answer definitely, while one, who may be mentioned by name, because his position has been made public by his own letter to The Publishers’ Circular, viz., Mr. Heinemann, pointed out to us that he was at the present moment engaged in an important experiment in the alteration of the prices at which new novels should be issued, of the results of which he would be in a position to inform us in February. Other publishers who have issued new fiction at lower prices than 68, have given us details showing that the experiments had failed. The consensus of opinion from the publishers is to the effect : (1) (a) that from 9,000 copies at least, to 12,000 (the highest figure mentioned) must be sold at 2S. net ; (b) that 8,000 must be sold at 2s. 6d. net ; and (c) that 6,000 copies must be sold at 3s. net before the author would receive the amount equiva- lent to that which he usually receives on 3,000 copies at 68., i.e., 48. 6d. net. - (2) That, leaving exceptional cases out of count, it does not appear probable that the author's circulation would be proportionately enhanced by a reduction in the price of the original issue. On this point figures relating to particular cases have been submitted in proof of the opinion. (3) That the same proportionate royalty could not be offered upon the lower prices. On this point the publishers are all very clear. Regarding these publishers, as we do, as thoroughly cognisant of the business side of the publication of fiction in the present conditions, and as competent to guide us as to the probable result of modifications or developments of those conditions, we think that their opinions constitute a grave warning to authors who may be invited to issue new novels of the ordinary length at any price below 6s. With regard to the issue of new novels in cloth. binding at the initial price of 2s., we hope that this innovation is not likely to affect any large number of writers. Few publishers will make the attempt to produce a new Work of fiction in such enormous quantities for a first edition as would be required to pay the author and recoup themselves. There can be no guarantee that the large prices which have been offered to authors as payment for serial rights and royalties in advance under this system will be maintained. We have definite information that, with regard to the 7d. reprints, the publishers are already offering far smaller sums in advance than in the first instance ; and that even in the cases of authors, whose books have practically earned these advances they are not now willing to make new contracts on the old terms. We possess a large amount of evidence from the booksellers upon the various questions involved, but this, which has only just reached us, requiress sifting and classification. We have received scattered information from several authors who have actually experienced the results of the issue of new novels, at prices lower than 6s. In every case the author has suffered. Having, then, regard to the weight of opinion from those novelists whom we have consulted, to the responsible remarks of leading publishers, and to details which we have received of the actual experience of authors, we repeat the recommenda- tion that the novelist should maintain the price of the original production of his works at 68. There is no evidence that a low price means a large circulation. ADDENDUM. One of us, having particular knowledge of the business side of literature in France, wishes to point out that even in the days when the regular price of the new novel in France was Fr. 3.50, all the leading French novelists, Daudet and Zola. among them, greatly regretted the lowering of the  ## p. (#487) ################################################ THE A CITESIOR, 109 standard price to that figure. France has since been flooded with new novels at 9%d., and the result has been most disastrous to French literature as well as to French authors. It has meant that the great mass of writers have now to produce novels that are short and sensational, and dependent for their popularity upon their violent appeal. (Signed) M. A. BELLOC-LOWNDES. CHARLES GARVICE. E. W. HORNUNG. W. W. JACOBS. - S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. JDecember 2, 1909. a – A –a —v--- A PUBLISHING TRANSACTION. —t—º-e— - HEN an author is asked by a publisher to contribute towards the production of his book, it is time for him to be on the alert. There are, it is true, certain books, the publication of which must be attended with a certain degree of risk, on account of the fact that they appeal only to very limited audiences, or because as a result of profuse illustrations or some other cause they are expensive to produce. In these cases, the bond ſides of a publisher who seeks to divide the risks with the author may be quite genuine, though even here the writer will be well advised to exercise a firm control over the expen- diture, and ascertain beforehand whether, given a fair sale, the venture will prove profitable to himself. - In the case of the novel, however, the position is different, and the author who is asked to bear any portion of the cost of production should refuse to do so. It may safely be claimed that the novel which is not published at the publisher's expense had better, in nine cases out of ten, remain unpub- lished, that is, if its author looks for financial reward for his work. If, however, the writer has a firm conviction that his book possesses all the potentialities of a commercial success, or has some other equally weighty reason for desiring his book to be placed on the market, and cares to back his belief by risking money in its production, two precautions are absolutely essential ; the first is to publish with a house of established reputation, and the second is to see that he retains such a control over the work (both as to the items in the cost of production, and as to the terms of Sale) as shall be commensurate with the amount which he is putting into the adventure. The failure to take these two precautions is bound to be attended with disastrous results to the author, as the following case will show. A certain author entered into a contract with a publisher for the publication of a novel under an agreement, the material parts of which are printed below:— MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this Of between hereinafter termed the author of the one part and hereinafter termed the publisher of the other part WHEREBY it is mutually agreed between the parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may be) as follows:— 1. The author is the writer and holds the copyright of a work at present entitled , which he has submitted to the publisher with a view to his producing publishing and advertising the same in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and elsewhere on the following terms — 2. That in consideration of the author paying to the publisher the sum of Ninety Five Pounds (Fifty Pounds when he signs this agreement, Thirty Pounds when the whole of the work is in type, and Fifteen Pounds from his share of the sales of the work) the publisher hereby agrees to produce the work in the best style print on good paper from new type bind in suitable cloth as trade demands warrant and publish the book in the English edition at the price of Six Shillings per copy. The said payment of Ninety Five Pounds shall constitute the author's sole liability. - 3. The author guarantees to the publisher that the said work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing copyright and that it contains nothing of a libellous or Scandalous character and that he will indemnify the publisher from all suits claims and proceedings damages and costs which may be made taken or incurred by or against him on the ground that the said work is an infringe- ment of copyright or contains anything libellous or scandalous. 4. The publisher agrees to pay to the author and the author agrees to accept the following royalties, that is to say :— (a) A royalty of one shilling and sixpence per copy on all copies sold of the English 6s. edition up to a sale of two thousand copies and afterwards a royalty of 20 per cent. Of the nominal published price of all copies sold of this particular 6s. edition. (b) A royalty of fifteen per cent. of the nominal published price of all copies sold of any cheaper edition or editions. (c) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived from the sale of the American copyright (if any). (d) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived from the sale of Foreign rights (if any). (e) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived from the sale of the Serial rights (if any). (f) In the event of remainder sales, that is when the demand for the work has ceased, a royalty of five per cent. of the net sum received. 5. The publisher shall present to the author twenty copies of the work on publication and shall sell to him any further copies that he may require at the lowest trade price, all copies thus bought to be charged to the general sales account and royalties to be paid to the author on Same. 6. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away for review or other purposes in the interests of the work. 7. Account sales shall be made up half-yearly to Decem- ber thirty-first and June thirtieth and delivered and settled within five months of those dates. In making up accounts, thirteen copies shall be reckoned as twelve in accordance with trade usage.  ## p. (#488) ################################################ 110 TRIE AUTHOR. the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889. 9. The term “PUBLISHER'' throughout this agreement shall be deemed to include the person or persons or Com- pany for the time being carrying on the business of the said under as well its present as any future style and the benefit of this agreement shall be transmissible accordingly. 