https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/420/1911-05-01-The-Author-21-8.pdf ddb80934820ad188534404288ca59b6f PDF Text Text Monthly Authors . .) Society PRICE SIXPENCE 1911 ( . 1 , MAY No . 8 . . .- XXI Vol Incorporated of ( The Organ of . the The Author . . CONTENTS PAGR 183 183 183 184 185 187 191 193 195 196 198 198 to a .. . to .. . .S .A .) of the to to (U Publishersneed not preservePseudonymity How Use the Society Warnings Books Producers РАОЕ 198 199 199 199 199 199 199 200 201 202 208 Warnings Dramatic Authors Registration of Scenariosand Original Dramatic Authors and Agents Warnings Musical Composers Stamping Music The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes TheModern Novel Style Literature Correspondence in , . .. . of 's Notices TheSociety Funds List Members ThePensionFund Committee Notes TheMeetingof Dramatists Bookspublishedby Members Literary Dramatic and Musical Notes . . an . ." “ , , . 's . of 1878 By Foundation WALTER BESANT . , , ERNST By Hungary and Switzerland Austria By 18 . from . its 6d . 13 Action by , Germany . 6d . Copyright Bill 1890 With the Berne Convention and the of of . its ). of . M 1892 6d . 1s . Gate , S . W .] . Street Storey 18 . . . on , at Queen 's Old , , . 6d 1909 , Secretary . ; ' by . as Revised , 39 , Apply the . ( prices net to . International Copyright Convention All Berlin . of . of . . the , . . . of , . of . G in – A Publication G . Record 1888 Monkswell Agreement issued the Publishers Association with Comments HERBERT THRING and Illustrative Examples Sir WALTER BESANT 2nd Edition Giving Periodicals and their contributors Terms which the different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS and Contributions Society Authors List Members Published October 1907 price Forms 11 Byof . . , Committee 28 of of Contract LUNGE . Authors of J, .U .D of . . 9 ( . 8 American J. from The Society Chairman 10 . Reform An Exposition Lord the Report the Commission Copyright Bill LELY Extracts 13 12 and . . . 7 Copyright Law The the 28 of . to of by , carefully explained Authors are examined and their meaning with account various kinds fraud which have been made possible the different clauses therein By Being additional facts Addenda the Above HERBERT THRING collected the office the Society since the publication the Methods With comments advice the Publishers to by , In . of . S . compiled from at 38 . By .) . SQUIRE SPRIGGE . . Law 1s . Barrister 38 . , 6d -at . , By 8 . , 58 ., or 6d , . Lettres print of ( COLLES Publication SQUIRE SPRIGGE this work agreements proposed offices the various forms the Society in MORRIS . de W . Various Methods papers Out and September omitted devoted especially and Musical Property Dramatic Issued per annum post free Back , The Production 's of . of of The Cost , of . - to . . 6d . 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John . . 1911 price £1 312 Consols Local Loans Victorian Government . Baillie . - to — of 4d 1 . 8 . at of be sufficient funds hand the gear declare another pension portant claim forthcoming Glasgow , financial £250 They desire draw the attention the members the society this fact the hope that additional subscriptions and donations there will Stock 10 , Somers in of 1, of of U Pension secretary 377 19s This brings the invested funds recom The trustees however have been unable any further pensions the mend the payment present exhausted their disposal income dated , Mrs . 21, Rhys , Ernest . . Feb . 21 , Cameron , Mrs . ( Charlotte ) March the February the trustees Fund the society after the placed had before them the position the fund decided invest the purchase Consols The amount purchased the present £312 15 , Reynolds Feb . 21, Mulliken , Mrs . . March 9 , Boughton , Rutland THE PENSION FUND . ON . Feb . Feb 1 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 . . 184 �THE AUTHOR . , to he . if to of of by a of , A of . in be a , to a a . of in to , in of “ of ” . an to on to be to , in he a to . , no to to a In . . of of assets meet the cases for satisfactorily Two small money to a of . In , . in up , by to . J. . . to a in due a of a , in . . , , . due had been for the recovery MS had portion been settled and one case where MS had been lost the defendant had promised pay reasonable compensation The solicitor accord ingly was instructed proceed this case regard certain cases taken the society against Mr Henry Drane judgment was obtained before Mr Justice Eady There was another case literary agent for money taken hand against case one as as of of to of to . , of , of . a of by to , of the members which the committee quickly the solicitor settle service writ After theconsideration the cases the committee discussed the question the new Copyright Bill which had just been printed and made public The committee instructed the secretary send copies the Bill members the Committee instructed possible the Copyright and Dramatic Sub Committees and refer the Bill both the last mentioned sub committees for report The to to Management and . the invoices as far of a , , , of . in ' . , , . a a - In to , of of ' seen were , a of . is , . in an , a of account and One to of , by . of , a of 's to he checked the sales recovery settled - - . in a to of - .- motion for injunction and now closed The result illustrated forcibly the practical value the society intervention The next case had been before the society for some months the member concerned asking the society put accountant check the accounts firm with which he was dealing this case the society had already obtained con gum siderable from the publisher with full statement account and the copies printed and the author had received the stock The only question remaining was whether the printers voucher for the number printed the first instance was correct The solicitor added that inspected had the books the publisher there the members to to of of . The first matter related the infringement the dramatic rights two members This case the solicitor reported had been settled the payment sum after the society had issued claims , . - up of to satisfaction Cases The solicitor the society attended the meeting and made report the cases hand - . , up to , to up at , of of of , . of . 1910 unreasonable excuse the committee decided commence proceedings The solicitor then made the committee report the small cases which had dealt with during the past month three claims against magazine had proved impossible obtain any as by for . by , , bringing the and associates were elected ninety two total elections for the current year bringing the total There were five resignations resignations for the current year number report that the fifty The committee are pleased elections are well the average former years whereas the resignations are somewhat below the number the corresponding period members by . - , on of , , Sir Alfred Bateman seconded Mr Shaw and supported Mr Francis unanimously Storr elected chairman the current year After the minutes the former meeting had been read and signed the committee Twenty proceeded with the election members Bernard India was next discussed and the secretary was instructed place the matter the hands the Indian solicitors the society dispute affecting The committee then discussed magazine paragraph some contributors and dealing with the matter will found elsewhere this issue The Author The magazine referred was The English Review The editor Indian paper having lifted story member the society which had been first published The Westminster Gazette and having his letters the secretary avoided coming any settlement what appeared a , so a to . S . . in of 's much Walter posal his play to in elect chairman for the Squire Sprigge who did Dr the early days the society under Sir chairmanship Besant was the pro was it of . , Management carrent year of . , Sprigge of . , , , , . Squire another book of a similar character . The solicitor reported that as had been able look into the matter the infringement seemed clear and copyright had been committed that breach support the action for The committee decided taking the case through the courts the member infringement necessary case the dramatic rights performance one the members on Sir — : - . W , . W . . Shaw S .C . M . , . G J. ., K G , , Bernard Francis Storr Sidney Webb The first business before the Committee .D ., M Rackham W . E , of I to HE April meeting of the Committee of Management of the Society of Authors was held on Monday , April 3 , at 4 p . m . This was the first meeting after the Committee Election for 1911 . The present Committee of Management consists the following Alfred Bateman Mrs Belloc Lowndes Mrs Comyns Carr Maurice Nesbit Bland Aylmer Maude Arthur Hewlett Jacobs M and , in short , did not think anything more could auditor than he had be done by a professional done already . The committee decided , in these circumstances , that it would be a waste of money to send in a professional auditor . The next question related to the infringement of the copyright of a member 's work - - work dealing subject by the publication with a technical of an NOTES . a COMMITTEE 185 �THE AUTHOR . the , or . , of of , at on , of - 2 to , of is to . ). :- “ be , , . , C . R 2 . be for , H, . - all be as (1 .) ( , , to to , ; of of of . in two were unimportant but two points least the committee considered that the views society must pressed the bill which Members are referred printed supplement this number The Author As regards clause sub section the society had suggested that the importation illegal even though not for sale copies should their assent undertake the duties Sub Committee 1911 will Rudolph Besier Granville Barker Carton Anstey Guthrie Miss Cicely Hamilton Captain , a , , of few - - of - re re - of course The Dramatic by The committee were glad to see that , with very exceptions , the suggestions made the Society Authors had been accepted There were however few exceptions which one Committee of Management decided also to have a special meeting for consideration of the Bill . The election the sub committees followed and the Copyright and Art Sub Committees were elected due course The Committee accepted Management the recommendations the dramatists the society and elected the persons whose names were laid before them subject a 186 the committee clause be of . no to it to , of be , . of as a 25 to on drawn of to to ; ; as it , it to , . B a of of on of . , it . in in of . at a to - was settled that the Copyright Sub Committee Manage report should make the Committee ment their next meeting HE . re its - 21 . , a on of of to of 1 of by of first meeting the Dramatic Sub Com mittee the Society Authors since Management was election the Committee Friday April held the offices the society The first business was elect chairman for the at - . of M . , . , in - of the Copyright Sub Committee had been embodied the present bill This course was adopted and Mr MacGillivray went through the bill indicating the alterations that had been made and the places where they con suggestions formed the society SUB COMMITTEE - on DRAMATIC of of of , - at of it , of - , he . of go . be of 11 to be to . to to , on be to , of a of of it no to , , in pressed Joint Com the 1910 bill and were glad see that several their suggestions had been accepted but they did not approve section they decided stood subsequent meeting when here reconsider they hoped too suggest would be possible some compromise All these points discussion arose out the report Management the Committee the bill when was introduced 1910 Other matters the bill were discussed and , · by an Chairman opened the proceedings nouncing that there were agenda before the meeting except consider and report the Copyright Bill and accordingly suggested that adopted the first instance the broad lines by the Society Authors should be considered report should then be formulated con and that taining the suggestions which the Committee the Society Authors considered should made when the bill was being carried through Com mittee the House Commons Mr Mac Gillivray then proposed that through should considering how far the the new bill 1911 Management report the Committee the bill 1910 had been accepted and their sugges to on 's or 's (4 .) considered this clause now distinct improvement the clause mittee . - THE tions and those be of , to as , be . considered that the alteration should With regard clause the JOINT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT AND THE COPYRIGHT SUB COMMITTEE . as a , on be It should withdrawn under that proviso possible for any piratical printer print would publisher printer name the pirated copy and thus the onus probandi would shifted from prove innocence the shoulders the pirate prove guilt the author The Joint Committee a of , to . (3 ). £3 . . he A . of . at a of to , of Miss Emma Brooke towards the capital fund Eggar towards the same fund from Mr purchase £140 and the committee decided consols out the life membership account £5 4 of to of on in on , as ( .2) . ofat , to to , to of and letters from members Academic Committee the library censorship the subject The secretary reported that had received from an , . G , . M . E , . . The Joint Committee considered that drafted should not stand Several proposals were made and these will subsequent meeting considered the Com Management mittee when definite report will points be laid before them these At the meeting the Joint Committee form com promise which seemed likely be acceptable all parties was suggested was felt that the proviso clause was again laid before The agency agreement and after discussion the secretary was instructed send fresh copies the members the committee who decided consider the terms and clauses the next meeting The attention the committee was called the letters The Times the subject the and " , . K W , or hire and the Joint Committee considered that this point should still pressed upon the Govern ment amendment , Basil Hood Jerome Jerome Henry Arthur Jones Somerset Maugham Cecil Raleigh Symonds Bernard Shaw Miss �THE AUTHOR . lay at - . , to in of to to . it it . list . - , , , of on . . 3 at in , in 18 , 30 p .m of of of of , , , on : as , in its of to be to of . 1 be by - of . - , . a , , . its - , , “ a by to be of , .” of “ a , . to ' to , a of - a , :, of as by Bernard Shaw . 85 . . . . . Carton follows . . . , . . . C John Galsworthy as of at , . - of , of , of ." the ballot which was Henry Arthur Jones R result G , he contracts the dramatists This was the first meeting apart from the other members the Society since the Dramatic Sub Committee the reconstitution two years ago Proceedings commenced with the reading the chairman the the request the secretary of of , by to . Dramatic Sub Committee take into early considera general treaty negotiating tion the possibility embodying the with the Managers Association agree all dramatic authors clauses common simplifying dramatic view with ments . . , A it . 's - of adoption Henry Arthur and Jones will propose motion That the Carton will second carry out the recom called upon Government the establish the Joint Committee mendation single licence ment Mr Bernard Shaw will propose and Miss Cicely Hamilton will second motion That the Mr 2 1 to , to at , in be An Mr . for in . it . to . , was decided move discussion 3 he a of a , an of - , - - A and office was also read Chamberlain present not take any steps the await the further action promised Lord Chamberlain who had stated that no time putting forward the points raised would lost the Dramatic Sub Committee important letter was then read from the Producing general counsel the Theatrical the Lord year 4 a of , an by , . of to of the Copyright refer them was instructed Sub Committee the late letter which Sir Arthur Pinero West from the Society had received chairman and the secretary End Managers was next read acknowledge was instructed letter from for the Dramatic Sub Committee seconded The motion will Mr Henry Arthur Jones the vice chairman the The Chairinan will present the report general Dramatic Sub Committee and will after ensuing . of in . a on . in to . of Finally appointing the . . of , to in it 's of payment sum the case the secretary reported that 2001 some plays which had been MSS had recovered lying with the proprietor Indian theatre and letter from the read the Sub Committee the the plays expressing his thanks author work the society had done The Sub Committee next considered the Copy touching right Bill and various points rights were discussed The secretary dramatic settled defendants he next OF DRAMATISTS 2 be .upof on , , the hands that had been placed The third case was Indian lawyer cinematograph the performance one England After the society had dramatic work injunction the applied for the courts reported the society it their the the dramatist members Society Authors was held Friday March 31 the Large Room Arts John Street Adelphi Sir the Society The agenda the chair Arthur Pinero being was follows Sir Arthur Pinero the chairman will call the ballot announce the result the secretary the communicated and move that the result guidance Management for Committee . 