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ThePensionFund PAGE 17 1 SIXPENCE PRICE CO _ Monthly Authors 1910 , OCTOBER of Society . of Incorporated . 1 . . . — XXI VOL Organ No ( the The The Author , ten . . 38 . 1s . . at - Law print at 35 . of . .” “ , . and , 's . of With 1890 Convention the 6d Foundation By WALTER BESANT and Switzerland . Hungary , Austria , , Germany By . 18 from . 18 . Action its its ). of . . M in – , Berne ERNST . 6d . . . J. 1892 Copyright Bill the 1878 of of of J. . A Record 1888 Publication U D of , Monkewell . . 6d ls . Storey Gate , S . W .] . , Street 's Queen 1909 price 18 . . on , 39 , Secretary Berlin 1907 , Revised , October , . 6d Published Old as . the Apply to prices net . [ All . Authors List Members International Copyright Convention at . . of of Society . ' by and . , . 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S Publication , in . 6 's of By SQUIRE SPRIGGE this work compiled from the papers agreements proposed the Society offices the various forms Publishers carefully explained Authors are examined and their meaning with account the various kinds fraud which have been made possible the different clauses therein Being additional facts Addenda the Above HERBERT THRING collected the office the Society since the publication the Methods With comments and The advice 7 . , 6d . Barrister SQUIRE SPRIGGE . . . By S , COLLES “ ), , 58 . , or , 6d . , of . de W MORRIS Lettres .) of ( Out . of The . 4 . 8 Cost Production Yarious Methods ( in . - to Literature and the Pension List The History the Société des Gens By . 6d . . . , 1892 of . at numbers from 3 months the year Angust and September omitted devoted especially Literary Dramatic maintenance and Musical Property Issued per annum post free Price non members Back per vol 10s Published protection and gratis Members . all to to the . Author 18 . 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COMMITTEE NOTES 0 's , 's , Queen up , . to , . - . of , Old July 4 , Storey Street Gate After the minutes had been read and signed the committee proceeded with the Twenty two election members and associates members and associates were elected bringing the 156 One total elections for the current year up resignation bringing the total accepted was Monday decided .— . - to sixty five Committee The the cases were generally before as Cases the resignations committee the most . by to of . , to important matters before them consider them before they proceeded with the general business The first case related the infringement copyright street hawkers The secretary reported the committee the action that had been taken that after some delay warrants had been executed and the delinquents arrested There report present was nothing further The next . . at to . a of - in in 's of to a in of case arose out the non satisfaction claim bankrupt paper against America The com place the case mittee authorised the secretary American solicitors the society the hands . to , so , if , to order ascertain whether the report that had been received from the other side was correct and take what action was possible obtain satis The next case faction for the member involved to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 on , 39 at of last meeting the committee before the vacation was held the society offices ; to 0 0 0 0 NHE , 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5erex 5 Zoo0 10 5erő10 5erő 5 1 5 5 1 5erro 1 5 10 oor 5 10 10 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 . , , A. , , , , P . , . . . 0 0 0 0 0 , , , , . , R 0 d . 0 0 . 10 1 5 5 5 meer 10 5 5ererer5 Eco 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 ooooooooooooo 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 5eroNNNenrererő 1 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 1 0 0 . . : : : . . . . . . . . . . . : : : . 1 0 5 roer . . 0 1 . . 5 0 0 eroooo . . . 1 . 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Miss Mary , , , , Shipley Curtis . Miss Sherwood er . , Shera . . George Miss Shepherd ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· 50 . , - Bernard . , Karr Mrs Seton Shaw ·. .. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . · · • . Forrester Scott Mrs Seaman Owen Sedgwick . Miss Scott ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· · ·· ·· . . , , , G , . , , , , , . W . , W . C . . B H . . . . J . E . M M . W A . . . H K E . . .. .. . . . A. . . C. . Reginald Sanders 5 . , . T . E Mrs Salmond Mrs Saies Salwey Horace ., G .C .M .G . . B .C . . . S 8 Sachs · 5 5 5 5 . , , G . . M F . F. . . ., Bart , Mrs Rumbold The Right Honble Rumble Sir 0 £ THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . to , , at in to Mr Anstey . to to ask fill the vacancy Captain Robert . of into of The sub committee decided accept the duties the resignation caused Guthrie at it , to to . them The question the appointment next considered in be , is is It course the circular to , the last was decided dramatists inside the society due issued final shape and will hoped that all dramatists whom the questions put sent will reply which issue copyright the Transvaal and agents there for the society was The secretary reported that he in to a be to by a times was put of % . , each each month to in in of to of to of A calling meeting about £2 100 request from The next business considered was advertise allowed the society member slip advertisement but the The Author make committee regretted they were unable in the attendance of members , to month for ordinary meetings special meetings when necessary other The day fixed was the third Friday Marshall circular . to It , up - COMMITTEE . to facilitate day of to be . to the chairman their The committee delegated cases powers act during the vacation urgency and importance £140 invest the sum was decided Canada 376 registered Stock 1930 Dominion the capital fund 1950 bringing the investments order of A . . to , be to of King Edward conversazione will the death held after the dinner which members will be sent will Full information attend able members and associates by circular SUB The last meeting of the Dramatic Sub -com mittee before the vacation was held at the offices of After the the society on Tuesday , June 21 . reading of the minutes a question with regard to of the sub members non -attendance of certain It was decided , in committee was considered . . of month of November . Formal notice will be sent to members of the council in due course . Thursday , November 24 , has been fixed as the the annual dinner which was cancelled owing date DRAMATIC in take the case up on his behalf as it appeared on legal the papers before them that he had no defence . The secretary pointed out to the committee of the that under the Articles of Association society , it was necessary to have two meetings of It was decided by the the council every year . committee to hold the second meeting in the - . the members was considered , and . of . The committee sanctioned the re - decoration of offices which had become necessary under the lease which the society beld . The question of underselling of authors ' rights in Sweden was referred to the committee , and the secretary was instructed to send the information he had received to the Publishers' Association and to authors ' agents in order , if possible , to prevent such underselling in future . Three letters received during the past month for the consideration of the committee were read by the secretary . A a story by one it was decided to prosecute the offender under the criminal law if possible . The last case referred to a dispute between an author and an agent . After considering all the papers carefully the committee decided to advise the author that they could not sub -committee by to sug gested he should come to an amicable settle ment . A case which the society had been con ducting in San Francisco had to be abandoned owing to complications likely to arise on the title of the member under the United States Copyright Act. A question of infringement of copyright in his behalf . It is desirable , while Holland is out side the Berne Convention , to stop piracy there if it is possible to do so , and the present case appeared to the committee to afford a fitting opportunity for testing the position . At the suggestion of the Dramatic Sub - com mittee , Mr. Anstey Guthrie , subject to his acceptance of the position , was elected to that a case . which had been before the com their last meeting , referring to a claim against a limited liability company , was again brought forward , and the secretary reported the action that had been taken during the past month . The committee instructed the secretary to inform the solicitors that immediate steps should be taken to throw the company into liquidation . In a complicated case , relating to a dispute on the con struction of an agreement and on the accounts , the committee could not, after a perusal of the papers , ad vise the member involved to prosecute , but at The chairman then read a letter he had received the president of the Publishers ' Association relating to piracy in Holland , and the secretary was instructed to see whether it was possible to induce a member of the society , whose special case was quoted , to allow the society to take it up on from to Another mittee any departure from their usual practice not to allow slip advertisements between the pages of the magazine . fix against involved the claim of two members a publisher for accounts and settlement . It was decided to instruct the solicitors to carry the through , and to ascertain the responsible cases parties and the exact position of the members ' property . The recent death of the publisher con cerned added a fresh complication to the matter . �a to ( ), , on , , is of ; in is , . 's of on a to of a to a in is of a is he a . a of up by , , of . . of at in 's is , in in , in . . . . , , .C . W Lane . . . Arthurs . , co S ' ' Club James Street Louth Omeath Ireland , Farm Harcourt , Abbey Road . W . , 10 N . Leighton Robert . . S .W , Club Authors Whitehall Court ' Henry . Wm . Koebel . Stanton , 2, . Willowdale - . , Alfred . King R . . Miss Isabel . , Hearne R - , . . Gordon Smith , , . W , . .St . S .W , , , , . , . . , Guards . . . 3rd Dragoon . . . . A Bryan Miss Marion , , Fox , of . . , owing House Mrs Curlewis , a is , abandoned of 's . . on be . Chichester Chancery Aldershot Avenel Mosman Syd ney Australia Square Eaton 118 , , . to be on be for account rendered into the office copy infringement come to were two claims but one these had of , right in insignificant sum due the other has only just There to of a in . In . to . , , . . Binns Henry Burt Major of In to , and R of , , Charles . is be be to to be , . Arlen In . by . Adams Evelyn ; , all its of to up as , The accounts were rendered and forwarded the remaining case the accounts the authors hand have been promised and will probably published Of nine the time this record claims for money only two have been settled the solicitors transferred Three have had satisfied when the delinquents and will no doubt against appreciate taken will that action one case some delay has occurred owing them fixing the responsibility for the the difficulty for the remaining two one debt while settled to Elections of these of to had very in a of , of of is , is of . of two were successful but abandoned the periodical publication offices and given bad ceased the society Nine claims for accounts were brought With the exception one case these were ., and be of . of MSS one 's in an to of , . to Cases The the July issue Since the publication Author thirty cases have come into the hands Three were claims for the return the secretary . should in . it that meeting . of to of his statement his case The write for the statement received time for the next in send was instructed be secretary in to of by a a - to omitted to of . complaint submitted The consideration the Dramatic Sub committee member the society who had called into question the action another member was postponed owing the fact that the member who had made the complaint had so of . them again to of to suitable a , should the matter before , to , bring of of In . , and events in of 's , to in it at watch occur in as , . of in a of of to opportunity perform member desiring information relative Italy under ances his play licence granted resident that country The information has been received and the matter closed Of two cases relating cancellation contracts one still the course settlement and the other has satisfactorily terminated the cancellation been the agreement and the delivery the stock the author who has since found fresh publisher publisher who had The last case was one against delayed publication book which had agreed publish every hope that the book There will shortly the market There are three cases open from former months abeyance One these remains the author request The second America course settlement while the last the society accountants are communication with the publisher a , , ; , no to in secretary omitted forward the second case the death the publisher has brought the negotiations for the time being standstill while the last one the hands the society solicitors The secretary has conducted one case behalf to - , Sir . , as in for information contained that letter the sub committee regretted was impossible take present but instructed the any useful steps irregularity the author title due copyright and affording another transfer illustration the danger such transfer while against paper the other New Zealand things and bound the nature take some time There have been three disputes waiting accounts one these the secretary for figures which the publisher has promised but of by the Colonial Office to been referred Agent General for the Richard Solomon the Transvaal Richard had stated that without doubt the Imperial Copyright Act ran over the Transvaal and Orange River Colony that far the local Acts were concerned the Orange River Colony had local Copyright Act and that the Transvaal Copyright Act was antiquated and unlikely afford any assistance beyond that already procurable under the Imperial Act for those whose works were infringed The question the infringement dramatic rights Calcutta was also discussed and the secretary read letter from the society solicitors regard Calcutta the position the manager the company who had been responsible most the infringements view the had to Sir THE AUTHOR . �THB AUTHOR . McArthur , R. . Maffei , Sabatino Mayo , Mark Myers , P .. . . St. ., M . A ., S , .. . . Morton , Dr . Wm . Cuthbert , M .A . Stewart , Basil . . . Tompkins, M .A . Frederick Tyrwhitt - Drake , Miss E. Webb H . , George Ernest ham . 30 , Equitable Rochdale . Petrovitch , Vasilii Pleydell , George St. George 's Chelten Street , . Dr. Charles M . D . , Sc . D . 42 , . G ., M . . Kilda , Wroxall , Isle of Wight . Great Shelford bridge . 6 , Burwood Hyde Park , 27 , Street , , Lancs . Stratford Leeds . , Cam Place ,, sace W. Street , 52 , Redcliffe Gardens, S. W . Apple “ Barnards , ” ford . Abingdon . Berks . Dulas Court, Pontri los , Herefordshire . Maulden Croft , near Ampthill , Beds . BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY . WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep this list as accurate and 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 cffice by the members . In consequence , it is necessary to rely largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and It is hoped , however , that members will other papers . co -operate in the compiling of this list and , by sending particulars of their works , help to make it substantially accurate . AGRICULTURE . THE PRACTICAL BEE GUIDE . A Manual of Modern Bee keeping . By the Rev . J . C, DIGGES . (Second Edition .) 7 x 4f . 229 pp . Simpkin , Marshall. 28. n . ART . THE PAINTERS OF FLORENCE : FROM THE THIRTEENTH By JULIA CART TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY . WRIGHT (MRS . ADY ) , New Edition . 7} ~ 5. 373 pp . Murray . ls. n. BIOGRAPHY . JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET . His Life and Letters . By JULIA CARTWRIGHT (MRS . HENRY ADY ). (Cheap Edition. ) 94 x 6. 400 pp . Sonnenscbien . 58. By MAUD BESS OF HARDWICK AND HER CIRCLE . STEPNEY RAWSON . 88 x 54 375 pp . Hutchinson . 16s. n. " SAINT ” GILBERT . The Story of Gilbert White and Selborne . By J. C. WRIGHT . 7 x 5. 90 pp . Stock . DUNBAR PEDIGREE : A BIOGRAPHICAL CHART TRACING DESCENT OF THE DUNBAR FAMILY THROUGH FOUR TEEN SUCCESSIVE CENTURIES , FROM THE EARLY ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH KINGS . 11 x 71. Printed on pure linen . Stratford -on -Avon : Shakespeare Press . 108, 60 , n. AMÉLIE , LAST QUEEN OF THE THE LIFE OF MARIE FRENCH . By C. C. Dyson . With Photogravure and other rare Portraits and John Long . Illustrations . 12s 68 . n . By MARY C. NINON DE L ' ENCLOS AND HER CENTURY . ROWSELL . With Hlustrations. Hurst & Blackett. 128. 6d . By THOMAS BECKETT , ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY . W. H . HUTTON , B. D. 71 X 5. 290 pp . Pitman . 38, 6d . n. A GASCON ROYALIST IN REVOLUTIONARY PARIS : THE BARON DE BATZ , 1792- 1795. From the French of G . Lenôtre . By MRS . RUDOLPH STAWELL . 94 x 64 . 275 pp . Heinemann . 10s. n . AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MARQUISE . A Study of Emilie du Châtelet and her Times . By FRANK HAMEL . Stanley Paul. 168. n. 8 X 54. 384 pp. YVETTE GUILBERT . Struggles and Victories . By YVETTE GUILBERT and H . SIMPSON . 9 X 54. 348 pp . Mills & Boon . 108. 6d , n . MRS . GASKELL : HAUNTS , HOMES , AND STORIES. By MRS . ELLIS H . CHADWICK . 91 x 61 . 472 pp . Pitman . 168, n. BOOKS OF REFERENCE . GROVE 'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS . Edited by J. A . FULLER MAITLAND , F . S. A . Vol. 5. T - Z , and Appendix . 9 x 6. 672 pp . Macmillan . 215. n. THE STATESMAN ' S YEAR BOOK , 1910. Edited by J . SCOTT KELTIE , LL . D. 71 x 45. 1,404 pp . Macmillan . 108. 6d . n. BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG . COMPTON ' S WILL . By MRS. HARDING 287 pp . Religious Tract Society . 18. 6d . PHILIP COOKERY KELLY . . THE BROADLANDS COOKERY BOOK AND COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF FOOD By KATE EMIL BEHNKE and E. COLIN REFORM . HENSLOWE. 7 x 44. 239 pp . Bell . 28. 6d . n . EDUCATION . OF JOHNSON , 1763- 1767, 126 pp . ESSAYS BOSWELL FROM THE " SPECTATOR ” ; PARABLES FROM NATURE . By Mrs . GATTY . 126 pp . MILTON ' S AREOPAGITICA AND OTHER PROSE WRITINGS . 126 pp . 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Spielmann 's new book is a romantic fantasy , illustrated by Mr. C . It will be published in the Wilhelm . by Messrs . Duckworth & Co . R S. 1 autumn 11 Miss May Crommelin 's last novel, “ Lovers on the Green , " of which Messrs . Hutchinson & Co . are the publishers , is now in a second edition . Long illness and a family bereavement have prevented Miss Crommelin from doing very much literary work during the last two years : but she is now engaged on another novel, the scene of which is laid in the Loire valley . Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons are the publishers of a work by the Rev . Percy Dearmer , entitled “ Body and Soul,” representing an inquiry into the effects of religion upon health , with a description of Christian works of healing from the New Testa ment to the present day . The unction of the sick , shrines , and pilgrim ages , amongst other things , are fully discussed , and the book concludes with a collection of contemporary records of therapeutic miracles the early Saints to Pastor Blumharat and from Father John of Cronstadt , and with tables of the faith cures by " mental science ” and by hypnotism at Nancy. We have received Vol. 9 of “ A Saunter through Kent with Pen and Pencil, ” by Charles Igglesden , which is published from the office of the Kentish Express , Ashford . In the present volume , Mr. Igglesden passes through Sissinghurst , Goodnestone -next - Wingham , Chartham , Loose , There are Coxheath , Bridge , and Patrixbourne . many sketches of old houses and historic spots , regard to the and much that is interesting in legends local traditions places and of the described . James Hinton , F . Nietzsche , and Edward Carpenter are the Three Modern Seers of whom Mrs. Havelock Ellis treats in her book of that title published recently by Messrs . Stanley Paul & Co . chosen these three men as repre of the various sides of the moral and spiritual outlook of the age . Messrs. Edmonston - Scott & Co . , of Forth Street , Edinburgh , are the publishers of a work by Mr. W . J . Edmonston - Scott , called “ The Elements of Negro Religion .” The author ' s aim has been to give a lucid account of the history of religious belief among the negroes , and to allow the negro , as far as possible , to tell his own tale in his own words. Mr. Richard Steel has just published a second and revised edition of his book , “ Imitation : The Mimetic Function in Human Nature and in Nature . ” The writer approaches the subject from many sides , starting with imitation in infant and Mrs . Ellis has sentatives life , continuing in education , in later youthful life , and early maturity . Other chapters deal with imitation in ethics , religion , and politics , child in language , poetry , and the fine arts , in �THE AUTHOR be at by " 's . 0 ., D ), . A , , at . of is . in its a . in . by as a ( . of in of “ , . by , Co . , & , .” its is of Africa His Majesty the King the Hellenes has been confer the Order and Insignia the pleased of , in the her perplexities Old World and pub South of . an is , , , and of . to her native land the attractions by ” of “ of returns between monthly which and Commercial Record lished the new parliamentary capital — a dealt Y ; of it as have be is and of . , in of occur to as cases the watchful civil authorities idyllic story The Heart the Bush New Zealand bush life Edith Searle England educated The heroine Grossmann with . in . to . to upto to occasional by but in in , . E . is of F. by in , a of , of of is Ganjam Presidency of district of the Khonds hill tribe the which the northern part the Madras The ancient sacrificing custom some primitive peoples young men and women the Earth goddess bring good order fortune and abundant harvests the tribe was observed among the Khonds recent times The Government India has put down the practice far able sacrifices Helen Watson Mrs Herbert Watson present running serial Little Folks will published book form Messrs Cassell during present the coming autumn Mrs Watson engaged sequel for older girls this story publication are and arrangements for course completion pamphlet dealing with the scientific cause the present rising and rebellion womanhood against constitutional government viewed the light Theosophy has been published Messrs Swan Sonnenschien The pamphlet written Taylor bears the title The Suffrage Evolutionary Aspect Movement from appointed Mr Sydney Ford has been managing editor the South African Insurance H & . . ." “ a . & in . its It contains a photogravure portrait , and other rare portraits and illustrations. by A . Vivanti Chartres , " ' T'he Devourers ," published by Mr. William Heinemann , is in third edition Messrs Putnams Sons are the publishers New York Messrs Chatto Windus published early Penny September new novel Mrs called Sacrifice The story the Meriah on Amélie ” of of Marie . Life “ has just been published by John Long , Ltd . Marie Amélie was the last Queen of the French , reigning 1782 to 1866 , and this rolume from contains some account of the principal personages at the Courts of Naples and France in her time, and of the careers of her sons and daughters . E the in Dyson 's of women . C. C. and the Grand Monarque. to Miss famous men XIII., and Bohemia , Electress Palatine. “ Sahib - log " is the title of a novel by Eva Mary Bell, published by Messrs . S . Duckworth & Co . It deals with the lives of a few of the ruling races especially with those who have in India , and relations with the fighting races of that Empire . The officers of the Indian army and the native officers and sepoys with their wives are among those of whom the writer treats . Mr. W . J . Wintle has resigned his position as general manager of the Sunday School Union and has joined the staff of John Ouseley , Ltd ., as managing director , succeeding Mr. John Ouseley . Mr . E . Elliot Stock recently joined the same firm as manager of the technical department . Peggy story the new children “ gallery of the times of Louis narratives . The book is fully illustrated in double tone from pictures by old masters . Messrs . Archibald Constable & Co. are publish ing a new historical novel by Marie Hay . Its title is “ The Winter Queen , ” and treats of the unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart , Queen of . Mary C . Rowsell 's work on Ninon de L ' Enclos and Her Century . Besides telling Ninon 's story , Miss Rowsell provides the reader with a portrait Alps of New Zealand . Messrs . and Southern Sands & Co . are to publish the book on the 15th of this month . Mr. T . Werner Laurie has published “ The Story : Old Testament Told to the Young , " by Miss Gladys Davidson , whose “ Stories from the Operas " were published by the same firm . The present work is written on broad lines , the stories being treated in accordance with modern views , yet strictly moderate in tone . It contains a complete outline of the Old Testament story , special care having been taken to preserve the Oriental atmosphere , reverence , and beauty of the of The raison d 'être of “ The Enemy of Woman ," Graham 's new novel, is to portray what disastrous consequences are engendered by a mad desire for women 's suffrage , and the bad effects on home life of unbalancing feminine minds . Messrs . Mills & Boon are the publishers . Messrs . Hurst & Blackett have published Miss Miss Winifred novel , which in the bush the of life A of which is 3s. 6d . nett . Mr. Maurice Hewlett ' s new novel , “ Rest Harrow , " was issued in September by Messrs. publishers Macmillan & Co ., the of “ Open Country ," the leading characters of which re appear in the new story . The same publishers have now the publishing of Mr Stephen Reynolds ' two books , “ A Poor Man ' s House ” and - The Holy Mountain .” . the New are worked out in contains also some descriptions by economics , in heredity and inorganic matter, while in an appendix the writer refers to imitation in the reasoning process . Messrs . Young & Sons in Liverpool , and Messrs. Simpkin , Marshall & Co ., price in London , publish the book , the published J. , 12 �THE AUTHOR . ) ( - an an . In of , a . Co of . & in of of . of of , , W by . by , .” " “ .S ., of F .R an .G “ is , of two cousins when the Buckland has illus fourteen . Arthur H It . of . and . by . G . . of the work Mr the social problems . W of It . , some of , & poem yesterday and September Messrs , in " is a “ the present day Raymond Jacberns new Schoolgirl this season are . for - George Bell Sons Hole and deals with ' books juveniles .” ", 6d . 3s . at . R . & W , . , , Bawbee Jock this month by laid the High , ” in is , of “ new novel the close The scene at Co . & of . , 's I. Amy McLaren published will Mr John Murray “ be , ” byof F .R . .S ., of . E 58 . at . by ' “ , ", , s .Co , “ 's . 58 . at by “ ”, “ A Battlefield Three They Amateur Scouts and Poor Uncle Harry are all published Messrs Chambers the first one and the others The same writer new novel An Everyday Romance published shortly will Messrs Wells Gardner Darton by Mrs Edith new historical biography Cuthell Hist author Wilhelmina Margravine published early Baireuth will Stanley Paul the year Messrs that Marie Louise Empress the French the first Napoleon wife . , , a Mr fifteen trated the book The Chained Titan day was published & . , of by is , to , as , so in in - of . the adventures tells be in to as of ”, a a . G - Holy Places who are boys story opens , , at is , . of first novel love story Naples history and Queen Jehanne which give romance are blended human picture Jehanne her heroism her waywardness her genius for dominion her relations with everyone the October number the Westminster Review article appears from the pen Alfred Smythe entitled Ancient Coinage from Non Commercial Standpoint Cross and Dagger Scott Durrant published Messrs Methuen last month tens the story the amazing crusade thousands children 1212 for the recovery the of in , be , to near Maidstone Jehanne the Golden Lips Frances Knowles Foster . , work the Burmo Chinese frontier while Mr Eustace Reynolds Ball who edits the magazine amusing adventure with Algerian describes panther be to , by Sir by a of , - of Aubrey “ in the extreme west to the Burmo- Chinese frontier . Colonel Beresford describes his tour through little known tracts in the Caucasus ; Mr. H . G . A . describing survey Leveson contributes a paper to - - , , in A . - in - to , . Le Blond would gratefully welcome any private letters that period relative the family and suggestions suitable Barming illustrations Her address House of the Empire. " Mr. Barlow Cumberland , President of the Ontario Historical Society , is the author of the work , and in it he explains the meanings of national ensigns , tracing the development of the Jacks of England , Scotland , and Ireland , their union in the British Isles and expansion in the dominions beyond the seas . There are nine coloured plates of flags and sixty nine engravings . The September number of Travel and Exploration covers a fairly wide field , ranging from Morocco of , ), Sir , . in , in Hawkins Whitshed cruise himself and his brother law William Bentinck 1799 has also light and may come included the together with some hitherto volumes inaccessible letters from Lord Rodney found the same time the loan to us Union Jack and Flags of A is a , of , by to ( ), by of - ( a a of . is for . it in ” of “ Co . , or , & .” Both . books are published Messre Methuen The Spirit Mirth London story and all the characters are more less sketched from life Mrs Aubrey Le Blond now preparing the interesting letters written large number press Sophia between 1789 and 1800 Countess Bentinck whose husband was son the first Sophia Earl Portland her granddaughter Hawkins Whitshed née Bentinck and her grand marriage Hawking son Admiral James only recently Whitshed These letters were discovered amongst family papers and their great interest lies their comments upon current events Europe and their frequent allusions many public characters Germany Austria Holland journal and France Admiral James Mrs & Co ., of Toronto , have forwarded a tastefully - produced volume entitled “ The Messrs . Briggs of in , of by Mirth . are the publishers . , “ its “ in is ” , of , Webling whose book The Story Virginia Perfect now third edition has published another entitled The Spirit enemies , and her lover , Messrs . Mills & Boon Prince Louis of Taranto . - - his . sity services Miss Peggy , her of her courtiers and on gentlemen : Professor on the following Samuel Henry Butcher , M . P . for the University of Cambridge , and President of the British Academy ; the Hon . Canon Lyttelton , Headmaster of Eton College ; Mr. Walter Leaf, Vice- President of the London Chamber of Cominerce ; and Mr. William Angus Knight, of Malvern , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the University of St . Andrew 's. This is the outcome of his Majesty 's desire to draw the University of Athens into closer relations with the Universities of Great Britain . Mr. Butcher is recognised as the most distinguished of Greek scholars and teachers in England , and a university representative of note ; Mr. Lyttelton is honoured as a scholar , and the head of England ' s most famous public school . The Order is given to Mr . Leaf as one of the founders of the London Chamber of Commerce , from his eminence as a Greek scholar and his writings on Homer ; and to Mr. Knight from his numerous contributions to philosophy and literature , and varied univer Redeemer 13 �THE AUTHOR . realism . Locke' s new play, “ The Man from was produced at the Queen ' s Theatre last month . In the cast are Miss Nina Bouci cault , Miss Beryl Faber , Mr. Robert Loraine, and Mr. Arthur Lewis Vane Tempest . Mr. the W. Sea , ” J. DE “ CONSPIRACY TO to six the Central Criminal Court , in July , men were charged with offences relating pirated copies the sale the late Mr Oscar Wilde book De Profundis All the defendants pleaded guilty with the exception Arthur Puddifoot against whom and was accordingly was offered evidence . . Mrs : .” , he , no , “ of . ' in s to a It to to . a of to :- in . Puddifoot Arthur Philip Puddifoot Fleming , , Abraham Kinsett Albert Bowden and Bokenham Edward Kelly De Profundis was stated that the book . at , 27 the , , in . by , " on Hill “ Karpe , , “ was given Freedom The Price August Saturday Dundee Theatre Mr and principal parts being taken is it , of . of A , he a under notice before narrative and publish the work has done this playright production the play appeared statement that the counsel from criminal conspiracy defendants were concerned infringe the copyright and defraud the copy legitimate right owner the profits derived from sale of the work give the names the show necessary part that each defendant took connection with John Wesley The accused were the conspiracy It 's an - a of , . . an , a a , - is as continuous production and discharged It “ - to . , to of a It a in an in is an - is . by .” of a . The Walter Scott Publishing Co bave published The Mr Deane Ballynn entitled work day which tale Price Freedom literary form This new the author has cast the volume introduction described form dis which takes the form introduction old actor dramatist cussion between publisher Mr Ballynn and actor manager that the dramatist should write his play view new INFRINGE COPYRIGHT . T 's . DRAMATIC . PROFUNDIS .” of go far to duty , implicit obedience and pluck towards the making up of the “ grit ” of the world pioneers and empire builders . “ The High Road of the Alps ” is the title of a Motoring Guide to One Hundred Mountain by Mr. Charles L . Freeston . Published Passes by Messrs. Kegan , Paul l & Co . , it contains 102 illustrations , for the most part from photographs by the author , together with several sketch maps indicating the relationship of the various groups of passes to each other , a specially prepared map of Alping territory generally , and a specially designed cover . It is issued at 10s . 6d ., net . “ . taken into the wild , untamed region lying between the great Limpopo river and the river of Inhambane , where the savage tribes recognise no laws but their own . There are many thrilling incidents in the story , which essays to prove that strict attention , and Miss Lilian Braithwaite . The Eternal Question , " Mr . Hall Caine ' s play founded new on his novel , “ The Eternal City , " was produced at the Garrick Theatre on August 27 . The cast included Mr. Gay Standing , Miss Tittell -Brune, and Mr. Halliwell Hobbes . Mr. Stephen Grace has dramatised a short story which appeared in his volume of “ Yarns . " The sketch will be produced by Mr . Henry Bagge , who takes the part of Lient.- Commander Anson . The action takes place on board a torpedo boat during an destroyer upon attack a hostile squadron , and is carried out with the utmost Allen , . Co. M . & . Düring 's latest novel , “ The End of the Rainbow , " published in England by Messrs . brought out in Chapman & Hall, has been America by the J . B . Lippincott Co . of Phila delphia . Two of her earlier novels , “ Malicious Fortune ” and “ Disinherited , ” have also been added to “ The Daily Mail Sixpenny Series .” Miss A. E . Keeton will lecture at the Women 's Institute , 92, Victoria Street , S . W . , on Wednesday , October 5 , at 4 p . m . The subject of her lecture will be “ On Making a Musical Palate .” Mr. George Hansby Russell's new novel , “ Grit ,” which Mr. John Murray publishes , is a story of the wilds of south -east Africa . The reader is Stella , Digby, Long “ Nobody ' s Daughter , ” by George Paston , was produced at Wyndham 's Theatre on September 3. It is the story of a manufacturer in the Midlands , who discovers that his wife' s supposed ward is , in fact , her daughter born before marriage , the father being the manufacturer ' s friend and a visitor at the time of the discovery . The cast includes Miss Rosalie Toller , Mr. Sydney Valentine , Mr. Marsh " lands of Scotland , and the story bears on the clan -sentiment of patriotism and love of country which is so deeply rooted in the Celtic nature , Miss Jean Middlemass ' novel , “ At the Altar Steps ," having run as a serial by the National Press Syndicate , will be published shortly by Messrs . of 14 �THE AUTHOR . of by , of , is to . of is it to to , in - of a of ' is to of . a is a to ; at . . NOTICES & c . , , , , , of be to “ be . of be . be . or — be , by to 4 “ 's of is is , & . c ., at " , or at all . , of , or , he is , It be . , 1, " to to bound is , the notice very that doubtful appears in by to It , in to . as author the magazine a how . 's , in a of is It at . far printed magazine the beginning could legally bind the author who has sent his contribution unless the editor could show that the notice had come the author attention notice to . like draw attention the Contributors that appear many magazines and print above one taken random often put forward by editors that when they accept stories without any notice whatever the terms and price the should Notices is he no in , he ITTE at - 's in . - ; . , . . W J. to . . in , ' to , it , be to of “ , of , of in to All stories articles poems photographs drawings submitted the editor for consideration must bear the names and addresses accompanied the senders and stamped and addressed envelopes they otherwise cannot considered returned MSS must folded typewritten not rolled and should The length short stories submitted should from 000 000 words must understood that while care taken they are sent contributions submitted the author risk and the editor not responsible for their safe custody return nor does invite contributions acceptance The articles stories illustrations no guarantee that contributions will be published within any given time W . inin in of of a of to , , . of , the second division Bowden was urged that among the merely allowed copies distributed hawkers who frequented his coffee house order obtain their custom and that made any transaction connected with direct gain out the sale the pirated work He was fined £20 of EDITORIAL , a in to , of on . of a . . as , a at , to at be , to in a . W HARDY HAROLD of , min , He 20 , J. to . at a in by of of - by , . a 6d was said the man who was most actively concerned though be the conspiracy kept himself some extent the background the nosition of publisher He publisher stood the position He had had manuscript copy the book taken quotation for printing Puddifoot and asked for 000 copies the quotation being £16 He had connection offences been previously convicted pirated copies with the sale music and was sentenced this occasion six months imprison ment Puddifoot the printer who had also been previously convicted was sentenced one month imprisonment Bokepham Kinsett who acted with the distribution the pirated copies was sentenced business two months On behalf of of of , to At . 