10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking the publication of the work hereinbefore mentioned, the author agrees to give to the publisher the first refusal, from one month of the date of the delivery of the manuscript, of the next three new novels which he may write, suitable for publication in 6s. volume form, and if the publisher accept all or any of them, they shall be published on terms to be mutually agreed upon. The term “next three new novels " shall not include any novel which the author may have completed at the time of signing this agreement. - It is not necessary to offer any very exhaustive comment on this document, which, indeed, has been fully commented on in a previous issue of The Author. Every clause is full of difficulties which would work out to the author's disadvantage. Indeed no author could be recommended to sign such a document. We should like, however, to state very briefly Some of the more serious objections. It will be noticed that the author is asked to provide a sum of money, not towards the cost of production of the work, but as consideration for certain acts which the publisher undertakes to perform. No information is given to the author as to how the money is to be spent, how the amount fixed is arrived at, nor is any mention made of the number of copies which the publisher will actually print, bind and publish for the payment asked. It is true that in section 4 (a) of the agreement the author is promised a different royalty after the sale of 2,000 copies, but this reference to 2,000 copies does not bind the publisher to anything, though it may deceive the author. Nowhere does the publisher agree to print that number. Indeed, under an agreement of this kind some publishers might produce a very small edition of, say, 400 or 500 copies, and by neglecting to advertise it— readers will notice that the agreement contains nothing which binds him to advertise—kill the book entirely. This might pay him well, as he would thereby secure to himself the greater portion of the £95. There is no identity of interest between the parties. While the author looks to a large sale to recoup him for his outlay, the publisher, under this arrangement, is very often independent of the public entirely as far as profit is concerned. The publisher has already made a profit on the production. He has little interest 8. If any difference shall arise between the author and in the subsequent fate of the book. If the book shows signs of selling, it is true that the publisher may find it profitable to “push ’’ it, but the point to remember is that a book which succeeds when published on these terms does so not because of the publisher, but in spite of him. All that has happened is that the publisher has committed an error of judgment ; has accepted a book which has “caught on.” despite the circumstances surrounding its publication. Moreover, there is nothing by which the author can demand from the publisher a statement of how the amount paid has been spent. He cannot demand details as to the cost of production, he cannot even demand any of the copies printed as his own, although his payment may have covered, and more than covered, their cost. The whole agreement is thoroughly bad. To make matters Worse, the author binds himself by the last clause in the agreement for his next three books. Even were the agreement as fair as it is grossly deplor- able, we should still object to an author binding himself for future works. With such an agree- ment as the present one the clause is nothing short of disastrous. —º- LIBEL WITHOUT INTENT. JONES v. E. HULTON & Co., LTD. HE principle involved in this case, which has been confirmed by the House of Lords, is one which affects authors and journalists, and is of particular importance to writers of fiction. It has now been laid down by the highest court of appeal, that in an action for libel it is no. defence to show that the defendant wrote the defamatory statement with reference to some imaginary person, and with no intention of libelling the plaintiff. If the name of the imaginary person adopted by the writer is that of a living person, it seems to follow from the decision that a jury may award damages to any individual who happens to bear the name if the evidence is sufficient to prove that those who know the plaintiff would necessarily think that the defamatory statement referred to him. The libel was contained in an article in the Sunday Chronicle, published in Manchester, Written by the Paris correspondent and purporting to describe the life at Dieppe on the occasion of certain motor-car races. Incidentally the article mentioned “Artemus Jones,” as being with a woman who was not his wife, and described him as a churchwarden of Peckham ; and it contrasted the austerity of his parochial duties in the English,  ## p. (#489) ################################################ THE AUTEIOR. 11 f suburb with the gaiety of his proceedings upon the Continent. Mr. Artemus Jones, a barrister, brought an action against the publishers of the newspaper for libel. The evidence showed that the plaintiff was not a churchwarden, or a resident of Peckham, and that he was not married. But witnesses were called who said that they had read the article and thought that it referred to the plaintiff. The writer of the article stated, however, that he had never heard of the plaintiff, and that the name was suggested by the name of “Artemus Ward,” and was used merely for the purpose of representing a type of individual in the scene described. The jury found that it was a libel on the plaintiff, and awarded £1,750 damages. The defendants appealed upon the ground of mis- direction, and upon the question whether the state- ment could be libellous when it was not intended to refer to the plaintiff. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. In the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor (Lord Loreburn) expressed his opinion on the point as follows:– “A libel is a tortious act. What does the tort consist of 2 In using language which others, knowing the circumstances, would reasonably think to be defamatory of the person who complained of being injured by it. A person cannot defend himself from a charge of libel by saying that he intended not to defame the person complaining of being injured by the libel. By publishing the libel the defendant imputed some- thing disgraceful to the plaintiff, who had none the less cause to complain because the defendant said he did it unintentionally.” Lord Shaw stated that he adopted the view expressed by the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Alverstone), who in his judgment in the Court of Appeal had said : “The question, if it be disputed whether the article is a libel upon the plaintiff, is a question of fact for the jury, and in my judgment this question of fact involves not only whether the language used of a person in its fair and ordinary meaning is libellous or defamatory, but whether the person referred to in the libel would be understood by persons who knew him to refer to the plaintiff.” The decision has been the subject of considerable comment, and novelists may feel Some alarm lest the chance selection of a name for One of the characters in a novel may render them liable for damages in a libel action brought by a person whom they had no intention to defame and whose existence may have been unknown to them. Clearly some care is necessary in adapting names for imaginary characters, but the alarm of novelists may be exaggerated. There is a distinction between works of fiction and a newspaper article purporting to describe an actual scene taking place in real life at a seaside resort. A character in a novel is generally regarded as an imaginary person, whereas the mention of an individual by name in a descriptive narrative in a newspaper may reasonably be supposed to refer to a real person. . Mr. Justice Channell made this distinction clear in his direction to the jury, which was approved by the House of Lords, when he said : *The real point on which your verdict must turn is, ought or ought not sensible and reasonable people reading this article to to think that it was some imaginary Person, such as I have said—Tom Jones, Mr. Pecksniff, Mr. Stiggins, or any of that sort of name—that one reads of in literature used as types If you think that a reasonable person. Would think that, it is not actionable at all. If, on the other hand, you do not think that, but think that people would suppose it to mean some real person then the action is main- tainable.” It may be mentioned that in other cases of tort, for example, in an action for infringement of Copyright, it has been held that the absence of intention is no defence, and an innocent infringer of copyright may be liable for damages although he did not know of the existence of the Copyright. HAROLD HARDY. PAYING QUARTERLY AND ON DEMAND, —º-º-º- MEMBER has been a contributor to a weekly paper for seven or eight years. The paper has lately been sold to a company of the composition of which he knows nothing. The member, being somewhat loth to break a long con- nection, agreed to continue his contributions. The custom of the paper had been to pay monthly. Not receiving, when due, his first cheque under the new ownership, the member applied for payment, which was made in a short time. For his next payments he applied twice, but received no reply. Three months' remuneration being then due, the member placed the matter in the hands of the society. On application by the secretary the company wrote the following note, signed “The Manager”: I am directed to inform you that this company’s pay- ments to contributors are made quarterly. The amounts, therefore, for June, July, and August, become