3. R . C . . , of of , he the Sub the recommendation taken the case would the infringement The next case related rights dramatic India and the secretary hoped Committee MEETING . as go to , 's was now waiting for further evidence but to THE MEETING 4 . he , he in In of in hand society a of of the before the next title and that the matter would Management when meeting the Committee by Sub Committee The consideration the managerial treaty was adjourned the next meeting and the the secretary was instructed meanwhile draft form contract and circularise the Sub Committee with that they might consider carefully before they reassembled cases that behalf the dramatic since the last meeting performance cinematograph one case had obtained the secretary reported America lawyer and American the opinion of the society had been taken that the before of of - the legal reported on The secretary then members matter meeting . successfully set out at length the procedure for stopping infringements of dramatic rights secretary that country . in The was instructed to write to the counsel , Mr. Ligon Johnson , for further particulars , and to the to be he he . - of - to he of of - a . to - , , of the former meeting had been read and signed the Sub Committee turned their attention the agenda The secretary laid report that Sir Alfred before the Sub Committee from Bateman had received the Advisory Com mittee Commercial Intelligence the Board Trade with regard the applications had been making for reports from the consuls and commer cial correspondents touching the performance English plays The Sub Committee thanked Sir had taken and hoped Alfred for the steps carry the matter through able would minutes approved Managers of America , which a R . . C . , . . Carton . , Barker of byon year and the proposal Mr Granville seconded Mr Bernard Shaw Mr was unanimously elected After the , current 187 82 79 �THE AUTHOR . on - to . it . , . to as to , its a , in be by to of of .” it , in ' , s at . - at , he . . a In to . to . . , , , ” ad “ . . an of " “ in . to no be at “ , ” of . , an of - be , of to of . , in be of to of . - — , . of a - at on , a a a of . - a , in ? , . to , . a to of . to enable the theatres cut into their business But right really the public had see whatever sort entertainment they desired Mr Carton seconding the motion said emphasize what Mr Jones he could add little , - , viz ., . H . A . . . be to . of . a - a of of of to sketch produced fifteen years before his sketch could the music hall stage He pointed out that there people were really four bodies considered managers the authors the matter the two sets and the public And why should theatrical managers object the performance the music things hall sketch He instanced the state prevailing elsewhere than London At the they had Theatre Royal Dublin double licence for stage plays and music hall performances This having clumsy way single was really only manager could give variety enter licence tainment certain seasons of the year this would carry help his theatrical business him Perhaps music ball managers were afraid others single licence would that the introduction If . a it a of in a of for Dolly for to at of , be as . , a , . to of at , . , thanked own Dolly detachable scene from his comedy Reforming Herself was refused just before the agreement between Coliseum because the theatre and music hall managers For the present therefore he was deprived his right over his own By this absurd agreement he must wait property easily . . , of to , it , . , be - - . . they His the whole business C . to , - of . to , in on Mr which to . , to he at - . if , . in as . . , 's . him congratulation the case seemed think that Mr Waller and the management had done something criminal pro ducing the forum scene from Julius Cæsar greater reductio There could absurdum , to . . be to . of . J. be it of of of Hope the . . to - of to to a W . Mr he would serve again desired Locke then proposed and Mr Cecil Raleigh seconded that the result the ballot should communicated the Committee Management The Chairman then proceeding the report the Dramatic Sub Committee proposed that was the hands all present should read taken Mr Cecil Raleigh having proposed and Mr Henry Arthur Jones having seconded motion that adopted the report should Mr Anthony Hope said that Mr Raleigh was too quick for his slow moving brain Before the report say was adopted he would like few words Referring the history the Dramatic Sub Com question mittee he stated that one time was whether the dramatists this country should separate body not form themselves into look after their interests The members the Society strong feeling that there Authors however had charge should be only one body the interests this was that the The result all authors Dramatic Sub Committee the Society was formed which was existence He heartily congratulated all concerned the procedure adopted the sub The Chairman said that the members Anthony receive committee were very glad date out single licence establishment Mr Jones said that was about time that this Nearly two years bad sketch business was settled elapsed since the Parliamentary Committee reported the point That committee came the con clusion that the only way settle the question was single licence institute the meantime Shakespeare and however the scandal continued himself continued amid laughter were consis tently and foully boycotted the music halls Mr Lewis Waller recent appearance the charge Palladium cost £160 and the magistrate - by , . his be on . R . C . . , M . E from the Dramatic Sub Committee He that the collective voice those present would ask him reconsider his decision Sir Arthur Pinero was sorry unable accede this request He had served for two years as chairman now the sub committee and Probably asked for little holiday some future retire hoped carry That the Government called upon the recommendation the Joint Committee . 9 . . . . The Chairman announced that Mr. John Gals worthy had written to him to the effect that, living as he did in the country , he felt that he would be unable to serve on the sub -committee , and accordingly begged to withdraw name The vacancy thus created would filled Miss Symonds the thirteenth the list express At this point Mr Carton rose his regret that Sir Arthur Pinero had decided R . forward anything further say concern ing the report after brief discussion who adoption should properly move Mr Walkes proposed and Mr Hope seconded that the report adopted should now The motion was put and carried unanimously The Chairman then called upon Mr Jones propose the motion standing his name . . bring No one having to Mrs . Cohen 16 . done been “ K on . Jerome . 10 . Cecil Raleigh . . 11 . Rudolph Besier . 12 . Miss Cicely Hamilton 13 . Miss E . M . Symonds . 14 . J . H . McCarthy . 15 . Mrs . K . C . Thurston . Jerome point out that now Mr Bernard Shaw rose was the time during the discussion the report for anyone who had any grievance over what had 71 to ... .. ... . 7 . Captain Basil Hood . 