5 . a 6d , , .28 in , in thousands were sent vans and stored room Whitechapel which was rented Kinsett week the time the arrest some upon the premises 000 copies were found systematic The method distribution was Small parcels were taken from the store neigh required from time time and left bouring coffee house which Bowden was pro prietor and the pirated copies were purchased quire hawkers visiting the house and were sold the streets considerable profit printing who had failed the Bokepham who had failed the printing it - a ., " . W J. . , of in “ , of was done upon what was called the Milton Press Ltd com pany merely name which Puddifoot and his son Arthur were directors Bundles many these copies when printed the number important that hawkers 1906 but should realise that conspiracy sell pirated copies any book criminal offence No doubt special efforts are required obtain evidence conspiracy and well that the Authors Society making has not grudged the trouble and expense inquiries and setting watch upon premises and upon the movements street sellers order trace the method distribution and bring justice the principal offenders Act ” offence convicted connection with the premises been , , similar in in — of . a W for music 1906 pirated Puddifoot who had of in a to ' . J. to traced “ sufficient evidence was obtained to enable the prosecution against Authors Society institute principally concerned those who were the conspiracy The printing the pirated copies which was that conditions . The Court was asked to deal with him leniently , and he was released upon his recognisances . The Authors ' Society is to be congratulated upon successful exposure this fraud which ought put check upon the organised sale street pirated works procedure sellers The method respect pirated music simpler owing the such to its the profits bad been sufficient to copyright Ross , the owner and administrator of the estate of the deceased author, to pay the latter's debts in full and to provide a considerable sum for the benefit of his children . In April last Mr. Ross discovered that pirated copies of the book were being sold in large numbers Inquiries in the streets at the price of id . kept , with the result were made and observation Mr. in editions , and enable With regard to Kelly , who was found selling copies in the street and pleaded guilty to being in possession of pirated copies, it was stated that he was prosecuted in order that street -sellers might know the risk they ran in selling books which bore no printer's or publisher 's name upon them , especially when they were sold to them under of which was originally published by Messrs . Methuen in February , 1905 , ran through a large number of 15 �THE AUTHOR 16 . notice would make the statement still more certain that author would not bound such notice unless his attention was specially drawn Otherwise the editor might make arbitrary regulations by which should not only have absolute control alterations articles and right stories but should have also the copyright fact disputes this point have from time consequence time arisen not the printing notice but from editor demand after acceptance story without any terms being expressed The following case will explain this point editors were more accurate and more careful making nay more contracts half the disputes than half the disputes would never arise and there would be very little reason for publishing The Author papers dealing with the Editorial Attitude which have appeared the last few . if a on , , “ of :- .” , - , , — in . “ , . . 's : . . 's . . . . . of on By CORNHILL . . . , . D . . . By. . of in . CONTEMPORARY By Mrs Geo Haven Putnam the Salon Poetry Geraldine Hodgson Litt English Poetry . , A , . . By Frank Harris By Vernon Maurice Hewlett . : Words . Lee REVIEW Shakespeare of of ENGLISH The Women The Handling , , K .C . B . . by : A , S . . . of Tooley The Centenary Mrs Gaskell Sarah Concerning Guide Books By Claude Benson Polar Laureate Sir Francis Doyle Sir Clements Markham Communicated . . . . Old Subscriber Roberts . an . in . By The Libraries and their Critics English Pictures German Galleries By W REVIEW . NATIONAL . of . . L . K . FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW By Montgomery By Arthur Ransome Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell The Poetry Yone Noguchis . Dr . . the Rev By. . . Lore - Word By . . 1, . of of Palmer in Folk Lore . - the CENTURY By Lewis Melville The Centenary Mrs Gaskell The Genius Gibbon Gibbon the Man Rev Clarke . A . H . T . in include NINETEENTH . " “ , of . : : of . .L By , is he , it, ” . By . A A , , , . be to as '”, of on to to By Thomas Seccombe Saintsbury Professor Book MONTHLY a a . to be Gaskell the Time King Edward Memoirs Library Censorship New Encyclopædia Right Christening Word the Novel Heroines George Topics ? by to of if — In of to Cleghorn Elizabeth Balzac W to of is to is to up a in of to in be of : “ “ : of of BOOKMAN to in , ? 's by is editor An Unpublished Puritans Document to as to an . for , as . BLACKWOOD . up . a he is of in it . to . a a it , , , is as :. a to up a an , is , on If , . 's he to a see a of on the CONTENTS King James and the English Children making the offer follows we included the copyright but there does not appear the letters copyright acceptance any mention the word any indication purchase the the desire copyright nor there any indication the notice contributors that where articles are accepted or MAGAZINE The Lady Some Irish his attention being drawn the matter after publication states That the author never suggested anything about serial rights and it to no a to of of 's an in , , to a . the notice the intention numbers paper The natural contributors bind contributors should bind equally the editor the magazine Does the editor this notice say that when he accepts purchase article he desires copyright the world Yet this the position often adopts when asked for payment the put such contributor Would any editor care copyright claim the world his paper Surely not No author sending contribution magazine would be willing sell the whole copyright magazine the mere payment contribution light when we But worse feature comes cheque issued payment purport that receipt for the conveyance the copyright When signed the author such receipt would not course upset the contract which already existed might though signed without evidence An editor the contract of the terms demur copyright in of to a on contribution contribution magazine offering that the editor the first serial use that contribution for the magazine but this instance there was no expression what rights actually either side continues customary , ", he to as , , , sent which was accepted and published deduction when author sends passed in It to a be by in of . an - to to in an to , for a it . to he , , if, , no , to , to a to to is it . In a of A member for If editors were more businesslike , a dispute of this kind could never have arisen , the editorial acceptance would have run somewhat letter follows We accept your article on the understanding that we pay you for the world copyright Most editors however know that accept author would contract these conditions We must emphasise the fact that In the notice which we print the editor would seem have reserved himself the right after accepting story for publication publish refuse possible that by law he could not be compelled publish publish but doubt refused he would subject himself addition claim for payment action for damages non publication The absurdity this clause the the Smythe �THE AUTHOR . is It to . . in . , . of . of of a of : to . of of . if . . , to . an The inspection those account books which belong right We are advised that this the nature common law right which cannot denied withheld , or , be in is a the author TEVER TO WARNINGS copyright . transfer of a Always avoid . DRAMATIC AUTHORS it an in for of : . of of of . - a on by a in . a of : it . satisfactory , if is Outright sometimes unsatisfactory An author who enters into the contract contract should stipulate such for production the piece certain date the his name and for proper publication play bills is to a . u I. Selling of to a be . an be in in be proper price can observed are few standing rules agreement dealing There are four methods with literary property This plays There are three forms dramatic contract three or more acts Sale outright the performing right This 3 . ITERE is . PRODUCERS THE OF BOOKS (a .) TO WARNINGS It 2 . . of or to sign agreement without submitting the Secretary the Society Authors some com petent legal authority extremely careful negotiating for well play with any one except the production established manager of an 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 18. per annum , ar £10 10s. for life membership . to all to to an . beans a This The agreement are combinations All other forms the four above mentioned Such combinations are generally disastrous the author Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary the Society Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp possible Avoid agreements by letter The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are agreement That both sides shall know what . 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements . must be done within fourteen days of first execution . Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members . General of 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 . Agreement Commission The main points are production Be careful obtain fair cost Keep control the advertisements Keep control the book the sale price : 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society . Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful System . of Prospectus . The Royalty This is perhaps , with certain limitations , the best form things necessary of agreement . It is above know what the proposed rovalty means both sides now possible for approximately author ascertain the important figures connected truth From time time very The Author with royalties are published ." 6. 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 III . A that in belonging to the Society 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 . of always IY 4. Remember you are fighting agreement whatever , send for examination . . 3. Before signing any the document to the Society ( (2 (1 3 ). .) .) 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 . 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 1 ( 1 .) VERY H . 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 . 1. obtained . But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent , or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society . (2 .) THE SOCIETY . to USE TO (3 ). HOW 17 �THE AUTHOR DRAMATIC (6.) Sale of performing right or of AND authors should seek the advice of the Society before putting plays into the hands of agents . As the law stands at present , an agent who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned , it may be taken as a general rule that there are only very few agents who can do anything author that he cannot under the guidance the Society equally well better for himself The collection fees many cases no intermediary also matter which required purposes For certain such the collection general the trans fees amateur performances and frequent petty action authorisations with different foreign fees and also for the collection individuals agents employ and countries almost all dramatic authors agents are real and valuable these ways the services But the Society warns authors against agents who profess plays have influence with managers the placing principals by offering purchase who propose act any case the author rights the present state employed under any the law an agent should not agreement approved circumstances without the Society . or , of by of . as , . . on . of 's in . or 6d of to is . . assist the Society in greatly by will this . be , , is . . technical and scientific works competence and experience The The . is Readers are writers fee one guinea of special arrangement , , it . of is . a . of its work . to REMITTANCES . of of by be or , be . to of , . the same charged for give notice the Society begs The Secretary post that all remittances are acknowledged by return London and crossed Union All remittances should registered Chancery Lane sent Smiths Bank letter only . be filed subject play will to of to . 68 . , a be at a Plays may also with the exception that per act the price 28 . at be of in of Original of do ; of to be , of to . to ' EMBERS BRANCH or a , byof be a in of in , in be an , of - , its of . THE READING as of a AND , on of in , to D . . ofis as in , of as In . It of be . a to be . stamp copies The Society undertakes music part per 100 behalf members for the fee stamps kept 100 The members are the Society The musical publishers communicate direct with the safe the Secretary then forwarded the voucher and members who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble informing young writers existence Their MSS can read and composition treated treated by coach The term MSS includes not only works fiction but poetry possi ole under and dramatic works and when typewritten duplicate foolscap paper forwarded the offices the Society together with registration fee two shillings and sixpence will qualified assis be carefully compared the Secretary stamped and returned tant One copy will the author Copies and the other filed the register the Society any time by the scenario thus filed may obtained typing the author only small charge cover cost at , of . in , , to 's , . , MUSIC STAMPING its SCENARIOS PLAYS ITTLE branch . REGISTRATION OF ORIGINAL rules an for of , or in . on , in to L T can added the warnings given for the producers assistance books and dramatic pointed out that authors must however rule the musical publisher demands from the musical composer transfer 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 deal with performing right and copyright He especially careful therefore when entering into should an agreement and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above M 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 . MUSICAL COMPOSERS TO , , 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 WARNINGS . 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct A manager from literary copyright . 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 . be carefully should for collaboration 9. Agreements a 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited , and are usually limited , by town , country , and time. This is most important . rights , but should not assign performing 6. Authors should grant a licence to perform . The legal distinction is of great importance . of one act are often sold outright, but it is a small nightly fee if possible , and a sum of such fees in any event . It is extremely the amateur rights of one - act plays should QCENARIOS AGENTS . of also in this case. 4. Plays in better to obtain paid in advance important that be reserved . AUTHORS RAMATIC D is a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary Percentages 5 gross receipts . between An author should obtain a and 15 per cent . receipts gross sliding percentage on the scale of system . Should in preference to the American obtain a sum in advance of percentages . A fixed date on or before which the play should be performed . 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 except in cases where the fees are avoided likely to be small or difficult to collect . The other safeguards set out under heading (6. ) apply . a 18 �THE AUTHOR 19 a . W . its to , of , in a . as ' . s to take these . colonies will on essential also is , but it it is to to of be . on a as is It is , to passed the do is to be , , , , of if it in of we , to . be , , if is It disguise the fact that there useless some danger the colonies not come into line with the mother country that the English treaty upset and inter with the United States may national relations prejudiced regard pleased the Bill itself shall receive criticism upon for the benefit the committees the society that are interested the subject and necessary for publication but those who criticise the Bill must remember that the great . is , it . to , of a is . is , at in a . honour to of in as it to wait till the Act know what view important issues The Bill although not perfect not unsatis factory when this point taken into consideration Conorio Copyright property protected for longer period present and the definitions than are con siderably widened the great benefit of the holders of is It . " to BILL COPYRIGHT NEW .- as an ), as of of ( , a At . , s' THE point before the draftsman was bring the statute law into uniformity with the Berlin Convention , , “ to Holman supplement We publish this month Author the memorandum the Imperial Con ference and the Copyright Bill say what will difficult the result the whole matter not only essential In of is it , see all of . of a . , . therefore owe Mr gratitude deep debt to of . a , by , .M ., To , a of its of his of shrewd insight into rustic simplicity and appreciation rustic wit time when himself only our late President George Meredith Merit dis the Order member the way English pated with him the supreme place novelist Mr Hardy decided that his work novelist was over and embarked upon his magnifi cent epic exploit The Dynasts no part praise the merits attempt this our business great work proof of the We only allude high and serious intent which has always ich has always charac charac terised furnishing our President work and further reason why the King should have him broad Hunt to . in of us . he of , no of of of , of know gratification O . OUR PRESIDENT with that our members will learn the that His Majesty has added the Thomas Hardy our President name Merit very the Order roll select English have could the distinction writer come more appropriately for Thomas Hardy we have the finest expression the literary man now remaining with his maintained While his original rôle novelist his work was model alike conception and acate and delicate for breadth and woodland His descriptions treatment heath are veritable translations into words the dealing with countryside English His power the gravest passions that shake the human soulmake great tragedian and this power the him displayed alongside more wonderful when we We . . members , All on , Sir strong support which , with the untiring energy of founder Walter Besant carried the society forward difficult days fortunate career NOTES . its GENERAL . PEnsion Fund of . , , of , a . in it of , . to of of , . his in , “ on in a work Strong . A . A Musical Law the Era office commending the and Dramatic published from preface The writer states by of edition LAW . AND MUSICAL We have much pleasure third ", - in it , 3 on . to of of as Holman men the society surmount path and was this such its of in aid to DRAMATIC . in its in he The Author , , . to time copyright The early support Hant was necessary ing the obstacles placed at , of , , . increasing years on , 's , work latterly taking any active part the affairs was not without interest and indeed consulted the secretary from points connected with the law time as he , as of its . as in as , its Although from and fresh donations the fund We mention this happens now the beginning the year not infrequently that the regular annual sub scribers complain the omission their names , of to to . is of society publish once decided the annual subscribers the Pension Fund together with the amount subscribed page Members will find the full statement We would remind members that the regular lists printed monthly donors and subscribers The Author comprise only the fresh subscriptions in his His work own particular department art too well known our readers need capitulation here His association with the Society Authors dates practically from commencement joined ranks 1885 He was therefore among among the most distinguished the first well those who have given the work the society their support prevented him several members Management have every year full list , occurred accordanoe with the wish the society the Committee of In which death of the to , 0 O M , . . Hunt record . September in 7 . regret with deep Holman W on of , We hare .M , ., to M . W . THE HUNT HOLMAN �THE AUTHOR . INFLUENCE THE himself by the author. DRACTICALLY reviews do everyone influence is a of . be do far at of too are it , as of of be at at do . of of it a to of to , . , " of to up . , or , of . in so of as of is of , on all 's so , on , — , , as , ; it is . ” ; “ of a to practically . to or of as . are of for it he , to , to , is it , an ; rights