https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/417/1911-02-01-The-Author-21-5.pdf f23189b3d47b6ceb5c0c7755868462e0 PDF Text Text The Author . ( The Vol. XXI. - No Organ of the Incorporated . 5. of Authors . Monthly .) Society 1, 1911 . FEBRUARY FE CONTENTS PAGE 103 103 103 104 105 108 109 112 114 115 116 116 117 117 117 Notices . 's Funds The Society List of Members... The PensionFund CommitteeNotes Books publishedby Members Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes Paris Notes .. . Copyrigbt Legislation in U. S. A. Copy Photographs Licenceto Libel in a Novel ... ... ... MagazineContents How to Use the Society Warningsto Producers of Books ... Warningsto Dramatic Authors . ( PRICE SIXPENCE . Registration of Scenariosand Musical Plays Dramatic Authors and Agents Warnings to Musical Composers Stamping Music ... . The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes ... Music-hall and Theatrical Sketches... Copyright Convention of Pan-American Congress at Buenos Aires ... Thackeray and TheNewgate Schoolof Fiction ... The United States Copyright Register ... SomeAmerican Writers Correspondence... PAGE 118 118 118 118 118 118 119 120 122 123 126 126 127 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY . . Annual Report for the current year . The . Literature 8 . 18 1892 Foundation By WALTER BESANT . its from and Switzerland . Hungary , Austria By . Germany ERNST By . 6d . , . W .] Gate S Storey . 18 . . Street . 1909 's .1s Old Queen , at Berlin , Secretary , , . 6d . Revised , 39 , Apply the . [ All prices net to International Copyright Convention as . of . of . . on , by ' ; Agreement issued by the Publishers Association with Comments HERBERT THRING and Illustrative Examples Sir WALTER BESANT 2nd Edition Giving the Terms Periodicals and their contributors which the different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS and Contributions Society Authors List Members Published October 1907 price Forms . . . 1s. 6d . Action , in of ). 1888 its . LELY. 18 M , .D of . J. J. 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Stock Glasgow 0 0 1910 July July July . . in .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. . .. dated Inscribed DLOCK Stock London and North Western ture Stock Trust Cape 1 0 Donations 30 . by of . inin the . is 24 % Local Loans Victorian Government Egyptian 1 010 . 1911 . to , as of of at is , in to in hand the course declare another pension case any portant claim forthcoming Consols s d. 1 0 0 10 6 1 1 0 . • • Jan . 3. Yolland , Miss E . . Jan . 3, Bowen , Miss Marjorie Jan . 9 . Bolton , Miss Anda . Jan . 13 . Edginton , Miss May . , to of , to toto of be sufficient funds . £ 1 . . . ld . . . is . 4 37 at , The trustees however have been unable recom any further pensions mend the payment the present exhausted their disposal income tention the They desire draw the attention the members members hope that by ety this fact the the society this fact the hope that ubscriptions and donations there wiii year . . Dec . 9 , Sproston , Samuel . Dec . 9, George , W . L . . .. Dec. 12 , Clifton , Mrs . . Dec . 21, Scoon , W . G . . Dec . 22 , Purdon , K . F . . Dec. 31 , Sinclair , Miss ( in addition her present subscription ) of in in to 4 of - . 31 : - of before them the financial position the fund decided invest £260 the following securities £130 the purchase per cent Stock 1919 49 and £130 Jamaica purchase per cent Stock 1937 the Mauritius purchased The amount £132 188 6d per cent Stock and £120 12s Jamaica per cent Stock Mauritius This brings the invested funds over £4 000 Parry , Sir Hubert Nov . 17 , Coben , Mrs . Herbert Dec. 8 , De Morgan , William . . . February N N THE PENSION 11 , Nov . . . 104 �set 105 . 's in to to of as a on , on to 's , , to 's a of to in a , of . to In 0 0 0 take the matter further question the next case which was the publisher right insert advertisements author book without his consent the committee opinion decided take counsel this habit advertising without reference the author was the increase and the committee considered the present example before them good test case unable an 0 , 's to . , on of , as he - off the publisher account Counsel advised that did not think any special principle was involved the case would have ipsissima verba decided this particular Accordingly the committee instructed contract report counsel opinion the secretary the author concerned and regretted that they were of question be 0 0 d . 0 6 0 1 2 £ 10 5 10 1 2 8 . 0 0 0 0 . . . . G 0 0 . . . . , - 5 3 10 1 5orco Eero . . T James C , , , Tanner Kaye Smith Miss Sheila Kemp Miss Emily , Jan Jan Jan Jan 1 0 3 ( . . A , Douglas James Norman Leonard Grisewood Wharton . • . . P . J . . Jan . . . . Jan , 9 7 17 16 12 10 , , , , , , , Jan . 6 Blake . G . N . Crellin Jan ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· . . , . H . Jan F Jan , . M J. . K . and Randall . . . Jan . . . Jan . 5 5 5 4 4 , , , , , S W P . . . F H . . THE AUTHOR . which obtain advice The difficulties which started thenext case were as follows infancy and father during his son his agreement behalf entered into the publication on 's . for an a . of 's for , his of to a to of an to to . In of , to . In on 's , led . 's in of , of . a 's an . an re - of ts , . re - in to to to , , be , . a in a to of 's in 's an up , of to of be if it of of it to it , as , if on . infringement in The secretary also reported that another case copyright the infringement had infringement of . it a later was an , , , 's new as if , If, to of the . the had been long time books The committee the greatest importance stop case this kind were possible appeared that there might and chance owing the peculiarity the terms the opinion take counsel contract they decided favour counsel opinion was and further publi stop the action take action cation The secretary then reported that the chairman during the month had given leave take action the Dublin Courts case of infringement of copyright by Irish paper The committee con firmed the sanction given by the chairman The secretary stated that the matter was being carried satisfactorily and would most probably settled very shortly the defendant had confessed the to on 's in 's .up in of last meeting the committee opinion decided take counsel next dispute This opinion was read secretary The cause action was the been . by in had At . , to refuse take the matter fail the claim for damages , to duty fortber the case would being too remote his considered that a to to , in to of to their as it lelt Such contra circulation , , a of . be . to .” lathor was content claim damages accordance with the advice the society solicitors the lociety would take the matter however the uthor desired claim damages accordance with they the statement now laid before the committee book dead issue But this author might suffer existing publication olten upset author and might also check considerably the , to a of a , at , a to of an " Out think that the book was was not the only damage . , a , so It . , of , , In r returning the answer order was sent print The committee decided that the when an A . of on . . of 's ecretary was accordingly instructed write the rathor advising him wait publisher had failed the next case one provide the author volume two occasions This assignment had obtained bring out this contract and proposed new edition the work direct opposition the author wishes Similar difficulties have not infrequently arisen years past the publisher aim being clearly gain money the advanced reputation author some cases the author had been unable take any step and had endure the republica tion his juvenile efforts without any public and definite statement from the publisher setting out consequence the public were the facts so on an ; of ind be the contract between the author judge and jury the publisher what view night take that the committee decided further present especially taking iction was inadvisable further nto account the fact that after the sale which was still selling the 100 copies of the book quite atbor demand would clear The vagueness book print and Another publisher in of - of - the number both the elections resignations are about average with previous years hat The names the new members are chronicled another page Cases The committee then considered series of egal cases which had collected since the last meeting The first dispute under discussion arose out owing question account was uncertain wenty seven ind out to were elected and the com regret the resignation , five members accepted with first son practically do to - , 9 . ' o ut clock Twenty pittee , on of I at of of Manage first meeting the Committee ment for the year 1911 was held the Monday January offices the society of MHE four , : . to NOTES . COMMITTEE �THE AUTHOR . , ' , , and. , of of . to , Sir Sir , to to to alsothe. , to the of . out ' , to . - the to 's . of 070 for , , on in of , as , of to of as , . & had , by , Dorothy . of . - . , . up of donation 10s had been made Miss Fox the Capital Fund the society , - in of to a at subsequent meeting They the committee take this course follow instructed the secretary ing the Dramatic Sub Committee the footsteps to of , , . be 's an as , of a , to pre The committee instructed the secretary specimen draft agreement between agent and author for the marketing author literary wares which agreement would settled . be by of its or on it , to he be as , , A . . of to in . Mr Douglas Freshfield for his work both the committee committeeman and chairman present chairman since 1897 Mr Hewlett convey the resolution the cominittee undertook Mr Freshfield The secretary reported that three members taken life membership and finally that to to , of - in of by , , 's : order pare solicitors were again discussed and the matter was adjourned February meeting suggestion that membership the society should made compulsory election years was the case the Italian Society Authors was rejected by the committee hearty vote thanks was unanimously passed to . or One two important points with regard the production sketches music halls brought forward one the dramatic authors the society were laid before the committee by the secretary and the committee decided take opinion counsel The other matters were taken the following and carry the legal work Certain issues regarding society and the society A again Publishers Association had proposed to , defendant the piece to an was Copyright Sub Committee The secretary was write the Copyright Association instructed and the the points . virtually settled the undertaking not play the matter giving subject nominated their consent Charles represent the composers Villiers Stanford represent the dramatists and Mr Arthur Pinero MacGillivray and the secretary represent , it as , of . to . in to , an to an . of , . it to a , to a , The next was also dramatic case and the secretary was able report that the case had been settled satisfactorily and read letter from the author giving her thanks the society for the had taken action The last was another dramatic case and another infringement performing rights Again might have been necessary bring action injunction the chairman had given his for place the matter leave the hands the solicitors This action the committee now con report that firmed Tbe secretary was able to be laid before Parliament were in harmony on the main issues , and suggested that it might there fore be worth while to have a joint committee ready to take action when the Bill was passing through Parliament . It was quite clear , under the present organisation , if each body had to report back to own committee the opportunity taking action through members Parliament opposing proposing certain measures might lost The secretary mentioned that he had sog gested the idea Mr Heinemann who had approved behalf the Publishers Association adopted The committee the suggestion . to . . , to 's an been acknowledged . This also would be settled as soon as a satisfactory arrangement between the parties could be come to on the question of damages . The next question dealt with an infringement of dramatic copyright . It was found , however , when the society commenced investigation , that the alleged infringement had taken place under authority given by the author agent The author allowed the authority stand deciding settle the matter himself with his agent to 106 a who had already drafted similar agreement for dealing with dramatic property special sub committee was appointed settle placed the report for last year which report will before the members the general meeting the votes for the The date for the return the committee was settled members election the general meeting and the place The date where will be held were provisionally settled placed before the members These items will all The Author the society either through . - I. of of of at - theto to . the ou in of of . on of of it communica had shown a 's a after having received solicitors the society , one case from as , - to . an it A tion Sub , to in , - ' of at . of might have been Committee take immediate action and apply injunction He stated that the defendants Dramatic necessary for . . or by be of circular the meeting The secretary reported that the Copyright Sub Committee with the Publishers and the Copyright Association Association appeared that all the reports sent the Board Trade dealing with the Copyright Bill sbortly SUB COMMITTEE Sub Committee the Dramatic MEETING the offices Authors was held the Society January 10th The first business the society the minutes was the report after the signing the hands the theatrical cases that were the society since the last meeting solicitors that two cases had The secretary mentioned reference be dealt with without previous in . be to , it , of to of of at , - A . DRAMATIC �THE AUTHOR . from the agents of the dramatist ignorant. dramatist was The accordingly had to be dropped , and the matter dramatist decided to settle the issues with his In acknowledged , the member thanking the society for the it had done . The next matter for discussion was the question of the production of sketches in music halls . After careful consideration it was decided to put the whole matter before counsel , with an instruc tion to settle a petition to be presented to the torily work Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Dramatic Sub secretary was Committee of the society . The instructed to take the matter in hand at once , decided and the Sub - Committee Tuesday , the 17th , to discuss the settled . of on to meet petition thus It was decided that it should be en and sent to all the members of the Dramatic Sub - Committee for signature , and forwarded to the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest possible opportunity . to . agreed grossed Cases . SINCE the last issue of The Author there have been only eleven fresh cases in the hands of the secretary . Four of these deal with the return of MSS . ; two of them have ended satisfactorily , one refers to a matter in Germany , and , in consequence , will occupy some time in settlement , and the othe has only just come into the office . Of the three claims for money one has been satisfactorily two reached settled ; the remaining the office a few days before the magazine went to press. Of the three claims accounts and money two for The secretary reported that the Committee of Management had decided to take counsel 's opinion on two important points affecting the representa tion of dramatic property in music - halls , and the Dramatic Sub -Committee gave their approval to the action taken by the Committee of Management. be approached . The secretary then laid before the sub -committee the petition as settled by counsel , together with counsel ' s opinion on the papers submitted to him , and after some slight discussion the petition was have been settled of negotiation and the other still course an to now . . , on to of in The last case referred the settlement agreement The terms put forward have been accepted . Elections . , . , E .C . . 29 , . Daintree Bridge New Street Hampden Allen Phenix Club Street N . W . , , , Gilfillan Tunbridge Road , Queen 's , 7 . . , M . E . Glancey Wells . , W , Chipping Norton . Fletcher Banister . , Miss May , To , , . . , 42 . . . , Edginton to . to for , , a to . to be was it , ", , . . , , Blundell Miss Alice Dart Miss Edith . to it of . In Byculla Bombay India Lyonnais Credit Paris Powis Square The Orchard Credi ton Devon Merris Court near . to of of Albert Bonsteel , striking Bates , ': , of e , of ' the advisability Association alluded the clause affecting the rights authors order thoroughly defend the position authors however Mr pointed out Raleigh was very necessary public support the Bill relating authors which Mr Robert Harcourt shortly amusements lay before Parliament intended this end deemed desirable that the Home Secretary should deputation invited receive con ont the agreement in of - of . . - he Managers mentioned that good authority End Managers End the Theatrical Street Victoria Hall " Balfour John Alexander , of , to music halls Mr Cecil Raleigh had heard indirectly but upon West that the chairman the West urging upon Association was New Bond W . . . . , Anstey Mre Helen in , . by that had passed between the chairman Sir Arthur regard Pinero and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree the matter the agreement between the dealing with theatrical and music ball managers the question the production sketches 45 , by to , at - of THE Dramatic Sub Committee the society Tuesday met again the offices the society January 17th order discuss and settle finally the petition the Lord Chamberlain which had been drafted counsel The secretary opened reading the correspondence the proceedings of . , II . in . dramatists and the chief officials the Authors ' Society . Another meeting of the Dramatic Sub -Com mittee was then called for Thursday , the 26th inst . . of such deputation , to decide upon the constitution and the form in which the Home Secretary should the had the other case the defendant infringement , and had given an undertaking not to deal illegally with the member 's property again . The third case , which was a threat by the defendant to infringe the member ' s rights , reported had been settled the secretary satisfac agent of some sisting obtained of which is licence 107 �THE AUTHOR . 108 Hill , W . Neave . Iliowizi , Henry . . . 49, Dover Piccadilly , Collingwood 63 , , Hill , N . Muswell Avenue Kemp , Emily G . Knight, E Lawrence , T. J . . F . . . . . , Miss Linda . Maud , Mrs . Dorothy . ary , Robert E . i . Lindemann Yorick Club , 30 , Bedford Street , W . Upton Lovel Rectory , * Wilts . Sidholme 10, Pelham , Sidmouth . Simpson , Horace - Wanless , M . V. J. , Wentworth , C . L . G . Wilson, Lady A . C . . . Street, S . W . c /o Messrs. Curtis , Brown and Massie , 5, Henrietta Scott - James , R . A . Street , W. 15 , W .C . Street , Porchester Gar dens , W . Beech Hill Cottage , Bury St. Edmunds. c /o English , Scottish and Australian Bank , 38 , Lombard Street , E . C . Ochilview N . B. , Crieff , BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS . 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 effice 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 . ART . WHILE By A . K . EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. SELECTED 40 Coloured and COOMARASWAMY , D. Sc . Containing Collotype Plates of Indian Painting and Sculpture, either bound or in portfolio form , and with Introduction and Notes by the Author . Quaritch . 3 38. By , INDIAN DRAWINGS . A . K . COOMARASWAMY D. Sc. A Study of the Studies of Indian Artists of the Mughal Rajput many Collotype and Schools . With 29 Plates and Line Drawings in the Text . Probst bain & Co . Great Russell Street . 258. ESSAYS ON THE PURPOSE OF ART . Past and Present By MRS . RUSSELL Creeds of English Painters . BARRINGTON . 9 x 6. 421 pp . Longmans. 128. 6d . n . BIOGRAPHY . MRS. E . M . WARD ' S REMINISCENCES . Edited by ELLIOT O' DONNELL . 93 x 6. 296 pp . Pitman . 128. 6d . 1 . BOOKS OF REFERENCE . LITERARY YEAR BOOK AND BOOKMAN 'S DIRECTORY . Edited by BASIL STEWART . 74 x 43 . 927 pp . Routledge . 68. n. DRAMA . SOUVENIR OF “ THE BLUE BIRD . " By HERBERT TRENCH . 84 x 11. John Long . 6d . n . By THE MADRAS HOUSE : A Comedy in Four Acts . GRANVILLE BARKER . 74 x 44. 144 pp . 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REPRINTS ALL THE WORLD AIRSHIPS AEROPLANES AND DIRI Flying Annual GIBLES Founded and edited JANE Second year issue 1910 1911 128 Sampson Low 218 464 F on , . by . + Vice President Briggs : X 54 . ., Toronto The Rev Professor Skeat has completed small which will Berkshire Place names treatise shortly published the Clarendon Press written the same lines the Place names Huntingdonshire Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire already published for him and Hertfordshire the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the East Hertfordshire Archæological Society is . . , .pp 70 . . WOLLEY 7 } x - PHILLIPPS Navy League F . . R .C . 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E , . . - be the Bible and our 's , ” of is it . of “ to of of A of is a of of on ) the same calibre himself but rather than break faith with the woman the under world sacrifices himself well his art The book hopefulness and ends note intended show there much good the worst of us Miss Keeton will give during the month February three her Studies Modern Hampstead British Song Wimbledon and sung Camberley Vocal illustrations will Miss Grainger Kerr accompanied Miss Marjorie on a of , by of a . be of Texts this issue Stanley Thornfield lives luxuri her the other ously and passes the author the writings keeps poor lodging his half brother whom ignorant and who the fact the relationship expose the end Stanley Thornfield made his imposture through the hypnotic power of old man who has exploited him for his own ends and the dénouement achieved dramatic and tragic manner The story ends the spring sun shine Florence where the true Sea Lion dangerous operation almost sound man after comes last into his own Humanity Priestess Mrs Stanley published psycho Wrench John Long logical study woman who has gone under but good man who reclaimed by the love He writer unconsciously falls love with woman “ ", in — a , is of in on are to “ The Great Sea In in ." a , in “ - ”, to , - to of of of mentioned the The “ A “ ” 's of a “ a , ., ., C of .B . , W . , ( war another column The Author among Woollaston White We have rectified the Lion Patrick Rushden the story two half brothers one whom has been Through sea and the real Sea Lion injuries entirely paralytic and has become dependent his half brother who markets his writings for him They are extremely alike appearance and the spurious Lion wins the love the heroine Sybil Lethbridge the strength this she cared for the real Sea Lion Brian Thornfield who went out her life and transfers forcibly reminds her affections the man who a . . G . P - . . ) " , is “ . “ of , . at a It . C . of defensive error of to to is , " . of (“ of .” by , .” be is by . ." “ subject day for the security her frontier Imperial importance which the creation Canadian navy and the recommendations the Imperial Defence Conference 1909 add special Wellington interest The grounds for the dictum that naval superiority the lakes sine qua even it , to ”, a of “ . is It . , . of Major Canada and Canadian Defence General Robinson which discusses closely the general character naval and military defence required under the circumstances Canada success is , a of , is . F . K , is to to a “ , in a . . “ a new novel Victoria Cross called Self and the story Other love and self sacrifice and Cambridge University and the scenes are laid Constantinople Hugh Rees Ltd Messrs are the publishers fully explained frontier Canada Among books shortly published may . . P . , . of & . by , " of , 's . ' . be Syrinx Laurence North author has for Mr Martin Secker new novel entitled Impatient Griselda comedy The book published early modern life will the present year January Mr Werner Laurie published early non T . in is . of , . of an of , to is .' in to to - Mr the last issue the Juvenile Works Mrs novel Waste Places to . be to of we included trained The tricks taught Flot and referred dog known the book were taught the writer without the introduction harsh word shortly Mrs Barclay novel The Rosary appear German translation Messrs Putnams Sons have arranged also for the Nor wegian serial translation rights this story Mrs Desmond Humphreys Rita has just published her impressions America which she recently visited The book entitled America Through English Eyes Rita new novel published will Messrs Hutchinson early the spring entitled Half Truth written , , . of is as a is , is , , Flot Purdon Irish mongrel his hardships and joys The object the book induce owners dogs remember that these animals have rights respected and whatever trouble they give man due their being misunderstood and badly “ The Fortunes the story military for the first time treated and shown that all the evidence indicates that they took London first and settled round and that they then fought the Valley the Thames We regret that through error classification Saxons question of , is by J , . E . ", it as be . to commemoration the Authorised Version 1611 Mary 1911 The author Mr Pells Hove the editor The First English Transla tion the Septuagint and the publishers are Messrs Simpkin Marshall London Major Godsal has published through Messrs Harrison Sons The Storming London and the Thames Valley Campaign this book the conquest Britain the Anglo & . J. M . . . a it - of “ , of English Translations Tercentenary the at for young people stories Messrs Dent Sons are the publishers Down Our Street Buckrose the provincial town and gives comedy picture really people middle class life not imagine There some humour the book and the irrepressible Mrs Bean the chief Sophia supplies character though the love story the thread upon which the novel hangs The whole narrative concerns the inhabitants one street and the reader makes the acquaintance small social community each character being definitely pourtrayed Messrs Mills Boon are the publishers of THE AUTHOR . 110 �as is . . , 's . by Co . & of a a . “ ”, , on - on " ( , , , , to at “ on a . it is . of . Rev . by a an the . introduction Mr , Co . in . . , & . . Morris Colles and Mr Henry Cresswell have with Messrs Methuen England and Mr Pitis Duffield America made arrangements on for in . of . by “ of . a as as , pen well Canon Scott Holland to a is of ”, . , . in to as to of to is to " in of the simultaneous publication small work likely Success Literature which prove interesting authors The scope the book harvest and elucidate such counsels the literary great are accessible and likely prove practically useful authors their work pretensions The book makes no didactic the to . an is It Messrs . J. wbich M of ", Crime and Punishment publishing Dent Sons . , of . . in of as , , , , to of object the compilers having been simply adduce from many sources such precepts obser may serve vacions and thoughts reveal the nearly ready secrets success literature Mr Lurence Irving contributes introduction and appreciation Fedor Dostoieffsky and his work the Everyman Edition his novel . the his are Mr is . is . ) a as of . . revised , . , - . issue depending plays on by of ", “ a three . a is " is . . 's . to , .” a novel more sensational character and cheap edition Lombard Street Lent announced Mr Robert Scott This issue under the general editorship the Rev Percy Dearmer and contains new chapter from another to Heinemann ", , of by of a is " , . of , in in E of March 5th she has been invited deliver critical essay Heinrich Heine She also contemplates giving lecture Hampstead soon after her return Prison life affects the more highly portion educated the community the theme novel which Mr Roy Horniman has just completed Mr Horniman has also completed Swansea & . ., , , “ , . by 's in be the date of ), Mr the year Messrs Duck will publishi volume including Justice written Galsworthy published Later ( Co . & . in ", Patrician will early March is of of , “ by It 's of “ is whilst “ . in . . by Sir of , of . , , to College the founder Baronet Messrs Burnside Ltd are the publishers John Galsworthy new novel called The Morden on of of . 