8 . W . Somerset Maugham 9. . ... .. .. .. . . . . of 5 . H . Granville Barker 6 . Anstey Guthrie on 188 �THE AUTHOR . all in in “ “ . in in no did as be a In ” or of of , to an a in as a , - , by be to . - it it to a . to as to he to of in in , In . he the Lord Chamberlain Mr Raleigh said they the dramatists were the meeting people call such he had suggested He would not hesitate even democratic as he present petition direct was the King . in ; in In . a of of , “ , to in , in a on be a it to , , , " be , , to - in . ; , of it , to it . , . he - Mr Cecil Raleigh the fact that not only had the sub committee petitioned the Lord Cham reply berlain and received mentioned applica the report but also had made second tion and within the last three days received answer the effect that the Lord Chamberlain was putting the proposals before the London County Council from which would be seen that matters were not standing still Mr Raleigh concluded saying that what was wanted was one licence for question entertainment leaving the drink settled itself since was this question which now apparently stood the way He hoped that big they would one day the near future call public meeting all parties interested enforce their rights The Chairman said that had been going ask Mr Raleigh for suggestion what further measures they should take beyond their petition , to he , bis . an ” “ . , to anybody shall not legal After calling attention . , , . , . of . ; . an 's to . , Tree who had done more for Shakespeare say else who stepping No this was responsible for the existing anomaly Not only Dublin but also other provincial towns the other system was use and the double licence worked very well conclusion was glad see that they had got their Dramatic Sub Committee dimocratic footing the future the sub committee would feel that they had something the nature mandate behind them and thy would not unmindful their responsibility Herbert than .” . - on be . to a , . to III boil down Richard into thirty impossible minutes Mr Hicks found his task one and the result was that had cancel engagement and about two hundred poor supers who had their bread earn and did not find nowadays were thrown out easy earn employment say that He regretted was Sir attempted of to at he he if for would call him order Mr Jones had particularly painful and cruel injustice colleague Mr and Mr Jones late distinguished equivalent sufferer Shakespeare was almost He referred the case Mr Seymour Hicks who chairman soffered to had by have . old should prevent dramatic to a miserable law performed works being the music halls He thought could not say all that the subject did his language would such that the recourse - that the managers treachery , vailing at present . their sketches , if they were free to produce them there . Music - halls in the provinces were , as a rule , far more attractive than the theatres , clean , bri gh and cheerful . The drama there had gone down , down down until that would draw good houses was something the class The Best Girl Birmingham The Worst Woman Wolver hampton London what was wanted was got double licence such could the provinces Perhaps authors not realise that the present state affairs sketch agreement was even . not imagine a more dangerous , state of affairs than was pre It was a contemptible piece of had said . He could a more treacherous 189 a to , . as ( a to to he . , to . to of of . to ' in , in a , , up to of , it , . , . . a a of a a to an it be be - an . for . Sub Committee should draw general treaty which managers should called upon accept and should then understood thing that when manager came author and terms the provisions the general treaty were great adopted ipso facto This would mean great saving time for one thing There were , , be in - the Dramatic , of on licence The motion was then put and was carried unanimously Miss Cicely Hamilton proposing the motion stand ing her name said that was absolutely necessary remedy the present state order affairs that of in , , agreed said in of a if — he — a . were , There stop the representations that this was the case and that Sir Herbert Tree his personal capacity had strongly advocated single Shaw to . - , of . It a of of a if In ? . a to 240 theatres to to be to to . no or in of . . England But there were not suitable for putting their plays however sufficient music halls 240 dramatists Association The Chairman Mr . , in of an as as , - - were performances in to , on of to ” be an “ for some other blank verse blackleg fewer than 150 000 sketch England every year could assure them the correctness the figure and they took the estimate £10 week they could huge work out the sum for themselves was industry and capital involved millions pounds great grievance Dramatists had the question was what could they do matter The producing with their failures the right their worst plays there sketches was cut off was generally one good scene which could used make sketch Those present represented of Shakespeare There ) Managers referred . from the halls was desirable during those intervals produce the works when the actor manager chose as himself Mr Locke said would like draw attention the fact that Sir Herbert Tree had only taken steps his capacity Chairman the Theatrical . said that had been called expert the sketch question and such was obliged draw attention the practical side the matter that the number theatres large England was not dramatists could wish opening for and the music halls offered them they might earn money pay work by which got their daily bread The remuneration �THE AUTHOR . . a bargain A . be . . prefer that was of M . of to . , by . . S . do ' 's . It be , to . to , . . . . an as to " , ' “ a of it be . , . at a he If to he . of . to do ." in if , all in - if by . . : - as a , . to be . to to of in , - two years the Dramatic Sub Committee had always borne this mind and the future also they would never forget the interests the young author . The resolution was put and carried unanimously The proceedings then terminated . in a a to . of of business would both sides , , be of it , , to . in to , on good for man the small people whom trades unionism might out existence Let them not make the rules the game too hard for the small people play The Chairman explained that during the past crush . — , it to ? to ' in in already existence France was incredible stringency For instance the French manager had account the author for every seat the large house and addition furnish him with general number seats He did not say that Indeed he treaty this model was needed here tyrannical hoped that they would not good and Mr Charles Garvice asked well known dramatists would stand the Society whatever might take action Mr Shaw said they might say We will not deal with any theatres not accepting this treaty Mr Raleigh said that when they stuck together they would get their treaty just the music hall object by com gained artistes recently their bination But they would not get trades union country yet for dramatists this Let the instruction the meeting the Dramatic Sub slowly and carefully Committee too bard Miss Festing bebought them not go at “ : or . , . . That would general treaty blacklegging bundle to . it a A ? he ? ” . It West End Managers Association sufficient With regard the unscrupulous in ? ” , . as be , a . he would sign did not matter Mr Shaw continued whether they converted all the managers accepting the Why not negotiate general treaty with the discourage undercutting and they failed this they would broken like the sticks separated from the be of , to , . all of a clauses was of all , — in a a suggested such least would found necessary and young author each time he made could contract argue over twenty general treaty clauses would include these clauses and obviate dis cussion He himself when dealt with managers put forward long agreement and said Will you sign these twenty clauses will you argue them out with me The manager always said In general treaty twenty “ ., he . he s very well for you . : . no to to , it ' Oh " him : to said for Pinero for the leading lights make your terms but what about the beginner But this wrong argument was The beginner might well be better position than Sir Arthur Pinero When the managers wanted plays was the opportunity the young beginner to - of . a at a of of . he a to - of people hearing all Mr Grundy agreed that they must consider the position young untried authors were beginner would not hesitate write across his play You may play this for nothing Mr Shaw said that what they wanted . to of to as he a by working dock labourer One the difficulties met with was that Managers Association proposed adopt this The Chairman amendment which was accordingly done Mrs Cohen expressed her fear that the general against the interests treaty would the young author whom would prevent from obtaining the it , in by be to it no . of in the country producing actable stage plays There monopoly was like the world and they ought get combining together able making almost any terms short the business unprofitable the speculator Yet only within the last three weeks had heard the case play produced dramatist who had first class London theatre and got one per cent the proceeds The author appeared have made conditions whatever save with regard this one per cent get less than from which was likely would capable . 