payable: in September, and you may inform Mr. X. that as soon as the amount for that period is complete, he will receive his. cheque for the amount due to him. To the member the editor also wrote that, owing to the long credit asked by advertising agents and,  ## p. (#490) ################################################ 112 TISIES A PrºTHOR. others, the company had decided to pay con- tributors quarterly. The editor regretted that the member had seen fit to communicate with the Authors’ Society, and added that if the quarterly arrangement did not fall in with his views he should tell him so. The member replied, with the cognisance of the secretary, that he regretted that he could not see his way to continue his contributions to the paper On a quarterly basis, and that when two applica- tions for payment had been made without reply, the editor could have no complaint to make of the matter being placed in the society's hands. The member, as he expected, has heard nothing further, and he has done no more work. Finally, the Society’s solicitors, under threat of a writ, obtained a cheque. There is a great deal to be said for the member's action in resisting, particularly in the case of a paper which belongs to a company the members of which are not known, an attempt to put off con- tributors with quarterly payments. The writer, who has been a journalist all his life, knows of mo paper other than that referred to which pays quarterly. He is informed, however, that some exist. The arrangement is, nevertheless, an inequitable one. The contributor’s work is begun and finished before the office staff and the printers have done a stroke. If there is to be any differentiation between those to whom payments are due, it should not be at the expense of those who have written the “copy’ that the staff and printers have to handle. * There is only one practice in connection with the payment of contributors that is as bad as the quarterly arrangement, and that is payment on demand. It is impossible for a contributor to see every issue of every paper to which he may send work, and even if he orders copies he cannot always obtain them. Copies have been reported “out of print’’ even when ordered in advance through the usual channels. This happened in a case lately in the hands of the secretary of the society. The time seems to have come when a protest should be made against the system of payment on demand. The net result of it is to leave in the hands of the newspaper proprietors concerned a consider- able balance on account of not paid-for contributions. In the case of a daily paper this must amount to a large sum in the course of a year. - The plan not only of paying on publication, but of sending a voucher copy of the issue containing the article to the contributor who has written it, is that to which proprietors should be pressed to conform as a matter of equity, courtesy and good business. The Manchester Guardian is conspicuous ..among daily papers in Sending a voucher copy. Even the Quarterly Review, which costs six shillings to buy, and carries a good deal of postage, is sent to those who have articles in it. As journals are increasingly owned by companies, the directors of which know little of and care littlé for the traditions of journalism, there will be no doubt a larger number of cases in which the payment of contributors is put off to the latest possible date, and it behoves those in the profession who value fair dealing to resist. I should be very glad to receive from readers of The Author the names of papers which pay quarterly or on demand, with a view, if the com- mittee of the Society approve, to publication of the names of the journals in these columns as a cautionary measure, or as a step to friendly remonstrance. It should be added that even the practice of the best publications, of paying on publication, may be, although an undoubted step in advance, by no means an ideal arrangement. A very special authority on the relations of editors and con- tributors writes to me: “I should like to say that I think payment on publication is in a great many cases almost as bad and, in Some cases, even worse than payment quarterly. I have known articles in the big reviews held up for two, and even three, years. I think editors, in order to be businesslike, ought really to drop a post-card as soon as they decide to accept an article and, if possible, to pay for all articles accepted within the week. The Way editors keep authors dangling on by non- publication and by no direct acceptance is some- times very unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike.” HOME COUNTIES. THE BERLIN convenTION. —e—sº-0— HE Report of the Departmental Committee on the Law of Copyright was issued to the public on December 20, just as The Author was going to press. In order to get the magazine out by January 1, 1910, it was necessary to send to Press earlier than usual on account of the Christ- mas holidays. The Report is of such importance that it would have been a mistake to publish any superficial comments upon it in the current issue of The Author. A considered criticism will be published in due course. We are glad to notice that the committee recommend an extension of the copyright term to life and fifty years, with only two dissentient members. Another point of importance is the fact that there is no minority report issued.  ## p. (#491) ################################################ TFIE AUTISIOR. 113 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. —º-º-º- 1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved member, and all costs borne by the Society. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi- ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the document to the Society for examination. 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 5. 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- lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary º: without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. This The 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution, Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members, 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. —º-º-º- E RE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property — I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement). - In this case the following rules should be attended to : (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise- ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,” unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth, From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are :— (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are :- (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement. IO 63.IlS. (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. WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS, º w - —dh- --~~ - 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 manageT. 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. (#492) ################################################ 114 THE A DTHOR. (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. (e.) 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. —e—º-e— REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. —º-º-º- NCENARIOS, 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. Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same aules, with the exception that a play will be charged for at the price of 2s. 6d. per act. - WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. -o-º-e— ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the L assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors. . It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan- cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. STAMPING MUSIC. —º-º-º- 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. e—º- e. w = \º- THE READING BRANCH, ——3–0– EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this M branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic Works, and when it is possible, under Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. * A —º- w-up- w “THE AUTHOR.” —t-º-º- HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of T the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 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 -º- vºy w REMITTANCEs. —4—º-t— 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. (#493) ################################################ THE AUTHOR. 115 GENERAL NOTES. —e—º-e— - COLLES v. MAUGHAM. AN important case, of interest to members of the Society, has just been decided before Mr. Justice Channell and a special jury. The case was brought by Mr. W. Morris Colles, literary agent, against Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, dramatic author, and related to a claim made by the plaintiff on the defendant for commission for agency work. The committee, before deciding to defend the case, took counsel's opinion, which was very strongly in favour of the Society's contesting the claim on the ground that the plaintiff had no cause of action. The committee, in addition, felt that it was most important to have some distinct judg- ment in order to be able to ascertain the rights and wrongs of agency claims. The verdict of the jury in the present case has, however, been given against the member of the Society to the extent of half the commission claimed by the agent, who accordingly obtained judgment for £21 10s. and costs. The present note is being written during the Christmas legal vacation, and the advisers of the Society are con- sidering the propriety of applying for a new trial, so that the case is still to some extent sub judice, and further comment on it must be deferred for a short time. —e—º-e— COMMITTEE ELECTION. —e—º-e— IN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of Association of the Society, the committee give notice that the election of members to the committee of management will be proceeded with in the following manner — (1) One-third of the members of the present committee of management retire from office in accordance with Article 17. (2) The members desiring to offer themselves for re-election who have been nominated by the com- mittee are Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. Comyns Carr, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Francis Storr. (3) The date fixed by the committee up to which nominations by the subscribing members of candidates for election to the new committee may be made is the 15th day of February. (4) The committee nominate the following candidates, being subscribing members of the Society, to fill the vacancies caused by the retire- ment of one-third of the committee, according to the new constitution :- Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland. Mr. Comyns Carr. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw. Mr. Francis Storr. The Committee remind the members that, under Article 19 of the amended articles of association, “any two subscribing members of the society may hominate one or more subscribing members, other than themselves, not exceeding the number of Vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent tº the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness to accept the duties of the post.” Members desiring to exercise their powers under this rule must send in the name of the candidate 9, candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in all, on or before the 15th day of February, together With an accompanying letter written by the candi- date, or candidates expressing readiness to accept nomination. The complete list of candidates will be printed in the March issue of The Auſ/or. Having regard to the fact that the present Com- mittee have been in office just over a year, the com- mittee consider it in the interest of the society not to suggest any change at the present time. They have therefore re-nominated the four retiring members. C A —º- A. ~y- w w THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. Is accordance with annual custom, and in order to give members of the society, should they desire to appoint a fresh member to the Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been thought advisable to place in The Author a complete statement of the method of election under the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Under that scheme the committee is composed of three members elected by the committee of the society, three members elected by the society at the general meeting, and the chairman of the society for the time being, ex officio. The three members elected at the general meeting when the fund was started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel- mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn during the past years resigned, and, submitting their names for re-election, have been unanimously re-elected. Mr. Morley Roberts resigned and was re-elected in 1909. This year Mr. M. H. Spielmann, under the rules of the scheme, tenders his resigna- tion, and submits his name for re-election. The members have power to put forward other names under clause 9, which runs as follows:– Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- imittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by at least three members of the society. A list of the names of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members of the society, with the annual report of the Managing Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes  ## p. (#494) ################################################ 116 TFIES A UſTISIOR. at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the Pension Fund Committee. In case any member should desire to refer to the list of members, the list, taking the elections up to the end of July, 1907, was published in October of that year. This list is complete, with the excep- tion of the thirty-eight members referred to in the short preface. All further elections have been duly notified in The Author. They can easily be referred to, as members receive a copy every month. It will be as well, therefore, should any of the members desire to put forward a candidate, to take the matter within their immediate consideration. The general meeting of the society has usually been held towards the end of February or the beginning of March. It is essential that all nominations should be in the hands of the secretary before the 31st of January, 1910. UNITED STATES NOTES. —º-º-º- EFORE these notes are in type the new American Academy, which has been in embryo for the last five years, will have fairly come to the birth. Of the sixty-two originally selected members, seventeen have dropped out of the ranks, the latest casualties having been H. C. Lea and Richard Watson Gilder. If the desirableness of the institution itself be conceded, few will, we think, be found to quarrel with the names, a list of which appeared in a recent number of the Chicago Dial. It will be agreed by most Americans that the book of the fall, if not the book of the year, has been the veteran John Bigelow’s “Retrospections of an Active Life.” The three volumes cover no less a period than fifty years—from 1817 to 1867– and there is said to be more to come. Much of it is concerned with the diplomatic life of Mr. Bigelow at Paris, where he played a notable part at a critical period of his country's fortunes. There are also notable personal estimates of Lincoln and Seward ; and historical points of interest, such as the death of Toussaint l’Ouverture and the pro- gress of the Monroe Doctrine, receive much atten- tion. On the latter peril Mr. Bigelow is more cautious and conservative than the men of to-day. The third volume will be valuable to the historian for the mass of material in the shape of confiden- tial correspondence concerning the unfortunate Mexican adventure of Napoleon III. Several other notable biographical works are also signalising this season. There are George F. Parker’s “Recollections of Grover Cleveland,” and the story of Fulton's achievements by his descendant Alice Craty Sutcliffe, both of which come from the Century Company; “Home Letters of General Sherman’’ (extending from the West Point period in 1837 through the war till 1888), edited by M.A. De Wolfe. Howe, issued by Scribners ; “The Diary of President James K. Polk,” edited by Adlai E. Stevenson ; and Clark E. Carr’s “Study of Stephen Douglas,” by the McClurg Company ; not to mention Emerson’s Journals, Stanley’s “Autobiography,” William Winter’s “Life and Art of Richard Mansfield,” and Eugenie Paul Jefferson’s “Intimate Recollec- tions of Joseph Jefferson.” It is a veritable embarras de richesse. Cleveland's Vice-president and Polk's editor gives us some fine miscellaneous feeding in his “Something of Men I have Known,” which is full of good stories. & Apropos of the “Pigskin Library” catalogue at the end of one of Mr. Roosevelt's recent Scribner articles, a writer in the Dial suggested that “The Pigskin Library,” edited by Theodore Roosevelt, might not be a bad venture for some enterprising publisher, “especially if he could announce the volumes as bound in skins of the distinguished editor's own procuring ” Judge Shute has followed up his “Real Diary of a Real Boy” with “Farming It,” which purports to be the narrative of his experiences as an amateur agriculturist in the region of Exeter, New Hamp- shire. The judge makes free with the names of his friends and neighbours, nay more, with his own, his wife's and his children's, and does not stick too closely to his text. Yet there are some who charge him with “fiction.” Professor Wilbur L. Cross’s “Life and Times of Laurence Sterne,” like Emerson's Journal, com- bines biographical and literary interest. Five years ago the author, in his edition of Sterne, was the first to print “The Journal to Eliza.” In the present work he has used other unedited material. Although he has made his objective a personal rather than a literary life, it seems likely that the book, from its fulness, accuracy and fresh- ness, will prove, in many aspects of the subject, a definitive record. . On October 21, the anniversary of the distin- guished Harvard professor's death, the Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship in the Archæo- logical Institute of America was endowed by Mr. James Loch. Preference in the choice of lecturers is to be given to European scholars, but Americans are not to be wholly barred. Nearly the same day appeared, with the imprint of the Houghton, Mifflin Company, “American Foreign Policy, by a Diplomatist,” both the con- tents and the authorship of which were calculated to excite no small interest. From the Chicago University Press comes “The Armenian Awakening,” by Leon Arpee, a  ## p. (#495) ################################################ THE A LITH OFº. 117 publication likely to be often referred to in the years to come. Henry James's “Italian Hours" hardly needs Comment in The Author, and the same may perhaps be said of W. D. Howells's “Seven Cities,” which most of your readers will have seen or read about. In view of the raging, tearing suffrage agitation, they may, however, like their attention drawn to Dr. Edith Abbott's “Women in Industry,” which is issued by Messrs. Appleton. Anna A. Rogers's “Why American Marriages Fail” (Houghton, Mifflin)—we will not disclose the secret—may by some cynics also be held to bear upon the subject. On November 15 the new buildings of the Boston Art Museum were opened. The Museum has acquired some valuable Greek sculptures, and is increasing its deservedly high reputation. It is announced that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell are to begin a lecturing tour in America in January next, their subjects being “Whistler, Artist and Man,” “The History of Illustration,” and “Engraving.” “The Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman” is to be undertaken by his granddaughter, Moffat Yard & Co. being her publishers. Messrs. Scribner are undertaking the Memorial Edition of Meredith in the United States. James Edward Rogers has essayed to defend “The American Newspaper’ in a large spirit. We do not envy him his task of examining fifteen thousand journals, but are constrained to applaud his thorough- neSS. It is Chicago that repels the attack of the foe, not the headquarters of the Yellow Press. The reprint of John Davis’s “Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States” (H. Holt & Co.)