's “ . E . .” Dr . . in of , of . , of , . placed the scene which the south east England coast paper Miss Regina Miriam Bloch whose Longfellow Three Great American Poets Emerson and Poe was recently delivered before the Bedford Park Literary and Philosophical Society giving several smaller readings during February A , A . E . by 's of of 's , of is bequeathed John Morden Blackheath of social life Calcutta Messrs Digby Long are the publishers The same firm issue also Mr Reginald Salwey new novel The Kestrel of St . “ “ for of a , in , of , “ received called a little volume the Rev Charity Princess Alfrida Princess Alfrida was the third and youngest daughter Alfred the Great and the Grant copy mentioned the Charter which Dr Lansdell obtained from the State Archives Ghent details the princess gift her inheritance Lewisham Greenwich and Woolwich Dr Lansdell traces the history the Charity which involved the history the first five hundred years the reputed manor Old Court Green wich now the principal possession the properties worth already The Other Wife the title Miss Olivia Ramsey new novel published Messrs John Long young wife relates the experiences introduced into London society after dull and isolated girlhood This Miss Ramsey fifth novel The Reproof Chance novel Mrs presented picture Savi which the - ) ) of ; ; " of ( ” of . .” on “ , an ” ; in . , ; ” “ , on . its ". We have Lapsilell Mr published on is & . - 's " at 6d 's of on be . “ Cities novel is ” is , of . ( ( “ , ” in a ' 1s . 28 . , at at 's “ , St . of ” ; “ ; ” ; ” of ” in ” ). is s - Testament The proprietors edition Edith Searle Gross being The Heart the Bush the John Lane Company New York American re in Co . by of W . in . S . “ “ of Modern English Travel and Exploration may cungratulated their first issue 1911 which fully maintains the standard this magazine Among the contributors are inception since Malay Klongs Mr Edmund Forbes who writes and Rivers Mr Ernest Young who describes Bear Shooting Finland and Mr Reynolds Ball who has article Six Flemish New An mann . . . C F ' . . V . , & ”, Partridge announce the publication the fourth edition The Com plete Bible Modern English Ferrar Fenton The same publishers have also Mr Fenton New Testament Modern English ninih edition The Five Books Moses fourth edition The Six Historical Books The Books the Prophets The Psalıns and Poetical Books Epistles the Bible Paul sixth edition All these with the exception the last mentioned are published The Paul Epistles are issued which price published special People also Edition The Messrs production yet date the two plays not performed The same writer now working another play . , , by . the publishers are . Co . it in an " , or “ In Love Lucre Edith Gerrard the important problem author deals with which rastly different ways by the different faced people whom concerns Messrs White 111 “ ' of , O , , , A , , , . R H , . , ), ( , C , , . , , , include examples the Ernest Austin Granville immest Bright Bantock Hubert Bath Dora Arthur Bright Barclay Walford Davies Katherine Eggar Joseph Holbrooke Frederick Nicholls Norman Neill Roger Quilter Katherine Ramsay Marchioness Percy Rideout Jervis Read Ethel Tullibardine Cyril Scott Smyth Ernest Walker William Wallace Walthew Dalhousie Young following . will The studies composers Adam W by : dies . , , will THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . Sir play will be Alexander . 's 's “ , . of . ' . s , in 's & ", . 't “ 's , . to It ” of a is a . . W . A . E . ." , . in , , is an of novel , Charles . Garvice dramatise Mr . by , a production to . bas arranged . for early “ , is a of the other Mr Roy Horniman in is at , " notice , ( , Coats of to called For the Defence comedy by Lady Gregory was pro January duced the Abbey Theatre Dublin The theme the play the rivalry between two obituary editors each whom has written in to .' . s by . ; , to an political interest and It . , on . , the Naziomora Theatre New York was also played the London Scala the same evening for copyright purposes Mr George Alexander will produce this month play new play Mr Mason , , . P M , comedy Mr Granville Barker four acts The Madras House was published last month Messrs Sidgwick Jackson consequence Miss Neilson and Mr Terry return the New Theatre Mr Oscar Asche and Brayton Miss Lily have transferred Count the Garrick Theatre Hannibal Mr Henry Arthur Jones new play We Can had its first performance Bad all That ; an St . . , . , Co . H W , . . C 6, . Lane , . , a . of ; is It Germany . on has just brought out , ", ." " la et in 's la de et “ “ De “ , at in by , three acts Captain Basil was revived book entitled La Bavière Saxe Westphalie The former ones are Rhin Hambourg Pologne aux marches Jules Huret does not write his Berlin and the countries residence month books after “ is , to . by , ” Dream the operetta stage for the English Adrian Ross with lyrics .. , ” Waltz his fourth ." , . JULES HURET . , . , . . of PARIS NOTES a ) ; , by " Lucilla " is a drama in three scenes by published Doherty Edward Durand Messrs Great Newport Street Martin “ on ", Theatre The play lady with ideals she hoped reform so - a to “ at “ A Fagan has also dramatised Mr. “ Bella Donna . " This produced later by Mr. George ” as , in acts includes Mr Arthur Playfair Miss Lilian Braithwaite Miss Marie Löhr and Mr Dion Boucicault having been transferred from Vice Versâ the Comedy Theatre the Court now houscd the Strand Theatre cast Hood Mr. Buddhist monas The play is a . ! to . 's . four was produced relates how Mrs Panmure married worn out rake whom how she was far unsuccessful that her husband paying osculatory attention was guilty the family governess how the governess endeavoured persuade other males take the guilt order that she might spare Mrs Panmure whom she pain secretary who loved how love with the governess takes the blame for the offence and finally how the governess obtains the The Parliament for her husband member adapted passes in a bungalow Hichens ' novel, as of a a in as , . play Pinero new Panmure the Comedy Mr at January 19 “ Sir Arthur Preserving . love tragedy Robert to of on all , — , of by , DRAMATIC The first act at ' on , , - . 's , public and patriotic participation many space has been accorded entertaining contemporary letters which are they are interesting family political affairs India . in In , to . of - by original research come within the scope two volumes But wbilst presenting continuous typical county century record century is laid in the Plains , the latter two in a tery in the Himalaya of Bhutan . wrote - The Serpent and so , who Andrew & Stephen the Cross ,” has published a new novel, “ Doctor Grey , ” in which he describes the life of an average Incidentally doctor of to -day . the author has pictures of many little drawn sharp impressionist known sides of English life . Messrs . Greening & Co . are the publishers . “ The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake , " Lady Eliott Drake should prove interesting from many points view Hitherto unpublished relating documents Sir Francis ancestry and circumnavigation sidelights national and county history local politics and the fortunes several west country families based recent “ Africa . Daly 's January Theatre on 7. The present version has been strengthened by certain altera The cast in the last act . tions introduced includes Mr . Robert Michaelis , Mr. W . H . Berry , and Miss Lily Elsie . Mrs. Percy Dearmer 's mystery play , “ The Play . mate , " which was performed last year , has been published by Messrs . Mowbray & Co. , with illus trations by Helen Stratton . Mr. J . B . Fagan has just completed a modern three -act play , “ The Wheel ," the scene of which by Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was sent through Canada by the Canadian Government to prepare delivered in for lectures , which she has since England , showing the desirability of emigration The example of the Canadian Government has been followed by the Australian Government , who have sent Miss Beatrice Grimshaw to explore Papua , while the British South African Company have also engaged a woman , Miss E . A . Maidmend , promotion work to do agricultural for South at be 112 �THE AUTHOR . La en des l' are“ on , , Ch . a l' , ; . M , de . “ in on l' ”, , de de de is 's “ is et is all , , of " a . - - “ , on of to to a in is . is , to to , 's . . is do to is is of to . , , at . M , ” by . de at all of . . . an is 's of de is , la “ de ' L (“ ” . - de of in re -o of of by 's of A - each is , company specially for and the admirable their appreciation and that the end of the de Sainte Croix will take his tour through England with his - at in a . M is It . . La " (F La La ” ( . ) ) . ). ). " ( ” ( ( ). ). asquelle Bavière Arthur Savaète Les Feministes avant Féminisme Les Femmes Auteurs Plon Fosse aux Lions Bernard Grasset Bataille Ollendorff Pour tuer Bonaparte Ollendorff " ( ; published some recent numbers “ “ " " " “ on an de et has in hebdomadaire interesting articles of on by ”, at 's an . of is . ' d French season company for of et “ on . de of . M . M du ." La Rerue excellent ALYS HALLARD Vaughan extremely such Croix has chosen Shakespeare repertory Révolution gives Tavernier Tolstoi and Thureau Dangin Cardinal Vaughan celle Colonel , on Le In La " article Vie de les cardie l' la de by . by M “ ” .” . of ' “ L , . . . by by M ." , , ” of M du he is , " " Sainte actor and trained the whole The result these plays Parisians are enthusiastic very probable praise . , . , " " “ La “ ; : ; “ de . M L une Rarely represented ensemble seen ." “ of , , . ’ de d , , “ : Le “ ; . on ' , . M : . ” M ). , - in of , of l' , “ “ , ” by by In . M memorated the Comédie Française with the honours possible matinée and soirée entirely composed the poet works were both greatly appreciated the admirers Musset the theatrical the season One the events pening world has been the the Shakespeare The Camille Sainte Croix with Theatre by Taming the Shrew Ecole Pie The play was given two nights and Grièche plays Shakespeare fortnight another every " , to for de , of , . - the recent numbers the Revue Deux Faguet writes Liberalisme Etatisme René Doumic studies the works Alfred Capus and Paul Leroy Beaulieu writes Eventualité Syndicaliste Correspondant rescue the family Geneviève then discorers his real worth breaks off her engagement and marries him Carnaval des enfants Saint Georges Bouhélier has had great success the Théâtre des Arts Alfred de Musset was com The centenary Le to “ , a is It . of , " so , , de St , " " pre ", , " Femmes Fosse aux Bataille Bonaparte Les La He be is de la to . - of of to a of of . M a to is - . to of . to a de in in . , byde du at is Among other new books are Auteurs Vicomte Broc Lions Emile Baumann Claude Farrère Pour tuer Georges Ohnet uncle who the brink ruin willing this provided that his cousin engaged Geneviève will marry him She Etienne then inflexible but when Geneviève brother about commit suicide and his sister appeals him he finally yields and comes the rescue “ be by ” is . “ , M le , is of of so in on Du Bosc Gabriel Decrues Goussault Duchess Other books Liancourt and James Lawrence this author are entitled Le Mensonge Au Caur Autour du Féminisme Féminisme Féminisine La Trouée Féministe and Suffrago des Femmes ent writing Capus Aventurier Alfred still the bill the Porte Saint Martin Like happy this author plays the Aventurier has ending Etienne Ranson the scapegrace the family leaves the country debt and comes back wealthy man He then invited come the to by . given many different lines from women society according various classes the quoted Christine passages Pisan expected com petence matters economics administration agriculture and finance from the women for whom she wrote The other chapters the volume are Aubigné Erasmus Corneille Agrippa Agrippa Gournay Joseph Maistre De Escale Mlle Mondes ” of on - . is it which we ourselves book written Joran entitled Les Féministes avant Féminisme curious and interesting and might read with profit the saffragettes and the suffragists day The volume dedicated woman and the preface written by woman Joran endeavours show the difference between the ideals the large women former times and the demands day group the women The first chapter this book devoted Christine Pisan and her book Le Trésor Cité des Dames one the works written by her interesting between 1399 and 1405 find many centuries ago that woman should expect The competence Guy Montbel pnblishes the souvenirs his grandfather Comte Montbel under the title Sur les routes exil and Jules Lemaître lecture Les Péchés Sainte published Beuve full the Odéon Roméo Juliette now being At much , , . on of to us will tell ignorant in on of a his be . he he are At on . , us , is he bable that avocats M , of ' appreciated for very many years His book literary questions and another one questions present social economy were both eagerly read giving series articles the Argentine published later which will volume form England pro When turns attention among others Europe Balance politique very Orient Gabriel Hanotaux and Orients and curious Cheñu ab instructive article instructive former Batonnier de Ordre des avocats Le Centennaire restauration avocats Ordre des of in is a he of , as d To - a 's . is , of . he describes He has been living the various Germany and parts keen observer knowledge and shrewd this work chef ouvre observation all readers the Figaro Jules investigations have thoroughly Huret been 113 �a its , in , , of of for to , . of 22 an ad . of in , by to or an ad , of of of of of of a a be of of to , , be of , of of as , of in , in , as . in in It ? a 21 . in to be a of a , " " or , . of of of in of “ in ”, in in it as . . , 5 in " “ be of . a , am ( a ), or 8 “ of a a of ", “ a is is a . so It is of a — a " or it . . . for of . in of be be " “ by it be to on of no . ” “ 3 , of in . printed the book should But provided the present Act sub that all the work connection with the printing and binding every book accorded pro tection the Act shall done within the limits the United States and by sect the importa of in is plates sect stance of 31 . be , , . : given the words book and work this Act which did not exist before the passage the Act March 1891 The Copyright pro Acts before the one that date contained visions with reference where and what type should by to a in a of , as of , of , . I in of a 22 in 21 ofin in is . of in a an be of . . . of of ad , a to 21 . to . ." , of to of it in ), , a a is is : In pro was enacted sect that the author prietor any work made the subject copyright by this Act shall have copyright such work under the conditions and for the term speci certainly was not intended fied this Act chapter that two mere fragment book should fall within the meaning the word work and Such fragment not work only part cannot considered special reason why this meaning work There . . 18 . , of : ad is 22 of 15 , . in and sections the entire book was the minds fragment thereof Congress and not also the opinion that the same meaning given the word appears should book When and elsewhere the Act class sect these . , 9 of I is . . 2 . 3 . 4 of the Copyright Act which copyright procuring relate book published abroad the Euglish language while the last two involve the general provisions the Act Sects 21 and 22 read follows sects to a , , of by ., , am of ( 35 , 4 ; by is a 1 . part only such book interim and permanent Where both the deposits are fragments the work printed Where the copy and bound accordance with the manufacturing provisions sect the Act and deposited the first only fragment instance the work complete book deposited but the Where affidavit correctly indicates that only part the printed work the United States reply these questions have the honour say The first two questions rolve construction under sect to in 22 21 . in 5 OF of of a in thereon and asked what action should Copyrights when taken the Register application the made which presents either following conditions deposit under sect Where the interim complete book and the permanent deposit Does the word book here used mean the fragment appears entire book book me that there can but one answer this question The requirement sect that deposit the Copyright Office within the time specified copy one complete the foreign clearly indicates that edition the enactment I is a in is . as of , -- , Your it of 15 is a (4 ) ( a ) of , " “ in . 1910 January communication you transmit 1910 wherewith certain documents Congress was duly received from the Librarian appears From the statement the Librarian attempting that number instances comply with the provisions the copyright law only parts March 1909 Stat 1080 applicants with the books hare been deposited Copyrights and copyrights applied for Register SIR “ ; (2 ) ( 3 ) . , in ; of , a . February States accordance with the manufacturing pro visions specified section fifteen this Act and deposit whenever the provisions this Act filing registration copies affidavit and the printing the copyright notice shall have been duly complied with the copyright shall extended such book for the full term elsewhere endure provided this Act of in a is ), ., of 21 , . (1 ) 35 of in ; of ad a is of , ( 4 , of 22 . of , Washington abroad one complete copy the foreign edition request the copyright the reservation with the the name and nationality and statement author and the copyright proprietor and the publication date the said book shall secure proprietor the author interim copyright which shall have all the force and effect given copyright this Act and shall endure until the thirty days after such deposit expiration the copyright Office Sect That whenever within the period protection such interim authorised edition published within the United such book shall or of copyright should denied Where the interim deposit under sect the Copyright Act March 1909 Stat 1080 com deposit under plete book and the permanent part only sect such book Where both the interim and permanent deposits are fragments the work Where the copy printed and bound accordance with the manu facturing provisions sect the Act and fragment deposited only the first instance complete book the work and Where deposited but the affidavit correctly indicates that printed part only the United the work States The word book used sects and and class sect and elsewhere that fragment Act means the entire book and not thereof DEPARTMENT JUSTICE of for be registration in in FRAGMENT OF BOOK . OF ad DEPOSIT in . Sect of That the case book published the English language before publication this country the deposit the Copyright Office publication not later than thirty days after . S. A . U abroad PPLICATION A IN 15 REGISTRATION COPYRIGHT 21 . THE AUTHOR . 114 �THE AUTHOR . LICENCE BOWDEN BROS . v . AMALGAMATED to for , to to , . of , in , , , . , . by ; or , to an to to it of . in . . , do to it of he no of , to user and the case be first in to , , be . to as the case subsequent user before acceptance of but re . an . , - to an . the offer could withdrawn The contention that the defen dants had unlimited right use and use the photographs was erroneous The plaintiffs were injunction The damages therefore entitled to of . , - - .] - 176 179 Lotinga doubt convinced himself that the arrangement entitled him what claimed but the legal effect was that Mr Lotinga was not bound use the photographs supplied any photographs the offer and until acceptance could withdrawn After acceptance and com munication thereof the plaintiffs there would concluded contract each photograph accepted , all , if ; in . W , . . , WICKERSHAM Attorney General the the Attorneys General of .pp . . ", Vol 28 P " United States be - to to 15 be . by be of it of Geo The President Official Opinions Mr be . ; . is an be is a as of it applied And the same rule should the fourth necessary prerequisite because the regis tration the copyright that the book should nothing printed required sect and copyrighted but the entire work can then parts printed must accordance with the provisions that section Respectfully , a to I , of of am in as be I , so to a be copyrighted work may nor have find any authorities showing that construed other similar statutes have been For these reasons the opinion that application should refused when the deposit made shown either the first three inquiries right law restrain publication which was threatened and intended the defendants On behalf the defendants was urged that the produce and reproduce contract entitled them the photographs which had been supplied them publish and that they had irrevocable licence those which they had used selected for produc tion the terms arranged between the plaintiffs and Mr Lotinga Mr Justice Parker his judgment said that on able the plaintiffs claimed their common . been and Lotinga ' s Weekly . supplied photographs The plaintiffs to Mr. Lotinga when he was proprietor of the Throne , and agreed to a reduction in the price owing to the financial condition of that paper . The price for the first use of a photo was reduced to 5s., and for any subsequent reproduction the price was 2s . 6d . In 1910 , when Mr. Lotinga caused the defendant company to be incorporated for the purpose of taking over the Throne and Lotinga ' s Weekly , the plaintiffs pointed out that a statement in the prospectus that their blocks were of great value was erroneous , as the permission of the plaintiffs was required for any reproduction of their photographs . In April the plaintiffs terminated their arrange ments as to the supply of photographs these papers The defendants however continued use the photographs and blocks and the plaintiffs who had registered their copyright the photo graphs which published had been sued the copyright defendants for infringement As those photographs which had not been published . part of in , of . stantial merit would become the custom But independent this consideration there appears be nothing the statute which implies that but H in is - of to of a of , to be . it If , - im of ; . to . in sect 31 15 nor the prohibitions against importations would apply the parts not copy righted and the publisher could have the entire remainder the book printed abroad and ported and here bound with the four chapters printed within the United States the law permit this quite should construed probable that the copyrighting part but very sub books which are not supposed be sect , LTD . PICTORIALS I a , in purports . E plaintiffs in this case are a firm of photo graphers supplying photographs for publi cation in the Press at the usual trade price of 10s . 6d ., and the defendant company is pro prietor of the papers called Throne and Country M to be a complete work . If be afforded these four chapters , no other could afford to publish the remainder of the book , and though not legally protected by copyright get the protection of the remaining portion would in fact be perfect . But at the same time peither the manufacturing provisions pamphlet protection publisher COPY PHOTOGRAPHS TO of tion of copyrighted books not manufactured in accordance with the provisions of sect . 15 is pro hibited . Each part of the Act should be so con strued as to give effect to the legislative intent in the enactment of every other part. And to hold that a mere fragment of a book could be copy righted , would open the door to the most extensive evasions of the manufacturing provisions of the Act . For illustration , the Librarian of Congress transmits through you what appears to be a booklet in pamphlet form of fifty -one pages , on the last of which appear the words “ The end .” This has been filed with the Register of Copyrights under sect . 21 for ad interim protection . But as a matter of fact, this pamphlet contains only the first four chapters of the book , and how many more there are and of how many volumes the entire work consists there is nothing to indicate ; nor could the extent of the work make any difference ; nor so far as the principle involved is concerned can the principle be affected by the fact that the 115 �THE AUTHOR HARDY . HAROLD LIBEL NOVEL . A it “ Harold ” because The jury found £200 damages to balance seemed verdict a Belcher the plaintiff . . IN of being attacked by her . Some years ago she obtained an engagement in a chorus , in order to get knowledge and local colour for her story . The Bedford Hotel was certainly in her mind when she mentioned the “ Cambridge Head . " She had not depicted Belcher as a scamp , but he was so described by one of the characters in the story , being upset through jealousy . She chose the name “ Belcher " because it was euphonious , and for were assessed at 108. Gd . for each iŋfringement , and a penalty for the same amount was held to be sufficient, because the defendants bona fide believed they had a right to do what they had done . . for 116 in , he an it , . , in . : to * up a , a , in an , . to if to , in of . in to be . 1910 . January , The Author , • , of Reported in . of " " ", . Dr . . , . de . . . . Imagination . . . . CENTURY By NINETEENTH . to . By . of . - A . . of . , Ph . ” D “ The Modernism Thomas Aquinas the Rev Francis Aveling Plea for the Nationalisation our Sculpture Reynolds Stephens W , By H . . By . . in for no . . His Excellency the Hon Whitelaw Reid Tolstoy Francis Gribble Two German Theatres Granville Barker , , , . . By Byron it ”, . Pollock Benson FORTNIGHTLY . in of in , . C . . . K J. to it Stephen By Sir Frederick a it Arabiniana By A of . , A of of a “ Popular Christ and CORNHILL witnesses were called who said that the story and thought referred general topic the plaintiff and that had been theatrical circies conversation On behalf the defendants was urged that Motley and Tinsel was mere fiction the form sensational novel and that the most powerful agent the world could not have been taken the plaintiff Among witnesses called the defence Miss Jones the authoress stated that she had written about forty serials and one had ever complained be . 's of II . : - ” 's or of “ Collins Literary Supplement meant himself number they had read REVIEW . " in CONTEMPORARY Tolstoy The Unity Life and Work Charles Sarollea By Anatole France Count Soissons By George Lilley Debussy Pélleas Mélisande By Shakespearean Theatres the late Prof Thornton , , “ to “ , , . of , . hood were mentioned their own similar names Mr Marshall the proprietor the Bed ford Hotel for instance stated that he considered Marshall the characters named that one CONTENTS By to in his , ” by of “ , ” 's , " . In on .” MAGAZINE et to ” , on “ “ HARDY HAROLD “ , , for to to to in a a . , an , a “ a ; as a of - ", , an 's in of as of it in a as in a of a a ” , in in he , , and stated that the authoress had drawn her own real experiences that the story was true life and that the characters were real men and women agency business The plaintiff carried Maiden Lane the story reference was made Rule and the Bodega also the Bedford Cambridge Head Hotel under the name the and several persons well known the neighbour life ter in , . , 's , “ of . in “ of 1 , M action libel which the Harold Belcher theatrical agent claimed damages against the proprie Lloyd Weekly News respect tors serial Motley and Tinsel which appeared story entitled that paper The story was written by Miss Ada Jones under Margaret Hamilton the name and the open ing scene was laid the offices theatrical agent called Harold Belcher who was described the most powerful agent the world The narrative dealt with Belcher behaviour towards girl for whom important part obtained play and the jealousy her lover actor who scamp and denounced Belcher thief The advertisement the newspaper announcing story the serial described the stage stage revealing one the most vivid pictures Mr plaintiff This case recalls the recent decision the House Lords when Mr Artemus Jones recovered damages libel and Mr Justice Bucknill his summing the jury pointed out that was not necessary that there should have been intention libel the plaintiff but that was damages they believed that people entitled understood the story refer him Novelists should bear mind however that local surround ings and coincidences are evidence from which the jury may infer that naming author charac particular individual work fiction had mind and under such circumstances the jury might more readily conclude that that individual was understood referred the story of . , LTD in was LLOYD for . EDWARD an HIS v BELCHER �THE AUTHOR . obtained . But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent , or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society . 