240 the work much better themselves Sydney Grundy referring Mr Shaw suggestion concerning the West End Managers Association said that this was the right body approach would useless negotiating with Mr . in of . of The Authors were could of . . dramatic extraordinary dramatist members the Society practically all the dramatic authors the The condition authors this to of regard really affairs with country was seconded agreement . . he be that Mr . said point on the Dramatic Sub - Committee , Mr. Shaw said those present at the meeting might guess that the spade - work had been done . Fox bringing up the subject con agents tracts made Mr Shaw derided the pretensions agents place plays Authors . Shaw Mr . Carton having remarked that there had already been given a lot of consideration to this it . . Bernard as Mr motion with great pleasure Such that suggested was badly needed an to of fit conditions which were essential in every contract , and to which no one could possibly object . She had herself suffered much from the absence of such a treaty . She was subject , as she supposed others too were subject , to hot fits and cold fits concerning her work . And in a cold bargains one was ready make the worst in many general on 190 �THE AUTHOR . Cases . been Perhaps it term . , , Sevenoaks Wullenweberstrasse . . , , 31 ) . , A . 7 . . . , , Sligo Ire Brondesbury 279 Knightsbridge Liverpool , Road .) Thornton Heath One member does not desire publication . 19 , . , Wicks Mark . . .SW , Leslie . , Ward road , .W . , , Cavendish N , 30 " . . H . E ( . . Phrainly H . M Urquhart Vis Visiak . . land for a . sent . to , as is to to the letters BY MEMBERS keep made by the compilers WHILE every effort possible they have this list accurate and exhaustive attaining this object owing the fact some difficulty the office the books mentioned are not sent that many in in the has been as it be a as placed BOOKS PUBLISHED of to 's , to to , of hands , an , of Co . is an of of in .up editor will have the society solicitors get any answer impossible from this office due from W , Kildonagh . . A , Rupert ( is . former months have been closing Two cases America are still open difficult matter dealing with the settlement and agreement waiting cancellation board meeting the Publishing The only money case remaining open besides these case The cases from . , 57 , . . E , cent Thorold E is to German , . , on - 17 Wolverton Gardens West Kensington Warrington Cres . J. K . , Miss Robbins Miss Alice , . it . , the Church Leonards Sea Prothero is in , . , an to an it as as as . of on is , to through St . , Helensdene Road . . . . of in ley . in in settle Consul . , , , Eastbourne Phibbs Miss Lena Stan , of by In , , a to endeavouring . . . ) Molyneux . , G . Palmer , of of , of . of two these the MSS have been the editors the office and the dispute agent other with the matter practically settled the agent has undertaken return the MS soon comes back from the publisher with whom lies agreement for publication One dispute negotiation still course The matter needs careful adjustment Finally there one case with regard trans Germany lation rights which the secretary MSS returned . W ., , . . D . C . , . . Clay Fuchsias gate Surrey Tullagee Willingdon The . for the return been made N , . Eversleigh Worthing Langworthy Mrs Ferrier Langworthy ( for is John Eustace . 's of Kitts . to applications have West Berlin many . of of , of In , . in infringement have been two cases copyright one which has been placed the hands the solicitors and the other has been satisfactorily settled Ger , Frau Kathleen Gamble press There Three , S .W . . . . M E . ( Eton College Windsor Rutland Gate Kippington Grange . money have been four applications part one these the money has been paid and the secretary has given fnrther time for payment placed the balance before the matter the hands the society solicitors The other three cases only came into the office just before There going Westminster Mrs Channon Francis Channon Knoop Baroness Fox Miss Agnes . There bas been one application for accounts and money Here the accounts have been rendered and the money paid only Man Augustine sions , Rudolf de In , to in . In . of items certain , . E . C Besier . 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P . 9 x 58 . 422 pp. Blackwood . 108. 6d . n . , LITERARY , DRAMATIC , AND MUSICAL NOTES . THE 6 l NEW LIFE , " by Dante , has been published by Messrs . Kegan , Paul & Co ., in the Italian text with English transla - The work is edited by Mr. Luigi Ricci . also received the second and third of the lectures of the Dante Society . volumes Among the lecturers we notice the names of the of the society , Mr. Luigi Ricci , Mrs. founder tion . We have , Mr. Alfred Austin , Dean Kitchin , and Mr. Gladstone . At a meeting of the Sociological Society , held at Royal Society of Arts , 18 , John Street , the Adelphi, W .C ., on April 4, Dr . D . S. Margoliouth , Laudian Professor of Arabic , University of Oxford , read a paper on the Universal Races Congress . The chair was taken by Sir Edward Brabrook , Craigie K .C . B . Great Betrayal ” is the title of a new Mr. Harold Wintle , author of “ The Cleansing of the Lords .” The theme of the story is the efforts of a foreign Power to obtain British “ The povel by State secrets with the connivance Secretary . Messrs . John Ouseley , pablishers. of the Foreign are the Limited , 193 Messrs . Chapman & Hall are publishing a new “ The novel by Mrs . Fred . Reynolds, entitled Horseshoe .” It deals largely with the life , customs and quaint beliefs of the Cornish people , for the study of whom Mrs. Fred . Reynolds has opportunities , having recently had exceptional passed two years in a fisherman ' s cottage at Sennen Cove , a tiny village under the granite cliffs within a mile of Land 's End . Mr. Elliot Stock is issuing " A Marriage Hymnal ,” by James Saunders , consisting of over eighty new hymns specially suited for weddings , present or souvenir . African novel from Miss Louise Gerard may be expected some time before the autumn . Messrs. Mills & Boon will publish the novel , which will be called “ A Tropical Tangle . ” Messrs. James Baker & Son (Clifton ) will publish early in May a book of Fairy Tales of Ashdown Forest , Sussex , called “ Across the Forest and Far Awas . " by Geraldine E . Hodgson . D . Litt . The volume will contain three illustra tions by Gerald G . Hodgson , M . R . C. S ., and will be published at 1s , 6d . net . and fitted A for a wedding third West Miss Renée M . Deacon , whose book “ Bernard Shaw as Artist Philosopher , ” published in England in these and America last year , was mentioned columns , was also represented in The Lady ' s Pictorial of October 1 and October 8, 1910 , by two articles . To the former issue Miss Deacon contributed an article on “ The Art of Life ,” and to the latter one entitled “ The Spell of London .” At a session held on the 10th instant , the Royal Academy of Arts of Madrid elected Mr. James Baker as an Hon . Corresponding Member of England . Mr. Baker has written much upon Spain . Miss A . E . Keeton will give a course of three lectures on the individuality of modern British music as shown in the songs of our younger school of composers , at 133 , Queen 's Gate , S. W . (by kind permission of Miss Douglas ), on the three first Friday evenings in May . Miss Grainger -Kerr will sing the vocal illustrations with Miss Marjorie Adam at the piano . At the head of the contem porary school of British musicians , dealt with by Miss Keeton , stand in priority of age Elgar , Granville Bantock , Ernest Walker , and William Wallace . Amongst the younger men are Ernest Austin , Alfred Hale , J . Holbrooke , Frederick C. Nicholls , Norman O'Neill, Percy Rideout , Cyril Scott , and R . Vaughan Williams . A group of representative songs by British women composers is also included . “ The Evolution of Katherine ," one of Mr. E . Temple Thurston 's novels , will shortly be issued in sixpenny form in Mesars . Stanley Paul & Co .'s Series of “ clear type ” sixpenny novels . �THE AUTHOR . Du , . 2 on , , by ", a in , . . O . P . In . of , . , 10 the at in a ", his 's , . on , , . K , . of . , by 's . . in , . , a on in by , . 