–1798 to 1802 they were—will be welcome to the curious. Fiction is not unduly prominent just at present, though Messrs. Holt are publishing for Professor Canby, of Yale, “A Guide to the Short Story in English.” “Happy Hawkins” has been hailed in some quarters as the best story of the West since “The Virginians.” The author is Robert Alexander Wason ; the publishers, Small, Maynard & Co. Mr. Marion Crawford's posthumous “Stradella’’ was a good love story ; Jack London did himself justice in his “Martin Eden,” as did Thomas Nelson Page in “John Marvel's Assistant.” “The Southerner,” a book of some force but slender artistic merit, seems to be of the nature of a roman à clef. “Lost Borders,” a collection of short stories by Harry Austin, is distinguished for a certain forceful simplicity. Mr. Chambers's new story is called “The Danger Mark;” that of Miss Elizabeth Robins, “The Floren- time Frame.” Theatre.” Hamlin Garland displays his old power of con- Veying atmosphere in “The Moccasin Ranch.” My obituary list includes Henry Charles Lea (who died at Philadelphia on October 24), the dis- tinguished historian of the Inquisition and author of other works on Spanish and ecclesiastical history, Who was a publisher by extraction as well as pursuit ; Col. Theodore Dodge (died at Versailles, October 26), Who lost liberty and a leg in the Civil War, but lived to write its history, as well as those of Alex- Ander, Hannibal, and other military heroes: Richard Watson Gilder (died in New York, November 18), editor of the Century Maſſazine, Scribner's Monthly, and other periodicals, distin- guished as poet and municipal reformer ; and William M. Laffan, publisher of the New York Sun for a quarter of a century, and author of “American Wood Engravers.” The latter is “a novel of the New a—º- a v-u-w DIFFICULTY IN WIRITING. —e—º-e— HILE many authors are blessed with a fluent pen, and give themselves no anxiety how they shall begin, or con- tinue, or leave off, others are afflicted with a kind of paralysis, and labour under an unaccountable friction, which obstructs them at every turn and makes composition a herculean task. This difficulty isin writing very much what stammering is in speech, the effort to bring out the words and to say a thing being wholly disproportionate to the result : extra- ordinary exertions are made, and after all the outcome is no more than ordinary speaking. The two disorders, moreover, appear to me to be alike in this, that both more or less are due to a certain nervousness. If the author, inflamed with ideas, could but compose himself, could lay aside exces- sive anxiety, and confront his subject squarely, he would no doubt be more “prosperously delivered ” of his thoughts. Indeed, I suppose most people find that what is written for private purposes is done much more expeditiously and freely than what is written for publication, and often better done into the bargain. Still, I do not mean to say that difficulty in writing is a complaint so superficial that it may be cured by a Sage precept or two ; for, on the contrary, quickness or slowness are qualities so deeply embedded in our nature that we never outlive them, but show our tendency to one or the other almost in our every act. Nor do I suggest by any means that it is the mark of an indifferent or inexperienced writer to be slow and  ## p. (#496) ################################################ 118 TriB Anthor. to express oneself with a struggle. Everyone knows that this is not so ; everyone knows that there has been no lack even among the greatest authors to give proof–what Vasari says in allusion to some drawings of Michael Angelo—that the hammer of Vulcan was necessary to bring Minerva from the head of Jupiter. Swift even goes so far as to assert that common fluency of speech is owing to scarcity of matter and scarcity of words: “people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door,” he remarks. When we consider it in the abstract it certainly seems that writing ought to be a very easy thing, for it is nothing but putting down what you have to say. It really is hardly credible that a man can find such difficulty in it. Yet where is the author who does not know that it is a labour to write, a severe labour very often, and sometimes a desperate encounter in which he wrestles and contends as with an adversary On such occasions I have often asked myself what it is that impedes me, and why I cannot get on and despatch my business. For doubtless much that retards us in these instances has only to be brought to view to be set aside, or at least made less formidable. To this end I shall here notice some of the hindrances to fluency, or expedition, in writing. The first lies in bringing conceptions to earth, and making them specific. What we think for ourselves is done as it were in skeleton : here we are in immediate contact with the ideas themselves, so the merest tracery suffices; we know what we mean at once, and have no need to enter into details, arguments and long explanations. But in Writing we have to communicate thoughts, that is to say, we have to make other people understand, other people feel. This necessitates a certain radical transformation of the idea, in which what before was diffuse is condensed into something definite, as vapour is turned into rain. To corner our thoughts in this way, if I may so express it, and make them stand and deliver, often presents the greatest difficulty ; for thoughts are so far from immediately becoming words, as has been maintained, that a person may conceive in a few moments what will take him weeks to bring properly out. He has the guiding points, the essence of the thing in mind ; but that it may take communicable shape, steady development, rumina- tion, is required. This, then, is one of the hindrances to ready writing. It is obviated, at least to a great extent, by thinking before we begin to write, and making the subject perfectly clear to ourselves; for the more definite an idea is, the more easily it slips into Words. The question of order and arrangement is another fertile cause of delay. If in writing we had nothing else to do but put down the thoughts just as they came into our heads, and to go rambling on like a madman, there would indeed be little excuse for stopping. But a self-respecting author aims at being consequent and connected : and so he is necessarily often exercised as to how he shall dispose of his matter. This particular difficulty is greatest at the beginning, and diminishes with the progress of the work : for at first a hundred alternatives present themselves, but once a beginning is made one thing leads to another. A good beginning gives an impetus, and carries one along ; SO it is just as well to allow a little delay here, and not from impatience to rush blindly in. At the same time it is better to write something near to what we would, than by waiting indefinitely for the exact expression to write nothing at all. Next, transition must be mentioned. It brings the writer to a temporary halt whenever what he is about to say diverges from what he has just said. To pass smoothly from point to point in a piece of . writing, so that the whole runs on without abrupt jerks and changes, is not always easy to manage ; and thus, to be paradoxical, the very effort at fluency may hinder fluency, the writer pausing that the reader may afterwards the better go on. Akin to this is the difficulty of returning from a digression to take up the main theme again, and also that of trying to bring any special observation within the scope of the subject we have undertaken to write about. They are both best avoided by determining not to drag in alien malter. Other causes of obstruction to the free course of writing are trying to find examples, trying to begin or end in a particular way, trying to fit in special words or phrases, avoiding dissonance, and seeking variety of expression ; for all these and many other considerations prevent us from putting down the first thing that comes into our heads. But perhaps the chief hindrances to despatch in Writing are moral in their nature. Among these I have already mentioned anxiety. It is a great tie, and not only prevents a person from pushing adequately forward in his work, but makes what he does write calculated and halting, depriving him of his proper freedom, and so of the grace that naturally accompanies unconscious and unimpeded action. Instead of attending to his business, and saying what he has got to say, an author Very often is mainly intent upon making an impression. This pre-occupation to appear to advantage, this exces- sive caution not to make a mistake, brings constant hesitation, hampers the movements, and, in thus interrupting, cools and dries the stream of eloquence. To avoid slovenly writing is but due to the reader; but guardedness, which retards the pen far more, only shows distrust. Hence it is often a positive help to an author to make less of  ## p. (#497) ################################################ TFE A CITFIOR. 