18. is . It to to all to to an . in . . . , of . of of a of : to . of of an : . if by . . . to . is a , in of or be , . DRAMATIC AUTHORS . WARNINGS per EVER it to sign an agreement without submitting the Secretary the Society Authors some com petent legal authority extremely careful negotiating well for play with any one except the production established manager or for £1 copyright an in be . of : dramatic contract . on of of a by a in unsatisfactory such contract should stipulate the contract for production the piece certain date and for proper publication his name the play bills - a , satisfactory for plays performing right This An author who enters into the . three forms more acts outright of a or Sale is of : . it Outright sometimes if is 1 . Selling This are . . an be to a . n observed few standing rules agreement dealing There are four methods with literary property three (a .) in proper price can be ITERE are of to It There is 2 . THE PRODUCERS BOOKS in OF 3 WARNINGS . TO . of or £10 108. to the Society is life membership . transfer of annum , N 9. The subscription Always avoid of 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 . 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 of the Society Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp possible Avoid agreements letter The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are agreement That both sides shall know what means inspection The those account books which belong right the author We are advised that this the nature common law right which cannot denied withheld a This The General TO 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements . must be done within fourteen days of first execution . Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members . The main points are production Be careful obtain fair cost Keep control the advertisements Keep control the sale price the book . 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 . Commission Agreement A 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of members ' agreements and their preservation in a fire proof safe. The agreements will , of course , be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary , who will keep the key of the safe . The Society now offers : (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them . ( 2) To keep agreements . ( 3) To enforce payments due according to agreements . Fuller particu lars of the Society ' s work can be obtained in the Prospectus . . if The Royalty System . This is perhaps , with certain limitations , the best form of agreement . It is above things necessary know what the proposed royalty means both sides now possible for author ascertain approximately the truth From time time very important figures connected with royalties are published The Author . of a 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers , even 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 . III. IV send ( ( (3 2 .) .) .1) any agreement whatever , 3. Before signing the document to the Society for examination . 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 ). VERY U . 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 The of his property . business or the administration Secretary of the Society is a solicitor ; but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Further , the Committee , if they Solicitors of the Society . without deem it desirable , wili obtain counsel ' s opinion any cost to the member . Moreover , where counsel ' s opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee is obtained , action will be iaken 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 . 1. ( 2 .) . USE THE SOCIETY to TO (3 .) HOW 117 �THE AUTHOR . or by of . , as , be of to , . of . - . . on of . or 6d 's in of fee to ' to is . . in , . . is it , of of , , . be . by a . of . to REMITTANCES sent of by be Lane , Chancery or . be of to of Smiths Bank letter only , the same charged for give notice The Secretary the Society begs post that all remittances are acknowledged by return All remittances should crossed Union London and . to of will . at . of play of to , in be an TO of be It . , . , . 6d . . 28 of at , rules with the exception that per act the price filed subject be Plays may also a be Original to at a of be in . be or a a of D to , of in typewritten duplicate foolscap paper forwarded the offices the Society together with registration fee two shillings and sixpence will be carefully compared by the Secretary qualified assis 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 the author only typing small charge cover cost is , on OCENARIOS , in of . of as , . . In to . ' ans . greatly assist the Society this its work by informing young writers existence Their MSS can read and composition treated treated coach The term MSS includes not only works fiction but poetry possible and dramatic works and when under special arrangement technical and scientific works The competence experience Readers are writers and The guinea fee one is AND BRANCH will EMBERS its SCENARIOS , a to . THE READING branch PLAYS MUSIC stamp copies The Society undertakes music per 100 part behalf its members for the stamps are kept 100 The members the Society safe The musical publishers communicate direct with the Secretary and the voucher then forwarded the members who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble as of a OF REGISTRATION ORIGINAL ; all in to STAMPING M 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 . 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 performing right and copyright deal with He especially should careful therefore when entering into particular agreement an and should take into consideration the warnings stated above be 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 . MUSICAL COMPOS ERS of consideration . 9. Agreements TITTLE . 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 WARNINGS , , 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 . AND AGENTS . authors should seek the advice of the Society plays into the hands of before putting 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 dramatic authors employ agents and agents are real and valuable these ways the services But the Society warns authors against agents who profess plays bave influence with managers the placing principals by offering purchase who propose act rights any case the author the present state agent employed under any the law should not agreement approved circumstances without the Society L 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 6 . Authors should not assign performing should grant a licence to perform . The legal distinction is of great importance , AUTHORS RAMATIC a 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 . DRAMATIC of (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 . (c. ) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties ( i .e. , fixed nightly fees). This method should be always 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 also in this case. . 118 registered �THE AUTHOR . and other articles entering into the manufacture of books , for there is a decided public demand the freeing books well works art from duty and unless book materials are freed from publishers will excessive duties the American placed the inverted position manufacturers paying high duties all their materials and having their products subject competition from countries where the materials books are less burdened with tariff duties altogether free from burdened , of as be or of to on , , as , - “ “ ” ”, in . in an - It be a is on of of by . a , be to . it is to , to to is by all of It to . . . , in is of of , If , ? of no to be - . - of countries standing outside the Berne Convention their allegiance and the countries have given whose legislation has been backward have gradually gone forward towards the ideal possible for England also join Would not this Pan American Union the text which printed another column this were the case doubt the next meeting the Delegates it of , be in ignorant legislation than step back from the that they have laid before themselves Gradually this policy has borne good fruit The ideals in - in , . If as , in of , has been the policy countries bear patiently the burden imposed this , is , an be , in - world rather by it of be of If . by its be for to market South America for American books the Spanish language such have already been the produced here the educatioual field Pan American Union can be completed with the participation the United States the next and the consolidation indeed final step should the International Copyright Union and the Pan American Union one body world wide rela tionship like the Universal Postal Union Congress may be extra The Pan American do away with power force the United States the printing clause and the greater the pressure brought that bear the better will for not impossible that with the all parties freedom obtained by Canada with regard new printing clause will set copyright legislation Any up by the Canadians against the Americans retrograde step any country this kind very serious blemish the copyright ideals the . : . of it in of of a other formalities than those and work the country of origin ratification difficult its broader lines make Under 1909 under our copyright legislation that legislation the United States could accept only with reservation deposit the necessity any way could and manufacture here found acceptance early ratification that most increasing desired for there should required Pan American headed The two paragraphs Tariffs and Book Produc American and Union give an insight into the views taken by some tion the parties the United States who are interested these important questions to - of . It of to as to Buenos Aires convention bears the Mexico con the same relation the Berlin the Berne Paris bears 1908 convention provides agreement that copyright should the American the republics extend throughout continents without . of of The 1896 . agreement Paris the of and them in to . - at by to on a , a is at at , a , THE President announces that he will lay before ore the Senate with recommendation for ratification adopted the copyright convention the Pan American Congress Buenos Aires The United tardy ratification already party States the convention agreed upon Mexico City 1902 which constituted Pan American Union the International lines somewhat similar Copyright Union under the Berne convention in ( .) by of ' of York ) - ( Reprinted from the Publishers Weekly New kind permission the Editor 1886 , , UNION . PAN AMERICAN as of for GENERAL NOTES . 119 . be a of no at , for . ; THE UNITED STATES . AND We have to of a , , of a by on of Congress received from the Library note stating that the 8th day proclamation was issued December 1910 the President the United States under which Germany and America are entitled reciprocal Washington , is a all , in be for GERMANY , be to . , to of be , in , to is , for , , serious danger before American book publishers unless the tariff should reduced the matter paper making and paper the materials of . . to have heard from the country The duties wood pulp instance have had more likely give examination than any tariff board them and newspaper publishers though sure urging that interested parties are unanimous duty which would wood pulp made free afford some check the paper trust There on pot seem - , of on to postpone tariff reduction The President seeks specific until the tariff commission shall report schedules some time during the sessions the sixty second Congress 1911 1912 The President does be , International Copyright the Berlin Convention and the Buenos Aires Conference would consoli dated into one and copyright would practically great become worldwide There will doubt English books market the future the sale South America indeed even the present time Tauchnitz editions sell well there , PRODUCTION in BooK AND in TARIFFS . AMERICAN �THE AUTHOR . benefits under the American and German Copyright Laws. It is to be hoped that with the extension of these reciprocal rights the United States will see their way finally to join the Berne Convention , and COPYRIGHT. a to in is . of of an by to , ; ) in a . an of in of . for be , on to a a ? it . , be in . of , , , to it as to , a so , of , it it a to be if , to is a , is if that seen even it or It will weekly interim protection by , cover this point English authors running monthly serial impossible obtain the granted under the present Act and even was issued daily would doubtful story say whether 100 000 words could daily paper possible run through make for the author file the complete story Washington within thirty days the first issue , , in , by , , of up forward sinall Bill brings serious hardship which , If bring , to it, . in to in to on an of in . in a of to be an , It of an , in to . , . , . in . six is ( of American contract the advance the other America and making copies formal publication certain number English England while the story runs serially magazine Both these methods are unsatisfactory great pity when the American authorities were drafting the new Bill that they did not take into some consideration the question serials running through English magazines possible Would not the United States a 's to or the author well having the book set up in , of no It is to in of secure English AND THEATRICAL SKETCHES - , If , MUSIC HALL of of is , ; in , in on in to as of of A A to , . of be II ., 25 of to ", is of , is as as to to , , , is . with music halls - accordingly , licences and , , " , to , in E 36 of in lie in it to ; . of , ; , as lie , ; It . is in sheets it , of of ) . does not some assert the fact read American authors that Americans prefer English anthors that this fact does not America and evident from the book reviews books that are sent over from the great number lisher ND places whereas the multitude entertain people ment for the lower sort another great they are thereby cause thefts and robberies tempted spend their small substance rioious consequence are put pleasures and unlawful methods supplying their wants and renewing their pleasures prevent the said temptation order therefore thefts may and robberies and correct far the habit idleness which become too general over the whole king productive much mischief and inconvenience dom and be enacted George the Act the preamble This chapter which deals with music and dancing , in to is ( it , , . , is . a , in is it or a to an . ( ' , we of all , the American copyright should included their agreement have never made any effort obtain but have merely sold edition sheets the say that many United States market We regret agents have not only approved these agreements but have thrown cold water the wishes their authors that they should take with keenness the placing their works with American publisher doubt matter which causes the agent con siderable inconvenience and trouble and perhaps the first instance will not bring much money brings but little pecuniary the agent pocket return the publisher who gains more the sale spite the sheets But this we insist that all authors should begin early their endeavour they began say secure the American market three months before they allowed the agent the publisher offer the English publication most probable that the American market would be secured and the author would receive conse quence double payment for his work however pursued that the English the alternative course publisher gets the first offer and that then only the agent commences with the Ainerican negotiations almost impossible succeed the time necessarily limited between the signing the English contract and the date English publica tion The fault lies primarily with the author secondly himself for not being more insistent with the agent and thirdly with the English pub be to of of , ). to trying to of , of register affects the ability serial which English magazine running through There meeting the difficulty appear only two ways satisfactorily running the serial The first production simultaneously through American magazine this again emphasises the importance be U S A is a . . . AND the AUTHORS liberty printing have taken this number The Author statements referring the American Copyright Law and the position under Copy that law from the report the Register rights and from the Publishers Weekly New things are York As these the greatest English interest authors wish that they obtaining would realise more fully the importance say that full American copyright We regret English publishers recently before the cases society having insisted that the power deal with It ENGLISH , themselves from the shackles which make at present the laughing -stock of civilised nations as far as copyright is concerned . them in We have taken the liberty of publishing in full in another column the opinion of the Attorney General of the U .S .A . on the registration of a fragment of a book . All authors should read it with diligence and discernment , as many believe that copyright can be obtained in the United States by such an incomplete registration . This opinion , while it does not so much affect the ability to register seriously very work book form deliver We REGISTRATION IN THE U . S. A . AND ENGLISH SERIAL RIGHTS . BOOK to 120 The �THE AUTHOR . ; to is or be ( no of , by or . an its as a to of to an . a as a a . an as a be a a to of on - of - in is It of 's . to , It it in . be it to . to , , of to ' or , . 's of to . to of it , so . it for . be to in — a , of an in of as of , ( , 3 ( ) 2 ) of of ' , of : by of . of it , on , by of by as as . of of , of paragraph amusing aspect affords the views misrepresents the position entirely Having regard The paragraph runs follows . “ : taken as , We need Entertainment Protection Association far that letter except not discuss the points deals with the legality the position taken these associations but the commencement one an by- a - of in be , illegal Indeed the face the fact that the theatrical managers and the music hall managers were somewhat afraid the position shown letter signed the three solicitors the Society West End Theatres the Theatrical Managers Association and the ment which was it . by - of , a be of . , be , . , , . . of ill - of of . , of , .P ., M , , - a at its a for at , at , in then held and again the dramatists were ignored merely The second conference appeared confirming the sake the first conference suggested however reduction the time limit years upon seven and for impressing the members the two associations that they were agree gentlemen bound act honour as of . a , a in of in a , as a ; be . an a , , of - , a comment was excited the time conference was called between the theatrical and music hall managers which certain agreement was having object the end arrived sketch prosecutions The main points this agreement were that not any presented more than two sketches should Of these two sketches one should one programme per not last more than twenty minutes should represented formed one scene and should only four characters The second sketch might presented with any number scenes and supers but should be represented by no more than six Richard was likely lower the tone music hall entertainment was clear that the only end view was the desire the managers protect their own pockets Another conference was in by a at so of , , on . , be - Parliament III III to to , a , a . a short Bill making the perform ance of sketches music halls legal This Bill by the friends was blocked the theatrical managers and being Bill brought forward private member had little chance being dis great deal feeling and Press cussed but before produce dramatic pieces contrary were allowed the agreement the wrath the managers was aroused when Seymour Hicks produced part Richard No one could possibly say that Sarah Bernhardt performance that Seymour Hicks of , , , . , 's , of his . to , to test case and were successful using for their own entirely different ends an Act which was passed for purpose This action the part the theatrical managers naturally raised stir amongst the music hall managers who found the kind theatrical entertainment that they were putting before their They realised customers popular and successful stage play could however that strictly speaking building that was licensed only performed presenting stage plays for the purpose The music halls had only music and dancing licences The music ball managers therefore excited the Captain interest Jessel who brought copyright This agreement was faithfully followed for some began time but then again broken needless mention the many cases which was Although Sarah Bernhardt and others broken , it it , as - of ., , " , etc “ to which they were already doing method the fact that theatrical performance music hall was illegal and rendered the manager subject prosecution They accordingly carried through , crush out the competition feeling immediately saw It . at - one tains scene that would make excellent sketch though the play whole may failure extraordinary thing that the seems managers theatres and music halls should have called this conference and entered into this agree ment putting limitations the use another person property without taking the trouble this consult those who were the originators property the same spirit which animated those who called for the type setting clauses America and which animates the public generally legislate for the holders when they endeavour to be of it it to , of at of to produce sketches deprive both the open attempt This was dramatist and the touring manager the right utilise stage play sketch after value Many stage play had been exhausted play con to to a In . , a , be . to be worth while the turns instead comic songs dancing acrobats etc The manager idea naturally performance was raise the tone and incidentally secure broader custom The theatrical managers fearing that the custom might be taken away from the theatres and wishing adapted from any sketch should taken stage play dramatic entertainment which had been licensed the Lord Chamberlain until after the expiration fifteen years from the first performance ( is 1 ) - of by in an , it of an , of might singing or speaking characters , and should not perform take longer than thirty minutes and this the point which materially affects dramatists it therefore , which was passed for the protection the public and the raising music hall entertainments would appear has been arbitrarily used by theatrical managers endeavour preventing the debase these entertainments performance legitimate theatrical pieces few words the managers are for their own selfish purpose for which Act for ends utilising Perhaps although was never intended most may our readers they may well known repeat the facts worth while the case When the performances the music ball reached present hold the high standard which they struck the managers the music halls that for Act , of 121 �THE AUTHOR or to , it as . or be or to or , of or his , by , . , . , , , , of to or it in . fix of , it be in of in , , ; a of in of as be . its . 7 . of in as or , as of . . of of , in by , , or , of its . 3 , in of of to be no . be in - to in or in is as of in , of — so in its . 8 . . 9 . . in , , . of of to , in be , , of . or 10 of of in be of , of in or , , be or , authors With the exception of of in its - of of in , , 11 . , or , . be , ; , , , ; or a in , Literary scientific ART artistic works whaterer may the subject thereof published newspapers any reviews the countries reproduced the Union shall not the other countries without the previous consent the . , or - , en or a , , to or . 3 . , in , it to , it a of , of , of ; or , ; ; geographical spheres plans sketches plastic geography geology topography works relating any science architecture and finally they also comprise every production that can published by any printing reproducing process pro ART The recognition the right perty obtained conformity with its State laws shall fully and legally have effects the complying other States without the necessity provided there shall with any other formality other translations the work ART The speeches delivered read deliberating assemblies before the courts justice public meetings may published the newspapers without any authorisation whatever this right being subject the provisions the internal laws each State concerning the matter . is all of , be - be , " “ . 2 . By literary and artistic works ART meant the books articles pamphlets kinds whatever may the subject they deal with and whatever the number the pages thereof choregraphic dramatic musical works those character musical compositions with without sculptures words drawings paintings and gravings photographic works astronomical in conventions . in of of . 1 . ART The signatory States recognise and protect the rights literary and artistic property conformity with the stipulations the present successors the same authorise the any form Any work that did not obtain ART literary property from the beginning shall not acquire the same subsequent editions pro ART Authorised translations shall original works tected the same manner The translators works which there guaranteed property which the same has expired shall have the right obtain far the translations thereof are concerned the right property specified article but they prevent the publication shall not able . Con Aires a literary of as American Buenos : in , 1 .) International assembled , - Fourth ference resolves or ( ' of M HE York ) Weekly the Publishers New kind permission the Editor from by . ( Reprinted , to COPYRIGHT CONVENTION OF THE PAN AMERICAN CONGRESS AT BUENOS AIRES - THE or of its to , it to of it, in . of 5. in to - of . to one licence Authors , in be in by , of be subject the their successors whether foreign shall enjoy the signatory States the rights granted the respective laws but said rights shall not exceed the period protection granted origin the country works consisting several volumes the case which are not published together well the periodical publications case bulletins serials property shall commence the term the right count with regard each volume bulletin periodical publication serial from the respective publication date regarded ART The following shall the country origin work that which was pub first published America and case said lication has been simultaneously made several the signatory countries then shall the one protection which shall the shortest term resident of - is be by a of to on it to no ( 2 ) ; exploit him that every effort must made accordance with the view have the law altered already adopted the Dramatic Sub Committee entertainment should the society that places ART or , to - be , ? to ( 1 ) is it if : 's of , ? why have not the dramatists been consulted What therefore must done from the drama tist point view There are two main lines illegal find out how far this action take illegal prevent and the sound prin right ciple that hampered artist has the production his art the tradesmen who showing regarded ART The following shall the protected work except when proofs author the contrary are produced He whose name pseudonym shall be expressed therein and conse quently the action brought the author infringers representative against plagiarists the several shall admitted before the courts signatory countries , the hands , if , the authorities have the parties interested and , in left the issue passed of that the Act was be , it to it, to to - at This is an absurd view of the situation . The authorities have not enforced action against those who have run sketches music balls because they saw that these sketches tended raise the and was only debase entertainment and not protect the public against improper performances the work any statement of the property . ART . 4 . The right of property or artistic work includes for author dispose the exclusive right publish sell translate reproduce translation and partially either its entirety in . 