6 on It is to . It ", of at to of , of 's is , at 's of , on " “ 's , . , at , of in of 2 . , byto , of by 1 - im to to , “ 's Maeterlinck Monna Vanna Thursday Alfred Sutro and Friday June and the Royal Court Theatre for the members their league and their friends English This the first production this play formances translated . . . J. , ” . , . of by of , . on 't At the Court Xerxes Mildred Wetton April was produced the Little Theatre opens with the biblical play four acts appear unveiled before refusal Queen Vashti the king and his court The second act con plot cerned with Haman successful make Ahasuerus order the destruction the Jews and the third and fourth acts deal with the final deliver ance the Jews the intercession Queen Esther The caste included Miss Marguerite Walton Miss Mary Whittall and Miss Jean Colmer organising per The Women Aerial League . , . . is 27 . a of at a , , " “ on . , caste in , “ , of DRAMATIC James and John one act play Gilbert Cannan was produced the Haymarket Theatre March The theme the return his family man who has been sentenced prisonment for embezzlement and the receptions which the different members the family give him his arrival The play was performed caste including Mr James Hearne Miss Helen Haye and Mr Fisher White Mr Keble Howard comedy The Girl Who Couldn Lie based upon his story that name a , . , a , as , as , a to an ", is , by 's , ." of to of . that heals the faith of , in . of in & Co : “ . & W , . psychology , . & . . . . . T . Circumstance Dr Charles Reinhardt new book Faith Medicine and the Mind published the London Publicity Company attempt offer rational explanation faith healing hypnotism and kindred phenomena possible The author has far religious opinion alone whilst left subjects light upon the endeavouring throw some politician and characters are wife who meet conflict the political field Miss Mary Rorke Miss Lena Ashwell Mr Dennis Eadie and Mr Leon Quartermaine are the two main . Co , at - . from Francis downward Everett are the publishers Mr James Allen has just published through England and Messrs William Rider Son Messrs Crowell New York new King work entitled Man Mind Body and included Miss Frances Wetherall Mr Frede rick Worlock and Miss Adeline Bourne comedy The Master Mrs Chilvers four acts Jerome Jerome was produced King Theatre Glasgow April The play treats the women franchise question and the caste of to of , an ; , a , , , , with period the . the romantic adventure for was renowned The heroine who under another name was also existent personage also plays strong part and indeed while trusting his powers construction and invention Mr Bloundelle Burton scarcely depicts one character that did not exist the period character which ments in Piccadilly , and when the curtain rises it is seen that the bachelor ' s man has admitted a cabman and treated him to his master ' s cigars . At first angry , the bachelor eventually repents , and , in deed , goes so far as to call in other passers - by. The story begins when he calls in a woman with whom he has had in the past a serious love affair , and the rest of the play deals with situations arising out this the caste were Mr Gerald Heggie Maurier Miss Irene Vanbrugh and Mr poetic play Queen Herzeleid three acts Isabel Hearne was produced the Play Actors Sunday April the Court Theatre The is , all Mr. Bloundelle - Burton ' s new novel “ Under the Salamander ” - the badge of Francis 1. - deals , obviously , with the reign of that monarch , and , also , with the betrayal of France to Charles V. of Spain by the notorious favourite , La Duchesse Etampse . To a very considerable extent the author has followed closely the manner of that betrayal , while investing the hero , an actual at by “ the foot of the rainbow ." It is therefore a record of “ high adventure " in the mediæval manner . The pilgrims set out after the fashion of Don Quixote , with a donkey for their Rosinante . twenty The book is illustrated with full- page drawings in colour , and forty -one black - and -white chapter initials , illustrating Wealden incidents and scenery , by the Sussex artist, Mr. E . F . Marillier . “ at listeners , nothing but the truth . Miss Muriel Pope , Mr. Frank Dyall , and Miss Agnes Imlay were three members of the caste. “ The Sins of Society ," by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton , was revived at Drury Lane Theatre on March 30 . In the caste were Mr. George Barrett , Mr. Frederick Ross , Miss Fanny Brough , and Mrs. Langtry . Mr. C . Haddon Chambers ' new play “ Passers By ” was produced at Wyndham 's Theatre on March 29 . The play opens in a bachelor 's apart , The volume is entitled “ The Wonderful Weald , the Quest of the Crock of Gold .” It tells the story of how the author and his companion made century pilgrimage in the Weald a twentieth of Sussex in quest of the “ crock of gold which lies and was produced at the Royalty Theatre , Glasgow , on March 29 . The play relates to the determination of a young lady to make a bold stand against con by telling , however distasteful vention to the “ Beckett ' s new book is announced July by Messrs. Mills & Boon . in a Mr. Arthur for publication is 194 �, La , - , , by ” of ' ” d , , “ , , in are 's , ® on . of M is as by du au du dn of . , M be . “ of de . an .” of is . - La “ L de de du La : “ six It of " la is de . 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's ", ' of “ , , is ” of 's “ of . , , , , ; is , , , . a of M ; sketches and cor are the Poincaré Jules Gabriel Faure Jules portraits are always true “ l’ its , , of , . of , , ; ; ; , ” ”, by ; de ' d et ' d is de , ” M . . , to - . , , . - , , , of of , in of , is in ' ' , , or André Henri , to . in , . to . , , , , ' ' d of of .” be to his of . - , of of of , to is . in to of and Marcel long The list deaths this year Quentin Bauchard Albert Vandal Jules Renard André Chadourne Des Granges Boussenard Bertol Graivil Charles Legrand Jules Breynat José Dubarry Campos Jean Lionnet Léon Armand Bienvenu Mme Elise Michel better known Jean Dalvy Mme Piazzi who wrote Leila Hanoum and Mme Saint Vidal The Langlois prize for the best translation prose from work from the Greek verse language has been divided between any modern Pelisson for his translation Heine Songs Coussange and Poems for Indi by Ellen Key vidualism and Georges Grappe day Barett Wendel France . the . , . by six or of a of de . , , in ; of It responsible for the founding Prevost for the Lucien Emigration Gyp has just published another her amusing dialogues volumes Affaire Debrouillar Delatamize The first one the book gives title the volume There are fifteen dialogues and each one full this author brilliant wit satire and humour Revision des Valeurs Femme the thoughts title curious and interesting book and ideas Léonie Bernardini Sjoestedt parts divided into Revision des Valeurs Portugal Pierre Decourcelle the widows fund authors loan fund Liseuse by . . . to . “ , a to , , to literary events the year are the literary rights French Portugal and authors the Argentine Republic Brazil the founding the fund for the widows authors and the loan fund for authors Jules Huret Pierre Baudin and Georges Clémenceau that French authors may attribute their triumph the Argentine Republic and largely Jules Mary for the recognition authors rights M ; by at of a of be , to , , The four great the rocognition for hui aujourd we have his “ Silhouettes Duchesne Beaunier life and those contained this volume remarkably well drawn La Société française XVI° siècle XX siècle another volume Victor Bled belonging eighth series books the sub just ject French society This volume interesting his earlier ones and will read eagerly those who have attended delightful lectures Bled The second part the book contains account Le Monde . . , Le Vergniol hier aujourd hui Mgr Huret Lemaitre the Legion Honour has been Henry Bordeaux Ernest Gay Eugène Mouël Léon Riotor Jules Troubat and Camille The decoration are Beaumier the title the volume given this author with great delicacy Among the visages rectness hier Vogüé Jean Moréas Albert Vicomte Edouard Rod Jules Renard Mark Twain among and Lombroso whilst the Cagnac awarded Visages “ , . . A as a A or a Among members the society who have won prizes this year are Mmes Thélen Leroy AHais and Mlle Mestral Combremont Mme Delorme Jules Simon MM Charles Géniaux Barry Bonnefoy Fernand Dacre Lucien Léon Henri Allorge Ernest Gaubert and the Abbé Moïse Academy Frapié Léon books Marquis Ségur Figures Littéraires Maury M de T of the recent general meeting the Société Gens Lettres Funck Brentano read the report Bonaparte had placed Prince Roland the command the society second annuity 1201 prize for literary work The two annuities Georges Lecomte have been attributed this year and Louis Bertrand biennial prize has been founded Dr Charles Richet awarded without distinction sex nationality doctor medicine science years who has written within the preceding the French language the best literary work prize Jean Revel has founded awarded provincial writer whose work shall give the phy siognomy habits and customs province The Hugues Lapaire prize has been awarded this year des the new toriques, ” by “ Among 195 “ PARIS NOTES . . ” THE AUTHOR �THE AUTHOR to in of an is , . , . · of in ', , is of ' of . of ' on ', of of de of of . ' . to , , to on ; in to is It . or de is in to , in to no in is of on , 50 , or . : as to , or of or .