the the works writers who are either unknown unsuccessful But the new novel the popular author whose fame established matter general interest and must be reviewed that say the public must told the plot the day publication just the last new book gossipy reminiscences serious works such monograph for instance Lord Cronner Egypt are reviewed speak hot from the press The surest sign writer that has arrived papers are simultaneous notices this sort , a to . If to of to asto is , he these looking First there are the papers which have sincere respect for literature and are anxious draw the attention their readers only the best work kinds that comes out ignoring the bad discovering papers These are rather fond public admiration young and and holding unknown writers Second there are the papers which look upon They are not books much news material interested the vast majority new publications of to in up he in of , be it , is of is If is , . where fond angle - . or to is to . , 's by is it keep perhaps their own point view writers may therefore and useful we consider from the point view the Press which publishes reviews books we this we shall once perceive that not every journal looks literature from the same from If of , . , in £5 of as an , his advantage high possible But whether through the fault arises the laxity the agent sign the publisher the author should forbear reviews influence the fortunes . by is by up of in , be presumed that the market price Writers question of in . to A to pounds without much trouble the amount has already received out the book this was also the view that the bona fide literary agent took the matter more serious but we hardly think agent equally that the agent blame for lives the fees obtains and therefore book to for mem bers the prices paid translation into the Swedish language gentleman who has had great success marketing these rights constantly met the publishers contention set and editors papers Sweden that they can get the translation rights England for the the best authors absurdly low figure Either therefore those agents for the author who are acting the authors themselves are underselling their market Sometimes author foolish enough hand over the power market his rights translation quite the publisher this the case possible that the publisher who ought only the agent for the production the work book form will sell them for anything thinks they keeping will fetch having little interest the author prices and merely hoping add few any contract thrown away How “ . the attention draw - to like of We should the ? " SWEDEN that agreed is some extent to fortunes of a book , and the question there fore becomes one of the degree in which they do This is a problem of never -failing interest to so . all brothers and sisters of the pen , and it is perhaps the one which they are the most fond of discussing among themselves . The most widely different views are held on it , and that , too , by the same individuals at different periods of their literary careers ; there is indeed room for difference of opinion , the nature the problem such finally settled that can never all RIGHTS IN TRANSLATION I. PART T . is of a . quoted NOVELIST if might have cases he WOMAN A “ some of the precepts of the laws which bind dramatic authors and govern contracts with agents. It is possible , however , that the author , desirous of doing away as far as possible with the mere formal parts of case law , intentionally omitted many of the BY , We are glad to note that , in spite of the para graphs which have recently appeared in the Referee , Mr. Strong states that the society has done excellent service in many ways to dramatic authors . We can find no reference , however , to either of the cases Scholz v . Amasis and Colles v . Maugham , in both of which the judge laid down very clearly REVIEWS . OF he Although principally the book bears on the contracts of actors and artists , yet there are some useful chapters for the consideration of dramatists and composers carried out along the lines laid upon to as relate to subjects with wbich the profession is concerned , and that legal terms have as far as possible been avoided . law For book and serial rights it ought to be possible to get at least £15 in Sweden , and more when the work is sold for the three Scandinavian countries . We trust that authors will make a careful note of this for their future guidance . in that an endeavour has been made to explain in as simple a manner as possible such parts of the or as be 20 �is - or of by , in to be am I by no . - it is . on of “ , of " , to go . a " .” of as — , or us of I , . I to , - of a to is a It . of , , is to as it , ; , to .” of of to . of on is “ , of of by . to to he of as - is of of of I of of he , , as , ” “ , he he on , , , , , of , or . . of “ to to an he , even of . as be , at - on so , " of — “ . ? be - of , - - , to is at , to is it of it , as , a in of , are , a it of in do , as . ”, in , . are , . a I . in as for . in In he in no as , by , “ , , , to - , ; . on as , to ? ” at it a I praise and blame administered very con descending hackneyed very tone and bad English has gone out completely have horse practically hair sofas and waxen fruit Indeed stray corners the London and survives only provincial Press The demand more intelligent more sym the darkest modern was too true artist delight the unrelieved darkness and horror which small group modern novelists now exclusively turn their attention Would Gissing and his work treated now was treated during his comparatively short Probably not Unfortunately labour filled life New Grub wrote his best books for him Street the Year Jubilee and time when the battle was raging fiercely round Unclassed with social problems in , , I to at or , is it ; to , of us , it , within my own recollection not wish long historical digression but plain led into reviewing that the mid Victorian method may briefly describe which alternate slabs would bar the writer fiction the whole the sordid the terrible and think we may add the passionate side life Gissing like life itself held the balance even rather like life itself found that the scale turned very heavily for most the men and women who compose the world the darker side But though could deal The and The Nether World showed a is of a a for be of , of a us If , the reviewers are believe their enemies who chiefly unsuccessful authors they resemble some times that quaint Australian bird called the laugh ing jackass and other times the cruel and eagles carnivorous and vultures The truth highly specialised that reviewing has become literary work and although branch has not yet with attained the dignity creative undoubtedly holds art which France this even has made great progress moment yet we masters later Victorian literature The lack appreciation with which was treated his contemporary critics seems me indicate very clearly the truth the theory that modern criticism divided into two hostile camps one composed seriously critics who only regard worthy consideration the advanced realistic people who school while the other consists - of of . in to In to on , ? birds astonished see how little has survived much that was then praised and seems now extravagantly praised also what more important that sometimes really good work was inadequately noticed and even slated George Gissing perhaps the most startling example blindness the part the critics He acknowledged now have been one the , , on , to a on a six , be I . , the fiction market also clear that their sales are affected considerable extent reviews which are the whole adequate and constant This brings the question Who the critics Who are those strange shy yet powerful reviewers are means most curious and also intruc young author tive occupation for consult the any well known literary journal file ten years ago and just glance through fifteen the reviews see what was then being praised have lately been doing this and really have been , . an is to or of such Nevertheless infallible " “ of is to I , , , a in to , of to the case other books such travels and the like there are you see extremes success and failure novels biographies if is it - comic pathetic and wide minded reviewing has created the supply with the result that the work now people done largely the sort who thirty forty years ago would have shrunk from the writing for the Press notion Reviewers are nowadays both better educated generation ago and better paid than they were pretty far afield Editors have had their search for people who possess all the varied qualifications necessary you will and though sometimes hear the people thus discovered stig gifted amateurs matised sure that the whole body writers books are congratulated the change Call them amateurs you like certain that they write much better than the old fashioned professional is quite hear them Tomahawk for the masterpiece contemptuous lines when the Daily few Something Else had such appreciative notice There little doubt that publishers who certainly ought know are the whole inclined praise from think that universal chorus publication the Press the day the best reception for book praise Next the simultaneous burst understand that publishers like book have say five good long reviews the moment publication followed by continual dropping fire reviews lasting two three months parenthesis that my remarks Here may say applying should understood the whole , indeed wondering why the Literary instance should have dismissed 21 of eulogy to to . of so it is to allno I , might add several more classes but have enough likely show that book receive the same treatment round when many points regarded from view Yet expect universal some young authors seem said . he to a in of . way few a , in , . is is day and the surest sign that over when he no longer gets such notices Third there are the papers which are interested other things and only print from time time perfunctory notices books sort a his THE AUTHOR �THE AUTHOR . 22 so- called " sex " novel , and so busy were the critics of that day in either extolling or damning the the works of certain writers who are now , we may venture to say , completely forgotten , that they had no time to spare for the work of the author of “ Demos ." LICENCE M H TO PRINT AND PUBLISH . Booth v . EDWARD LLOYD , LTD . E plaintiff in this case , Mr. Josiah Booth , was the composer of a musical composition entitled “ Commonwealth , ” and the owner copyright . In October , 1907 , he gave a licence to Messrs . Reid Bros ., music publishers , which was as follows : His lordship accordinglydismissed the action , but without costs , on account of the representation on the book that it was printed and published by the Daily Chronicle . In the course of the case it was stated that it is not unusual to put the name of the customer on the book as the printer and publisher , at the His lordship expressed the customer ' s request . opinion that if it is a common practice , the sooner it becomes uncommon the better . In cases of this kind , when the copyright owner is led to believe that his copyright has been infringed , it is advisable that he should com municate at once with his licensee . HAROLD of the from Messrs . Reid Bros . , Ltd . , the £4 4s . for permission to print , publish , and sell separately and in book form my musical setting of Elliott ' s words • When wilt thou save the people ,' and known as “ Commonwealth .' This permission is not withdrawable and is for the term of the copyright.” The composition was published by Reid Bros. in a book of sacred songs ; but , in January last, the plaintiff discovered that the composition was being circulated in a book of election songs , which contained a statement on the front page that it was printed and published by the Daily Chronicle . THE “ Received sum SPIRIT OF HARDY . ROMANCE .* of HE Spirit of Romance may be recom circle of readers . Mr. Pound has found the wit to write , subject , a book that will be on a most interesting perused with pleasure by the general reader , will prove an excellent introduction to romance studies those who are first entering upon them , and will recommend itself to those who have long occupied themselves with those studies , on account of the very suggestive nature of many of the . author ' s remarks . Mr. Pound explains in his first chapter what he means by “ Romance ," the languages derived from Latin , and the literature of those languages . Roumanian is ignored , but even so the subject is immense , and could not be fully dealt with in an encyclopædia , to say nothing of a work of modest dimensions . That Mr. Pound at once admits . He also disclaims, and for definite reasons , all philological questions ; and we think his posi tion — that there is such a thing as the study of literature for the sake of the literature - both sound and worthy of very serious consideration . It is the opposite of knowing all about books and M mended ” to a very wide Sliby The plaintiff , therefore , instructed his solicitor , and in the correspondence which followed he was informed by the defendants ' solicitor that the book had in fact been printed and published and sold to the defendants by Reid Bros . The action was brought against the printers and publishers of the Daily Chronicle for an injunction and damages for infringement of copyright . It appeared from the evidence that in December last the defendants gave Reid Bros . an order for 100, 000 copies of the book of election songs , and that Reid Bros . had the copies printed and sold them to the defendants , at whose request the published by the Daily words " printed and Chronicle ” were inserted on the front page . Mr. Justice Neville , in giving judgment for the defendants , said that the question was whether Messrs . Reid Bros . bad committed a breach of their licence by printing and selling the copies to the defendants , and he came to the conclusion that they had not . The licence was in general terms . the author intended to limit his licensee to If printing and publishing the work in his own name he should take care to insert words expressly limiting the licensee to that personal right . their authors without knowing anything about the books themselves , of which humour we have at present a great deal too much . Mr. Pound deals That is a less justifiable also with poetry only . limitation ; but one, in the present case , very pardonable , for we get a poet 's thoughts about poets . Having thus cleared his ground , the author presents us with ten chapters , isolated sketches , the immense perspective so to say , gathered from by his subject-- ranging from the Latin opened post -classical authors " The Spirit of Sons , to the Romance ," imitations of classical London , J. M. Dent & �THE AUTHOR . 's of . to by of , , (C . of , ) ( 25 . 's .” of to a £8 , of at . . of , of A . in . “ & of , 4 II . (2 21 , of ) . for )., . ), . 8 , , , - £5 24 . for by be - 8 ), “ of , a ., ” of (S , “ , a . W 26 . J. of of of " ). - is of for us whole the most interesting the sales was further portion the library Mr Ford otheby May Winchmore Hill and three days following . of . , . in I it by a a of . I ? a . do it to a , of as . . of a is to ? If of ? In . no ? . . , A - of in operative - co a , its , few names in come across not own merits believe I Management of of . - ' to . 's , - of of ) 9 be , . us to ). 21 PUBLICATION those who , , ( , is ( by of 13 11 , . , . F . of CO OPERATIVE REVIEWER SIR Mr Swallow letter the last number The Author brings the front again the question operative publication authors On looking through the list our Council and our Committee co is .) of . of , . . Yours faithfully Stock part fourth Vol interesting the number actually remarkable lots necessarily varies and the part before contains fewer than usual The sales recorded are those between the dates April and June 1910 inclu sively likely The attention authors more particularly attracted the sale Sotheby May the library Mr Marion Crawford and that Mr Lionel Brough Sotheby April Mr of of do which the always to of . Current Mr Elliot XXIV on from ( Book Prices we have received " Part IV ., XXIV - M HOUGH “ . Vol of do ' Editors rooms and reviewers studies are flooded with books which they not want and Why not leave which they will take notice purchase those they them want ' . , PRICES CURRENT BOOK of do to ? to all , , — is ? at .” Is itself is a " of of . . of , is , it is at a , 's the work avoid circulation by leaving a a of is “ was never date when that was more true of every literary period than the present day Mr Pound book however full observations study this sort and we strongly recommend responsibility for increasing the denouncing bad book either lie about But the others what should we with them have con good book science against destroying newspaper Mr Swallow says that the editor copy gratis from receives review the publisher that quite true Or the value review advertisement least equal the price the well paid for that case the copy book that not the case why are copies sent out order to , . is There , lacking .” is a Everyone recognises the period but what careful study the works themselves COPIES . consequence the enormous amount that most of them have produced quotation from Ercole Cuccioli of derivative verse No less pertinent or of of in . overlooked REVIEW SIR What ought we with review copies storage room We cannot keep them for lack Ought we destroy them do destroy some ? a a of THE FATE . at , 's CORRESPONDENCE OF is . ? ” original research That sentiment evidence how really Mr Pound has made himself acquainted with Romance literature for the literature own sake and the same time most pertinent statement real Many of the Romance writers are neglected need and the substantial merit their original work ( . , of to and deliver their collection those true poetry and have not leisure , love The Vicar first edition vols Salisbury 1776 for £67 Among curious items may mentioned two pro hibitions horse racing put forth Oliver Cromwell Feb 1645 and April 1658 sold by Sotheby and £13 respectively Taken ( of . - of ; no , of , to Tasso who , be to is : no of an 's of byus Is “ poetry this time from the Spanish translations every foreign writer from Anacreon and imitations sold April Wakefield as a of “ , of observations deserving of profound consideration We were particularly struck by one that he makes when writing Quevedo there one who reads the poetry this period for love sake and not for scholarship who anthology will make one whose mind eighteenth undefiled the pseudo classicism century opinion who will separate the Spanish Crawford ' s library fetched £6022s. It was of a miscellaneous character , including well - known expensive books reference but nothing very great part remarkable Mr Brough library was sold lots small prices An unusual lot original autograph MS was Mrs Inchbald April Sotheby sold Animal Magnetism orrespondence 650 collection MSS relating etc the American Colonies during the last quarter the 17th century including inter alia the original draft the grant made Pennsylvania Charles the province Co 1681 Hodgson William Penn dated March of . of ; if of .” ’s in be . to to , in all poetry written by the men of the Renaissance . Between the extreme limits , Provence , Italy , France , Spain , and Portugal claim attention turn and about every one them Mr Pound things say has interesting and suggestive thoughts offer The same authors appear that will found Sismondi Literature Europe They are the authors that Southern must appear the work the best taken into consideration but the things that Mr Pound originality and many remarks are full his 23 �THE AUTHOR . , .p , , , of in , , an on on of of , a or a to , ( . M , , . In to to to a ", . J . . to , be it " be a be it , , on of “ I in in it ” ) , , is to in to be of ; ( or . a in of “ , , it I a of or a , . if , - or it ; it it or , is it : - , of or a it at , if on , It I an ( . , to it be HUBERT HAEs . to do , ' , in of . , all in .) of or to of use of , . , a of in ; is , be a be an of on - of in a : it of it . - be to “ of as . a or A a to , . , p, ” an of ' its to fix to it , " stated Second Edition Fourth Issue whatever really does not number each were correct matter the public how many copies constitute any work edition issue think that the these two words the sense suggested would existing difficulties and with the date overcome very much desired give the public information committee the Publishers Association July 1898 but seems reported this matter very little known and nothing appears have come Its suggestions certainly not appear quite meet the case and somewhat contra dictory and unnecessarily complicated to ' ", , of “ In ' “ .” an a is so a 34 in . , of ", ' , 96 an . , of . or ” so , . “ : , -, p . In the February number The Author 142 under the heading Publishers Methods occur the following words We have often urged that the Publishers Association should agree unit for edition the April number 195 under the heading The Unit Edition there letter from the Publishers Association stating prac that does not appear Council any definite number copies which ticable shall be regarded universally the unit for an edition and setting forth the extreme difficulty doing The suggestion revived the note pre ceding the letter agreed that number should upon and that complete should stated that quarter half edition was being issued quite impracticable also the case small SIR is an it ; in it . of p, , " in .) . In by - . ISSUE AND , be be a “ of of of ; . F . D " , . EDITION the book itself any change that the word edition should reserved for every issue work which had undergone any revision altera tion that were stated that book was the second third fourth other edition work one would know once that had undergone oftener The date alteration once twice thrice every edition should appear and were though desired not necessary could be , a a ? - is be of , . co on it re - " - " of a needs notified the public notify the important thing suggested further matter to to be its of . is to in be to of could stated that the first any other issue thereof and any word second expressing more than first would show that precisely the words was issue work originally appeared which The alteration arrangement scarcely the form work type ' , in ? is , , ? is it , its date and a 's , . to to a as to 's , as , I windy serious “ of in as , ; of to . . , ; on is a in venture assert that this not proposal matter meriting the but attention the management Yours faithfully The Author November 1905 under Committee Notes stated that the advisability fixing the unit edition was under discussion and that was decided write the Chairman the Publishers Association obtain the opinion that body upon the subject the following appeared number letter from me entitled Unit Edition and that March 1906 Lely with the word 188 one from Mr The added the title The latter letter was entered the index wbile mine for some reason fixing was not Mr Lely refers number and stating that say only half quarter edition were being produced and lays great stress the having the date importance publication the title page my letter agreed suggested that should publishers that the word issue should mean all those copies work published simul taneously appearing The work should bear .p of all , in ” “ . it to , a , , in is of A . to a too than merely perfunctory interest in browbeaten authors . One would imagine , therefore , that these eagerly such gentlemen would advance only operations provided movement basis ready hand the society itself working from publication department which well conducted should not only provide extra profits but should materially aid the various funds the society any necessary Nor would mean patronage from authors who can command substantial sums from publishers the ordinary way for apart from the subsequent division profits they would still have agreements arranged They would not lose detailed business lines whereas younger and more harried authors would gain enormously any way the One would not like minimise things now use the society but are how many authors have found that get Mr Thring kindly and admirable advice fair agreement get the slightest alteration one thing but publisher wholly another dictatorial proffer having difficulty with And how many authors their publisher shrink from turning the society for aid this means they will black balled future The whole position obvious The society professed intention must needs fail much proposed step forward and consider unless why publication the prime question And operative lines should this not done number it would be stated that , say , only a fifth of an edition were being published , while in the case of a large number it would have to be stated that, say , twenty editions were being brought out , and misleading both would staternents for each might complete edition This matter has been dealt with previously « movement ; and whose presence in our society certainly might be advanced as proof of their more to 24 �ADVERTISEMENTS . ; Ltd ., , , all . , in , . . as to at . 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Jacberns, Raymond • 1 0 0 Prelooker, J. Jacomb, A. E. 0 Prideaux, Miss S. T. Jackson, C. S. . 0 Pryor, Francis . James, Henry . 0 Reynolds, Mrs. Fred Jessup, A. E. . . 1 1 0 Rhys, Ernest . . Jones, W. Braunston 0 Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey Jopp, Miss E. A.. 0 Roberts, Morley Keene, Mrs. . O Roe, Mrs. Harcourt . . Kelly, W. P. . 0 10 0 Rorison, Miss E. . . Kersey, William H. : 0 5 0 Rossetti, Wm. M. . Kilmarnock, Lord · 0 10 0 Riley, Miss Josephine . Kipling, Rudyard . . . . 5 0 0 Rowsell, Miss Mary C. . . . . . . . . . o pererer . . . . 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 . . . 0 . . . 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C. 50 Weaver, Mrs. Baillie .. 0 100 Salwey, Reginald E. . . 0 10 0 Wentworth, Patricia (Mrs. G 1 1 0 Sanders, Miss E. K. . 0 5 0 Westrup, Miss Margaret . . . 0 5 0 Scott, G. Forrester : 0 5 0 Weyman, Stanley J. . . 5 0 0 Scott, Mrs. C. . 5 0 Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard . 0 5 0 Seaman, Owen .. Willard, Mrs. . . Sedgwick, W. .. 1 1 0 Wills, The Rev. Freeman . . 1 1 Seton-Karr, H. W. . 0 5 0 Winchilsea and Nottingham, The Shaw, Mrs. Bernard Countess of . . . . . . 1 0 0 Shepherd, George H. Woods, Miss Mary A. . . 0 5 0 Shera, Miss B. M. 0 5 0 Woodward, Miss Ida. . 0 5 0 Sherwood, Miss A. Curtis O Wright, E. Fondi . . 0 5 0 Shipley, Miss Mary . . 0 5 0 The total number of annual subscribers there- Simpson, W. J. . . 0 5 0 Sinclair, Miss May fore. out of a membership of about 2,000, amounts . 1 10 0 Skrine, Mrs. John H. . to 266; he total number of subscriptions to Slaughter, Miss F. £232 6s. 6d. Smith, Bertram . . 5 0 0 Smith, Miss M. C. Smythe, Alfred . . . . 0 COMMITTEE NOTES. 5 0 Somerville, E. E. • . 0 5 0 Speed, Lancelot. . 010 0 Stanton, Miss H. M. E. . 0 5 0 NHE last meeting of the committee before the Stawell, Mrs. Rudolf . . : 0 10 0 vacation was held at the society's offices, Steel, Richard . . : 0 5 0 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, on Stein, M. A. : 0 10 0 Monday, July 4. After the minutes had been Stereni, W. Barnes . . . . 0 5 0 read and signed the committee proceeded with the Stott, M. D. .. 1 1 0 election of members and associates. Twenty-two Stevenson, Mrs. M. E. . 0 5 0 members and associates were elected, bringing the Sullivan, Herbert . . . . 1 1 0 total elections for the current year up to 156. One Summers, Mr. J. . : 0 5 0 resignation was accepted, bringing the total Sutherland, Her Grace The Duchess of. 2 2 0 resignations up to sixty-five. Sutro, Alfred . . 2 2 0 Cases before the Committee.—The committee Tearle, Christian . . 2 2 0 decided, as the cases were generally the most Teignmouth-Shore, The Rev. Canon . 1 1 0 important matters before them, to consider them Thorburn, W. M. O before they proceeded with the general business. Thorn, Ismay . . . 0 5 0 The first case related to the infringement of Thurston, Mrs. . 1 1 0 copyright by street hawkers. The secretary Todd, Margaret, M.D. 1 1 0 reported to the committee the action that had Toynbee, William 0 10 0 been taken ; that after some delay warrants had Trevelyan, G. M.. : 0 10 0 been executed and the delinquents arrested. There Trevor, Major Philip. 0 5 0 was nothing further to report at present. The next Truman, Miss Olivia M. case arose out of the non-satisfaction of a claim Tuckett, f. F. . 1 1 0 against a bankrupt paper in America. The com- Torner, G. F. . . . 0 5 0 mittee authorised the secretary to place the case in Trycross, Miss M. . . : 0 5 0 the hands of the society's American solicitors in Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor 10 0 order to ascertain whether the report that had been . 0. 5 0 received from the other side was correct, and, if so, Vachell, H. A. . . . . . 5 0 0 to take what action was possible to obtain satis- Vacher, Francis . . . . . 1 1 0 faction for the member involved. The next case ere ererer Eco er meer ooooooooooooo r eroNNNenrererő erő erő erex Zoo · · · · . · . · . . · . · . .. . · · · · . . · · . . · · · . · · . . · · . · · · · eroooo · roer oor erro · · · . V.S. · · , . ·  ## p. 6 (#26) ############################################### THE AUTHOR. involved the claim of two members against a any departure from their usual practice not to allow publisher for accounts and settlement. It was slip advertisements between the pages of the decided to instruct the solicitors to carry the magazine. cases through, and to ascertain the responsible The chairman then read a letter he had received parties and the exact position of the members' from the president of the Publishers' Association property. The recent death of the publisher con- relating to piracy in Holland, and the secretary cerned added a fresh complication to the matter. was instructed to see whether it was possible to Another case which had been before the com- induce a member of the society, whose special case mittee at their last meeting, referring to a claim was quoted, to allow the society to take it up on against a limited liability company, was again his behalf. It is desirable, while Holland is out- brought forward, and the secretary reported the side the Berne Convention, to stop piracy there if action that had been taken during the past month. it is possible to do so, and the present case The committee instructed the secretary to inform appeared to the committee to afford a fitting the solicitors that immediate steps should be taken opportunity for testing the position. to throw the company into liquidation. In a At the suggestion of the Dramatic Sub-com- complicated case, relating to a dispute on the con- mittee, Mr. Anstey Guthrie, subject to his struction of an agreement and on the accounts, the acceptance of the position, was elected to that committee could not, after a perusal of the papers, sub-committee. ad vise the member involved to prosecute, but The committee sanctioned the re-decoration of sug gested he should come to an amicable settle- offices which had become necessary under the lease ment. A case which the society had been con- which the society beld. ducting in San Francisco had to be abandoned The question of underselling of authors' rights owing to complications likely to arise on the title in Sweden was referred to the committee, and the of the member under the United States Copyright secretary was instructed to send the information Act. A question of infringement of copyright in he had received to the Publishers' Association and a story by one of the members was considered, and to authors' agents in order, if possible, to prevent it was decided to prosecute the offender under the such underselling in future. criminal law if possible. The last case referred to Three letters received during the past month for a dispute between an author and an agent. After the consideration of the committee were read by the considering all the papers carefully the committee secretary. decided to advise the author that they could not take the case up on his behalf as it appeared on the papers before them that he had no legal DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. defence. The secretary pointed out to the committee The last meeting of the Dramatic Sub-com- that under the Articles of Association of the mittee before the vacation was held at the offices of society, it was necessary to have two meetings of the society on Tuesday, June 21. After the the council every year. It was decided by the reading of the minutes a question with regard to committee to hold the second meeting in the non-attendance of certain members of the sub- month of November. Formal notice will be sent committee was considered. It was decided, in to members of the council in due course. order to facilitate the attendance of members, to Thursday, November 24, has been fixed as the fix a day in each month for ordinary meetings, date of the annual dinner which was cancelled owing calling special meetings when necessary at other to the death of King Edward. A conversazione will times. The day fixed was the third Friday in be held after the dinner, which members will be each month. able to attend. Full information will be sent to The sub-committee decided to ask Mr. Anstey members and associates by circular. Guthrie to accept the duties to fill the vacancy The committee delegated to the chairman their caused by the resignation of Captain Robert powers to act during the vacation in cases of Marshall. urgency and importance. A circular, which it was decided at the last It was decided to invest the sum of £140 in meeting to issue to dramatists inside the society, Dominion of Canada 376% registered Stock 1930 to was put into final shape, and will be issued in due 1950, bringing the investments of the capital fund course. It is hoped that all dramatists to whom up to about £2,100. the circular is sent will reply to the questions put The next business considered was a request from to them. A member of the society to be allowed to advertise The question of copyright in the Transvaal and in The Author by a slip advertisement, but the the appointment of agents there for the society was committee regretted they were unable to make next considered. The secretary reported that he  ## p. 7 (#27) ############################################### THE AUTHOR. had been referred by the Colonial Office to Sir to an irregularity in the author's title (due to a Richard Solomon, the Agent-General for the transfer of copyright, and affording another Transvaal. Sir Richard had stated that, without illustration of the danger of such a transfer), while doubt, the Imperial Copyright Act ran over the the other is against a paper in New Zealand, Transvaal and Orange River Colony ; that, as far and is bound, in the nature of things, to take as the local Acts were concerned, the Orange River some time. There have been three disputes on Colony had no local Copyright Act, and that the accounts. In one of these the secretary is waiting Transvaal Copyright Act was antiquated and for figures which the publisher has promised, but unlikely to afford any assistance beyond that omitted to forward ; in the second case the death already procurable under the Imperial Act for those of the publisher has brought the negotiations for whose works were infringed. the time being to a standstill, while the last one is The question of the infringement of dramatic in the hands of the society's solicitors. The rights in Calcutta was also discussed, and the secretary has conducted one case on behalf of a secretary read a letter from the society's solicitors member desiring information relative to perform- in Calcutta in regard to the position of the ances of his play in Italy under a licence granted manager of the company who had been responsible to a resident of that country. The information for most of the infringements. In view of the has been received and the matter closed. Of two information contained in that letter the sub. cases relating to cancellation of contracts, one is committee regretted it was impossible to take still in the course of settlement, and the other has any useful steps at present, but instructed the been satisfactorily terminated by the cancellation secretary to watch events and, should a suitable of the agreement and the delivery up of the stock opportunity occur, to bring the matter before them to the author, who has since found a fresh publisher. again. The last case was one against a publisher who had The consideration of a complaint submitted to delayed publication of a book which he had agreed the Dramatic Sub-committee by a member of the to publish. There is every hope that the book society who had called into question the action of will shortly be on the market. another member was postponed owing to the fact There are three cases open from former months. that the member who had made the complaint had One of these remains in abeyance at the author's omitted to send in his statement of his case. The request. The second, in America, is in course of secretary was instructed to write for the statement settlement, while in the last the society's accountants so that it should be received in time for the next are in communication with the publisher. meeting. Cases. Elections. Since the publication of the July issue of The Author thirty cases have come into the hands of Adams, Evelyn . the secretary. Three were claims for the return Arlen, Charles R. . Chichester House, of MSS., and of these two were successful ; but Chancery Lane, one had to be abandoned as the periodical W.C. bad ceased publication and given up its offices. Binns, Henry Bryan. Nine claims for accounts were brought to the society. Burt, Major A.. . . 3rd Dragoon Guards, With the exception of one case, all of these were Aldershot. settled. The accounts were rendered, and forwarded Curlewis, Mrs. . . . Avenel, Mosman, Syd- to the authors. In the remaining case the accounts ney, Australia. have been promised, and will probably be to hand Fox, Miss Marion . . 118, Eaton Square, by the time this record is published. Of nine S.W. claims for money only two have been settled. Gordon-Smith, R. . . Arthurs' Club, St. Three have had to be transferred to the solicitors, James' Street, S.W. and will no doubt be satisfied when the delinquents Hearne, Miss Isabel . . Omeath, co. Louth, appreciate that action will be taken against Ireland. them. In one case some delay has occurred owing King, Alfred R. , . Willowdale Farm, to the difficulty of fixing the responsibility for the Stanton - Harcourt. debt, while in the remaining two, one is for a Koebel, Wm. Henry. . Authors' Club, 2, very insignificant sum due on account rendered, Whitehall Court, and the other has only just come into the office. S.W. There were two claims for infringement of copy. Leighton, Robert . . 10, Abbey Road, right, but one of these had to be abandoned owing N.W.  ## p. 8 (#28) ############################################### THB AUTHOR. McArthur, R.. . 42, St. George's THE LIFE OF MARIE AMÉLIE, LAST QUEEN OF THE Street, Chelten- FRENCH. By C. C. Dyson. With Photogravure and other rare Portraits and Illustrations. ham. John Long. 12s68. n. Maffei, Sabatino . . 30, Equitable Street, NINON DE L'ENCLOS AND HER CENTURY. By MARY C. Rochdale, Lancs. ROWSELL. With Hlustrations. Hurst & Blackett. Mayo, Mark P. . . . St. Kilda, Wroxall, 128. 6d. THOMAS BECKETT, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. By Isle of Wight. W. H. HUTTON, B.D. 71 X 5. 290 pp. Pitman. Myers, Dr. Charles S., M.A., Great Shelford, Cam 38, 6d. n. M.D., Sc.D. bridge. 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THE CHAINED TITAN: A POEM OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY. By W. G. HOLT. 74 x 54. 104 pp. Bell. 43. 6d. n. THE WANDERER, AND OTHER POEMB. By H. B. BINNS. Fifield. 1s. n.  ## p. 11 (#31) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 11 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY Miss May Crommelin's last novel, “ Lovers on MEMBERS. the Green," of which Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. are the publishers, is now in a second edition. Long illness and a family bereavement have BIOGRAPHY. prevented Miss Crommelin from doing very much EDWARD MARJORIBANKS, LORD TWEEDMOUTH. By literary work during the last two years : but she The Countess of Aberdeen. 158 pp. New York : Dutton. is now engaged on another novel, the scene of $2 n. ROBERT BLATCHFORD : THE SKETCH OF A PERSONALITY: which is laid in the Loire valley. AN ESTIMATE OF SOME ACHIEVEMENTS. By A. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons are the publishers of a O'NEIL LYONS. 189 pp. New York : John Lane & Co. work by the Rev. Percy Dearmer, entitled “ Body 75 cents, n. 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Boston : Estes. $1.25. religious belief among the negroes, and to allow the negro, as far as possible, to tell his own tale in his own words. Mr. Richard Steel has just published a second LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL and revised edition of his book, “Imitation : NOTES. The Mimetic Function in Human Nature and in Nature.” The writer approaches the subject from many sides, starting with imitation in infant and M R S. M. H. Spielmann's new book is a child life, continuing in education, in later 1 romantic fantasy, illustrated by Mr. C. youthful life, and early maturity. Other chapters Wilhelm. It will be published in the deal with imitation in ethics, religion, and politics, autumn by Messrs. Duckworth & Co. in language, poetry, and the fine arts, in  ## p. 12 (#32) ############################################## 12 THE AUTHOR. economics, in heredity and inorganic matter, while the New are worked out in the novel, which in an appendix the writer refers to imitation in the contains also some descriptions of life in the bush reasoning process. Messrs. Young & Sons in and Southern Alps of New Zealand. Messrs. Liverpool, and Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Sands & Co. are to publish the book on the 15th in London, publish the book, the published price of this month. of which is 3s. 6d. nett. Mr. T. Werner Laurie has published “The Mr. Maurice Hewlett's new novel, “Rest Old Testament Story: Told to the Young," Harrow," was issued in September by Messrs. by Miss Gladys Davidson, whose “Stories from Macmillan & Co., the publishers of “ Open the Operas" were published by the same firm. Country," the leading characters of which re- The present work is written on broad lines, the appear in the new story. stories being treated in accordance with modern The same publishers have now the publishing views, yet strictly moderate in tone. It contains of Mr Stephen Reynolds' two books,“A Poor a complete outline of the Old Testament story, Man's House” and - The Holy Mountain.” special care having been taken to preserve the The raison d'être of “The Enemy of Woman," Oriental atmosphere, reverence, and beauty of the Miss Winifred Graham's new novel, is to portray narratives. The book is fully illustrated in double what disastrous consequences are engendered by a tone from pictures by old masters. mad desire for women's suffrage, and the bad Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co. are publish- effects on home life of unbalancing feminine minds. ing a new historical novel by Marie Hay. Its Messrs. Mills & Boon are the publishers. title is “ The Winter Queen,” and treats of the Messrs. Hurst & Blackett have published Miss unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Mary C. Rowsell's work on Ninon de L'Enclos Bohemia, Electress Palatine. and Her Century. Besides telling Ninon's story, “Sahib-log" is the title of a novel by Eva Mary Miss Rowsell provides the reader with a portrait Bell, published by Messrs. S. Duckworth & Co. gallery of the famous men and women of the It deals with the lives of a few of the ruling races times of Louis XIII., and the Grand Monarque. in India, and especially with those who have Miss C. C. Dyson's “Life of Marie Amélie” relations with the fighting races of that Empire. has just been published by John Long, Ltd. The officers of the Indian army and the native Marie Amélie was the last Queen of the French, officers and sepoys with their wives are among reigning from 1782 to 1866, and this rolume those of whom the writer treats. contains some account of the principal personages Mr. W. J. Wintle has resigned his position as at the Courts of Naples and France in her time, general manager of the Sunday School Union and and of the careers of her sons and daughters. has joined the staff of John Ouseley, Ltd., as It contains a photogravure portrait, and other managing director, succeeding Mr. John Ouseley. rare portraits and illustrations. Mr. E. Elliot Stock recently joined the same firm " 'T'he Devourers," by A. Vivanti Chartres, as manager of the technical department. published by Mr. William Heinemann, is in its “Peggy D. 0.," the new children's story by third edition. Messrs. Putnams & Sons are the Helen H. Watson (Mrs. Herbert A. Watson), at publishers in New York. present running as a serial in Little Folks, will be Messrs. Chatto & Windus published early in published in book form by Messrs. Cassell during September a new novel by Mrs. F. E. Penny, the coming autumn. Mrs. Watson is at present called “Sacrifice." The story is of the Meriah engaged on a sequel for older girls of this story, sacrifices of the Khonds, a hill tribe in the and arrangements for its publication are in course district of Ganjam, which is in the northern part of completion. of the Presidency of Madras. The ancient A pamphlet dealing with the scientific cause of custom of some primitive peoples of sacrificing the present rising and rebellion of womanhood young men and women to the Earth goddess, in against constitutional government, viewed in the order to bring good fortune and abundant light of Theosophy, has been published by Messrs. harvests to the tribe was observed among the Swan, Sonnenschien & Co. The pamphlet, written Khonds up to recent times. The Government of by J. E. Taylor, bears the title “The Suffrage India has put down the practice as far as it is able; Movement from its Evolutionary Aspect.” but occasional cases occur and have to be dealt Mr. Sydney Y. Ford has been appointed with by the watchful civil authorities. managing editor of the South African Insurance “ The Heart of the Bush ” is an idyllic story and Commercial Record—a monthly which is pub- of New Zealand bush life, by Edith Searle lished in the new parliamentary capital of South Grossmann. The heroine, educated in England, Africa. returns to her native land, and her perplexities His Majesty the King of the Hellenes has been between the attractions of the Old World and pleased to confer the Order and Insignia of the  ## p. 13 (#33) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 13 Redeemer on the following gentlemen : Professor and of her courtiers, her enemies, and her lover, Samuel Henry Butcher, M.P. for the University Prince Louis of Taranto. Messrs. Mills & Boon of Cambridge, and President of the British Academy; are the publishers. the Hon. Canon Lyttelton, Headmaster of Eton Messrs. Briggs & Co., of Toronto, have forwarded College ; Mr. Walter Leaf, Vice-President of the to us a tastefully-produced volume entitled “The London Chamber of Cominerce ; and Mr. William Union Jack and Flags of the Empire." Mr. Barlow Angus Knight, of Malvern, Emeritus Professor of Cumberland, President of the Ontario Historical Philosophy in the University of St. Andrew's. Society, is the author of the work, and in it he This is the outcome of his Majesty's desire to explains the meanings of national ensigns, tracing draw the University of Athens into closer relations the development of the Jacks of England, Scotland, with the Universities of Great Britain. Mr. and Ireland, their union in the British Isles and Butcher is recognised as the most distinguished expansion in the dominions beyond the seas. of Greek scholars and teachers in England, and a There are nine coloured plates of flags and sixty- university representative of note ; Mr. Lyttelton nine engravings. is honoured as a scholar, and the head of England's The September number of Travel and Exploration most famous public school. The Order is given covers a fairly wide field, ranging from Morocco to Mr. Leaf as one of the founders of the London in the extreme west to the Burmo-Chinese frontier. Chamber of Commerce, from his eminence as a Colonel Beresford describes his tour through little- Greek scholar and his writings on Homer; and to known tracts in the Caucasus ; Mr. H. G. A. Mr. Knight from his numerous contributions to Leveson contributes a paper describing survey philosophy and literature, and his varied univer- work on the Burmo-Chinese frontier, while Mr. sity services. Eustace Reynolds-Ball (who edits the magazine) Miss Peggy Webling, whose book, “ The Story describes an amusing adventure with an Algerian of Virginia Perfect,” is now in its third edition, panther. has published another entitled “The Spirit of In the October number of the Westminster Review Mirth.” Both books are published by Messre. an article appears from the pen of Alfred Smythe, Methuen & Co. “The Spirit of Mirth” is a F.R.G.S., entitled “ Ancient Coinage from a Non- London story, and all the characters in it are, Commercial Standpoint.” more or less, sketched from life. “ Cross and Dagger," by W. Scott Durrant, Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond is now preparing for the published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. last month, press a large number of interesting letters written is the story of the amazing crusade of tens of between 1789 and 1800 by Sophia, Countess thousands of children in 1212 for the recovery of the Bentinck (whose husband was a son of the first Holy Places. It tells the adventures of two cousins, Earl of Portland), to her granddaughter, Sophia who are boys of fifteen and fourteen when the Hawkins-Whitshed (née Bentinck), and her grand- story opens. Mr. Arthur H. Buckland has illus- son by marriage, Admiral Sir James Hawking- trated the book. Whitshed. These letters were only recently “The Chained Titan," a poem of yesterday and discovered amongst family papers, and their great to-day, was published in September by Messrs. interest lies in their comments upon current events George Bell & Sons. It is the work of Mr. W. G. in Europe, and their frequent allusions to many Hole, and deals with some of the social problems public characters in Austria, Germany, Holland of the present day. and France. A journal by Admiral Sir James Raymond Jacberns' new books for juveniles Hawkins-Whitshed of a cruise by himself and his this season are“ A Schoolgirl's Battlefield," “ Three brother-in-law, William Bentinck, in 1799, has also Amateur Scouts,” and “Poor Uncle Harry.” They come to light, and may be included in the are all published by Messrs. W. & R. Chambers, volumes, together with some hitherto inaccessible the first one at 58. and the others at 3s. 6d. The letters from Lord Rodney found at the same time. same writer's new novel, “ An Everyday Romance," Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond would gratefully welcome will be published shortly by Messrs. Wells, Gardner, the loan of any private letters of that period Darton & Co. at 58. relative to the family, and suggestions as to suitable A new historical biography by Mrs. Edith E. illustrations. Her address is Barming House, Cuthell, F.R.Hist. S., author of “ Wilhelmina near Maidstone. Margravine of Baireuth,” will be published early “ Jehanne of the Golden Lips,” a first novel by in the year by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co., that Frances G. Knowles-Foster, is a love story of of Marie Louise, Empress of the French, the first Queen Jehanne of Naples, in which history and wife of Napoleon I. romance are blended so as to give a human picture Amy McLaren's new novel, “Bawbee Jock,” of Jehanne-her heroism, her waywardness, her will be published at the close of this month by genius for dominion in her relations with everyone, Mr. John Murray. The scene is laid in the High-  ## p. 14 (#34) ############################################## 14 THE AUTHOR. lands of Scotland, and the story bears on the “Nobody's Daughter,” by George Paston, was clan-sentiment of patriotism and love of country produced at Wyndham's Theatre on September 3. which is so deeply rooted in the Celtic nature, It is the story of a manufacturer in the Midlands, Miss Jean Middlemass' novel, “At the Altar who discovers that his wife's supposed ward is, in Steps," having run as a serial by the National fact, her daughter born before marriage, the father Press Syndicate, will be published shortly by Messrs. being the manufacturer's friend and a visitor at Digby, Long & Co. the time of the discovery. The cast includes Miss Stella M. Düring's latest novel, “ The End of Rosalie Toller, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Mr. Marsh the Rainbow," published in England by Messrs. Allen, and Miss Lilian Braithwaite. Chapman & Hall, has been brought out in “The Eternal Question," Mr. Hall Caine's America by the J. B. Lippincott Co. of Phila- new play founded on his novel, “ The Eternal delphia. Two of her earlier novels, “Malicious City," was produced at the Garrick Theatre on Fortune ” and “Disinherited,” have also been August 27. The cast included Mr. Gay added to “ The Daily Mail Sixpenny Series.” Standing, Miss Tittell-Brune, and Mr. Halliwell Miss A. E. Keeton will lecture at the Women's Hobbes. Institute, 92, Victoria Street, S.W., on Wednesday, Mr. Stephen Grace has dramatised a short story October 5, at 4 p.m. The subject of her lecture which appeared in his volume of “Yarns." The will be “On Making a Musical Palate.” sketch will be produced by Mr. Henry Bagge, who Mr. George Hansby Russell's new novel, “Grit,” takes the part of Lient.-Commander Anson. The which Mr. John Murray publishes, is a story of action takes place on board a torpedo boat the wilds of south-east Africa. The reader is destroyer during an attack upon a hostile taken into the wild, untamed region lying between squadron, and is carried out with the utmost the great Limpopo river and the river of Inhambane, realism. where the savage tribes recognise no laws but their Mr. W. J. Locke's new play, “The Man from own. There are many thrilling incidents in the the Sea,” was produced at the Queen's Theatre story, which essays to prove that strict attention last month. In the cast are Miss Nina Bouci- to duty, implicit obedience and pluck go far cault, Miss Beryl Faber, Mr. Robert Loraine, and. towards the making up of the “grit” of the Mr. Arthur Lewis Vane Tempest. world pioneers and empire builders. “The High Road of the Alps” is the title of a Motoring Guide to One Hundred Mountain Passes by Mr. Charles L. Freeston. Published by Messrs. Kegan, Paul l& Co., it contains 102 illustrations, for the most part from photographs “ DE PROFUNDIS.” by the author, together with several sketch maps indicating the relationship of the various groups of passes to each other, a specially prepared map CONSPIRACY TO INFRINGE COPYRIGHT. of Alping territory generally, and a specially designed cover. It is issued at 10s. 6d., net. T the Central Criminal Court, in July, six: men were charged with offences relating to DRAMATIC. the sale of pirated copies of the late Mr. Oscar Wilde's book “ De Profundis.” The Walter Scott Publishing Co. bave published All the defendants pleaded guilty, with the a new work by Mr. Deane Ballynn entitled “The exception of Arthur Puddifoot, against whom no Price of Freedom.” It is a tale of to-day, which evidence was offered, and he was accordingly the author has cast in a new literary form. This discharged. form is described in an introduction to the volume It appeared from counsel's statement that the -an introduction which takes the form of a dis- defendants were concerned in a criminal conspiracy cussion between a dramatist, an old actor, an to infringe the copyright and to defraud the copy- actor-manager, and a publisher. Mr. Ballynn's right owner of the profits derived from a legitimate view is that the dramatist should write his play sale of the work. as a continuous narrative, and publish it before It is necessary to give the names to show the production, and this he has done in the work part that each defendant took in connection with under notice. A playright production of the play the conspiracy. The accused were :-John Wesley “ The Price of Freedom" was given at Hill Puddifoot, Arthur Puddifoot, Philip Fleming Theatre, Dundee, on Saturday, August 27, the Bokenham, Abraham Kinsett, Albert Bowden, and principal parts being taken by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kelly. Karpe. It was stated that the book. “De Profundis,".  ## p. 15 (#35) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 15 which was originally published by Messrs. Methuen With regard to Kelly, who was found selling in February, 1905, ran through a large number of copies in the street and pleaded guilty to being in editions, and the profits bad been sufficient to possession of pirated copies, it was stated that he enable Mr. Ross, the copyright owner and was prosecuted in order that street-sellers might administrator of the estate of the deceased author, know the risk they ran in selling books which bore to pay the latter's debts in full and to provide a no printer's or publisher's name upon them, considerable sum for the benefit of his children. especially when they were sold to them under In April last Mr. Ross discovered that pirated such conditions. The Court was asked to deal copies of the book were being sold in large numbers with him leniently, and he was released upon his in the streets at the price of id. Inquiries recognisances. were made and observation kept, with the result The Authors' Society is to be congratulated upon that sufficient evidence was obtained to enable the its successful exposure of this fraud, which ought Authors' Society to institute a prosecution against to put a check upon the organised sale by street- those who were principally concerned in the sellers of pirated works. The method of procedure conspiracy. in respect of pirated music is simpler, owing to the The printing of the pirated copies—which was Act of 1906; but it is important that hawkers traced to J. W. Puddifoot, who had been convicted should realise that a conspiracy to sell pirated copies in 1906 for a similar offence in connection with of any “book” is a criminal offence. No doubt pirated music was done upon the premises of special efforts are required to obtain evidence of what was called the “Milton Press, Ltd.," a com- conspiracy, and it is well that the Authors' Society pany merely in name, of which J. W. Puddifoot has not grudged the trouble and expense of making and his son Arthur were directors. Bundles of inquiries and setting a watch upon premises and these copies when printed, to the number of many upon the movements of street-sellers, in order to thousands, were sent in vans and stored in a room trace the method of distribution and bring to in Whitechapel, which was rented by Kinsett at justice the principal offenders. 28. 