6 . etc . , etc . ” appear reservation , to the fact that the present Act of Parliament has by apparently the common consent of the authori ties been left to the parties interested to enforce, . In 122 the aforesaid �THE AUTHOR . , in . so as to — , to for ofso 's , a ( ” an as to it " , to ), am of in is no a in a of as so , . , , , ", , of for “ of - of - a of ; , a on is , of , as a , in be so " . “ , an , to , a in in , at of as , , , , . be" to . of a a or a all on a he byof an , , a . of , of as , is It in , of in .” to “ is of an “ is to : - , of on of of , a , , in of I to an I , a of .' , ; of of so of , it be , -L . a so of of ' of the thirties the last century arose the Newgate School Fiction which made highwaymen heroes and other offenders and created false sympathy for the vicious and The ingenious Bulwer ytton criminal was At TN NEWGATE THE FICTION . SCHOOL a of in , of I of . “ “ to of , to to other , ” AND OF THACKERAY in , , a , , in in a , , is one “ no to passage which must also extraordinary you had that tragedy under the title Eugene commenced Aram had already sketched burletta with the title Elizabeth Brownrigge had indeed my dramatic piece been guilty egregious ani unpardonable error had attempted excite the sympathies the audience favour the apprentices murdered but your novel has dis my vulgar prejudice abused me and present version her case all the interest the reader and all the pathetic powers the author engaged will the side the murderess the end the satire there Advertise ment which runs The author the foregoing prepared tale begs leave state that he treat There quoted a all . be all calculating soldier though is - to its to in of to Wanting shrewd selfish valet you describe him single trait bears not the character which might have been moulded military service but long course the con trary marked by the distinguishing features bankrupt attorney lame duck from the Having paint Stock Exchange cat you endow her with the idiosyncrasies dog with worldly : in or , of , its or of to be , a . possession met I . be , to of . of in as be . 16 to . The present convention shall com force among such signatory States ratify the same three months after ratifica tion shall communicated the Argentine Government and shall remain force among year after the date denouncement until This denouncement shall communicated the Argentine Government and shall have effect with regard the country making the same mence him the list men who have person for money among whom qualities could not have been such and looked cut throats of ', as of or to the aforesaid exercise am an of of , , on as be as or . , or , , . 15 have . right ART would I be , . , in , of or or . a in authorities literary enter the world prise and reverence you the father new passage lusus nature school ran the dedication the satire There other title by which your manner could aptly designated told for instance that former work having paint adulterer you described him belonging country curates among the class perhaps such whom criminal not met with once hundred years while the contrary being generous search tender hearted high minded sentimental hero romance you Newgate Calendar turned the pages the old . a , of - of , . of or 14 . seized countries wherein the original right work has be legally protected this right being without prejudice such indemnities punishment may incur the plagiarists accordance with the laws the country where the fraud has been committed ART Each the Governments the signatory countries shall preserve the right prohibit the circulation permit guard repre repro sentation exhibition such works concerning dactions which constituted signatory the original discoverer a , , all , of 13 in be . or , , unlawful considered work shall also Every plagiarised work may ART there dissentient voice was heard and Fraser Magazine for August and September 1832 tre story called mendous onslaught the form Elizabeth Brownrigge which dealt with the murderess that name was made upon the Eugene Aram author whom was regard you dedicated inclined of of chrestomathy does not property and consequently made freely the signatory countries ART For the purposes civil responsi bility indirect appropriations not authorised literary artistic work not representing the character the original work shall considered unlawful reproductions The reproduction whatever form entire work the greater part thereof accompanied by notes literary comments the pretext complement criticism extension said right any confer can or purposes educational manners , and noble heart ; never before had there been depicted a murderer - a murderer who money murdered boot whose character was endearing and sympathetic enslave most The book was those who read about him favourably received most quarters but here and “ of in . . or 12 article has been obtained should be duly cited . Such miscellaneous newspaper news which repre sent merely Press reports shall not enjoy the protection of this convention . fragments ART The reproduction publications literary for artistic works who led the way and scored a great success with Aram .” Never before in an English novel had a murderer been portrayed as an earnest student of philosophy , of grave mien , gentle “ Eugene a works , any newspaper article may be reproduced by others , if this has not been expressly prohibited , and , in any event , the source from which said 123 �THE AUTHOR . it a of , of , be to .' ” It by , , , of of on so . ', · of ; in . ” 's " to as he ; go he , to go . on of . .” of “ , he , in a so in led . , so ”, “ a ; as , as “ . of by . in , ", ' , of “ “ ”, he to .' " of In , ; in of ” “ . 's of so is at . of of by to of set A an of a of to of ? , . . . . , all ; he , of , , or er to no is , no as . , ; , ' ", s in “ in , by “ be to , ” , It " of " ." of ), a , - " — . paint their heroes ( as of life ", In “ be . the the Thackeray wrote subsequently them to he knew to not dare did ) of . ; Fiction scoundrels highwayman 's be , .' ', ' “ to . of , 's ' for their ."jr , " , ’s by ” is in to of ', ’; , . , , If it for “ . of a , to of to ” a in “ a of is ; ’ ’; , as of ' . , , , “ or ' d . “ . M . S a “ ' in , is to it if of .” , . to he of ; virtue was however Rookwood and Jack Sheppard Bentley the earlier part which had appeared Miscellany that Thackeray tilted Catherine Ikey Solomons which purported written Esq Ikey Solomons having been notori ous fence and was dated from Horsemonger particularly unsavoury district Thackeray Lane stated again that the writers the Newgate School statements mainly against ., , , it “ , in to an his , , to as who have their virtues too but not good company for any man We had better pass them decent silence for writer can dare tell the whole truth concerning them and faithfully explain their vices there give parte need indeed “ “ . or of , as , ”, a “ ', ; ’ say one Dickens books No one wrote has read that remarkable tale Oliver poor Nancy Twist without being interested and her murderer and especially amused and tickled the gambols the Artful Dodger and his companions The power the writer amazing that the reader once becomes his cap tive and must follow him wherever leads and what are we led Breathless watch the Fagin tenderly deplore the errors crimes Nancy pity and have for Bill Sikes kind admiration and absolute love for the society the Dodger most agreeable rascals , , ( on — to it , ", “ • . ", 's on , of . ; to . * for · Forster and Thackeray now the attack against the Newgate School Fiction Bad we think the morals we think the puffs even more dangerous Forster wrote the Examiner Public morality and public decency have rarely endangered than been more the trumpeted exploits Jack Sheppard Thackeray had something Catherine a 's on an in . in is no be “ be A Hamlet Macbeth Othello are but murderers Falstaff robber and worse Scott Fielding for Jonathan must answer for Rob Roy Gay for Wild The Beggars Opera Schiller The Robbers Hood for his magnificent Eugene Aram Dumas his Celebrated inadvertently heroes not malefactors but admits that Ainsworth threw romantic glamour gives over his merry sinners and line away the case he has fought strenuously many pages as as ( is to at to It as it a or , to or of its . to , ) ” rigge particularly interesting because whether Thackeray did did not write the story there can question but that was directly responsible for Catherine which had the same object the ought Brownrigge earlier story Elizabeth Thackeray Swinburne wrote Mr Richard Herne Shepherd 1880 for not he stole the idea and some extent the style his parodies novels criminal life from this first sketch the kind couple years after Eugene Aram was published William Harrison Ainsworth came exponent the fore the Newgate School Lytton had taken Fiction murderer for his highwaymen hero Ainsworth selected Dick Turpin was jeune premier Rookwood and that sorry young scoundrel Jack Sheppard gave his name and the raison être for another book These novels too caught the public taste and were widely read and praised highly even those who should have known better Ainsworth recent biographer Mr Ellis for one can see no objection the Jack Sheppard class novel The outcry against Ainsworth for having chosen robber for hero cannot seriously justified inherently has written literary purposes immoral take criminal and make him picturesque and interesting then the same stand the greatest writers will have pillory the author Jack Sheppard The principal characters Shakespeare tragedies Fiction “ at ” it if it , ) article the February novelist the North British Review 1864 attributed him what evidence he does not state though he may well have had the information from the author Elizabeth Brown might well have added Catherine Mr Ellis insists that the Newgate novels Ainsworth are moral because the villains end the gallows He ignores the fact that while they do the gallows they School the list to to of ." 's of ) ] " Dr John Brown death that through literature Crimes and all times and countries This brilliant band criminals limelight literary illuminated and idealised poor cannot deny the consanguineous claims abused Jack Sheppard would indeed be this dwell upon the fallacies time waste argument may but remarked that Ains worth enthusiastic defender has strangely misread Jonathan Wild since he can mention that brilliant satire connection with the Newgate by of , ; . - , , ( , (p .' ' ., Z . Y · . X or , 3 in in ', of of , of for a publisher , who with any liberal and enterprising may be inclined to embark in the speculation , series novels each vols 8vo under the title Tales the Old Bailey Romances Tyburn Newgate Tree which the whole Calendar shall be travestied after the manner Eugene Aram ost paid addressed Letters 215 Regent Street the offices Fraser Magazine will receive immediate attention Brownrigge Elizabeth was published anony mously and attracted any attention the certainly did not attract sufficient time make may people desirous discover the author publication have been attributed the time this writer that but was not far Thackeray known until month two after of 124 Freeny �THE AUTHOR , , to , 's . It , at to is it of ' ; of he is in he . of ) -- ( in 's to us it “ , of be or by ” , he . “ , , is is as , al to It . , he as , . ; of so it is of in it, at is . no a to it , , at ' , in . , a , , of , he no man shall allow a no in 't ; “ , so , mistake virtue for vice , . . . a , .” a he as in by in , a ) be to is it ( , by , of in , . of by . , ” in a in ", a “ - of . , , to nausea and afterwards bring about habit And thank Heaven this very many instances effect has been produced and that the Catherine cathartic has acted most efficaciously The author has been pleased the disgust which his work has excited and has watched with benevolent carefulness the wry faces that have many been made the patients who have swallowed the dose granted Be the book concludes that Solomons dull but don attack his morality humbly submits that his poem man shall wholesome more healthy , - of of as as . to to so it to so as , for , , he be a At At ; - , . of , to .” in us it, to characters were villains vile the prototypes were that was impossible do the page magazine but nearly life the public could expected tolerate With this object view searched the Newgate Calendar and found story therein the very heroine for such Hayes contemplated Mrs Catherine whose history has been admirably summarised the Dictionary National Biography Mr Alsager Vian Catherine Hall was her maiden name and she was born near Birmingham 1690 very early age she was led into evil courses carpenter John the age sixteen she married hoped she had twelve Hayes whom they children Some years after the marriage went London where near Tyburn they set up small shop and supplemented their income from , . is it to , be to an to so as , , be which all the principal portrayed not indeed to so , , , , to pro drunkenness which never passed the limits priety but only went amusing would far object rather excite youth intoxication than deter him from and some late novels have always struck the same light Thackeray decided that his castigation these story immoral novels should take the form one the dullest most vulgar and immoral bighly gratifying works extant the author they con find that such opinions are road vince him that the taste for Newgate literature the wane and that when the public critic has right down undisguised immorality set before him the lowest creature shocked should good round and can declare his indignation terms abuse The characters the tale are immoral and doubt but the writer humbly hopes the end not The public was our notion dosed and poisoned by the prevailing style literary practice and was necessary administer some medicine that would produce of he be , ; to he in is ' . slaves their children took care no doubt that the slaves should be really and truly drunk Sham . of his ' 's . to . as a immoral than anything Fielding ever wrote Jack Sheppard immoral actually because decor ous The Spartans who used show drunken is of go , Ainsworth to of - , its . a ! of through every page but would Jack Sheppard with perfect comfort herself Ainsworth dared not paint hero the scoundrel knew him must keep his brutalities the background else the public morals will be outraged and he produces book quite absurd and unreal and infinitely more with horror Mr , of confuse of to it , immorality in and a dishonesty as virtue and vice . “ Vice , " he wrote in his paper on the author of Tom Jones , ' “ is vice , and is never to be mistaken for virtue in Fielding ' s honest downright books ; it goes by name and invariably gets its punishment See the conse Many honesty squeamish lady quences our time would fing down one these romances his well in for selected the three of them one night in March , John Hayes drunk and killed him , cutting up the body and disposing of the different parts places . One portion of the in different remains was discovered and then another , and eventually Mrs. Hayes and Billings were arrested for murder , and presently Wood was captured and confessed . Hayes pleaded not guilty , but was con victed of petty treason and sentenced to be burnt alive . The men were sentenced to be hanged . Wood died in Newgate the day before the execu tion , and Hayes made an abortive attempt to poison herself . No story could be more sordid or un pleasant , and Thackeray deliberately mitigated the horrors as little as possible . “ Catherine " appeared Magazine from May 1839 February Fraser 1840 and the author was heartily pleased when the Having finished our conclusion was reached say delectable meal wrote behoves way grace word two its conclusion heartily thankful that and over has object carefully beeu the writer exclude from insignificant drama except two very parts any instances mere walking gentlemen characters but those scoundrels the very highest degree That he has not altogether failed the object had view evident from some newspaper critiques which has had the good fortune see and which abase the tale Catherine as his principal character ; he himself Barry Lyndon for one such post of honour , but he insisted that it was bad art , as villain , and , made intimate 1726 to venience of the heroic highwayman 's life — which a certain Ainsworth in company with a certain Cruikshank , have represented as so poetic and brilliant , so prodigal of delightful adventure , so adorned with champagne , gold lace, and brocade . " Thackeray had no objection to a novelist taking a this source by letting lodgings . With two of the lodgers , Woods and Billings , she became criminally on see 125 be , may in The “ “ Irish Sketch Book ” ( ch . xv .), “ one the evil of drinking , another the harm of horse - racing , another the danger attendant on early marriage , a fourth the exceeding incon in man . single �THE AUTHOR . to . 1 as . on , to . or for on to be to to - . It , 1 of to so , , to , . in , . to an of - of ; ; of ; ; - re of ; of of . : of a of : 's . a of .* , , , . , , , as . to be 's to . , of a , be of in is of a , , be , , , of 's , , , Ph . & D . : ", , by John Erskine Novelists Henry Holt Sons New York . , Leading American Lone George Bell London & or - - , . W , of , , of or 13 . on in , of . , , the Hon George The second May Tennessee presented 1910 infringe provided specific damages the case monopoly Gordon sidered the principal novelist America has been and why also Oliver Wendeil Holmes omitted name does not appear Professor Erskive does not explain the preface where we looked for some in 1, - on . P . used by , copy when any patent any trust leased , or protection right was owned by of , , 23 on , by - . , suspension American novelists taken by Professor representative leaders are Charles Brockden Brown James Fenimore Cooper William Gilmore Simms Nathaniel Hawthorne This Harriet Beecher Stowe and Bret Harte selection both by its inclusions and exclusions many The name for little puzzling will example practically Simms unknown Charles Brockden England while the readers very few although Brown must new and fine edition his works has been published com Why Edgar Allen Poe who paratively recently right con certainly challenges Hawthorne Erskine : to note WRITERS THE • " . is interesting that notwithstanding the new general consolidated July Copyright Act which went into effect 1909 three new copyright bills have been intro The first duced during the sixty first Congress Campbell the Hon Philip was presented July for the 1909 providing Kansas AMERICAN SOME . of — , . him It on - Legislation Copyright . re - of , of : off , a in , in of be to to by is of the course mere statistics the and the opinions certain copyright questions Attorney General that have been laid before of . ; ; . as no in of . It 10 – for of . in , , , . be the second June the end the first year steady increase the work There continues this department and the increased business done But satisfactorily and methodically carried considerably there are some points which are than 's , - 's of the as in as of Thorvald Solberg America would doubt the best governed country the world the Register We have received the report Copyrights runs from July 1909 interest Importation copyrighted books labels and prints post card for articles manufacture lithographs renewal and extension subsisting copyrights deposit complete book required importation copyrighted book bound copyright proclamation typewritten abroad copies book opinions dealwith the The Treasury Department following Importation book upon abandonment copyright importation translation American copyright Co -- . --- I State Department United States ably was conducted well and the Register Copyrights under the hands copyright legislation as ; no ” , in , to . COPYRIGHT THE UNITED STATES REGISTER greater of or its to all its of to a and made further School Fiction LEWIS MELVILLE Mr expected some questions copyright interpretation provisions and certain the new legislation have been submitted the Report states from time time the Attorney these The full text General for his opinion opinions rendered during the year together with certain decisions the Treasury department regard importation under the new copyright law appendix are printed full the Report opinions deal with the The Attorney General - it of so , to to as before the attack the Newgate TF every the Report July Act 1909 was that the new law would give rise , ”, - a It “ It . to . — up , ." “ gave way contribution a foreigner to a citizen of the United States shall operate to permit the purchaser to repro duce the work when not commercial use sale No action was taken these bills other than refer them the House Committee Patents The full texts are printed Addendum No of art by in he ; to no .” to , a is It “ the book and kind whereas you sneaking kindness for his the author had heroine and did not like make her quite worth spite less Yet the author lament object for Ainsworth Catherine achieved throw see Andrew of , , in he ; of modern authors whom he has mentioned , in wit or descriptive power yet the point moral he meekly believes that has been their superior feeling the greatest disgust for the characters cause describes and using his humble endeavour hate them the public also disgusting subject and mistake Thackeray wrote his mother was mis take all through was not made disgusting enough that was the fact and the triumph horribly make readers would have been give up horrified cause them rather of copyright. The third , by the Hon . J. Peters , of Massachusetts , introduced on June 11 , 1910 , provided that the sale of a work ment to sentiment of pity to enter his bosom for any character of the piece ; it being , from beginning to performed by end , a scene of unmixed rascality people who never deviate into good feeling ; and , although he doth not pretend to equal the great ofof 126 �THE AUTHOR . of , — is as of 20 20 for " of as is of . is for by a of . . be to .” of of , is so is , at . in he is . on to it an to , 10 an . to It ? or , in of . Is I . . - . FRANK SAVILE . EDITORIAL DELAY . a I to — May SIR venture move that your corre spondent Mr Francis George Heath has opened topic considerable importance and keen general authorship interest the profession his English custom of in of publication ." prevailing the on to to allusion payment is is ; must always be or a , it a means , private to , . is it is it a of From business point view the practice unjust and undesirable ethically practi bad cally inconvenient and disliked What still struggling author possessed more obvious ; The the , , . in of is all It . develop “ . perused “ 's in reason of of , " . have - , 's of . In that the publisher anxious possible avenues Of sale course but the agent his own Wherein the author benefit and for the benefit great difference story are lies The values much more likely ascertained and marketed agent selling them year and year out publisher gushes into such activities inter have asked myself Mr mittent intervals Nayler concluding question better agent leave such minor rights the hand per cent commission basis share equally Why publisher answer itself seems with per cent for pay accommodation when Faithfully yours will suffice his no years and of a (? ) Rights MINOR diligent reader ” 80 an , , of . the hands less than , in us of many AND been no “ : ) I in to , not , on “ . . for Author have as ! . to be I . ( — of : , In , in capable agents should amount £300 and are easily worth much Mr Nayler idea the whole sum more integrity commercial acumen and commercial publishers concentrated the hands He gives ence , , , , , his is he , ” of to , " “ ”, " , — I PUBLISHERS SIR 30 trifling sums the any experi the average writer ? of of - , , for , on - be , of “ ", CORRESPONDENCE 100 30 Nayler . In we a “ fact Mr average book be . to ", , , “ " of , of , 's , , , . to boring congratulating Professor Erskine the book cannot help wishing that would give companion volume similar appreciations the authors Arthur Gordon Pym The Epic Huckleberry Finn Mr Isaacs and Wheat living writers say nothing Elsie Venner phrases rather British — - his a , is “ , he a its is . In , currently 150 80 cation 's à by , . as of , 's of a ", other books five which were written con when was about twenty eight years many ways the chapter age Brown with the most interesting which the book opens highly romantic character and subject was the brief résumés the novels make amusing reading Those who tackle the books themselves sadly disappointed for however will we think say Brown mechanical his invention truth insight little and eloquent psychological several Bo American Canadian 50 a he to to , of his to “ the author Ormond and Upwards Foreign to of . is he an - of up in . Charles Brockden Brown Edgar Huntley Wieland with American Serial Publication British Australian . on us of 's of of ; on . . , romances Simms was south Cooper and suffered com Cooper did by comparison parison with him with Scott Simms life was greater one than suggest but undoubtedly the trials novels would his career prevented him from and hardsbips doing justice fine impulse towards roinance begin usually supposed The American novel situations country follower below to , of on to The essay Bret Harte and that obvious lines but Professor Mrs Stowe also run appreciation Fenimore Cooper will Erskine surprise who have fallen into those somewhat thinking that the day the most the bad habit vigorous American story tellers over Professor admirable raconteur Cooper Erskine shows what easily the reader could display was how complicated scenes action and how skilfully personal experiences brought bear upon the clusions a of , . many It , is , which from to drawn justice 10 on . for us . six of - is is , his ; to far the longest has been obvious sources does imagination the powers the irony poetical genius and the truly its subject throughout commonly accepted con coming Hawthorne “ ' that the reader should desire to challenge title which not the title pre fixed this note but that the only word grumbling we shall utter essays All the which the author has given are thoroughly well written The information the one as it is inevitable opinions expressed by my fellow workers with agreement mainly , with bare tolerance sometimes , with protest rarely . 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890–1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The-Author-Issues Publication Date The date of an event (in YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD format) 1911-02-01 Volume 21 Issue 5 Pages Page range in volume 103–128 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19110201 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin The Author. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) Vol. XXI.- No. 5. FE FEBRUARY 1, 1911. (PRICE SIXPENCE CONTENTS. Notices The Society's Funds . . List of Members ... The Pension Fund Committee Notes Books published by Members Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes Paris Notes ... Copyrigbt Legislation in U.S.A. Licence to Copy Photographs Libel in a Novel ... ... ... Magazine Contents How to Use the Society Warnings to Producers of Books ... Warnings to Dramatic Authors PAGE 103 103 103 104 105 108 109 112 114 115 116 116 117 117 117 Registration of Scenarios and Musical Plays Dramatic Authors and Agents Warnings to Musical Composers Stamping Music .... The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes ... Music-hall and Theatrical Sketches... Copyright Convention of Pan-American Congress at Buenos Aires ... Thackeray and The Newgate School of Fiction ... The United States Copyright Register ... Some American Writers Correspondence ... PAGE 118 118 118 118 118 118 119 120 122 123 126 126 127 PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. The Annual Report for the current year. 18. 2. The Author Published ten months in the year (Angust and September omitted), devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. “Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from 1892, at 108. 6d. per vol. 8. Literature and the Pension List. By W. 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By J. F. BLACKER. The Artistic Side of Photography, in Theory and Practice. By A. J. ANDERSON. 12 photogravure plates and numerous half-tone reproductions, demy 8vo, 12s. 6d. net. The Daily Telegraph says: “A remarkable production." The Amateur Photographer says: "A book from the pen of Mr. A. J. ANDERSON is worthy the closest attention. ... A most delightful book, full of pleasant reading and surprises. Beautifully illustrated with many photogravure and half-tone reproductions of pictures by leading workers. Every amateur photographer with an interest in his pictorial work should get it.' STANLEY PAUL & Co., CLIFFORD'S INN, LONDON (Publishers of “The Lady's Realm," etc.)  ## p. 103 (#149) ############################################ The Author. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT. VOL. XXI.