- or .' of language , ., ( Y . N 82 , of the broad In or 50 . of of of is of to construing of a , of , a is , a a in be a “ 199 or if , or pseu - in rights ' ' and authors In of , - , . S & of , a publishers .) .) ' action brought Edward Ellis the Company involv author against Hurst ing interesting questions number regarding , for . of , . R H of S of of of 51 .S .A .) . (U Weekly Publishers by . U . S . A ( N A the no . It in or . H . R in , . of ). ). PUBLISHERS NEED NOT PRESERVE PSEUDONYMITY From are in on 's of of by ) , of of of au ” ( -- " ( Plon or , . ) ' du ' ” ( ) ) . . ). ” ( " ( et d ). ' that reason their dedication the ieprint public the defendants had the right publish and sell these books contended however that the dedication limited the books published under the nom plume that the any permission absence consent the part print his real name plaintiff use con question defen nection with the publications right publish them dants had with the imprint his true name the covers and wrappers and that this use his name violation the statute which reference has been made The statute reads follows Sec Right Privacy person corporation firm that uses for advertising purposes for the pur poses of trade the name portrait picture any living person without having obtained the written person consent such minor his guardian guilty her parent misdemeanor right Section confers action for injunction and for damages favor the person aggrieved under the provisions section ambiguous Where statute doubtful resort may had the title the act the Village matter Middletown 195 cedes A be . .' , " ( ' d " “ “ “ * ( " " L Marie Malibran by be is it a to . - a of de Paris Silhouettes historiques Calmann Lévy Liseuse Calmann Lévy Figures Littéraires Perrin Visages aujourd hui hier Plon La Société française XVIe siècle XXe siècle Perrin Affaire Debrouillar Delatamize Calmann Lévy La the United States Defendants publishers have published and offered copies pro sale printed each said literary plaintiff under his nom plume ductions Jayne the name with Lieutenant Edward Ellis and Ellis printed the covers and wrappers the books Plaintiff con book of - of in of an A . ALYS HALLARD Vaugirard copyright laws , , a to to , to of is of . at on to , 60 Rue 50 and Laws enjoin the publication and 1909 page 308 sale defendants certain books with the plaintiff name imprint the covers which they are bound and the wrappers which they standing inclosed The plaintiff author juvenile and and reputation who has written historical works during the past forty years Among his earlier juvenile works are two entitled Country and the Apache The White Mustang published which 1888 and 1889 respectively under the assumed name Lieu Jayne and which have never been tenant published by plaintiff his authority connection appears that neither with his own proper name these publications was ever copyrighted and respect claim said stories made under the , . the Trocadero people are joining the league the Numbers object give publicity and help which the attempt Shakespeare Theatre and also recon stitution the literature and theatre the Shakespearean epoch the various European By means countries théâtre comparé thought that interesting literary revival may paper containing details will arrived sent any readers desirous have further particulars receipt post card of matinée is " . of in at as a by in “ of of of to 11 to À be on May is brought under sections 51 of the Civil Rights Law ( 1 Consolidated he “ , and his express to - . M is formed the readers The Author who have sent England particulars Shakespearean Societies performance The Merchant Venice given French his Shakespeare Theatre Company : This action “ ', ” ' at ." “ Les Frères Karamazov The Shakespeare League now Camille de Sainte Croix wishes thanks at , ” “ L , At . is . , , “ 's at is " Arts baum In of to of " an " , an , of of is . canvases De Marseilles Port Saïd the first the series admirable description the impressions noting the details which artist accustomed rendering the values and effects with count and inimitable skill and feeling play Paul Bourget Le Tribun still being given the Vaudeville and Oiseau bleu the Théâtre Rejane the Renaissance La being played and Gamine the Théâtre des à of life and colour as favour of the defendants . appeared Nathan Burkan for the plaintiff . Andrew Gilhooly was counsel for Hurst & Co . The following is the opinion of Judge Green as his light . M . and Mme . Albert Besnard have been travelling in India , and the painter is now giving us a series of word pictures as graphic and as full . donymous and non - copyright books , was decided by the Supreme Court of the State of New York in “ styles , colouring , and technique were , the master hand could be traced unmistakably . The collec tion was a huge one ; there seemed to be the work of two or three lifetimes on the walls , and since that exhibition the great artist 's hand has never been idle . At present we are to see him under a new “ 196 the �THE AUTHOR of of . , at in to to of , of an , at of ( in ) of his of de ( ' , to as , in , ). , ., is a , ' . v 97 66 of a of a or by 's , 29 , , 95 , N . Y aff . 'd by of a , to , a 's .' in on of a of no of is ., , a ). ., . ( v . Y . N an ) it , 9 ( , in Co . of , of , by of in , of do for of go of I . am , of do ' to - or is , 's its in or or . his . the record that the defendant sold records using connection there with the name the plaintiff who had nothing opinion that whatever with them the defendants acts here complained not come within the prohibition the statute here invoked and that the judgment should the defendants .) 100 0 for o F . J. to cont addressed , E .C . , 0 £4 0 .. ... . and be Six e for a . . per 20 of CENT 076 inch All letters respecting Advertisernents should BELMONT PaternosterSquare London , 29 , PER of per 25 per .. ... ... O1 ở Oo , ó 15 .. . a 20 OF TO ( THE SOCIETY Single Column Advertisemontis Series cent made Roduction Twelve Insertions. Co . - MEMBERS Front Page Other Pages Page Half of Page Quarter Eighth of Page a of & , if a in of . a of of ALLOWANCE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . it , or in If is as a well known written consent the flour would guilty clothier Or misdemeanor advertises the sale certain garments and uses SCALE & of . or the sale of his by then one who advertises using without brand flour the manufacturer the name of as be to , , a or or be , to or to , is is to 's of , or or to . a of be - 14 examination gramophone ." or of to or , 's a things with which said the matters related may portrait associated and name picture the perhaps forbid intended also have been picture unauthorised use one name portrait when such use asserted related con sold but the things advertised nected with relationship fact connection where such pretended the false unreal unsubstantial broadly here claimed construed act were be In in , of ) - . was evidently designed forbid the unauthorised and wanton appropriation use portrait for trade person name picture advertising purposes where such use wholly un • to ( in . at ( ' of ', be in cance tion The case Collier Jones Misc relied upon the plaintiff was not brought under the statute here invoked but under the doctrine unfair competition and the case Victor Herbert Universal Talking Machine Law appears from Journal March 1904 , ), v. 