6d. a week. At the time of the arrest some 5,000 copies were found upon the premises. HAROLD HARDY. The method of distribution was systematic. Small parcels were taken from the store, as required from time to time, and left at a neigh- bouring coffee-house, of which Bowden was pro- EDITORIAL NOTICES. prietor, and the pirated copies were purchased at 6d. a quire by hawkers visiting the house, and were sold in the streets at a considerable profit. “ All stories, articles, poems, photographs, drawings, &c. Bokepham, who had failed in the printing m who had failed in the printing submitted to the editor for consideration must bear the names and addresses of the senders and be accompanied business, was said to be the man who was most by stamped and addressed envelopes, otherwise they actively concerned in the conspiracy, though be cannot be considered or returned. MSS. must be folded- kept himself to some extent in the background. not rolled—and should be typewritten. He stood in the position of publisher. He had the nosition of publisher He had “The length of short stories submitted should be from 1,000 to 4,000 words. taken a manuscript copy of the book to J. W. " It must be understood that while care is taken of Puddifoot and asked for a quotation for printing contributions submitted, they are sent at the author's 20,000 copies, the quotation being £16. He had risk, and the editor is not responsible for their safe been previously convicted of offences in connection custody or return, nor does he invite contributions. with the sale of pirated copies of music, and was “The acceptance of articles, stories, illustrations, &c., is no guarantee that contributions will be published within sentenced on this occasion to six months' imprison- any given time, or at all." ment. J. W. Puddifoot, the printer, who had also been ITTE should like to draw attention to the previously convicted, was sentenced to one month's W Notices to Contributors that appear in imprisonment. many magazines, and print above one Kinsett, who acted with Bokepham in the taken at random. It is often put forward by distribution of the pirated copies, was sentenced editors that when they accept stories without any to two months in the second division. notice whatever as to the terms and price, the On behalf of Bowden, it was urged that he author is bound by the notice that appears in merely allowed copies to be distributed among the the magazine. It is very doubtful how far a hawkers who frequented his coffee-house, in order notice printed at the beginning of a magazine to obtain their custom; and that he made no could legally bind the author who has sent in his direct gain out of any transaction connected with contribution, unless the editor could show that the the sale of the pirated work. He was fined £20. notice had come to the author's attention.  ## p. 16 (#36) ############################################## 16 THE AUTHOR. If editors were more businesslike, a dispute of this kind could never have arisen, for the editorial letter of acceptance would have run somewhat as follows :-“We accept your article on the understanding that we pay you for the world copyright.” Most editors, however, know that no author would accept a contract on these conditions. We must emphasise the fact that if editors were more accurate and more careful in making contracts, half the disputes—nay, more than half the disputes-would never arise, and there would be very little reason for publishing in The Author papers dealing with the “Editorial Attitude," which have appeared in the last few numbers, MAGAZINE CONTENTS. BLACKWOOD's. King James and the English Puritans : An Unpublished Document. BOOKMAN. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By Thomas Seccombe. Balzac. By Professor Saintsbury. In the notice which we print the editor would seem to have reserved to himself the right, after accepting a story for publication, to refuse to publish it. It is possible that by law he could not be compelled to publish, but, no doubt, if he refused to publish he would subject himself, in addition to a claim for payment, to an action for damages for non- publication. The absurdity of this clause in the notice would make the statement still more certain that an author would not be bound by such a notice unless his attention was specially drawn to it. Otherwise the editor might make arbitrary regulations by which he should not only have absolute control as to alterations of articles and stories, but should have also a right to the copyright. In fact, disputes on this point have from time to time arisen, not in consequence of the printing of a notice, but from an editor's demand after acceptance of a story without any terms being expressed. The following case will explain this point :- A member sent up a contribution to a paper, which was accepted and published. The natural deduction, when an author sends up a contribution to a magazine, is that he is offering to the editor the first serial use of that contribution for the magazine, but in this instance there was no expression on either side as to what rights actually passed. If the notice to contributors is to bind contributors, it should bind equally the editor of the magazine. Does the editor in this notice say that, when he accepts an article, he desires to purchase the world's copyright? Yet this is the position he often adopts when asked for payment by the contributor. Would any editor care to put such a claim to the world's copyright in his paper ? Surely not. No author sending up a contribution to a magazine would be willing to sell the whole copyright for the mere payment of a magazine contribution. But a worse feature comes to light when we see that a cheque issued in payment purport to be a receipt for the conveyance of the copyright. When signed by the author such receipt would not, of course, upset the contract which already existed, though it might be evidence—if signed without demur of the terms of the contract. An editor, on his attention being drawn to the matter after publication, states : “That the author never suggested anything about serial rights,'” and he continues as follows :-“In making the offer, as is customary, we included the copyright of it,” but there does not appear to be on the letters of acceptance any mention of the word “copyright," or any indication of the desire to purchase the copyright, nor is there any indication in the notice to contributors that where articles are accepted it is the intention of the editor to include the copyright. Book MONTHLY. Topics of the Time : King Edward's Memoirs. A New Encyclopædia : Library Censorship. A Word on the Right Christening of Novel Heroines. By W. L. George. CONTEMPORARY. The Lady of the Salon. By Mrs. Geo. Haven Putnam. Some Irish Poetry. By Geraldine Hodgson, Litt.D. Children in English Poetry. CORNHILL. The Centenary of Mrs. Gaskell. By Sarah A, Tooley. Concerning Guide Books, By Claude S. Benson, A Polar Laureate : Sir Francis Doyle. Communicated by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B. ENGLISH REVIEW, The Women of Shakespeare. By Frank Harris. The Handling of Words : Maurice Hewlett. By Vernon Lee. FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By K. L. Montgomery. The Poetry of Yone Noguchis. By Arthur Ransome. NATIONAL REVIEW. The Libraries and their Critics. By an Old Subscriber. English Pictures in German Galleries. By W. Roberts. NINETEENTH CENTURY. The Centenary of Mrs. Gaskell. By Lewis Melville. The Genius of Gibbon. 1, Gibbon the Man. By the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke. Folk-Lore in Word-Lore. By the Rev. Dr. Smythe- Palmer.  ## p. 17 (#37) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 17 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. 1. H 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. 6. 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 agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The 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 18. per annum, ar £10 10s. for life membership. 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 1 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 rovalty 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. IY. 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 beans. (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. WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. TEVER 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 any one except an established manager. 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays in three or more acts :- (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into such a contract should stipulate in the contract for production of the piece by a certain date and for proper publication of his name on the play-bills. ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an u agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be  ## p. 18 (#38) ############################################## 18 THE AUTHOR. DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS. (6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5 and 15 per cent. An 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. 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 (6.) apply also in this case. 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should be reserved. 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time. This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that 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. D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the Society before putting plays into the hands of agents. As the law stands at present, an agent who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned, it may be taken as a general rule that there are only very few agents who can do anything for an author that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans. action of frequent petty authorisations with different individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable. But the Society warns authors against agents who profess to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of the law, an agent should not be employed under any circumstances without an agreement approved of by the Society. WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. T 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. 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. THE READING BRANCH. REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic works, and when it is possi ole, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. REMITTANCES. QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper D 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 rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for at the price of 28. 68. per act. 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 Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only.  ## p. 19 (#39) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 19 GENERAL NOTES. strong support which, with the untiring energy of its founder, Sir Walter Besant, carried the society forward in difficult days on its fortunate career. All members, therefore, owe to Mr. W. Holman Hunt, O.M., a deep debt of gratitude. OUR PRESIDENT. We know that our members will learn with gratification that His Majesty has added the name of Thomas Hardy, our President, to the very select roll of the Order of Merit. To no writer of English could the distinction have come more appropriately, for in Thomas Hardy we have the finest expression of the literary man now remaining with us. While he maintained his his original rôle of novelist his work was a model alike for its breadth of conception and acate and delicate treatment. His descriptions of woodland and heath are veritable translations into words of the English countryside. His power of dealing with the gravest passions that shake the human soul make of him a great tragedian, and this power is all the more wonderful when we see it displayed alongside of his shrewd insight into rustic simplicity and broad appreciation of rustic wit. At a time when only our late President, George Meredith (himself, by the way, a member of the Order of Merit), dis- pated with him the supreme place as an English novelist, Mr. Hardy decided that his work as a novelist was over, and embarked upon his magnifi- cent epic exploit, “The Dynasts." It is no part of our business to attempt to praise the merits of this great work. We only allude to it in proof of the high and serious intent which has always charac- ich has always charac. terised our President's work and as furnishing a further reason why the King should have him in honour. THE NEW COPYRIGHT BILL. We publish as a supplement to this month's Author the memorandum on the Imperial Con. ference and the Copyright Bill. It is difficult to say what will be the result of the whole matter, as it is not only essential to wait till the Act is passed, but it is also essential to know what view the colonies will take on these important issues. It is useless to disguise the fact that there is some danger, if the colonies do not come into line with the mother country, that the English treaty with the United States may be upset and inter- national relations prejudiced. In regard to the Bill itself, we shall be pleased to receive criticism upon it for the benefit of the committees of the society that are interested in the subject, and, if necessary, for publication, but those who criticise the Bill must remember that the great point before the draftsman was to bring the statute law into uniformity with the Berlin Convention. The Bill, although not perfect, is not unsatis- factory when this point is taken into consideration. Conorio Copyright property is protected for a longer period than at present, and the definitions of it are con- siderably widened to the great benefit of the holders. THE PEnsion Fund. M. W. HOLMAN HUNT, O.M. In accordanoe with the wish of several members We hare, with deep regret, to record the death of the society, the Committee of Management have of W. Holman Hunt, 0.M., which occurred decided to publish, once every year, a full list of on September 7. the annual subscribers to the Pension Fund, His work in his own particular department of together with the amount subscribed. art is too well known to our readers to need Members will find the full statement on page 3. capitulation here. We would remind members that the regular lists His association with the Society of Authors of donors and subscribers printed monthly in dates practically from its commencement, as he The Author comprise only the fresh subscriptions joined its ranks in 1885. He was therefore among and fresh donations to the fund. We mention this the first, as well as among the most distinguished, now, as at the beginning of the year it happens, of those who have given the work of the society not infrequently, that the regular annual sub- their support. Although, latterly, increasing years scribers complain of the omission of their names prevented him from taking any active part in the in The Author. society's affairs, he was not without interest in its work, and, indeed, consulted the secretary from DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL LAW. time to time on points connected with the law of copyright. We have much pleasure in commending the The early support of such men as Holman third edition of a work on “ Dramatic and Hant was necessary to aid the society in surmount- Musical Law," by A. A. Strong, published from ing the obstacles placed in its path, and it was this the Era office. The writer states in his preface  ## p. 20 (#40) ############################################## 20 THE AUTHOR. that an endeavour has been made to explain in For book and serial rights it ought to be as simple a manner as possible such parts of the possible to get at least £15 in Sweden, and more law as relate to subjects with wbich the profession when the work is sold for the three Scandinavian is concerned, and that legal terms have as far as countries. We trust that authors will make a possible been avoided. careful note of this for their future guidance. Although the book bears principally on the contracts of actors and artists, yet there are some useful chapters for the consideration of dramatists THE INFLUENCE OF REVIEWS. and composers carried out along the lines laid upon himself by the author. We are glad to note that, in spite of the para- BY A WOMAN NOVELIST. graphs which have recently appeared in the Referee, PART I. Mr. Strong states that the society has done excellent service in many ways to dramatic authors. DRACTICALLY everyone is agreed that We can find no reference, however, to either of T reviews do influence to some extent the the cases Scholz v. Amasis and Colles v. Maugham, fortunes of a book, and the question there- in both of which the judge laid down very clearly fore becomes one of the degree in which they do some of the precepts of the laws which bind so. This is a problem of never-failing interest to dramatic authors and govern contracts with agents. all brothers and sisters of the pen, and it is perhaps It is possible, however, that the author, desirous of the one which they are the most fond of discussing doing away as far as possible with the mere formal among themselves. The most widely different parts of case law, intentionally omitted many of the views are held on it, and that, too, by the same cases he might have quoted. individuals at different periods of their literary careers ; there is indeed room for difference of opinion, for the nature of the problem is such TRANSLATION RIGHTS IN SWEDEN. that it can never be finally settled. “ How far do reviews influence the fortunes of a We should like to draw the attention of mem- book ?" bers to the prices paid for translation into the Writers are perhaps too fond of looking at the Swedish language. question from their own point of view as writers, A gentleman who has had great success in and it may therefore be useful if we consider it marketing these rights is constantly met by the from the point of view of the Press which publishes contention set up by publishers and editors of reviews of books. papers in Sweden that they can get the translation If we do this we shall at once perceive that rights of the best authors in England for the not every journal looks at literature from the same absurdly low figure of £5. Either, therefore, those angle. who are acting as agents for the author or the First, there are the papers which have a sincere authors themselves are underselling their market. respect for literature and are anxious to draw the Sometimes an author is foolish enough to hand attention of their readers only to the best work over the power to market his rights of translation of all kinds that comes out, ignoring the bad. to the publisher. If this is the case, it is quite These papers are rather fond of “discovering" possible that the publisher, who ought only to be and holding up to public admiration young and the agent for the production of the work in book unknown writers. form, will sell them for anything he thinks they Second, there are the papers which look upon will fetch, having little interest in keeping up the books as so much news material. They are not author's prices, and merely hoping to add a few interested in the vast majority of new publications, pounds without much trouble to the amount he the works of writers who are either unknown or has already received out of the book. If this was unsuccessful. But the new novel of the popular also the view that the bona fide literary agent took, author whose fame is established is a matter of the matter is more serious ; but we hardly think general interest and it must be reviewed ; that is that the agent is equally to blame, for an agent to say, the public must be told the plot, on the lives by the fees he obtains, and it is, therefore, to day of publication, just as the last new book of be presumed that it is to his advantage to keep gossipy reminiscences, or serious works—such, the market price as high as possible. But whether for instance, as Lord Cronner's monograph on the fault arises through the laxity of the agent or Egypt-are reviewed, so to speak, all hot from the publisher, the author should forbear to sign the press. any contract where these rights are practically The surest sign to a writer that he has “arrived” thrown away. are simultaneous notices in papers of this sort ;  ## p. 21 (#41) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 21 and the surest sign that his day is over is when pathetic and wide-minded reviewing has created he no longer gets such notices. the supply, with the result that the work is now Third, there are the papers which are interested done largely by