-No. 5. FEBRUARY 1st, 1911. [PRICE SIXPENCE. TELEPHONE NUMBER : 374 VICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : AUTORIDAD, LONDON. ADVERTISEMENTS. As there seems to be an impression among readers of The Author that the Committee are personally responsible for the bona fides of the advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case. Although care is exercised that no undesirable advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and never have accepted, any liability. Members should apply to the Secretary for advice if special information is desired. NOTICES. DIOR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. The Editor begs to inform members of the Authors' Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. DROM time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin- ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of cost, its production would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all literary matters treated from the standpoint of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot be accepted. VOL. XXI. LIST OF MEMBERS. M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors, 1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the  ## p. 104 (#150) ############################################ 104 THE AUTHOR. end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. • • THE PENSION FUND. £ s d. Nov. 11, Parry, Sir Hubert 1 1 0 Nov. 17, Coben, Mrs. Herbert . . 0 10 6 Dec. 8, De Morgan, William . . 1 1 0 Dec. 9, Sproston, Samuel. 1 1 0 Dec. 9, George, W. L. ... . 010 0 Dec. 12, Clifton, Mrs. . 0 100 Dec. 21, Scoon, W. G. . 0 5 0 Dec. 22, Purdon, K. F. . . 050 Dec. 31, Sinclair, Miss (in addition to her present subscription) 1911. Jan. 3. Yolland, Miss E. . . . 0 5 0 Jan. 3, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . . 1 1 0 Jan. 9. Bolton, Miss Anda. . . 0 5 0 Jan. 13. Edginton, Miss May . . () 50 · · Once 19 · N N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the Pension Fund of the society—after the secre- tary had placed before them the financial position of the fund-decided to invest £260 in the following securities : £130 in the purchase of Jamaica 31 per cent. Stock 1919-49, and £130 in the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937. The amount purchased is £132 188. 6d. Jamaica 37 per cent. Stock and £120 12s. ld. Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock. This brings the invested funds to over £4,000. The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- mend the payment of any further pensions, as the income at their disposal is at present exhausted. They desire to draw the attention of the members tention of the members of the society to this fact, in the hope that by ety to this fact in the hope that by ubscriptions and donations. there wiii be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the year to declare another pension in case any im- portant claim is forthcoming. Consols 24%.................. ........... £1,000 0 0 Local Loans .............. Victorian Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock .... DLOCK ................ 291 19 11 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock ....... 25000 Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ... 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed Stock ...... 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock....... 228 0 0 New Zealand 3% Stock............... 247 96 Irish Land Act 22% Guaranteed Stock 258 ( 0 Corporation of London 2% Stock, 1927-57 ...... .................. 438 2 4 Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6 Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock................ 120 121 Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land Grant Stock, 1938........... .... 198 3 8 · . 1 1 0 Donations. 1910. July 4, O'Higgins, Harvey . . 1 . 0 vey. 0 July 5, Muir, Ward . . . . 1 1 0 July 5, Peacock, Mrs. . July 11, March, Miss A. M. July 18, Ralli, C. Scaramanga . July 20, Ellis, Havelock . Aug. 22, Myers, C. S. Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C. Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable Mary . . 1 1 0 Oct. 11, Caws, Luther W. . . . 0 10 0 Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. 0 10 0 Oct. 28, Tuite, Hugh. .. Oct. 28, Margoliouth, George Oct. 31, Gribble, F. . . . 0 5 0 Nov. 1, Rankin, Miss. . . 0 5 0 Nov. 5, Buckrose, J. E. . Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden .. Nov. 12, Buè, Henri . . 011 91 Nov. 19, Ellis, Mrs. Havelock Nov. 28, Campbell, Cyril. 0 10 6 Dec. 1, Laws, T.C. : . Dec. 10, Dalliba, Mrs. Kate O 100 Dec. 10, Douglas, James A. Dec. 12. Bennett, Arnold . Dec. 13, Powell, Lieut.-Genl. Sir Robert Baden, K.C.B. etc. Dec. 19, Watson, Mrs. Herbert . . (5! Dec. 21, Wallis-Healy, F. G. . .025 Dec. 28, “ Olivia Ramsay ” . . 1911. Jan. 2, Northcote, The Rev. H.. . 0 5"| Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J. Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H.. . 11 Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady. . 03 3 3 Total ............... £4,065 6 0 0 10 6 Subscriptions. 1910. July 15, Steveni, William Barnes Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry Nov. 6, Capes, Mrs. Marion . Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden. . . . . £ $. d. 0. 5 0. 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 5 0  ## p. 105 (#151) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 105 · · · · · · · · · . P . . · · Jan. 6, Blake J · · · · · orco Eero · · £ 8. d. question of set-off in the publisher's account. Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. . 2 2 0 Counsel advised that he did not think any special Jan. 4, Randall, F. J. . 1 1 0 principle was involved, as the case would have to Jan. 5, W. . . 0 10 6 be decided on ipsissima verba of this particular Jan. 5, Crellin, H. N. 0 5 0 contract. Accordingly, the committee instructed Jan. 5, S. F. G.. . • 0 10 0 the secretary to report counsel's opinion to the author concerned, and regretted that they were Jan, 7, Douglas, James A. . 0 unable to take the matter further. Jan. 9, Grisewood, Norman 0 5 0 In the next case, which was a question of the Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C. . . ( 10 0 right of a publisher to insert advertisements in Jan. 12, Tanner, James T.. .. . 3 3 0 an author's book without his consent, the committee Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila . 0 5 0 decided to take counsel's opinion, as this habit of Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G. . . 1 1 0 advertising without reference to the author was on the increase, and the committee considered the present example before them a good test case on which to obtain advice. COMMITTEE NOTES. The difficulties which started the next case were as follows: A father, during his son's infancy and on his MHE first meeting of the Committee of Manage- behalf, entered into an agreement for the publication I ment for the year 1911 was held at the of his son's first book. This book had been offices of the society on Monday, January 9, practically out of print and dead for a long time. ut four o'clock. Another publisher had obtained an assignment Twenty-five members were elected, and the com- of this contract, and proposed to bring out a new pittee accepted with regret the resignation of edition of the work in direct opposition to the wenty-seven ; the number of both the elections author's wishes. ind resignations are about on an average with Similar difficulties have not infrequently arisen hat of previous years. The names of the new in years past, the publisher's aim being clearly to members are chronicled on another page. gain money on the advanced reputation of an Cases. The committee then considered a series of author. In some cases the author had been unable egal cases which had collected since the last meeting to take any step, and had to endure the republica- The first dispute under discussion arose out of a tion of his juvenile efforts without any public and question of account. It was so uncertain, owing to definite statement from the publisher setting out be vagueness of the contract between the author the facts. In consequence the public were led to ind the publisher, what view a judge and jury think that the book was a new issue. But this night take, that the committee decided further was not the only damage an author might suffer. iction was inadvisable at present, especially taking Such re-publication olten upset an author's existing nto account the fact that after the sale of a further contrats, and might also check considerably the 100 copies of the book, which was still selling, the circulation of his later books. The committee atbor's demand would be quite clear. The considered that it was of the greatest importance ecretary was accordingly instructed to write to the to stop a case of this kind if it were possible to rathor, advising him to wait. do so, and, as it appeared that there might be a In the next case a publisher had failed on one chance owing to the peculiarity of the terms of the r two occasions to provide the author's volume contract, they decided to take counsel's opinion, when an order was sent in, returning the answer and further, if counsel's opinion was in favour of "Out of print.” The committee decided that, if the action, to take up an action to stop the re-publi- lathor was content to claim damages in accordance cation. with the advice of the society's solicitors, the The secretary then reported that the chairman lociety would take the matter up. If, however, the during the month had given leave to take action in uthor desired to claim damages in accordance with the Dublin Courts in a case of infringement of the statement now laid before the committee, they copyright by an Irish paper. The committee con- lelt it their duty to refuse to take the matter firmed the sanction given by the chairman, The fortber, as the case would fail, the claim for damages secretary stated that the matter was being carried being too remote. on satisfactorily, and would most probably be settled At the last meeting of the committee it very shortly, as the defendant had confessed to the had been decided to take counsel's opinion infringement. in the next dispute. This opinion was read . The secretary also reported that in another case by the secretary. The cause of action was a of infringement of copyright the infringement had  ## p. 106 (#152) ############################################ 106 THE AUTHOR. been acknowledged. This also would be settled as to be laid before Parliament were in harmony on soon as a satisfactory arrangement between the the main issues, and suggested that it might there- parties could be come to on the question of fore be worth while to have a joint committee damages. ready to take action when the Bill was passing The next question dealt with an infringement of through Parliament. It was quite clear, under dramatic copyright. It was found, however, when the present organisation, if each body had to report the society commenced investigation, that the back to its own committee the opportunity of alleged infringement had taken place under an taking action through members of Parliament, by authority given by the author's agent. The author opposing or proposing certain measures, might be allowed the authority to stand, deciding to settle lost. The secretary mentioned that he had sog. the matter himself with his agent. gested the idea to Mr. Heinemann, who had The next was also a dramatic case, and the approved it on behalf of the Publishers' Association. secretary was able to report that the case had been The committee adopted the suggestion, and settled satisfactorily, and read a letter from the nominated, subject to their consent, Sir Charles author giving her thanks to the society for the Villiers Stanford to represent the composers, Sir action it had taken. Arthur Pinero to represent the dramatists, and Mr. The last was another dramatic case, and another MacGillivray and the secretary to represent the infringement of performing rights. Again, as it Copyright Sub-Committee. The secretary was also might have been necessary to bring an action instructed to write to the Copyright Association for an injunction, the chairman had given his and to the Publishers' Association, and carry out leave to place the matter in the hands of the the points he had proposed. solicitors. This action the committee now con Certain issues regarding the legal work of the firmed. Tbe secretary was able to report that society and the society's solicitors were again the matter was virtually settled, the defendant discussed, and the matter was adjourned to the giving an undertaking not to play the piece February meeting. again. A suggestion that membership to the society One or two important points with regard to the should be made compulsory, on election, for 070 production of sketches in music-halls, brought years, as was the case in the Italian Society of forward by one of the dramatic authors of the Authors, was rejected by the committee. society, were laid before the committee by the A hearty vote of thanks was unanimously passed secretary, and the committee decided to take to Mr. Douglas Freshfield for his work, both as counsel's opinion. committeeman and chairman of the committee, The other matters were taken in the following since 1897. Mr. Hewlett, as present chairman of order :- the cominittee, undertook to convey the resolution The committee instructed the secretary to pre- to Mr. Freshfield. pare a specimen draft agreement, as between agent The secretary reported that three members had and author, for the marketing of an author's taken up life membership, and finally, that & literary wares, which agreement would be settled donation of 10s. had been made by Miss Dorothy at a subsequent meeting of the committee. They Fox to the Capital Fund of the society. instructed the secretary to take this course, follow- ing in the footsteps of the Dramatic Sub-Committee, who had already drafted a similar agreement for dealing with dramatic property. DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. A special sub-committee was appointed to settle I. the report for last year, which report will be placed before the members at the general meeting. A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee of The date for the return of the votes for the the Society of Authors was held at the offices of election of members to the committee was settled. the society on January 10th. The first business The date of the general meeting, and the place after the signing of the minutes was the report ou where it will be held, were provisionally settled. the theatrical cases that were in the hands of the These items will all be placed before the members solicitors of the society since the last meeting. of the society either through The Author or by The secretary mentioned that two cases had to circular. be dealt with without previous reference to the The secretary reported that at the meeting of Dramatic Sub-Committee, as it might have been the Copyright Sub-Committee with the Publishers' necessary to take immediate action and apply Association and the Copyright Association, it for an injunction. He stated that the defendants appeared that all the reports sent in to the Board in one case, after having received a communica- of Trade dealing with the Copyright Bill sbortly tion from the society's solicitors, had shown a  ## p. 107 (#153) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 107 licence obtained from the agents of the dramatist sisting of some dramatists and the chief officials of of which the dramatist was ignorant. The the Authors' Society. matter accordingly had to be dropped, and the Another meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com- dramatist decided to settle the issues with his mittee was then called for Thursday, the 26th inst.. agent. In the other case the defendant had to decide upon the constitution of such deputation, acknowledged infringement, and had given an and the form in which the Home Secretary should undertaking not to deal illegally with the member's be approached. property again. The third case, which was a threat The secretary then laid before the sub-committee by the defendant to infringe the member's rights, the petition as settled by counsel, together with the secretary reported had been settled satisfac- counsel's opinion on the papers submitted to him, torily, the member thanking the society for the and after some slight discussion the petition was work it had done. agreed to. It was decided that it should be en- The next matter for discussion was the question grossed and sent to all the members of the Dramatic of the production of sketches in music halls. Sub-Committee for signature, and forwarded to After careful consideration it was decided to put the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest possible the whole matter before counsel, with an instruc- opportunity. tion to settle a petition to be presented to the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Dramatic Sub- Cases. Committee of the society. The secretary was instructed to take the matter in hand at once, SINCE the last issue of The Author there have and the Sub-Committee decided to meet on been only eleven fresh cases in the hands of the Tuesday, the 17th, to discuss the petition thus secretary. Four of these deal with the return of settled. MSS. ; two of them have ended satisfactorily, one The secretary reported that the Committee of refers to a matter in Germany, and, in consequence, Management had decided to take counsel's opinion will occupy some time in settlement, and the othe on two important points affecting the representa has only just come into the office. tion of dramatic property in music-halls, and the Of the three claims for money one has been Dramatic Sub-Committee gave their approval to satisfactorily settled ; the remaining two reached the action taken by the Committee of Management. the office a few days before the magazine went to press. II. Of the three claims for accounts and money two have been settled, and the other is still in course of negotiation. The last case referred to the settlement of an agreement. The terms put forward have now been accepted. THE Dramatic Sub-Committee of the society met again at the offices of the society on Tuesday, January 17th, in order to discuss and settle finally the petition to the Lord Chamberlain which had been drafted by counsel. The secretary opened the proceedings by reading the correspondence that had passed between the chairman, Sir Arthur Pinero, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in regard to the matter of the agreement between the theatrical and music-ball managers dealing with the question of the production of sketches in music-halls. Mr. Cecil Raleigh mentioned that he had heard indirectly, but upon good authority, that the chairman of the West End Managers' e West End Managers: Association was urging upon the Theatrical Managers' Association the advisability of striking ont of the agreement alluded to the clause affecting the rights of authors. In order thoroughly to defend the position of authors, however, Mr. Raleigh pointed out it was very necessary for authors to support the Bill relating to public amusements which Mr. Robert Harcourt shortly intended to lay before Parliament. To this end, it was deemed desirable that the Home Secretary should be invited to receive a deputation, con- Elections. Anstey, Mre. Helen . . 45, New Bond Street, W. Balfour, John Alexander. " Victoria Hall," Byculla, Bombay, India. Bates, Albert Bonsteel . Credit Lyonnais, Paris. Blundell, Miss Alice . 42, Powis Square, W. Dart, Miss Edith .. The Orchard, Credi- ton, Devon. Edginton, Miss May . Merris Court, near Chipping Norton. Fletcher Banister . . 29, New Bridge Street, E.C. Gilfillan, Allen Daintree. Hampden Club, Phenix Street, N.W. Glancey, M. E. . . 7, Queen's Road, Tunbridge Wells.  ## p. 108 (#154) ############################################ 108 THE AUTHOR. Hill, W. Neave . . 49, Dover Street, Piccadilly, W. Iliowizi, Henry . . 63, Collingwood Avenue, Muswell Hill, N. Kemp, Emily G. Knight, E. F. . . Yorick Club, 30, Bedford Street, W. Lawrence, T.J. . . Upton Lovel Rectory, * Wilts. Lindemann, Miss Linda. Sidholme, Sidmouth. Maud, Mrs. Dorothy . 10, Pelham Street, S.W. ary, Robert E. i . c/o Messrs. Curtis, Brown and Massie, 5, Henrietta Street, W.C. Scott-James, R. A. . 15, Porchester Gar- dens, W. Simpson, Horace J. - Beech Hill Cottage, Bury St. Edmunds. Wanless, M. V. , . c/o English, Scottish and Australian Bank, 38, Lombard Street, E.C. Wentworth, C. L. G. Wilson, Lady A. C. Ochilview, Crieff, N.B. DRAMA. SOUVENIR OF “ THE BLUE BIRD." By HERBERT TRENCH. 84 x 11. John Long. 6d. n. THE MADRAS HOUSE: A Comedy in Four Acts. By GRANVILLE BARKER. 74 x 44. 144 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 1s. 6d. n. A MESSAGE FROM THE GODs. By MELCHIOR MACBRIDE. 74 x 5. Hunter & Longhurst. 18. 6d. n. EARLY PLAYS FROM THE ITALIAN. Edited, with Essay. Introduction, and Notes, by R. WARWICK BOND. 72 x 51. 332 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London : Frowde. 78. 60, n. MID-CHANNEL. A Play in Four Acts. By ABTHUR PINERO. 68 x 5. 351 pp. Heinemann. ls. 6d. LUCILLA. A Drama in Three Scenes. By SIR EDWARD DURAND. 72 pp. Doherty & Co., 6, Great Newport Street, W.C. EDUCATION A PROGRAMME OF EDUCATION. By NASAWANJI JIVANJI READYMONEY. Bombay : “ Times " Press. FICTION. BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS. 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 effice by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it substantially accurate. ART. SELECTED EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. By A. K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. Containing 40 Coloured and Collotype Plates of Indian Painting and Sculpture, either bound or in portfolio form, and with Introduction and Notes by the Author. Quaritch. €3 38. INDIAN DRAWINGS. By A. K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. A Study of the Studies of Indian Artists of the Mughal and Rajput Schools. With 29 Collotype Plates and many Line Drawings in the Text. Probst bain & Co. Great Russell Street. 258. ESSAYS ON THE PURPOSE OF ART. Past and Present Creeds of English Painters. By MRS. RUSSELL BARRINGTON. 9 x 6. 421 pp. Longmans. 128. 6d. n. BIOGRAPHY. MRS. E. M. WARD'S REMINISCENCES. Edited by ELLIOT O'DONNELL. 93 x 6. 296 pp. Pitman. 128. 6d. 1. 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By VICTORIA CROSS. 71 x 5. 303 pp. Werner Laurie. 68. A PRIESTESS OF HUMANITY. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH. 73 x 5. 319 pp. John Long. 6s. NATURE'S LADY. By EDMUND LEE. 73 x 5. 288 pp. Digby Long. 68. IN WASTE PLACES. By MRS. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE. 7 x 5. 246 pp. Barnet : St. Andrews Press. THE QUAKER GIRL. By HAROLD SIMPSON. 71 x 5. 255 pp. Mills & Boon. 18. n. THE DEUCE AND ALL. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. 298 pp. The Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 38. 6d. n. THE HISTORY OF A SOUL. An Attempt at Psychology. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH, 296 pp. The Equinos, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. ON THE LOOSE. By GEORGE RAFFalovich, The Equinox. 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 18. n. IN WASTE PLACES. By Mrs. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE. 74 x 51. With Illustrations. 250 pp. Barnet : St. Andrews Press. 38. n. Doctor GREY. By STEPHEN ANDREW. 71 X 5. 320 pp. Greening. 68. A CORN OF WHEAT. By E. H. Young. Heinemann. Gs.  ## p. 109 (#155) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 109 JUVENILE. 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Selected from the Works of RICHARD TISSINGTON. 6 X 4. (The New Treasury.) Banks & Ashwell, 180, High Holborn, W.C. THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. The Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 58. n. POLITICAL. THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH. By JAMES BRYCE. 2 vols. New edition. Completely revised throughout, with Additional Chapters. 8 X 54. 742 + 962 pp. The Macmillan Co. 218. n. THE CANADIAN NAVAL QUESTION. Address delivered by CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, F.R.C.S., Vice-President Navy League. 7} x . 70 pp. Toronto : Briggs. HE“ Concise Etymological Dictionary of the T English Language," by Professor Skeat, - after passing through three editions, was almost entirely re-written, and appeared in a much improved form in 1901. It has now been once more revised and corrected, to bring it more up to the level of the new edition of his larger Etymo. logical Dictionary that appeared in 1910. The new edition of ihe “Concise ” Dictionary will appear early in 1911. The Rev. Professor Skeat has completed a small treatise on “ Berkshire Place-names,” which will shortly be published by the Clarendon Press. It is written on the same lines as the Place-names of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire, already published for him by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the East Hertfordshire Archæological Society, “L'Homme Vert, et Autres Contes de Fée,” is the title of Miss Jetta S. Wolff's last book of French REPRINTS. ALL THE WORLD'S AIRSHIPS, AEROPLANES AND DIRI. GIBLES. (Flying Annual.) Founded and edited by F. T. JANE. Second year of issue. 1910-1911. 73 x 128. 464 pp. Sampson Low. 218. n.  ## p. 110 (#156) ############################################ 110 THE AUTHOR. stories for young people. Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons English Translations,” in commemoration of the are the publishers. Tercentenary of the Authorised Version, 1611- “Down Our Street," by J. E. Buckrose, is the 1911. The author, Mr. S. F. Pells, of St. Mary's, comedy of a provincial town, and gives a picture Hove, is the editor of “The First English Transla- of middle-class life as it really is, not as people tion of the Septuagint," and the publishers are imagine it to be. There is some humour in the Messrs. Simpkin Marshall & Co., London. book, and the irrepressible Mrs. Bean is the chief Major P. T. Godsal has published through character, though the love story of Sophia supplies Messrs. Harrison & Sons “The Storming of the thread upon which the novel hangs. The London, and the Thames Valley Campaign." In whole narrative concerns the inhabitants of one this book the conquest of Britain by the Anglo- street, and the reader makes the acquaintance of a Saxons is for the first time treated as a military small social community, each character being question, and it is shown that all the evidence definitely pourtrayed. Messrs. Mills & Boon are indicates that they took London first, and settled the publishers round it, and that they then fought up the Valley “The Fortunes of Flot," by K. F. Purdon, is of the Thames. the story of an Irish mongrel, his hardships and We regret that, through an error of classification, joys. The object of the book is to induce owners we included in the last issue of The Author among of dogs to remember that these animals have rights the Juvenile Works, Mrs. C. L. Woollaston White's to be respected, and whatever trouble they give to novel “ In Waste Places." We have rectified the man is due to their being misunderstood and badly error in another column of this issue. trained.' The tricks taught to “Flot,” and referred “The Sea Lion,” by Patrick Rushden, is the to in the book, were taught to a dog known to the story of two half-brothers, one of whom has been writer without the introduction of a harsh word. to sea, and is the real “Sea Lion.” Through Mrs. Barclay's novel, “The Rosary," is shortly injuries he has become a paralytic, and is entirely to appear in a German translation. Messrs. G. P. dependent on his half-brother, who markets his Putnams' Sons have arranged also for the Nor- writings for him. They are extremely alike in wegian serial translation rights of this story. appearance, and the spurious “Lion” wins the love Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (“Rita ") has just of the heroine, Sybil Lethbridge, on the strength published her impressions of America, which she of this; she cared for the real "Sea Lion," Brian recently visited. The book is entitled “America Thornfield, who went out of her life; and transfers -Through English Eyes.” “Rita's” new novel her affections to the man who so forcibly reminds will be published by Messrs. Hutchinson early in her of the other. Stanley Thornfield lives luxuri. the spring. It is entitled “Half a Truth." ously and passes as the author of the writings of Mr. Laurence North, author of “Syrinx," has his half-brother—whom he keeps in a poor lodging, written for Mr. Martin Secker a new novel entitled and who is ignorant of the fact of the relationship. “Impatient Griselda.” The book, a comedy of In the end Stanley Thornfield is made to expose modern life, will be published early in the present his imposture through the hypnotic power of an year. old man who has exploited him for his own ends ; Mr. Werner Laurie published early in January and the dénouement is achieved in a dramatic and a new novel by Victoria Cross, called “Self and the tragic manner. The story ends in the spring sun- Other." It is a story of love and self-sacrifice, and shine of Florence, where the true “Sea Lion," the scenes are laid at Cambridge University and almost a sound man after a dangerous operation, Constantinople. comes at last into his own. Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., are the publishers “A Priestess of Humanity," by Mrs. Stanley of “Canada and Canadian Defence,” by Major- Wrench, published by John Long, is a psycho- General C. W. Robinson, C.B., which discusses logical study of a woman who has gone under, but closely the general character of naval and military who is reclaimed by the love of a good man. He, defence required under the circumstances of Canada a writer, unconsciously falls in love with a woman for the security of her frontier to-day—a subject of of the same calibre as himself, but rather than Imperial importance, to which the creation of a break faith with the woman of the under world, Canadian navy and the recommendations of the sacrifices himself as well as his art. The book Imperial Defence Conference of 1909, add special ends on a note of hopefulness, and is intended to interest. The grounds for the dictum of Wellington show “there is so much good in the worst of us." that naval, superiority on the lakes is a sine qua Miss A. E. Keeton will give, during the month non of success (even in defensive war) on the of February, three of her “Studies of Modern frontier of Canada are fully explained. British Song” at Hampstead, at Wimbledon and Among books shortly to be published may be at Camberley. Vocal illustrations will be sung by mentioned “The Great Texts of the Bible and our Miss Grainger-Kerr, accompanied by Miss Marjorie  ## p. 111 (#157) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 111 dies will immest A Bright, Adam. The studies will include examples by the date of production of the two plays not as yet following composers :-Ernest Austin, Granville performed. The same writer is now working on Bantock, Hubert Bath, Dora Bright, Arthur another play. Barclay, Walford Davies, Katherine Eggar, Joseph An American edition of Edith Searle Gross- Holbrooke, Frederick C. Nicholls, Norman O'Neill, mann's novel, “ The Heart of the Bush," is being Roger Quilter, Katherine Ramsay (Marchioness of published by the John Lane Company, New York. Tullibardine), Percy Rideout, Jervis Read, Ethel “The Other Wife" is the title of Miss Olivia Smyth, Cyril Scott, Ernest Walker, William Ramsey's new novel, published by Messrs. John Wallace, R. H. Walthew, Dalhousie Young. Long. It relates the experiences of a young wife, In “ Love or Lucre," by Edith C. Gerrard, the introduced into London society after a dull and author deals with an important problem, which is isolated girlhood. This is Miss Ramsey's fifth faced in rastly different ways by 'the different novel. people whom it concerns. Messrs. F. V. White & “ The Reproof of Chance" is a novel by Mrs. Co. are the publishers. E. W. Savi, in which is presented a picture of the Messrs. S. W. Partridge & Co. announce the social life in Calcutta. Messrs. Digby Long & Co. publication of the fourth edition of "The Com- are the publishers. The same firm issue also Mr. plete Bible in Modern English,” by Ferrar Fenton. Reginald E. Salwey's new novel, “The Kestrel,” The same publishers have also Mr. Fenton's "New the scene of which is placed on the south-east Testament in Modern English ” (ninih edition); coast of England. “The Five Books of Moses” (fourth edition); Miss Regina Miriam Bloch, whose paper on “ The Six Historical Books”; “The Books of “Three Great American Poets" (Longfellow, the Prophets”; “ The Psalıns and Poetical Books Emerson and Poe) was recently delivered before the of the Bible”; “St. Paul's Epistles” (sixth Bedford Park Literary and Philosophical Society, edition). All of these, with the exception of the is giving several smaller readings during February, last-mentioned, are published at 28. 6d. The “St. whilst on March 5th she has been invited to Paul's Epistles” are issued at 1s., at which price Swansea, to deliver a critical essay on “ Heinrich also is published a special People's Edition of “The Heine.” She also contemplates giving a lecture at New Testament in Modern English.” Hampstead soon after her return. The proprietors of Travel and Exploration may Prison life as it affects the more highly- be cungratulated on their first issue for 1911, educated portion of the community is the theme which fully maintains the standard of this magazine of a novel which Mr. Roy Horniman has just since its inception. Among the contributors are completed. Mr. Horniman has also completed Mr. Edmund Forbes, who writes on “Malay Klongs another novel of a more sensational character. and Rivers ” ; Mr. Ernest Young, who describes A revised and cheap edition of “Lombard Street “ Bear Shooting in Finland”; and Mr. E. A. in Lent” is announced by Mr. Robert Scott. This Reynolds Ball, who has an article on “ Six Flemish re-issue is under the general editorship of the Rev. Percy Dearmer, and contains a new chapter from We have received a little volume by the Rev. Dr. his pen, as well as an introduction by the Rev. Lapsilell, called “Princess Alfrida's Charity.” Canon Scott Holland. Princess Alfrida was the third and youngest Mr. Morris Colles and Mr. Henry Cresswell have daughter of Alfred the Great, and the Grant made arrangements with Messrs. Methuen & Co. mentioned in the Charter, a copy of which Dr. in England, and Mr. Pitis Duffield in America, Lansdell obtained from the State Archives in for the simultaneous publication of a small work Ghent, details the princess's gift of her inheritance on " Success in Literature,” which is likely to of Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich. Dr. prove interesting to authors. The scope of the Lansdell traces the history of the Charity, in which book is to harvest and elucidate such counsels of is involved the history of the first five hundred the literary great as are accessible and likely to years of the reputed manor of Old Court, Green prove practically useful to authors in their work. wich, now the principal possession of the properties The book makes no didactic pretensions, the bequeathed to Morden College by the founder, Sir object of the compilers having been simply to John Morden, Baronet. Messrs. Burnside, Ltd., adduce, from many sources, such precepts, obser- of Blackheath, are the publishers. vacions, and thoughts as may serve to reveal the Mr. John Galsworthy's new novel, called “The secrets of success in literature. It is nearly ready. Patrician," will be published by Mr. Heinemann Mr. Lurence Irving contributes an introduction early in March. Later in the year Messrs. Duck- and appreciation of Fedor Dostoieffsky and his worth & Co. will publishi a volume of three plays, work to the Everyman Edition of his novel, already written (including “ Justice," by Mr. “ Crime and Punishment," wbich Messrs. J. M. Galsworthy), the date of issue depending on the Dent & Sons are publishing. Cities."  ## p. 112 (#158) ############################################ 112 THE AUTHOR. Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was sent through Daly's Theatre on January 7. The present Canada by the Canadian Government to prepare version has been strengthened by certain altera- for lectures, which she has since delivered in tions introduced in the last act. The cast England, showing the desirability of emigration includes Mr. Robert Michaelis, Mr. W. H. Berry, The example of the Canadian Government has and Miss Lily Elsie. been followed by the Australian Government, who Mrs. Percy Dearmer's mystery play, “ The Play. have sent Miss Beatrice Grimshaw to explore mate," which was performed last year, has been Papua, while the British South African Company published by Messrs. Mowbray & Co., with illus- have also engaged a woman, Miss E. A. Maidmend, trations by Helen Stratton. to do agricultural promotion work for South Mr. J. B. Fagan has just completed a modern Africa. three-act play, “The Wheel," the scene of which Stephen Andrew, who wrote - The Serpent and is laid in India. The first act passes in a bungalow the Cross,” has published a new novel, “ Doctor in the Plains, the latter two in a Buddhist monas- Grey,” in which he describes the life of an average tery in the Himalaya of Bhutan. The play is a doctor of to-day. Incidentally the author has love tragedy. Mr. Fagan has also dramatised Mr. drawn sharp impressionist pictures of many little Robert Hichens' novel, “Bella Donna." This known sides of English life. Messrs. Greening & play will be produced later by Mr. George Co. are the publishers. Alexander. “ The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake," "Lucilla" is a drama in three scenes by Sir by Lady Eliott-Drake, should prove interesting Edward Durand, published by Messrs. Doherty from many points of view. Hitherto unpublished & Co., 6, Great Newport Street, St. Martin's documents relating to Sir Francis' ancestry and Lane, W.C. circumnavigation, sidelights on national and Mr. H. Granville Barker's comedy in four acts, county history, local politics, and the fortunes of “The Madras House," was published last month several west country families—all based on recent by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson. original research-come within the scope of two In consequence of Miss Neilson's and Mr. Terry's volumes. But wbilst presenting a continuous return to the New Theatre, Mr. Oscar Asche and record, century by century, of a typical county Miss Lily Brayton have transferred “Count family's patriotic participation in public and Hannibal ” to the Garrick Theatre. political affairs, space has been accorded to many Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new play, “We Can't contemporary letters, which are as entertaining as be so Bad as all That !” had its first performance they are interesting. at the Naziomora Theatre, New York. It was also played at the London Scala on the same evening, DRAMATIC. for copyright purposes. Mr. George Alexander will produce this month a Sir Arthur Pinero's new play in four acts, new play by Mr. A. E. W. Mason. It is a play of “ Preserving Mr. Panmure," was produced on political interest and is called “ For the Defence." January 19 at the Comedy Theatre. The play “Coats," a comedy, by Lady Gregory, was pro- relates how Mrs. Panmure, a lady with ideals, duced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January. married a worn-out rake whom she hoped to reform ; The theme of the play is the rivalry between two how she was so far unsuccessful that her husband editors, each of whom has written an obituary was guilty of paying an osculatory attention to the notice of the other. family governess; how the governess endeavoured Mr. Roy Horniman bas arranged to dramatise, to persuade other males to take the guilt, in order for early production, a novel by Mr. Charles that she might spare Mrs. Panmure (whom she Garvice. loved) pain ; how an M.P.'s secretary, who is in love with the governess, takes the blame for the offence; and finally, how the governess obtains the member of Parliament for her husband. The PARIS NOTES. cast includes Mr. Arthur Playfair, Miss Lilian Braithwaite, Miss Marie Löhr, and Mr. Dion Boucicault. JULES HURET has just brought out “ Vice Versâ,” having been transferred from .. his fourth book on Germany. It is the Comedy Theatre to the Court, is now houscd entitled “ La Bavière et la Saxe." at the Strand Theatre. The former ones are “Rhin et Westphalie," “A Waltz Dream,” the operetta in three acts, “ De Hambourg aux marches de la Pologne," adapted for the English stage by Captain Basil and “ Berlin." Jules Huret does not write his Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, was revived at books after a month's residence in the countries  ## p. 113 (#159) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 113 Orients ab instructive cardie les avocats are des he describes. He has been living in the various parts of Germany, and, as he is a keen observer, this work is a chef-d'ouvre of knowledge and shrewd observation. To all readers of the Figaro Jules Huret's investigations have been thoroughly appreciated for very many years. His book on literary questions, and another one on questions of social economy, were both eagerly read. At present, he is giving us a series of articles on the Argentine, which will be published later on in volume form. When he turns his attention to England it is pro- bable that he will tell us much of which we ourselves are ignorant. The book written by M. Joran entitled, “ Les Féministes avant le Féminisme” is curious and interesting, and might be read with profit by the saffragettes and the suffragists of to-day. The volume is dedicated to a woman and the preface is written by a woman. M. Joran endeavours to show the difference between the ideals of the women of former times and the demands of a large group of the women of to-day. The first chapter of this book is devoted to Christine de Pisan and her book, “ Le Trésor de la Cité des Dames," one of the works written by her between 1399 and 1405. It is interesting to find that so many centuries ago a woman should expect competence in so many different lines from women in various classes of society, for, according to the passages quoted, Christine de Pisan expected com- petence in matters of economics, in administration, agriculture and finance from the women for whom she wrote. The other chapters of the volume are on Erasmus, Corneille Agrippa, Agrippa d’Aubigné, Joseph de Maistre, De l'Escale, Mlle. de Gournay, Du Bosc, St. Gabriel, Decrues Goussault, Duchess de Liancourt and James Lawrence. Other books by this author are entitled : “Le Mensonge du Féminisme," " Autour du Féminisme," " Au Caur du Féminisine,” “La Trouée Féministe," and he is is at pre-ent writing “ Le Suffrago des Femmes." Among other new books are: “Les Femmes Auteurs," by Vicomte de Broc; “La Fosse aux Lions," by Emile Baumann; “La Bataille,” by Claude Farrère ; “Pour tuer Bonaparte," by Georges Ohnet. In the recent numbers of the Revue de Deux Mondes M. Faguet writes on “Liberalisme et Etatisme” : M. René Doumic studies the works of M. Alfred Capus, and M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu writes on “L'Eventualité d'une Révolution Syndicaliste." In Le Correspondant M. Tavernier gives an article on Tolstoi, and M. Thureau Dangin on " La Vie du Cardinal Vaughan et celle de Colonel Vaughan." La Rerue hebdomadaire has published some extremely interesting articles in recent numbers ; among others “ La Balance politique ; l'Europe en Orient” by M. Gabriel Hanotaux, and a very curious and instructive article by M. Ch. Cheñu, former Batonnier de l'Ordre des avocats, on “ Le Centennaire de la restauration de l'Ordre des avocats.” M. Guy de Montbel pnblishes the souvenirs of his grandfather, Comte de Montbel, under the title of “ Sur les routes de l'exil,” and Jules Lemaître's lecture on “Les Péchés de Sainte- Beuve ” is published in full. At the Odéon Roméo et Juliette is now being given. “L'Aventurier,” by Alfred Capus, is still on the bill at the Porte-Saint-Martin. Like all of this author's plays, the “ Aventurier" has a happy ending. Etienne Ranson, the scapegrace of the family, leaves the country in debt and comes back a wealthy man. He is then invited to come to the rescue of an uncle who is on the brink of ruin. He is willing to do this provided that his cousin Geneviève will marry him. She is engaged. Etienne is then inflexible, but when Geneviève's brother is about to commit suicide and his sister appeals to him, he finally yields and comes to the rescue of the family. Geneviève then discorers his real worth, breaks off her engagement and marries him. “Le Carnaval des enfants,” by M. Saint- Georges de Bouhélier, has had great success at the Théâtre des Arts. The centenary of Alfred de Musset was com- memorated at the Comédie Française with all the honours possible. A matinée and soirée entirely composed of the poet's works were both greatly appreciated by the admirers of Musset. One of the events of the season in the theatrical world has been the re-opening of the Shakespeare Theatre by M. Camille de Sainte-Croix with “ The Taming of the Shrew” (“L'Ecole de la Pie Grièche"). The play was given two nights, and every fortnight another of Shakespeare's plays is to be represented. Rarely is such an excellent ensemble seen. M. de Sainte-Croix has chosen each actor and trained the whole company specially for these plays. The result is admirable, and the Parisians are enthusiastic in their appreciation and praise. It is very probable that at the end of the French season M. de Sainte-Croix will take his company for a tour through England with his Shakespeare repertory. ALYS HALLARD. “ La Bavière" (Fasquelle). " Les Feministes avant Féminisme (Arthur Savaète). " Les Femmes Auteurs” (Plon). "La Fosse aux Lions" (Bernard Grasset). “La Bataille” (Ollendorff). “ Pour tuer Bonaparte " (Ollendorff).  ## p. 114 (#160) ############################################ 114 THE AUTHOR. COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IN U.S.A. DEPOSIT OF FRAGMENT OF BOOK. A PPLICATION for registration of copyright should be denied, (1) Where the ad interim deposit under sect. 21 of the Copyright Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., 1080), is a com- plete book, and the permanent deposit under sect. 22 is only a part of such book ; (2) Where both the ad interim and permanent deposits are fragments of the work ; (3) Where the copy printed and bound in accordance with the manu- facturing provisions of sect. 15 of the Act and deposited in the first instance, is only a fragment of the work; and (4) Where a complete book is deposited, but the affidavit correctly indicates that only a part of the work is printed in the United States. The word “book," as used in sects. 21 and 22 and in class (a) of sect. 5 and elsewhere in that Act, means the entire book and not a fragment thereof. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, February 9, 1910. SIR, --Your communication of January 18, 1910, wherewith you transmit certain documents from the Librarian of Congress, was duly received. From the statement of the Librarian it appears that in a number of instances in attempting to comply with the provisions of the copyright law of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., ,1080), only parts of books hare been deposited by applicants with the Register of Copyrights and copyrights applied for thereon ; and I am asked what action should be taken by the Register of Copyrights when an application is made which presents either of the following conditions :- 1. Where the ad interim deposit under sect. 21 is a complete book, and the permanent deposit under sect. 22 is only a part of such book. 2. Where both the ad interim and permanent deposits are fragments of the work. 3. Where the copy, printed and bound in accordance with the manufacturing provisions of sect. 15 of the Act and deposited in the first instance, is only a fragment of the work. 4. Where a complete book is deposited, but the affidavit correctly indicates that only part of the work is printed in the United States. In reply to these questions I have the honour to say: The first two questions in rolve a construction of sects. 21 and 22 of the Copyright Act, which relate to procuring a copyright in a book published abroad in the Euglish language, while the last two involve the general provisions of the Act. Sects. 21 and 22 read as follows: Sect. 21. That in the case of a book published abroad in the English language before publication in this country, the deposit in the Copyright Office, not later than thirty days after its publication abroad, of one complete copy of the foreign edition, with a request for the reservation of the copyright and a statement of the name and nationality of the author and of the copyright proprietor and of the date of publication of the said book, shall secure to the author or proprietor an ad interim copyright, which shall have all the force and effect given to copyright by this Act, and shall endure until the expiration of thirty days after such deposit in the copyright Office Sect. 22. That whenever within the period of such ad interim protection an authorised edition of such book shall be published within the United States, in accordance with the manufacturing pro- visions specified in section fifteen of this Act, and whenever the provisions of this Act as to deposit of copies, registration, filing of affidavit, and the printing of the copyright notice shall have been duly complied with, the copyright shall be extended to endure in such book for the full term elsewhere provided in this Act. Does the word "book" as here used, mean the entire book, or a fragment of a book ? It appears to me that there can be but one answer to this question. The requirement in sect. 21 that a deposit in the Copyright Office within the time specified “of one complete copy of the foreign edition,” clearly indicates that in the enactment of these sections the entire book was in the minds of Congress, and not a fragment thereof. I am also of the opinion that the same meaning should be given the word “ book " as it appears in class (a), sect. 5, and elsewhere in the Act. When it was enacted in sect. 8 “ that the author or pro- prietor of any work made the subject of copyright by this Act ... shall have copyright for such work under the conditions and for the term speci- fied in this Act" it certainly was not intended that a chapter or two—a mere fragment of a book should fall within the meaning of the word “work." Such fragment is not a “ work," and cannot be so considered. It is only a part of a work. There is a special reason why this meaning should be given the words “ book” and “ work" in this Act which did not exist before the passage of the Act of March 3, 1891. The Copyright Acts before the one of that date contained no pro- visions with reference to where and on what type or plates the book should be printed. But by sect. 15 of the present Act it is provided in sub- stance that all the work in connection with the printing and binding of every book accorded pro- tection by the Act shall be done within the limits of the United States, and by sect. 31 the importa-  ## p. 115 (#161) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 115 tion of copyrighted books not manufactured in LICENCE TO COPY PHOTOGRAPHS. accordance with the provisions of sect. 15 is pro- hibited. Each part of the Act should be so con- strued as to give effect to the legislative intent in BOWDEN BROS. v. AMALGAMATED PICTORIALS, LTD. the enactment of every other part. And to hold that a mere fragment of a book could be copy M H E plaintiffs in this case are a firm of photo- righted, would open the door to the most extensive I graphers supplying photographs for publi- evasions of the manufacturing provisions of the Act. - cation in the Press at the usual trade price For illustration, the Librarian of Congress of 10s. 6d., and the defendant company is pro- transmits through you what appears to be a prietor of the papers called Throne and Country booklet in pamphlet form of fifty-one pages, on and Lotinga's Weekly. the last of which appear the words “ The end.” The plaintiffs supplied photographs to Mr. This has been filed with the Register of Copyrights Lotinga when he was proprietor of the Throne, under sect. 21 for ad interim protection. But as and agreed to a reduction in the price owing to a matter of fact, this pamphlet contains only the the financial condition of that paper. The price first four chapters of the book, and how many more for the first use of a photo was reduced to 5s., and there are and of how many volumes the entire for any subsequent reproduction the price was work consists there is nothing to indicate ; nor 2s.6d. In 1910, when Mr. Lotinga caused the could the extent of the work make any difference defendant company to be incorporated for the so far as the principle involved is concerned ; nor purpose of taking over the Throne and Lotinga's can the principle be affected by the fact that the Weekly, the plaintiffs pointed out that a statement pamphlet purports to be a complete work. If in the prospectus that their blocks were of great protection be afforded these four chapters, no other value was erroneous, as the permission of the publisher could afford to publish the remainder of plaintiffs was required for any reproduction of the book, and though not legally protected by their photographs. copyright get the protection of the remaining In April the plaintiffs terminated their arrange- portion would in fact be perfect. But at the same ments as to the supply of photographs for these time, peither the manufacturing provisions in papers. The defendants, however, continued to sect. 15 nor the prohibitions against importations use the photographs and blocks, and the plaintiffs, in sect. 31 would apply to the parts not copy who had registered their copyright in the photo- righted ; and the publisher could have the entire graphs which had been published, sued the remainder of the book printed abroad and im- defendants for infringement of copyright. As to ported, and here bound with the four chapters those photographs which had not been published, printed within the United States. If the law the plaintiffs claimed their common law right to should be construed to permit this, it is quite restrain publication, which was threatened and probable that the copyrighting of but a part of intended by the defendants. books which are not supposed to be of very sub- On behalf of the defendants it was urged that the stantial merit would become the custom. But contract entitled them to produce and reproduce independent of this consideration, there appears to the photographs which had been supplied to them ; be nothing in the statute which implies that but a and that they had an irrevocable licence to publish part of a work may be copyrighted, nor have I those which they had used, or selected for produc- been able to find any authorities showing that tion, on the terms arranged between the plaintiffs other similar statutes have been so construed. and Mr. Lotinga. For these reasons, I am of the opinion that an Mr. Justice Parker in his judgment said that application should be refused when the deposit is Mr. Lotinga no doubt convinced himself that the made as shown in either of the first three inquiries. arrangement entitled him to do what he claimed, And the same rule should be applied to the fourth; but the legal effect of it was that Mr. Lotinga because it is a necessary prerequisite to the regis- was not bound to use the photographs supplied, tration of the copyright that the book should be and until acceptance of any photographs the offer printed as required by sect. 15; and if nothing could be withdrawn. After acceptance and com- but the entire work can be copyrighted, then all munication thereof to the plaintiffs, there would be parts of it must be printed in accordance with the a concluded contract as to each photograph accepted, provisions of that section. but in the case of first user and in the case Respectfully, of subsequent user the offer could be withdrawn Geo. W. WICKERSHAM, before acceptance. The contention that the defen- The President. Attorney-General. dants had an unlimited right to use and re-use the P" Official Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the photographs was erroneous. The plaintiffs were, United States," Vol. 28, pp. 176-179.] therefore, entitled to an injunction. The damages  ## p. 116 (#162) ############################################ 116 THE AUTHOR. were assessed at 108. Gd. for each iŋfringement, and a penalty for the same amount was held to be sufficient, because the defendants bona fide believed they had a right to do what they had done. HAROLD HARDY. LIBEL IN A NOVEL. of being attacked by her. Some years ago she obtained an engagement in a chorus, in order to get knowledge and local colour for her story. The Bedford Hotel was certainly in her mind when she mentioned the “Cambridge Head." She had not depicted Belcher as a scamp, but he was so described by one of the characters in the story, being upset through jealousy. She chose the name “ Belcher" because it was euphonious, and “Harold” because it seemed to balance Belcher. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £200 damages. This case recalls the recent decision in the House of Lords, when Mr. Artemus Jones recovered damages for libel : * and Mr. Justice Bucknill, in his summing up to the jury, pointed out that it was not necessary that there should have been an intention to libel the plaintiff, but that he was entitled to damages if they believed that people understood the story to refer to him. Novelists should bear in mind, however, that local surround- ings and coincidences are evidence from which the jury may infer that an author, in naming a charac- ter in a work of fiction, had a particular individual in mind ; and under such circumstances the jury might more readily conclude that that individual was understood to be referred to in the story. HAROLD HARDY. • Reported in The Author, January, 1910. BELCHER v. EDWARD LLOYD, LTD. M HIS was an action for libel, in which the 1 plaintiff, Mr. Harold Belcher, a theatrical agent, claimed damages against the proprie- tors of Lloyd's Weekly News in respect of a serial story entitled “Motley and Tinsel,” which appeared in that paper. The story was written by Miss Ada Jones under the name of “ Margaret Hamilton," and the open- ing scene was laid in the offices of a theatrical agent called Harold Belcher, who was described as the most powerful agent in the world. The narrative dealt with Belcher's behaviour towards a girl, for whom he obtained an important part in a play, and the jealousy of her lover, an actor, who denounced Belcher as a scamp and a thief. The advertisement in the newspaper announcing the serial described it as “a story of the stage, revealing one of the most vivid pictures of stage life," and stated that the authoress “ had drawn on her own real experiences,” that the story was “true to life," and that "the characters were real men and women.” The plaintiff carried on his agency business in Maiden Lane. In the story reference was made to “Rule's," and the “ Bodega,” also to the “ Bedford Hotel,” under the name of the “Cambridge Head," and several persons well known in the neighbour- hood were mentioned by their own or similar names. Mr. Marshall, the proprietor of the Bed- ford Hotel, for instance, stated that he considered that one of the characters named “ Marshall ” meant himself. A number of witnesses were called who said that they had read the story and thought it referred to the plaintiff, and that it had been a general topic of conversation in theatrical circies. On behalf of the defendants it was urged that “Motley and Tinsel,” was mere fiction in the form of a sensational novel, and that the most powerful agent in the world could not have been taken to be the plaintiff. Among witnesses called for the defence, Miss Jones, the authoress, stated that she had written about forty serials, and no one had ever complained MAGAZINE CONTENTS. CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. The Unity of Tolstoy's Life and Work. By Dr. Charles Sarollea. Anatole France II. By Count de Soissons. Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande. By George Lilley, Shakespearean Theatres. By the late Prof. Thornton Collins, Literary Supplement : Christ and Popular Imagination. CORNHILL Arabiniana. By Sir Frederick Pollock. J. K. Stephen. By A. C. Benson. FORTNIGHTLY. Byron. By His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw Reid. Tolstoy. By Francis Gribble. Two German Theatres. By H. Granville Barker. NINETEENTH CENTURY. The “ Modernism” of Thomas Aquinas. By the Rev. Francis Aveling, Ph.D. A Plea for the Nationalisation of our Sculpture. By W. Reynolds-Stephens.  ## p. 117 (#163) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 117 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. 1. U 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, wili 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 iaken on behalf of the aggrieved member, and all costs borne by the Society. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi. ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the document to the Society for examination. 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers: (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu- lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary 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, or £10 108. 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 | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are : (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book, General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are: (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement means. (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. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with 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 n agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- 1. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be  ## p. 118 (#164) ############################################ 118 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. (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always avoided except in cases where the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set out under heading (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. 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 bave 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 COMPOS ERS. TITTLE 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 possible, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. REMITTANCES. OCENARIOS, 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. 6d. 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. 119 (#165) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 119 them. GENERAL NOTES. and other articles entering into the manufacture of books, for there is a decided public demand for the freeing of books, as well as works of art, from PAN-AMERICAN UNION. duty, and unless book materials are freed from excessive duties, the American publishers will be (Reprinted from the Publishers' Weekly (New York) by kind permission of the Editor.) placed in the inverted position, as manufacturers, of paying high duties on all their materials and THE President announces that he will lay before ore having their products subject to competition from the Senate, with a recommendation for ratification, countries where the materials of books are less the copyright convention adopted at the Pan burdened with tariff duties or altogether free from burdened American Congress at Buenos Aires. The United States is already a party by tardy ratification to the convention agreed upon at Mexico City in 1902, which constituted a Pan-American Union on lines somewhat similar to the International The two paragraphs headed “Pan-American Copyright Union under the Berne convention of Union” and “ American Tariffs and Book Produc- 1886 and the Paris agreement of 1896. The tion,” give an insight into the views taken by some Buenos Aires convention bears to the Mexico con- of the parties in the United States who are the same relation as the Berlin interested in these important questions. convention of 1908 bears to the Berne-Paris The Pan-American Congress may be an extra agreement. It provides that copyright should power to force the United States to do away with extend throughout the republics of the American the printing clause, and the greater the pressure continents without other formalities than those that is brought to bear the better will it be for required in the country of origin of a work : and all parties. It is not impossible that with the its broader lines make it difficult of ratification new freedom obtained by Canada with regard to under our copyright legislation of 1909. Under copyright legislation, a printing clause will be set that legislation the United States could accept it up by the Canadians against the Americans. Any only with reservation of the necessity of deposit retrograde step of this kind by any country is a and manufacture here. If any way could be found very serious blemish on the copyright ideals of the for its acceptance by early ratification, that is most world. It has been the policy of all countries to be desired, for there should be an increasing rather to bear patiently the burden imposed by this market in South America for American books in ignorant legislation than to step back from the the Spanish language, such as have already been ideals that they have laid before themselves. produced here in the educatioual field. If the Gradually this policy has borne good fruit. The Pan-American Union can be completed, with the countries standing outside the Berne Convention participation of the United States, the next and have given in their allegiance, and the countries indeed final step should be the consolidation of whose legislation has been backward have gradually the International Copyright Union and the Pan- gone forward towards the ideal. American Union in one body of world-wide rela Would it not be possible for England also to join tionship, like the Universal Postal Union. this Pan-American Union, the text of which is printed in another column ? If this were the case, no doubt, by the next meeting of the Delegates of International Copyright, the Berlin Convention AMERICAN TARIFFS AND BooK PRODUCTION. and the Buenos Aires Conference would be consoli- The President seeks to postpone tariff reduction dated into one, and copyright would practically until the tariff commission shall report on specific become worldwide. There will no doubt be a great schedules some time during the sessions of the sixty- market in the future for the sale of English books second Congress, 1911-1912. The President does in South America ; indeed, even at the present time pot seem to have heard from the country. The Tauchnitz editions sell well there. duties on wood pulp, for instance, have had more examination than any tariff board is likely to give them, and newspaper publishers, though to be sure GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES. interested parties, are unanimous in urging that wood pulp be made free of duty, which would We have received from the Library of Congress, afford some check to the paper trust. There is a Washington, a note stating that on the 8th day of serious danger before American book publishers December, 1910, a proclamation was issued by the unless the tariff should be reduced in the matter President of the United States under which of the materials for paper making, and all paper Germany and America are entitled to reciprocal  ## p. 120 (#166) ############################################ 120 THE AUTHOR. benefits under the American and German Copyright BOOK REGISTRATION IN THE U.S.A. AND Laws. ENGLISH SERIAL RIGHTS. It is to be hoped that with the extension of these reciprocal rights the United States will see their We have taken the liberty of publishing in way finally to join the Berne Convention, and full in another column the opinion of the Attorney- deliver themselves from the shackles which make General of the U.S.A. on the registration of a fragment of a book. All authors should read it them at present the laughing-stock of civilised with diligence and discernment, as many believe nations as far as copyright is concerned. that copyright can be obtained in the United States by such an incomplete registration. This opinion, ENGLISH AUTHORS AND U.S.A. COPYRIGHT. while it does not so much affect the ability to We have taken the liberty of printing in this register a work in book form, very seriously number of The Author statements referring to the affects the ability to register a serial which is American Copyright Law, and the position under running through an English magazine. There that law, from the report of the Register of Copy- appear to be only two ways of meeting the difficulty rights and from the Publishers' Weekly (New satisfactorily. The first is by running the serial York). As all these things are of the greatest production simultaneously through an American interest to English authors, we wish that they magazine (this again emphasises the importance of would realise more fully the importance of obtaining trying to secure the American contract to the full American copyright. We regret to say that English author well in advance); the other, by English publishers, in cases recently before the having the book set up in America and making a society, having insisted that the power to deal with formal publication of a certain number of copies in the American copyright should be included in their England while the story runs serially in an English agreement, have never made any effort to obtain it, magazine. Both these methods are unsatisfactory. but have merely sold an edition in sheets to the It is a great pity, when the American authorities United States market. We regret to say that many were drafting the new Bill, that they did not take agents have not only approved these agreements, into some consideration the question of serials but have thrown cold water on the wishes of their running through English magazines. authors that they should take up with keenness the Would it not be possible for the United States placing of their works with an American publisher. to bring forward a sinall Bill to cover this point, It is no doubt a matter which causes the agent con- which brings a serious hardship on English authors? siderable inconvenience and trouble, and, perhaps, It will be seen that if a serial is running monthly, in the first instance, will not bring in much money or even weekly, it is impossible to obtain the interim protection granted under the present Act, to the agent's pocket. It brings but little pecuniary return to the publisher, who gains more by the sale and even if it was issued daily it would be doubtful of the sheets. But in spite of this, we insist that whether a story of, say, 100,000 words could be all authors should begin early in their endeavour to run through a daily paper so as to make it possible secure the American market. If they began, say, for the author to file the complete story in three or six months before they allowed the agent, Washington within thirty days of the first issue. or the publisher, an offer of the English publication, it is most probable that the American market would be secured, and the author would receive in conse- quence a double payment for his work. If, however, MUSIC-HALL AND THEATRICAL the alternative course is pursued, that the English SKETCHES. publisher gets the first offer, and that then only the agent commences with the Ainerican negotiations, it is almost impossible to succeed in the time," A A ND whereas the multitude of places of entertain- ment for the lower sort of people is another great (necessarily limited) between the signing of the E cause of thefts and robberies, as they are thereby English contract and the date of English publica- tempted to spend their small substance in rioious tion. The fault lies primarily with the author pleasures, and in consequence are put on unlawful methods himself for not being more insistent ; secondly, of supplying their wants and renewing their pleasures ; in order, therefore, to prevent the said temptation to thefts with the agent; and thirdly, with the English pub- and robberies, and to correct as far as may be the habit of lisher. It does not lie, as some assert, in the fact idleness, which is become too general over the whole king. that Americans prefer to read American authors to dom, and is productive of much mischief and inconvenience, English anthors ; that it does not lie in this fact be it enacted," is evident from the book reviews in America, and This is the preamble to the Act of 25 George II., from the great number of books that are sent over chapter 36, which deals with music and dancing in sheets. licences and, accordingly, with music-halls. The  ## p. 121 (#167) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 121 Act, therefore, which was passed for the protection singing or speaking characters, and should not of the public and for the raising of music-hall take longer than thirty minutes to perform ; and entertainments, it would appear has been arbitrarily (this is the point which materially affects dramatists) used by theatrical managers in an endeavour to no sketch should be taken or adapted from any debase these entertainments by preventing the stage play or dramatic entertainment which had performance of legitimate theatrical pieces. In a been licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, until few words the managers are, for their own selfish after the expiration of fifteen years from the first ends, utilising an Act for a purpose for which it performance. was never intended. Perhaps, although to most of This was an open attempt to deprive both the our readers they may be well known, it may be dramatist and the touring manager of the right to worth while to repeat the facts of the case. utilise a stage play as a sketch after its value as a When the performances at the music-ball reached stage play had been exhausted. Many a play con- the high standard which they at present hold, it tains a scene that would make an excellent sketch, struck the managers of the music-halls that it though the play as a whole may be a failure. might be worth while to produce sketches as one It seems an extraordinary thing that the of the “turns," instead of comic songs, dancing, managers of theatres and music-halls should have acrobats, etc., etc. The manager's idea naturally called this conference and entered into this agree- was to raise the tone of his performance, and, ment putting limitations on the use of another incidentally, to secure broader custom. The person's property without taking the trouble to theatrical managers, fearing that the custom might consult those who were the originators of this be taken away from the theatres, and wishing to property. It is the same spirit which animated crush out the competition which they were already those who called for the type-setting clauses in feeling, immediately saw a method of doing so by America, and which animates the public generally the fact that a theatrical performance at a music when they endeavour to legislate for the holders of hall was illegal and rendered the manager subject copyright. to prosecution. They, accordingly, carried through This agreement was faithfully followed for some a test case and were successful, using for their own time, but then again it began to be broken. It is ends an Act which was passed for an entirely different needless to mention the many cases in which it was purpose. This action on the part of the theatrical broken. Although Sarah Bernhardt and others managers naturally raised a stir amongst the music were allowed to produce dramatic pieces contrary hall managers, who found the kind of theatrical to the agreement, the wrath of the managers was entertainment that they were putting before their aroused when Seymour Hicks produced part of customers popular and successful. They realised, Richard III. No one could possibly say that Sarah however, that, strictly speaking, a stage play could Bernhardt's performance, or that Seymour Hicks' only be performed in a building that was licensed Richard III. was likely to lower the tone of music- for the purpose of presenting stage plays. The hall entertainment, so it was clear that the only music-halls had only music and dancing licences. end in view was the desire of the managers to The music-ball managers, therefore, excited the protect their own pockets. Another conference was interest of Captain Jessel, M.P., who brought then held, and again the dramatists were ignored. before Parliament a short Bill making the perform- The second conference appeared to be merely for ance of sketches in music-halls legal. This Bill the sake of confirming the first conference-it was blocked by the friends of the theatrical suggested, however, a reduction in the time limit managers, and being a Bill brought forward by to seven years—and for impressing upon the a private member, had little chance of being dis- members of the two associations that they were cussed; but as a great deal of ill-feeling and Press bound to act as gentlemen of honour in an agree- comment was excited at the time, a conference ment which was, on the face of it, illegal. Indeed, was called between the theatrical and music-hall the fact that the theatrical managers and the music- managers, at which a certain agreement was hall managers were somewhat afraid of the position arrived at, having for its object the end of sketch is shown by a letter signed by the three solicitors : prosecutions. (1) of the Society of West End Theatres, (2) of the The main points of this agreement were that not Theatrical Managers' Association, and (3) of the more than two sketches should be presented in any Entertainment Protection Association. We need one programme. Of these two sketches, one should not discuss the points of that letter except as far as not last more than twenty minutes, should be per- it deals with the legality of the position taken by formed in one scene, and should be represented by these associations, but the commencement of one only four characters. The second sketch might paragraph affords an amusing aspect of the views be presented with any number of scenes and supers, taken, as it misrepresents the position entirely. but should be represented by no more than six The paragraph runs as follows: “Having regard  ## p. 122 (#168) ############################################ 122 THE AUTHOR. to the fact that the present Act of Parliament has appear in the work any statement showing the by apparently the common consent of the authori- reservation of the property. ties been left to the parties interested to enforce, ART. 4. The right of property of a literary etc., etc.” This is an absurd view of the situation. or artistic work includes for its author or successors The authorities have not enforced action against the exclusive right to dispose of the same, to those who have run sketches at music-balls, because publish it, to sell it, translate it, or authorise the they saw that these sketches tended to raise the translation of it, and to reproduce it in any form entertainment and not to debase it, and it was only either in its entirety or partially. to protect the public against improper performances ART. 5. The following shall be regarded as the that the Act was passed, and if the authorities have author of a protected work, except when proofs to left the issue in the hands of the parties, interested, the contrary are produced. He whose name or why have not the dramatists been consulted ? pseudonym shall be expressed therein, and, conse- What, therefore, must be done from the drama- quently, the action brought by the author or his tist's point of view ? There are two main lines to representative against plagiarists or infringers, take : (1) to find out how far this action is illegal, shall be admitted before the courts of the several and if it is illegal to prevent it on the sound prin- signatory countries. ciple that no artist has a right to be hampered in ART. 6. Authors or their successors, whether the production of his art by the tradesmen who resident or foreign, shall enjoy, in the signatory exploit him ; (2) that every effort must be made to States, the rights granted by the respective laws, have the law altered in accordance with the view but said rights shall not exceed the period of already adopted by the Dramatic Sub-Committee protection granted in the country of origin.. of the society, that places of entertainment should In the case of works consisting of several volumes be subject to one licence. which are not published together, as well as in the case of bulletins, serials or periodical publications, the term of the right of property shall commence to count with regard to each volume, bulletin, THE COPYRIGHT CONVENTION OF THE serial, or periodical publication, from the respective PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS AT date of its publication. BUENOS AIRES. ART. 7. The following shall be regarded as the country of origin of a work; that in which it was first published in America, and, in case said pub- (Reprinted from the Publishers' Weekly (New York) by lication has been simultaneously made in several of kind permission of the Editor.) the signatory countries, then it shall be the one M HE Fourth International American Con- which shall fix the shortest term of protection. 