119 an undertaking of his work, and not to be too con- cerned about the success of it. To lie under an obligation to write in a given manner or at given length is another thing that prevents easy progress; for a man is thus put out of his natural stride, and moves under constraint. But the worst effect of any is produced by dis- inclination——a negative sort of electricity which repels ideas and scatters attention. When we are in this mood, dawdling is unavoidable. Some slight aversion of this kind is generally experienced in commencing to write, since it requires a certain interval to work up the circulation in the mind. Time and place, again, have great influence on the happiness of composition ; for, whatever people may say, there is no more fancy in an author not being able to write with equal ease at any time or in any place, than in his not being able to go to sleep whenever or wherever he wishes. Still, Control does much to master any undue fastidious- ness in this particular, In speaking above of the reduction of ideas from the form in which we dwell upon them for ourselves to that in which they must be embodied so as to become transmissible to others, I omitted to notice that hesitation is often caused by the poverty of the thought to be conveyed. At the last moment the writer discovers that his idea contains much less than at first seemed ; he does not like to come right out with it : and he must then either beat about the bush, or waste time in belated improvisa- tion. To avoid this, we must fatten up our chickens before we bring them to market, or, in other words, make sure that we have something to tell before preparing to tell it. I say nothing here of style, the question being about difficulty in writing, not about difficulty in the arts, or technique of writing, just as in a factory there is the question of power transmission, quite apart from that of the style and quality of the goods manufactured. What introduces needless friction ; what makes a writer gape about, and dilly-dally, and fritter away his time and energy ; what impedes his utterance, even when all attentive; these are the points we set out to consider. Having made our diagnosis, it remains to prescribe the remedies. They are, of course, several; but I must not be interminable, and therefore shall content myself with giving a single specific. But, so that I may no longer appeal to a sick man for advice how to be healthy, let me in this pass over my own opinions, and conclude with the sententious maxim of Cobbett :— Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write. NORMAN ALLISTON. THE REVIEWER AND HIS LITTLE WAYS. BY A WRITER. OME authors never read reviews of their own Works—or so they inform a credulous world. Others not only read them, but when they are favoured with a good review, cut it out and keep it. Others again, a noble few, cut out all the notices they receive, good and bad, and paste them into a book. This book serves as a means of Self-chastening when the author is conscious of feeling uplifted. Not only are the best notices of his works balanced by others which it is dis- agreeable to recall, but the reviewer who wishes to be kind does not always praise the right thing. If you are the sole European authority on the manners and customs of the Elecampane Indians, it jars upon you to find a jovial person writing of your book —“A thrilling narrative, but we think less of its main theme than does the author. Anyone can Write about Indians, and what appeals to us is the racy account of the doings on the Voyage out.” We knew an author once who was compared, year after year, by a certain paper to Jane Austen. High praise, one would say, and fairly certain to exceed his deserts. Ah, but the Works in question were thrilling romances of adventure, as desirous as the Fat Boy of making the flesh Creep. And they recalled Jane Austen because “they began quietly, went on quietly, ended quietly; they never stirred the blood; they Were more painstakingly decorous than '' even her books But these, after all, are good reviews, and if they are to be read for chastening, the bad may be recalled for comfort. Not so much the first bad review you ever received, which you read with a pained incredulity that anyone could be found to say such unkind, unfair things about a book which other critics had found so good, but those that came a little later, looking back on which you are tempted to wonder how you ever dared to go on writing at all. It was a question of setting your teeth and sitting tight, for the unpleasant review has a staying power that outlasts even that of the delightfully kind one that makes you go about smiling to yourself all day. But you lived through it somehow, and went on writing, and you have a certain feeling of triumph nowadays when the reviewers tell you how good your earlier books were. It is true they are not flattering to those of the present. “We expected better work than this from the hand that gave us ’ and * —,'” they say. “In Mr. Smith pro- duced a masterpiece, even a classic, and the present book reveals, a sad falling-off from his earlier  ## p. (#498) ################################################ 120 TISIES A DITFIOR. methods.” In some surprise, you look up the review of the masterpiece in question, and find that the reviewer's love to it was so carefully dissembled that he had no hesitation in kicking it downstairs immediately on its appearance. And if your first books were better than you were ever allowed to suspect at the time, so also your personal dignity stood higher in the reviewer's estimation. “Mr. Smith should really not have come down to this line of business,” he says now, with pained surprise, and you wonder how any descent was possible from the extremely low level at which your reputation stood. If it be permitted to the trodden worm to indulge a grievance against its treader, you might find one in the Occasional inconsistency of your critic. “We cannot but trust,” he says, “that in the next instalment of the story we shall get plenty of that romantic political intrigue in the delineation of which |Mr. Smith has so often proved himself a master.” The next instalment does provide the required excitement, and with beating heart you await commendation, only to receive this dash of cold water :—“The story is well written, and some of the scenes are very striking ; but we cannot feel much interest in these politics '' But there is something to be thankful for even here, for many a reviewer is driven to frenzy by the discovery of a sequel—a thing that readers delight in and demand. No matter how complete the book is in itself, he washes his hands of it the moment he perceives it is not the first appearance of every character on any stage. Sometimes excess of resentment leads him to o'erleap himself. Of a certain novel a reviewer said that “the heroine was preordained to die because in a former book, post-dated, her husband appeared as a widower.” But the gentleman referred to did not appear at all, save as a ghost, in the other book, and the author remains intermittently troubled by the problem whether a ghost can correctly be spoken of as a widower. There is another unpardonable sin in the reviewer’s eyes, and that is length. Here again his interest runs directly counter to that of the reader. Lordly in his seclusion, with his weekly dose of fiction delivered at his door in a neat parcel from the office, he has never waited in a circulating library, watching the women who extricate their books with difficulty from a string bag containing various materials for home dress- making and a cake for tea. He would see them weighing critically the merits of two novels on the score of number of pages and closeness of print. They discern at once the publishers' catalogue which, with the aid of paper as thick as cardboard, pads out to six-shilling length the little gem which he ran through in twenty minutes and stamped with the seal of his high approval, and they reject it unhesitatingly. What use would so slight a production be in alleviating a toothache or a cold in the head It would be gone in no time, and there would be nothing more to read. As well set a cream meringue before a hungry man. If the reviewer could only be brought to see it, it is not the length of the book that is in fault, but the necessity for pretending to have tried to read it through. The pretence results in a notice something like this :—“‘The Pink Lobelia' is a novel that suffers from being interminable. We have spent many weary hours over it, and failed to reach the end. Of course Lord Hugo and the heroine marry at last, but frankly, we were not sufficiently interested in them to find out how they did it.” Then the author, if he is young and innocent, writes timidly to point out that the whole object of the book is to show why the beauteous Angela did not espouse the gay Hugo, but her father’s old comrade-in-arms, and the editor appends to his communication the sarcastic note :-‘‘We print this letter as requested, but we are bound to say that we infinitely prefer our reviewer's ending to the author's, which strikes us as jejune in the extreme.” The unhappy author recovers from the blow by degrees, and learns the invaluable lesson that a contest is unequal in which your opponent is bound to have the last Word. Why should not the reviewer give up the pretence of reading through a long book by a little-known author P Even if he likes the book, his tender mercies are cruel, for he writes his notice in the form of a synopsis of the plot— generally all wrong. Why should there not be a formula of this kind—in which the publisher would no doubt assist by enclosing a list of the characters ?—“‘The Pink Lobelia.’ The scene of this book is laid in the Mountains of the Moon, whither an exploring party proceeds in quest of the treasure of the title.” (Observe the prudence which fails to specify whether the treasure is animal, vegetable, or mineral.) “The principal characters are Lord Hugo Stoneybroke, a dashing sprig of nobility, Colonel Trueheart, a soldier without fear and without reproach, and Angela Verifayre, a beautiful heiress. There are adven- tures and deeds of derring-do galore ” (no one, surely, would be so hard-hearted as to deprive the poor reviewer of these two indispensable words 2), “and the love-story ends in a way which we will not wound our readers by revealing.” Too much like the publisher's puff, you will say ; but is the publisher's puff never made use of in reviews already ? Every reviewer is omniscient by nature, and when he makes a hash of your plot in purporting  ## p. (#499) ################################################ THE AUTHOR. 121 to Summarise it, that merely shows that Homer still nods occasionally. When a mistake occurs in matters of fact, it is because the reviewer has gone for his holiday, and his work is being done by the office-boy. If you doubt this, make a complaint of any such mistake to the journal in Which it appears, and see. One hopes that the reviewer (or office-boy) who recently placed the Peninsular War in “the fifties” is the same that Some years ago reviewed “The Great Proconsul’’ under the impression that the trial of Warren Hastings ended in a verdict of “Guilty,” and that there are not two people whose historical studies ended presumably with the Norman Conquest running amuck in the critical world. If this type of reviewer knows too little about his subject to find any other fault, he can always bring a charge of plagiarism. What matters it that he is review- ing in two successive weeks two novels which appeared almost simultaneously It is smart and easy to say:—“Mr. Brown-Jones will never want for the sincerest form of flattery while Mr. Smith lives and writes,” and the public, which knows nothing about dates of publication, credits him with much critical acumen, Half the charges of plagiarism which afflict the modern author are based upon ignorance of the common authority upon which both writers have drawn, and a goodly proportion of the remainder on the fallacy that the writer has read everything that the reviewer has reviewed. If you are a writer with a purpose, there is another crow which you will often have to pick with the reviewer. When you have spent months of labour on the preparation of an impeccable index, in the modest hope of securing a word of jpraise from a paper which is strong on such matters, it is disappointing to find the point altogether ignored, and your book treated merely as a jumping-off place for the gambols of an expert whose views are not yours. But it is even more galling, when you have written, say, a Socialist novel, and it is reviewed in your own pet Socialist daily, to discover that its message is belittled and its anticipations ridiculed, precisely as if you had to thank The Primrose Messenger for the notice. The subject is one to be discreetly touched, for in it is involved the whole question of a man’s working for a paper whose political opinions he does not share. Oddly enough, there is no reciprocity about the thing. You never find your Socialism unexpectedly commended by The Primrose Messenger. Akin to this grievance is that of the existence of the multiple reviewer. Every author is con- vinced that he has an enemy who writes against each of his books in turn in Several papers, and there are some who can produce presumptive evidence of the fact in mis-spellings and tags of Spºch appearing with suspicious reiteration. Tut authors themselves are not wholly innocent in this Tespect. A certain novelist recently made, or allowed to be made for her, the calm confession that on the appearance of a book of poems by a relative she “herself reviewed the volume under Various pen-names in several periodicals, and later Wrote for the edition included in a certain series the introduction that is signed with initials other than her own.” If an adverse reviewer had made this confession, it would have been greeted with a Storm of protest. Is there any difference in Principle when the reviewing is favourable and done by one interested in the success of the book? Let us be just, then, even to the reviewer. If he can be horrid, he can also be Very, very nice. If he can obstinately pervert the most Original actions of your characters into Something old and commonplace, he can also display an insight into their motives that surprises you. And he likes you to purr when you are pleased. There is 9ne, literary journal which has the delightful habit of sending the author a copy of the issue Containing the review. One says “delightful" with fear and trembling, for hitherto, like the sun-dial, the paper has marked only sunny hours. Would it be sent if the notice was a bad one 2 The Critic on the Hearth is resdy with the answer, “Rather and in double-quick time !” THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK. —t—º-e— LAW AND LETTERS. HERE seems to be no variation from the issue of last year under the heading of “Law and Letters” in the new Literary Year Book. Has no case of importance been tried during the past year * Has the United States passed no important Copyright Act 2 The standing matter which has been reprinted is, on the whole, satisfactory; we mentioned this in our last year's review, but the Omission of such important things as the United States Copyright Act and the cases that have been tried reduces the value of the article immensely. With regard to what does appear, it is needless to put forward the same objections that we have put forward on previous occasions; but we might repeat that the portion of the article on “Ilaw and Letters ” which refers to agreements is the least satisfactory. The article on the “Royalty Agree- ment ’’ is still unchanged. The writer states, after setting out the parties to an agreement : “A  ## p. (#500) ################################################ 122 THE AUTHOR. Royalty Agreement proceeds thus, or to this effect: ‘That in consideration that the copyright and plant, etc., shall forth with belong to and become the property of the publisher, etc.’” It would be most interesting to know from where this form of agreement was obtained. We are glad to say that there are very few authors—and they get fewer year by year—who are foolish enough to assign their copyright, and the great majority of publishers, especially those whose names for many years have stood high in the publishing trade, only take a licence to publish, limited in most cases to volume form, and do not think of asking for a transfer of copyright. We must repeat that, in a review of an important subject like forms of agreement, the contracts should be drawn in favour of the author. One reason for this is clear and irrefutable. The publishers make it the business of a lifetime, or ought to make it their business, to have a knowledge of copyright law and of contracts. Their very agreements show that they have studied their own interests in this matter. It is the author that desires help, for many men write books but do not live by their books. These are essen- tially in need of guidance. They can, of course, become members of the Society of Authors, but there are still some who have not heard of the society's existence. In that case they would no doubt desire to turn to some book of reference, and if that book of reference did not mention the society as giving the necessary assistance—-the Literary Year Book is inclined to avoid it——and does not give the necessary assistance itself, it is a useless book from the author's point of view—that is from the point of view of those persons alone who study its forms of agreement for advice. This little review does not deal with the other details of the book. These will be dealt with in another review by another hand. —º-º-º- AN EDITOR'S CHAIR.” —º-º-º- \ | R. ERNEST FOSTER narrates in a simple and straightforward style some of his experiences as editor of (assell's Safurday Journal and of ('hºms, disarming criticism of an editor's literary style by saying in a “foreword ” : “In the belief that the matters dealt with will speak for themselves, no attempt has been made to elaborate them : nor, beyond being arranged in groups, are they presented in any particular order ; * “An Editor's Chair : A Record of Experiences and Happenings,” by Ernest Foster. London : Everett & Co. and if, as a whole, the book is kaleidoscopic rather than formal and long-drawn-out, I hope it will not be accounted a fault.” It is possible to suggest that a book may be elaborated without being either formal or long- drawn-out, and to conjecture that probably Mr. Foster's contributors, even when imparting useful information to his readers, exhibited a more dexterous craftsmanship than his ; but, nevertheless, the matters which he says should speak for them- selves do so with tolerable clearness. Many who write, but do not always succeed in seeing their work in print, may study his pages with advantage, and draw inferences for their own guidance from the advice which he does not alto- gether omit, and from his experiences with those who wrote for him, with others whom he wanted to write for him, with those who wished to write for him but failed to appreciate the characteristics of his paper, with those who sought to help him with advice in editing it, and with others who commended him and showed their interest in the success of his efforts. It need hardly be added that an important proportion of the lessons conveyed is for the consideration and assimilation of those who worry editors with manuscripts wholly unsuited to the periodicals which they conduct, and then complain of lack of editorial discrimination, thus making the way harder for others who seek to approach from