people of the sort who thirty or in other things, and only print from time to time forty years ago would have shrunk from the a few notices of books in a perfunctory sort of notion of "writing for the Press.” way. Reviewers are nowadays both better educated I might add several more classes, but I have and better paid than they were a generation ago. said enough to show that no book is likely to Editors have had to go pretty far afield in their receive the same treatment all round when it is search for people who possess all the varied regarded from so many points of view. Yet qualifications necessary, and though you will some young authors seem to expect universal sometimes hear the people thus discovered stig- eulogy-indeed, it is quite comic to hear them matised as “gifted amateurs," I am sure that wondering why the Literary Tomahawk, for the whole body of writers of books are to be instance, should have dismissed the masterpiece congratulated on the change. Call them amateurs in a few contemptuous lines, when the Daily if you like—it is certain that they write much Something Else had such an appreciative notice. better than the old-fashioned professional. There is little doubt that publishers, who Nevertheless, reviewers are by no means certainly ought to know, are on the whole inclined infallible. It is a most curious and also intruc- to think that a universal chorus of praise from tive occupation for a young author to consult the the Press on the day of publication is the best file of any well-known literary journal of ten or reception for a book. fifteen years ago, and just glance through the Next to the simultaneous burst of praise, I reviews to see what was then being praised. I have understand that publishers like a book to have, lately been doing this, and I have been really say, five or six good long reviews at the moment astonished to see how little has survived of much of publication, followed by a continual dropping that was then praised, and, as it seems to us now, fire of reviews lasting for two or three months. extravagantly praised ; also, what is more Here I may say in parenthesis that my remarks important, that sometimes really good work was should be understood to be applying on the whole inadequately noticed and even “slated.” to novels. In the case of other books, such as George Gissing is perhaps the most startling biographies, travels, and the like, there are no example of blindness on the part of the critics. He such extremes of success and failure as you see in is now acknowledged to have been one of the the fiction market ; it is also clear that their sales masters of later Victorian literature. The lack of are affected to a considerable extent by reviews, appreciation with which he was treated by his which are, on the whole, adequate and constant. contemporary critics seems to me to indicate very This brings us to the question, “ Who are the clearly the truth of the theory that modern critics? Who are those strange, shy, yet powerful criticism is divided into two hostile camps-one birds, the reviewers ?” composed of critics who only regard as seriously If we are to believe their enemies, who are worthy of consideration the advanced realistic chiefly unsuccessful authors, they resemble some school ; while the other consists of people who times that quaint Australian bird called the laugh- would bar to the writer of fiction the whole of ing jackass, and at other times the cruel and the sordid, the terrible, and I think we may add, carnivorous eagles and vultures. The truth is the passionate side of life. Gissing, like life itself, that reviewing has become a highly specialised held the balance even, or rather, like life itself, he branch of literary work, and although it has not found that the scale turned very heavily, for most yet with us attained to the dignity of a creative of the men and women who compose the world, on art, which it undoubtedly holds in France at this the darker side. But though he could deal, as he moment, yet it has made great progress, even showed in “ The Nether World” and “ The within my own recollection. I do not wish to be Unclassed,” with even the darkest of modern led into a long historical digression, but it is plain social problems, he was too true an artist to that the mid-Victorian method of reviewing, delight in the unrelieved darkness and horror to which I may briefly describe as alternate slabs of which a small group of modern novelists now praise and blame administered in a very con- exclusively turn their attention. descending tone and in very bad, hackneyed Would Gissing and his work be treated now as English, has gone out as completely as have horse- he was treated during his comparatively short, hair sofas and waxen fruit. Indeed, it practically labour-filled life? Probably not. Unfortunately survives only in stray corners of the London and for him, he wrote his best books—“ New Grub provincial Press. Street," “ In the Year of Jubilee," and so on-at The demand for more intelligent, more sym- a time when the battle was raging fiercely round  ## p. 22 (#42) ############################################## 22 THE AUTHOR. the so-called "sex" novel, and so busy were the His lordship accordinglydismissed the action, but critics of that day in either extolling or damning without costs, on account of the representation on the works of certain writers who are now, we may the book that it was printed and published by the venture to say, completely forgotten, that they had Daily Chronicle. no time to spare for the work of the author of In the course of the case it was stated that it is “ Demos." not unusual to put the name of the customer on the book as the printer and publisher, at the customer's request. His lordship expressed the LICENCE TO PRINT AND PUBLISH. opinion that if it is a common practice, the sooner it becomes uncommon the better. In cases of this kind, when the copyright owner Booth v. EDWARD LLOYD, LTD. is led to believe that his copyright has been M H E plaintiff in this case, Mr. Josiah Booth, infringed, it is advisable that he should com- was the composer of a musical composition municate at once with his licensee. entitled “ Commonwealth,” and the owner HAROLD HARDY. of the copyright. In October, 1907, he gave a licence to Messrs. Reid Bros., music publishers, which was as follows: “Received from Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., the THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE.* sum of £4 4s. for permission to print, publish, and sell separately and in book form my musical M HE Spirit of Romance” may be recom- setting of Elliott's words • When wilt thou save mended to a very wide circle of readers. the people,' and known as “Commonwealth.' Mr. Pound has found the wit to write, This permission is not withdrawable and is for on a most interesting subject, a book that will be the term of the copyright.” The composition was published by Reid Bros. perused with pleasure by the general reader, will prove an excellent introduction to romance studies in a book of sacred songs ; but, in January last, Sliby those who are first entering upon them, and the plaintiff discovered that the composition was will recommend itself to those who have long being circulated in a book of election songs, occupied themselves with those studies, on account which contained a statement on the front page of the very suggestive nature of many of the. that it was printed and published by the Daily author's remarks. Chronicle. Mr. Pound explains in his first chapter what he The plaintiff, therefore, instructed his solicitor, means by “ Romance," the languages derived from and in the correspondence which followed he was Latin, and the literature of those languages. informed by the defendants' solicitor that the book Roumanian is ignored, but even so the subject is had in fact been printed and published and sold immense, and could not be fully dealt with in an to the defendants by Reid Bros. The action was brought against the printers encyclopædia, to say nothing of a work of modest dimensions. That Mr. Pound at once admits. and publishers of the Daily Chronicle for an He also disclaims, and for definite reasons, all injunction and damages for infringement of copyright. philological questions; and we think his posi- tion—that there is such a thing as the study It appeared from the evidence that in December last the defendants gave Reid Bros. an order for of literature for the sake of the literature-both sound and worthy of very serious consideration. 100,000 copies of the book of election songs, and It is the opposite of knowing all about books and that Reid Bros. had the copies printed and sold their authors without knowing anything about the them to the defendants, at whose request the words "printed and published by the Daily books themselves, of which humour we have at Chronicle” were inserted on the front page. present a great deal too much. Mr. Pound deals also with poetry only. That is a less justifiable Mr. Justice Neville, in giving judgment for the limitation ; but one, in the present case, very defendants, said that the question was whether pardonable, for we get a poet's thoughts about Messrs. Reid Bros. bad committed a breach of their licence by printing and selling the copies to the poets. Having thus cleared his ground, the author defendants, and he came to the conclusion that presents us with ten chapters, isolated sketches, they had not. The licence was in general terms. so to say, gathered from the immense perspective If the author intended to limit his licensee to opened by his subject--ranging from the Latin post-classical authors to the imitations of classical printing and publishing the work in his own name he should take care to insert words expressly " The Spirit of Romance," London, J. M. Dent & limiting the licensee to that personal right. Sons,  ## p. 23 (#43) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 23 poetry written by the men of the Renaissance. Crawford's library fetched £6022s. It was of a Between the extreme limits, Provence, Italy, miscellaneous character, including well-known France, Spain, and Portugal all claim attention expensive books of reference, but nothing very in turn, and about every one of them Mr. Pound remarkable. A great part of Mr. Brough's library has interesting things to say and suggestive was sold in lots at small prices. An unusual lot thoughts to offer. The same authors appear that was Mrs. Inchbald's original autograph MS. of will be found in Sismondi’s “Literature of “Animal Magnetism.” Sotheby sold (April 25) Southern Europe.” They are the authors that for £8,650 a collection of MSS. (Correspondence, must appear if the work of the best is to be taken etc.), relating to the American Colonies during the into consideration ; but the things that Mr. Pound last quarter of the 17th century, including, inter remarks are full of originality, and many of his alia, the original draft of the grant made by observations deserving of profound consideration. Charles II. of the province of Pennsylvania to We were particularly struck by one that he makes William Penn, dated March 4,1681. Hodgson & Co. when writing of Quevedo :- sold (April 21) a first edition of “The Vicar of “Is there no one who reads the poetry of this Wakefield ” (2 vols., Salisbury, 1776-8), for £67. period for love's sake, and not for scholarship, who Among curious items may be mentioned two pro- will make us an anthology ; no one whose mind is hibitions of horse-racing put forth by Oliver undefiled by the pseudo-classicism of eighteenth- Cromwell (Feb. 24, 1645, and April 8, 1658), sold century opinion who will separate the Spanish by Sotheby for £5 and £13 respectively. Taken poetry of this time from the Spanish translations as a whole the most interesting of the sales was “a and imitations of every foreign writer from Anacreon further portion" of the library of Mr. J. W. Ford, to Tasso, and deliver their collection to those of us of Winchmore Hill (Sotheby, May 26 and three who love true poetry, and have not leisure for days following). original research?”. That sentiment is evidence of how really Mr. Pound has made himself acquainted with Romance CORRESPONDENCE. literature for the literature's own sake, and at the same time a most pertinent statement of a real need. Many of the Romance writers are neglected, THE FATE OF REVIEW COPIES. and the substantial merit of their original work SIR,—What ought we to do with review copies ? overlooked in consequence of the enormous amount We cannot keep them all, for lack of storage room. of derivative verse that most of them have produced. Ought we to destroy them? I do destroy some in No less pertinent is a quotation from Ercole Cuccioli, order to avoid responsibility for increasing the “Everyone recognises the period, but what is lacking circulation of a bad book, either by denouncing it is a careful study of the works themselves.” There or by leaving it to lie about. But the others- was never a date when that was more true of every what should we do with them? I have a con- literary period than it is at the present day. Mr. science against destroying a good book. Pound's book is, however, full of observations of Mr. Swallow says that the editor of a newspaper this sort, and we strongly recommend a "study of receives a review copy gratis from the publisher. the work itself.” Is that quite true ? Or is the value of a review as advertisement at least equal to the price of the book ? In that case the copy is well paid for. If BOOK PRICES CURRENT. that is not the case, why are copies sent out ? Editors' rooms and reviewers' studies are flooded with books which they do not want and Vol. XXIV., Part IV. of which they will take no notice. Why not leave them to purchase those they do want? M HOUGH “Book-Prices Current" (of which Yours faithfully, we have received from Mr Elliot Stock the A REVIEWER. fourth part of Vol. XXIV.) is always interesting, the number of actually remarkable lots necessarily varies, and the part before us contains CO-OPERATIVE PUBLICATION. fewer than usual. The sales recorded are those SIR,-Mr. Swallow's letter in the last number of between the dates April 13 and June 11, 1910, inclu- The Author brings to the front again the question sively. The attention of authors is likely to be more of authors' co-operative publication. On looking particularly attracted by the sale (Sotheby, May 9) through the list of our Council and our Committee of the library of Mr. F. Marion Crawford, and that of Management I come across not a few names of of Mr. Lionel Brough (Sotheby, April 21). Mr. those who, on its own merits, believe in co-operative  ## p. 24 (#44) ############################################## 24 THE AUTHOR. movement ; and whose presence in our society number it would be stated that, say, only a fifth of certainly might be advanced as proof of their more an edition were being published, while in the case than merely perfunctory interest in browbeaten of a large number it would have to be stated that, authors. One would imagine, therefore, that these say, twenty editions were being brought out, and gentlemen would advance only too eagerly such a both would be misleading staternents, for each movement. A basis of operations is provided might be a complete edition. ready to hand in the society itself, working from This matter has been dealt with previously in which, well conducted, a publication department The Author ; in November, 1905, p. 34, under should not only provide extra profits to all, but “Committee Notes," it is stated that the advisability should materially aid the various funds of the of fixing the unit of an edition was under discussion, society. Nor would it mean any necessary and that it was decided to write to the Chairman “ patronage” from authors who can command of the Publishers' Association to obtain the opinion substantial sums from publishers in the ordinary of that body upon the subject. In the following way; for apart from the subsequent division of number, p. 96, appeared a letter from me, entitled profits they would still have agreements arranged “Unit of an Edition," and in that of March, 1906, on detailed business lines. They would not lose, p. 188, one from Mr. J. M. Lely with the word whereas younger and more harried authors would « The " added to the title. (The latter letter was gain enormously. entered in the index, wbile mine, for some reason, One would not like to minimise in any way the was not.) Mr. Lely refers to fixing a number and use of the society ; but, as things now are, how stating that, say, only a half or quarter of an edition many authors have found that to get Mr. Thring's were being produced, and lays great stress on the kindly and admirable advice as to a fair agreement importance of having the date of publication on the is one thing, but to get the slightest alteration in title-page. a publisher's dictatorial proffer is wholly another ? In my letter I suggested that it should be agreed And how many authors, having difficulty with to by publishers that the word “issue" should their publisher, shrink from turning to the society mean all those copies of a work published simul- for aid, as this means they will be " black-balled " taneously. The work, on appearing, should bear in future ? its date, and it could be stated that it be the first, The whole position is obvious. The society second' or any other issue thereof, and any word must needs fail in much of its professed intention, expressing more than “first” would show that it unless it is proposed to step forward and consider was a re-issue of a work in precisely the words in the prime question of publication. And why which it originally appeared. The alteration in should this not be done on co-operative lines ? the form of a work (type or arrangement) scarcely I venture to assert that this is not a windy needs to be notified to the public in the book itself; proposal, but a matter meriting the serious the important thing is to notify any change of attention of the management. matter. I suggested, further, that the word Yours faithfully, "edition” should be reserved for every issue of a work which had undergone any revision or altera- tion ; so that, if it were stated that a book was the second, third, fourth or other edition of a work, EDITION AND ISSUE. one would know at once that it had undergone alteration once, twice, thrice or oftener. The date SIR, - In the February number of The Author, should appear on every edition ; and, if it were p. 142, under the heading “Publishers' Methods," desired-though it is not necessary-it could be occur the following words : “ We have often urged stated : Second Edition, Fourth Issue, or whatever that the Publishers' Association should agree to a number of each were correct. (It really does not unit for an edition.” In the April number, p. 195, matter to the public how many copies constitute an under the heading “The Unit of an Edition,” there edition or issue of any work.) I think that the is a letter from the Publishers' Association stating use of these two words in the sense suggested would that it does not appear to its Council “to be prac- overcome all existing difficulties and, with the date, ticable to fix any definite number of copies which give the public information very much desired. shall be regarded universally as the unit for an A committee of the Publishers' Association edition," and setting forth the extreme difficulty of reported on this matter in July, 1898, but it seems so doing. The suggestion revived in the note pre- very little known and nothing appears to have ceding the letter : that a number should be agreed come of it. Its suggestions certainly do not appear upon and that it should be stated that a complete, to quite meet the case and to be somewhat contra- a half or a quarter of an edition was being issued, is dictory and unnecessarily complicated. also quite impracticable; in the case of a small HUBERT HAEs. D. 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