1 ference, assembled in Buenos Aires, ART. 8. Any work that did not obtain its resolves :- literary property from the beginning shall not ART. 1. The signatory States recognise and acquire the same in its subsequent editions. protect the rights of literary and artistic property ART. 9. Authorised translations shall be pro- in conformity with the stipulations of the present tected in the same manner as original works. conventions. The translators of works in which there is no ART. 2. By “literary and artistic works" is guaranteed property or in which the same has meant the books, articles, pamphlets of all kinds expired, shall have the right to obtain-in so far --whatever may be the subject they deal with, and as the translations thereof are concerned—the whatever be the number of the pages thereof, right of property specified in article 3, but they dramatic or musical works ; those of a choregraphic shall not be able to prevent the publication of character, musical compositions with or without other translations of the work. words ; drawings, paintings, sculptures, and en- ART. 10. The speeches delivered or read in gravings ; photographic works, astronomical or deliberating assemblies, before the courts of justice, geographical spheres; plans, sketches or plastic or in public meetings, may be published in the works relating to geography, geology, topography, newspapers without any authorisation whatever, architecture or any science; and, finally, they also this right being subject to the provisions of the comprise every production that can be published internal laws of each State concerning the matter. by any printing or reproducing process. ART. 11. Literary, scientific, or artistic works, ART. 3. The recognition of the right of pro- whaterer may be the subject thereof, published in perty obtained in a State, in conformity with its newspapers or reviews of any of the countries of laws, shall fully and legally have its effects in the the Union, shall not be reproduced in the other other States, without the necessity of complying countries without the previous consent of the with any other formality, provided there shall authors. With the exception of the aforesaid  ## p. 123 (#169) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 123 works, any newspaper article may be reproduced who led the way and scored a great success with by others, if this has not been expressly prohibited, “Eugene Aram.” Never before in an English and, in any event, the source from which said novel had a murderer been portrayed as an earnest article has been obtained should be duly cited. student of philosophy, of grave mien, gentle Such miscellaneous newspaper news which repre- manners, and noble heart; never before had sent merely Press reports shall not enjoy the there been depicted a murderer-a murderer who protection of this convention. murdered for money, to boot—whose character was ART. 12. The reproduction of fragments of so endearing and so sympathetic as to enslave most literary or artistic works in publications for of those who read about him. The book was educational purposes or chrestomathy does not favourably received in most quarters, but here and confer any right of property, and, consequently, there a dissentient voice was heard, and in Fraser's can be made freely in all the signatory countries. Magazine for August and September, 1832, a tre- ART. 13. For the purposes of civil responsi- mendous onslaught, in the form of a story called bility indirect appropriations, not authorised, of a “Elizabeth Brownrigge” (which dealt with the literary or artistic work not representing the murderess of that name), was made upon the character of the original work, shall be considered author of “ Eugene Aram," to whom it was unlawful reproductions. dedicated. “I am inclined to regard you as an The reproduction, in whatever form, of an entire original discoverer in the world of literary enter- work or of the greater part thereof, accompanied prise, and to reverence you as the father of a new by notes or comments, on the pretext of literary lusus nature school," so ran a passage in the criticism, or as extension or complement of said dedication of the satire. “There is no other title work, shall also be considered as unlawful. by which your manner could be so aptly designated. ART. 14. Every plagiarised work may be seized I am told, for instance, that in a former work, in the signatory countries wherein the original having to paint an adulterer, you described him as work has a right to be legally protected, this right belonging to the class of country curates, among being without prejudice to such indemnities or whom, perhaps, such a criminal is not met with punishment as the plagiarists may incur, in once in a hundred years ; while, on the contrary, accordance with the laws of the country where the being in search of a tender-hearted, generous, fraud has been committed. sentimental, high-minded hero of romance, you ART. 15. Each of the Governments of the turned to the pages of the “Newgate Calendar," signatory countries shall preserve the right to and looked for him in the list of men who have permit, guard, or prohibit the circulation, repre- cut throats for money, among whom a person in sentation, or exhibition of such works or repro possession of such qualities could not have been dactions concerning which its constituted met with at all. Wanting a shrewd, selfish, authorities would have to exercise the aforesaid worldly, calculating valet, you describe him as an right. old soldier, though he bears not a single trait of ART. 16. The present convention shall com the character which might have been moulded by mence to be in force among such signatory States a long course of military service, but, on the con- as ratify the same three months after its ratifica trary, is marked by all the distinguishing features tion shall be communicated to the Argentine of a bankrupt attorney or a lame duck from the Government, and shall remain in force among all Stock Exchange. Having to paint a cat, you until a year after the date of denouncement. endow her with the idiosyncrasies of a dog." This denouncement shall be communicated to There is one other passage which must also be the Argentine Government and shall have no quoted : “ It is extraordinary that, as you had effect with regard to the country making the commenced a tragedy under the title of Eugene same. Aram,' I had already sketched a burletta with the title of Elizabeth Brownrigge.' I had, indeed, in my dramatic piece, been guilty of an egregious ani unpardonable error ; I had attempted to excite THACKERAY AND THE NEWGATE the sympathies of the audience in favour of the SCHOOL OF FICTION. murdered apprentices, but your novel has dis- abused me of so vulgar a prejudice, and in my present version of her case, all the interest of the TN the 'thirties of the last century arose the reader and all the pathetic powers of the author Newgate School of Fiction, which made will be engaged on the side of the murderess.” heroes of highwaymen and other offenders, At the end of the satire, there is an “ Advertise- and so created a false sympathy for the vicious and ment,” which runs :-“ The author of the foregoing criminal. The ingenious Bulwer-Lytton it was tale begs leave to state that he is prepared to treat  ## p. 124 (#170) ############################################ 124 THE AUTHOR. with any liberal and enterprising publisher, who may be inclined to embark in the speculation, for a series of novels, each in 3 vols. 8vo, under the title of Tales of the Old Bailey ; or, Romances of Tyburn Tree,' in which the whole Newgate Calendar' shall be travestied, after the manner of · Eugene Aram.' Letters (post-paid) addressed to X. Y. Z., 215, Regent Street (the offices of Fraser's Magazine], will receive immediate attention." " Elizabeth Brownrigge” was published anony- mously, and if it attracted any attention at the time, it certainly did not attract sufficient to make people desirous to discover the author. It may at the time of its publication have been attributed to this writer or to that, but it was not (as far as is known) until a month or two after Thackeray's death that Dr. John Brown in an article on the novelist in the North British Review (February, 1864) attributed it to him—on what evidence he does not state, though he may well have had the information from the author. “Elizabeth Brown- rigge” is particularly interesting, because, whether Thackeray did or did not write the story, there can be no question but that it was directly responsible for “Catherine," which had the same object as the earlier story. “• Elizabeth Brownrigge' ought to be Thackeray's," Swinburne wrote to Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd in 1880, “ for if it is not, he stole the idea, and to some extent the style, of his parodies on novels of criminal life, from this first sketch of the kind.” A couple of years after “Eugene Aram ” was published, William Harrison Ainsworth came to the fore as an exponent or the Newgate School of Fiction. Lytton had taken a murderer for his hero ; Ainsworth selected highwaymen. Dick Turpin was his jeune premier in “ Rookwood," and that sorry young scoundrel Jack Sheppard gave his name to, and the raison d'être for, another book. These novels, too, caught the public taste, and were widely read and praised highly even by those who should have known better. Ainsworth’s recent biographer, Mr. S. M. Ellis, for one, can see no objection to the “ Jack Sheppard ” class of novel.“ The outcry against Ainsworth for having chosen a robber for a hero cannot seriously be justified,” he has written. “If it is inherently immoral to take a criminal for literary purposes and make him picturesque and interesting, then the greatest writers will have to stand in the same pillory as the author of Jack Sheppard.' The principal characters of Shakespeare's tragedies of * Hamlet,' of Macbeth,' of Othello,' are but murderers; Falstaff is a robber and worse. Scott must answer for 'Rob Roy’; Fielding for Jonathan Wild’; Gay for “The Beggars' Opera'; Schiller for The Robbers’; Hood for his magnificent · Eugene Aram’; Dumas for his “Celebrated Crimes,' and so on through literature of all times and countries. This brilliant band of criminals, illuminated and idealised by literary limelight, cannot deny the consanguineous claims of poor, abused · Jack Sheppard.'” It would, indeed, be a waste of time to dwell upon the fallacies of this argument; but it may be remarked that Ains- worth's enthusiastic defender has strangely misread " Jonathan Wild.” since he can mention that brilliant satire in connection with the Newgate School of Fiction ; he might as well have added to the list “ Catherine.” Mr. Ellis insists that the Newgate novels of Ainsworth are moral because the villains end on the gallows. He ignores the fact that, while they do go to the gallows, they go as heroes, not as malefactors ; but he inadvertently admits that Ainsworth “threw a romantic glamour over his merry sinners,” and so, in a line, he gives away the case he has fought so strenuously in many pages. Forster and Thackeray now led the attack against the Newgate School of Fiction. “ Bad as we think the morals, we think the puffs even more dangerous," Forster wrote in the Examiner. “Public morality and public decency have rarely been more endangered than by the trumpeted exploits of Jack Sheppard.'" In “Catherine,” Thackeray had something to say of one of Dickens's books. “No one,” he wrote, “has read that remarkable tale of Oliver Twist' without being interested in poor Nancy and her murderer ; and especially amused and tickled by the gambols of the Artful Dodger and his companions. The power of the writer is so amazing, that the reader at once becomes his cap- tive, and must follow him wherever he leads ; and to what are we led ? Breathless to watch all the crimes of Fagin, tenderly to deplore the errors of Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and admiration, and an absolute love for the society of the Dodger. . . . A most agreeable set of rascals indeed, who have their virtues, too, but not good company for any man. We had better pass them by in decent silence ; for, as no writer can or dare tell the whole truth concerning them, and faithfully explain their vices, there is no need to give er parte statements of their virtue." It was, however, mainly against Rookwood" and "Jack Sheppard” the earlier part of which had appeared in Bentley's Miscellany), that Thackeray tilted in “Catherine," which purported to be written by“ Ikey Solomons, Esq., jr."- Ikey Solomons having been a notori- ous “fence,"—and was dated from Horsemonger Lane, a particularly unsavoury district. Thackeray stated again that the writers of the Newgate School of Fiction did not dare to paint their heroes as the scoundrels he knew them to be. “In Freeny (the highwayman's) life," Thackeray wrote subsequently  ## p. 125 (#171) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 125 in “The Irish Sketch Book” (ch. xv.), “one this source by letting lodgings. With two of the man may see the evil of drinking, another the lodgers, Woods and Billings, she became criminally harm of horse-racing, another the danger attendant intimate, and the three of them one night in March, on early marriage, a fourth the exceeding incon- 1726, made John Hayes drunk and killed him, venience of the heroic highwayman's life—which a cutting up the body and disposing of the different certain Ainsworth in company with a certain parts in different places. One portion of the Cruikshank, have represented as so poetic and remains was discovered and then another, and brilliant, so prodigal of delightful adventure, so eventually Mrs. Hayes and Billings were arrested adorned with champagne, gold lace, and brocade." for murder, and presently Wood was captured and Thackeray had no objection to a novelist taking a confessed. Hayes pleaded not guilty, but was con- villain for his principal character ; he himself victed of petty treason and sentenced to be burnt selected Barry Lyndon for one such post of alive. The men were sentenced to be hanged. honour, but he insisted that it was bad art, as Wood died in Newgate the day before the execu- well as dishonesty and immorality, to confuse tion, and Hayes made an abortive attempt to poison virtue and vice.“ Vice," he wrote in his paper herself. No story could be more sordid or un- on the author of Tom Jones,' “is vice, and is pleasant, and Thackeray deliberately mitigated the never to be mistaken for virtue in Fielding's horrors as little as possible. “Catherine" appeared honest downright books ; it goes by its name, and in Fraser's Magazine from May, 1839, to February, invariably gets its punishment. See the conse- 1840, and the author was heartily pleased when the quences of honesty! Many a squeamish lady of conclusion was reached. “ Having finished our our time would fing down one of these romances delectable meal,” he wrote, “it behoves us to say with horror, but would go through every page of a word or two by way of grace at its conclusion, Mr. Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard' with perfect and to be heartily thankful that it is over. It has comfort to herself. Ainsworth dared not paint his beeu the writer's object carefully to exclude from hero as the scoundrel he knew him to be ; he must his drama (except in two very insignificant keep his brutalities in the background, else the instances---mere walking gentlemen parts) any public morals will be outraged, and so he produces characters but those of scoundrels of the very a book quite absurd and unreal, and infinitely more highest degree. That he has not altogether failed immoral than anything Fielding ever wrote. Jack in the object he had in view is evident from some Sheppard' is immoral actually because it is decor- newspaper critiques which he has had the good ous. The Spartans, who used to show drunken fortune to see; and which abase the tale of Catherine' slaves to their children, took care, no doubt, that as one of the dullest, most vulgar and immoral the slaves should be really and truly drunk. Sham works extant. It is bighly gratifying to the author drunkenness, which never passed the limits of pro- to find that such opinions are al road, as they con- priety, but only went so far as to be amusing, would vince him that the taste for Newgate literature is be rather an object to excite youth to intoxication on the wane ; and that when the public critic has than to deter him from it, and some late novels right down undisguised immorality set before him, have always struck us in the same light.” the lowest creature is shocked at it, as he should Thackeray decided that his castigation of these be, and can declare his indignation in good round immoral novels should take the form of a story in terms of abuse. The characters of the tale are which all the principal characters were villains, immoral, and no doubt of it; but the writer portrayed, not indeed as so vile as the prototypes humbly hopes the end is not so. The public was, were, for that it was impossible to do in the page of a in our notion, dosed and poisoned by the prevailing magazine, but so nearly to life as the public could style of literary practice, and it was necessary to be expected to tolerate. With this object in view administer some medicine that would produce a he searched the “Newgate Calendar," and found wholesome nausea, and afterwards bring about a therein the very heroine for such a story as he more healthy habit. And, thank Heaven, this contemplated - Mrs. Catherine Hayes, whose effect has been produced in very many instances, history has been admirably summarised in the and that the Catherine' cathartic has acted most Dictionary of National Biography by Mr. efficaciously. The author has been pleased at the Alsager Vian. Catherine Hall was her maiden disgust which his work has excited, and has watched name, and she was born near Birmingham in 1690. with benevolent carefulness the wry faces that have At a very early age she was led into evil courses. been made by many of the patients who have At the age of sixteen she married a carpenter, John swallowed the dose.” Hayes, by whom (it is to be hoped) she had twelve “Be it granted,” so the book concludes, “ that children. Some years after the marriage, they Solomons is dull, but don't attack his morality ; he went to London, where near Tyburn they set up a humbly submits that, in his poem, no man shall small shop and supplemented their income from mistake virtue for vice, no man shall allow a single  ## p. 126 (#172) ############################################ 126 THE AUTHOR. sentiment of pity to enter his bosom for any ment of copyright. The third, by the Hon. character of the piece ; it being, from beginning to Andrew J. Peters, of Massachusetts, introduced on end, a scene of unmixed rascality performed by June 11, 1910, provided that the sale of a work people who never deviate into good feeling ; and, of art by a foreigner to a citizen of the United States although he doth not pretend to equal the great shall operate to permit the purchaser to repro- modern authors whom he has mentioned, in wit or duce the work when not for commercial use or sale. descriptive power ; yet, in the point of moral, he No action was taken on these bills, other than to meekly believes that he has been their superior ; refer them to the House Committee on Patents. feeling the greatest disgust for the characters he The full texts are printed as Addendum No. 1 to describes, and using his humble endeavour to cause the Report. the public also to hate them.” Act of July 1, 1909.-It was to be expected “It is a disgusting subject and no mistake,” that the new law would give rise to some questions Thackeray wrote to his mother. “It was a mis- of copyright interpretation, and certain provisions take all through. It was not made disgusting of the new legislation have been submitted, so the enough—that was the fact, and the triumph of it Report states, from time to time to the Attorney- would have been to make readers so horribly General for his opinion. The full text of these horrified as to cause them to give up or rather opinions rendered during the year, together with throw up the book and all its kind ; whereas you certain decisions of the Treasury department in see the author had a sneaking kindness for his regard to importation under the new copyright law, heroine, and did not like to make her quite worth- are printed in full as an appendix to the Report. less." Yet, in spite of the author's lament, The Attorney-General's opinions deal with the “ Catherine ” achieved its object, for Ainsworth gave way before the attack and made no further Importation of copyrighted books ; labels and contribution to the Newgate School of Fiction. prints for articles of manufacture ; post-card LEWIS MELVILLE. lithographs; renewal and extension of subsisting ----. -- . copyrights ; deposit of complete book required ; re-importation THE UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT of copyrighted book re-bound abroad; copyright REGISTER proclamation ; typewritten copies of a book. The Treasury Department's opinions deal with the TF every State Department in the United States following: I was conducted as well and as ably as the Importation of a book upon abandonment of Register of Copyrights under the hands of copyright: importation of translation of American Mr. Thorvald Solberg, America, would, no doubt, copyright. be the best governed country in the world. We have received the report of the Register of SOME AMERICAN WRITERS.* Copyrights for 1909–10. It runs from July in the first year to the end of June in the second, There continues to be a steady increase in the work THE American novelists taken by Professor done by this department, and the increased business Erskine as representative leaders are Charles is carried off satisfactorily and methodically : But Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, there are some points which are of considerably William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne, greater interest than mere statistics—the course Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Bret Harte. This of copyright legislation, and the opinions of the selection, both by its inclusions and exclusions, Attorney-General on certain copyright questions will be a little puzzling to many. The name, for that have been laid before him. example, of Simms is practically unknown in Copyright Legislation. It is interesting to note England, while the readers of Charles Brockden that notwithstanding the new general consolidated Brown must be very few, although a new and fine Copyright Act which went into effect on July 1, edition of his works has been published com- 1909, three new copyright bills have been intro- paratively recently. Why Edgar Allen Poe, who duced during the sixty-first Congress. The first certainly challenges Hawthorne's right to be con- was presented by the Hon. Philip P. Campbell, of sidered the principal novelist of America, has been Kansas, on July 23, 1909, providing for the omitted, and why, also, Oliver Wendeil Holmes's suspension of protection when any patent or copy- name does not appear, Professor Erskive does not right was owned, used, or leased by any trust or explain in the preface, where we looked for some monopoly. The second, by the Hon. George W. • "Leading American Novelists," by John Erskine, Ph.D. Gordon, of Tennessee, presented on May 13, 1910, London : George Bell & Sons. New York : Henry Holt & Lone provided specific damages in the case of infringe- Co.  ## p. 127 (#173) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 127 80 30 30 hint as to the limits which he had laid down for opinions expressed by my fellow workers with himself in writing this book. It seems to us a agreement mainly, with bare tolerance sometimes, pity that the author's design is not made clear, with protest rarely. Mr. John Nayler, in the as it is inevitable that the reader should desire current issue, is the first who has aroused and to challenge his title, which is not the title pre- sustained my indignation. fixed to this note; but that is the only word of Minor rights worth two guineas ! grumbling we shall utter. All the six essays May I be permitted to assert, as the writer of which the author has given us are thoroughly what Mr. Nayler terms “average” books, that well written. The information for the one on THE (excuse capitals : no mere italics will give Hawthorne, which is far the longest, has been the emphasis I require) Minor Right—the Very drawn from many obvious sources. It does Minutest—in an ordinary 80,000 word story is justice to the powers of imagination, the irony that of British Book Publication. My experience and the truly poetical genius of its subject, leads me to place the values in any such work as coming throughout to commonly accepted con below :- clusions. The essay on Bret Harte and that on American Serial Publication - Upwards of 150 Mrs. Stowe also run on obvious lines ; but Professor British Erskine's appreciation of Fenimore Cooper will Australian , 20 somewhat surprise those of us who have fallen into Foreign 20 the bad habit of thinking that the day of the most American Bo cation 100 vigorous of American story-tellers is over. Professor Canadian , , Erskine shows what an admirable raconteur Cooper British , was, how easily he could display to the reader In fact, Mr. Nayler's “trifling sums " for the complicated scenes of action, and how skilfully he average book of the average writer of any experi- brought up personal experiences to bear upon the ence, in the hands of capable agents should amount situations in his romances. Simms was à south to not less than £300 and are easily worth as much country follower of Cooper, and suffered by com- more. In Mr. Nayler's idea the whole sum of parison with him, as Cooper did by comparison commercial acumen and commercial integrity is with Scott. Simms's life was a greater one than his concentrated in the hands of publishers. He gives novels would suggest, but undoubtedly the trials his reason. It is that the publisher is anxious and hardsbips of his career prevented him from “to develop all possible avenues of sale.” Of doing justice to a fine impulse towards roinance. course be is, but so is the agent, for his own The American novel is usually supposed to begin benefit and for the benefit of the author. Wherein with Charles Brockden Brown, the author of lies a great difference. The values of a story are “ Edgar Huntley," “ Wieland," “ Ormond," and much more likely to be ascertained and marketed by several other books, five of which were written con- an agent—he is selling them year in and year out. currently, when he was about twenty-eight years of A publisher gushes into such activities at inter- age. In many ways the chapter on Brown, with mittent intervals. I have asked myself Mr. which the book opens, is the most interesting, for Nayler's concluding question. Is it better to its subject was a highly romantic character, and leave such minor rights in the hand of an agent on the brief résumés of the novels make amusing a 10 per cent. commission basis, or to share equally reading. Those who tackle the books themselves, with a publisher ? It seems to answer itself. Why however, will, we think, be sadly disappointed, for, pay 50 per cent, for an accommodation when 10 truth to say, Brown's invention is mechanical, his will suffice ? Faithfully yours, psychological insight little, and his eloquent FRANK SAVILE. phrases rather boring. - In congratulating Professor Erskine on the book, EDITORIAL DELAY. we cannot help wishing that he would give us in a companion volume similar appreciations of the SIR,—May I venture to move that your corre- authors of " Arthur Gordon Pym,” “ The Epic of spondent Mr. Francis George Heath has opened a Wheat," “ Huckleberry Finn,” “Mr. Isaacs," and topic of considerable importance and keen general “Elsie Venner," to say nothing of living writers. interest to the profession of authorship in his allusion to the prevailing English custom of CORRESPONDENCE. “ payment on publication." From a business point of view the practice is bad ; ethically it is unjust and undesirable ; practi- PUBLISHERS AND MINOR (?) Rights. cally it is inconvenient and disliked. What is still SIR,—I have been a diligent reader of The more obvious, to a struggling author, possessed or Author for many years and have perused the no private means, it must always be a definite  ## p. 128 (#174) ############################################ 128 THE AUTHOR. T The cheque I asked for came to hand five or six months later. As a contrast to this, from nearly all the American periodicals to which I contribute a cheque arrives either with acceptance or is despatched at the end of month of acceptance. This is an “ Americanism” which I feel sure most, if not all, of the members of the Incorporated Society of Authors would like to see in use in this country. I am, dear Sir, Yours truly, FRANK E. VERNEY. “AMERICAN SLANG.” SIR,—I observe that in The Author for January 2, 1911, it is stated that some have supposed the word “mayhem ” to be “ American slang," whereas in fact it is an “English legal term.” Please allow me to add that it is merely one of the numerous old spellings of the word “maim." Your correspondent implies this, no doubt, but it may as well be definitely stated. WALTER W. SKEAT. i hardship ; and no doubt it is considered more than a nuisance at times to the author who is neither struggling nor lacking private means. Shorn of its dignified air of philanthropic promise, what does “ payment on publication” amount to? It amounts to this. The author is providing the capital for the “ advance" programme of the periodical. Apparently, modern conditions of periodical publication demand that a magazine shall be made up several months ahead. For instance, a Christmas number is often in hand in August. Who capitalises this post-preparation ? Not the proprietor. The author does, so far as the literary contents are concerned. As an illustration, your correspondent, referring to an American journal which pays on acceptance, says : “I understand at the time Scribners had invested £3,500 in MS. which it had not room for.” It needs no great financial acumen to deduce from this that in the case of the magazine which pays on publication the author is providing the capital. In other words more literally exact, the money to which the author is rightfully entitled upon the delivery of his completed work is held back until the purchaser himself (the editor) has sold the work (i.e., published it), which latter process takes place when it suits the editorial plans. Now this system would be excellent if authors were a class of men expressly engaged in looking for opportunities of financing journalistic enter- prises—purely from pleasurable motives--as a person would present a coin to a tumbler to turn a double somersault. So far as my acquaintance goes, this is not a correct definition of authorship. Therefore I think it is time concerted action was taken by literary men, and representations made to the English periodicals, in an effort to persuade a more equitable system into general adoption. It may be that an author can often get his is money by specially asking for it, but I think there is a natural objection to this course, apart from the not ill-founded feeling that such a request does not add to the felicity of future relations with the editor to whom it is put. In one case within my own experience I wrote to the editor of a prominent magazine requesting payment for a contribution which had been accepted several weeks before, explaining that I wished to clear up all my affairs before departing on an expedition through a certain tropical country where lethal dangers from climate and native were ordinary features and might possibly prevent return. 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