the outside, and to obtain acceptance as new or occasional contributors. Much advice has been given from time to time in the pages of The Author, derived from many Sources, to those who find it impossible to project themselves in imagination for a moment into an editor's chair, and to reflect on what may be his point of view in his official capacity, or his physical and mental limitations and weaknesses as a brother man. These should read with profit Mr. Foster's chapters entitled “Some Callers,” “Some Corre- spondents,” “Would - be Contributors,” “Free Lances as Contributors,” “Regular Contributors,” and “Some Dangers of Editing.” More practised writers, and those with the imaginative gift referred to, will not need to be told that “an editor has Settled convictions as to his needs, and it goes without saying that the more closely an article or story approximates to them the more it commends itself”; but even these may derive amusement, where they need no instruction, from an editor's stories of fifty-four manuscripts sent to him in a batch, of sheets pasted at their edges and thus joined one above the other so as to form a scroll several feet long ; of covering letters of all kinds, including appeals for charity, and containing in one instance the information that a wager depended on accept- ance or rejection. Most of us believe ourselves to be tactful—more so, at least, than the editors who  ## p. (#501) ################################################ TRIES A UſTISIOR. 123 reject our stories—so that few will apply as a warning to themselves Mr. Foster's anecdote of a contributor who sent a manuscript with an intima- tion that it was much too good for Cassell's Saſur- day, Journal, but that high-class magazines kept stories so long that it was offered on condition that a cheque was sent on acceptance, as the author had some pressing payments to make. Among Smbjects of general interest to authors Mr. Foster discusses “Plagiarism add Coincidence” in a chapter which describes somewhat euphemisti- cally as “direct plagiarism " that fraud upon editors and authors which consists in copying an article from one periodical and forwarding it as an Original manuscript to another. Mr. Foster seems to think the attitude of “plagiarised '' authors to have been unduly severe towards himself, or even rapacious, when they suggested pecuniary compen- sation for the infringement (involuntary on the editor's part), of their rights. It is submitted, however, that such cases are to be determined according to circumstances. An author may be willing to waive a claim for compensation, and to assist an editor in bringing a knave to justice, if the editor on his part will take active and energetic steps to punish the guilty, and to contribute to the future protection of authors and editors by so doing. It must be remembered that an editor who, though he may have published a stolen article in good faith, declines to prosecute, and is even unwilling to acknowledge the fraud perpetrated upon him, acts precisely as he would do who deliberately “lifted '' the matter himself as a means of obtain- ing cheap copy for his paper. He may, in fact, be actuated by clemency, or he may fear to make public the ease with which such frauds are perpe- trated ; but the author who, perhaps, differs from him in disposition or opinion, may decline to acknowledge, as no doubt he should do, that editors in the position of Mr. Foster are beyond suspicion, and may say “A thief ought to be punished in the interests of justice and of honest men; if you intend to say nothing about it pay me for the contribution of which you have had the advantage. At the worst you will only pay twice over, and even then my story is worth more.” Authors who take up such an attitude ought not, however, to complain of the system by which contributions from unknown contributors are not paid for till a reasonable time after their appearance. One of Mr. Foster's stories is of a man who complained that some anecdotes which he had narrated had been borrowed by another Writer, and settled the question of whether they might have been derived from a common source by declaring ingenuously that he had invented them himself. Somewhat diverting anecdotes, by the Way, are narrated by Mr. Foster in two chapters devoted to “Interviews and Interviewing,” and to the “Diffi- culties of the Interviewer.” We can all of us understand, even without personal experience, that Some of the great people of the earth (and of the small ones) are very willing to be interviewed, and that others are not. It is less easy to appreciate the mental attitude, or, indeed, condition of those Who, after expressing willingness to be interviewed, 9r actually answering questions volubly, suddenly impose a condition that nothing is to be published. This may, of course, be accounted for by a sudden change of mind or realisation of the effect of the publication in cold print of a candid conversation With a beguiling lady or gentleman. But still, everyone knows nowadays what an “interview " means, and to indulge deliberately in a conver- sation with an interviewer and then to stipulate that it is to be treated as confidential, savours of imbecility. Even less comprehensible, however, is the injunction “No notes, please,” which Mr. Foster or his interviewer (he acknowledges in- debtedness to Mr. C. Duncan Lucas) describes as a familiar one. We may sympathise with those who feel nervous at having their words taken down, but this was not the motive in the cases referred to. They con- sented to be interviewed and submitted to the Operation, but objected to have their words written down on the spot, a process which we need hardly point out would be resorted to by the interviewer for no dark or dangerous purpose, but merely for the sake of accuracy, and so employed as much for the benefit of his subject as his own. Did they Wish to leave a loophole of escape in order that if a statement or opinion of which they had cause after- Wards to be ashamed were fastened upon them, they might deny its paternity and attribute it to the inventive faculty of the interviewer 2 We must leave them to answer the questions, or possibly the reader may find it to be one of the “matters which speak for themselves,” and under- stand it better than We do. - E. A. A. FICTION THROUGH THE AGES.* —t—º-º- R. RANSOME gives us the impression of a man who writes because that is his Way of enjoying himself. His book has both the qualities and the defects commonly discoverable in work done from such a motive. Being himself * “A History of Story-telling,” by Arthur Ransome. Jack, 7s. 6d. llet,  ## p. (#502) ################################################ 124 TISIES AICTFIOR. interested, he is generally interesting ; but he is not complete, or systematic, or careful of propor- tion. Whatever seems dull to him he leaves out ; wherever it pleases him to do so he enlarges; and he skips from literature to literature, and from country to country, as the fancy takes him—from England to France, from France to Spain, from Spain to Italy. Improvements in the technique of fiction are the principal objects of his quest ; but the paths on which he looks for them are somewhat arbi- trarily chosen. He says a good deal about Chateau- briand, and Gautier, and Mérimée , but he says nothing about either Madame de Staël or Benjamin Constant, though both of them mark epochs and have influenced their successors. Constant's “Adolphe ’’ was the first of all novels of analysis, and has been hailed as such by such masters of criticism as MM. Paul Bourget and Anatole France. Madame de Staël was the first of those who sounded what Mr. Courtney has called “the feminine note in fiction.” “Corinne’’ is the source of “Jane,” whether Miss Corelli is aware of her debt or not. In a short book, however, which does not profess to be a text-book, such omissions are bound to occur ; and the author must be judged, not by what he has omitted, but by what he has included. His merit is that he treats novelists as human beings, and endeavours to show how their books are related to their lives. That is Sainte-Beuve's method. It is the most readable, and it produces the best critical results. Mr. Ran- some might have followed it with more success if he had had either more space or a shorter list of subjects; but he writes pleasantly, though he has placed himself in conditions in which it was almost impossible for him to be more than superficial. CORRESPONDENCE. —º-º-º- SMASHED MANUSCRIPTS. DEAR SIR,-My sympathies are entirely with your correspondent Mr. Bertram Smith in this matter. His sad experience has also been mine. Recently, goaded by fury to protest, I have written upon the sheet of cardboard enclosed with my MSS. my name and address, and below it, “Please return this card with manuscript.” So far this has had the desired effect, but it may merely be a coincidence. It may be that the office boys in those particular editorial offices upon which I have of late inflicted my manuscripts do not know the game involving sheets of cardboard, and are not bitten with the necessitating “mounts.” May I advise Mr. Bertram Smith to try my plan It may possibly save a few cards in his Case, as it has in mine. photographic mania— Yours faithfully, Fox FRENCH. —e—º-e ART AND TAXATION. DEAR SIR,--Mr. W. Shaw Sparrow hits the nail on the head with his remarks on copyright-expired works. If the Dukes of Marlborough and Welling- ton may live on property earned by illustrious ancestors, why should not the descendants of Dickens and Thackeray do the same thing 2 It is monstrous to think that while Charles Dickens' Works are selling in their hundreds of thousands every year, his granddaughters should be forced to draw Civil List pensions, and very small ones at that. 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