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Y ., this court determined that the any statute the subject the right legal doctrine enforcible privacy equity did not exist this State enable woman prevent the use her portrait by others for advertising purposes without her consent we turn the opinion the Roberson Case supra length we find that discusses learnedly and Privacy the doctrine the Right and the incorporation the phrase the title the act given due signifi under review should therefore 538 absence uses ( 66 a of ., . . v of of Y N ( & Co . in Rhodes Sperry Hutchinson 193 223 227 the opening paragraph which reads the Folding Box case Roberson Rochester 171 right over another who increase copyright own name the absence publishing the plaintiff name the volumes the defendants published under consideration directly truthful statement connected with the right authorship the books which they had print This therefore unlike the case Eliot Jones Misc without opinion the Appellate Division Law Journal October 1910 where President Eliot name was used with respect publication not made him with his authority and whicb was therefore use based decep upon false statement fact and upon the writer ), - view ), . Y ., N ( . . Roberson 538 v of Co in case 171 the opinion plaintiff the right a is it of in in the plume . , no . ', of of “ is of a the opinion Folding Box recognised with as it - in or , of a of of to to , or , 's of use doubted whether the statute was intended to cover every case of the unauthorised portrait another name picture con nection with trade purposes whether was be limited intended class cases where provision before the enactment the statute wrongs law existed for redressing certain The Right Privacy title the act and general knowledge that the act now matter consequence was passed the suggestions con Rochester expressly nom In it may be seriously tained and this right carried state the true name the author such form the book either upon the title page otherwise show who was the writer author thereof the Mark Twain Case plume Fed Rep 728 730 The nom author but the synonym true name and was said the Mark Twain Case supra page 731 the invention nom de plume gives it de , 443 ) . broadest terms bar the defendants concededly publish the books suit with the the case had the right . N . Y . , 437 156 the light of this rule of construction “ In the act v , ( Blaschko v . Wurster were made without the latter consent then would guilty misdemeanor Instances might multiplied showing the absurdity construing be he written consent to be a misdemeanor , the court will consider the mischief which the statute was aimed at , and in order to give it effect words absolute in themselves and language the most may be qualified and broad and comprehensive restricted by other parts of the same statute , or by the facts and circumstances to which they relate 197 the advertisements the name the person who the cloth from which the garments manufactured “ court declaring the use for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade ' of the name , por trait , or picture of any living person ' without his . �THE AUTHOR . of ) . : to be the . of . ", . or , ! to or . to . or up to to , is up to . to “ a to . of , or by by to , a of in to ( In .1 ) (2 .) in (3 .) ( 4 ). (6 (5 .) .) . . It to is , . to to an to is . It , is , in . , of . of . of of a to : . A of . of an : . if . . , to . of is a EVER copyright . transfer or be , DRAMATIC AUTHORS . WARNINGS £1 18. per , in of Always avoid . of or it to sign agreement without submitting the Secretary the Society Authors some com petent legal authority extremely careful negotiating well play with any one except the production established manager There are three forms dramatic contract for plays of : of on by a in . . of of , - can be proper price for an in is the performing right This unsatisfactory An author who enters into such contract should stipulate the contract production the piece certain date proper publication the his name and for play bills a : , . it Outright sometimes satisfactory if a is I. Selling This three or more acts Sale outright is of in to a . u are few standing rules be observed an dealing agreement There are four methods with literary property for TTERE (a ). in . 3 . . THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS of to a be TO WARNINGS It . 2 . . is N 9. The subscription to the Society annum , or £10 108. for life membership agreement are combinations the four above mentioned generally Such combinations are disastrous the author Never sign any agreement without competent advice from Secretary Society the the Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp by letter possible agreements Avoid The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are agreement That both sides shall know what means The inspection those account books which belong right the author We are advised that this the nature common law right which cannot denied withheld of 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80 do some publishers . Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly . General All other forms a This The Agreement Commission The main points are production Be careful obtain fair cost Keep control the advertisements Keep control the sale price the book 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 . System of an them by literary agents , and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society . The Royalty . 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 the contracts with publishers submitted to consideration form . Prospectus . (a perhaps with certain limitations the best form This agreement above all things necessary know what the proposed royalty means both sides now possible for approximately author ascertain the truth From time time very important figures connected with royalties are published The Author . of a 5. The Committee bave arranged for the reception of in a fire . members ' agreements and their preservation proof safe. The agreements will , of course , be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary , The Society now offers : who will keep the key of the safe . ( 1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them . (3) To enforce (2) To keep agreements payments due according to agreements . Fuller particu in the Lars of the Society ' s work can be obtained III of always that in belonging to the Society the battles of other writers , even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself , and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer , the dramatist , the composer . 4. Remember you are fighting Agreement this case the following rules should attended sign any agreement pro Not which the cost part investigation duction forms without the strictest give the publisher the power putting Not profits into his own pocket charging for advertisements organs charging exchange advertise his own ments Therefore keep control the advertisements special charge for Not allow office expenses unless the same allowance made the author give Not American Colonial Continental rights give Not serial translation rights any publisher Not bind yourself for future work any one solicitor As well bind yourself for the future doctor IY . , send 3. Before signing any agreement whatever the document to the Society for examination , - Sharing ( ( ( 3 2 .1 .) .) ) the Society , II . A Profit agreement ( 1 .) eive has a right to ask for and to receive pub . , advice upon his agreements his choice of a 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 , will obtain counsel ' s opinion any cost to the member . Moreover , where counsel ' s opinion is favourable , and the sanction of the Committee aggrieved is obtained , action will be taken on behalf of the member , and all costs borne by the Society . copyright 2. Remember that questions connected with within the experi . and publishers ' agreements do not fall scruple to a Therefore , do not scruple to use ence of ordinary solicitors . Therefore , do not VERY member 1. bad But the transaction should be managed by a obtained competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society . USE THE SOCIETY . ( 2 .) TO to HOW (3 .) 198 - �THE AUTHOR . of of a , 's , an of is no in of in by of an , be in of to as . In to an's , , or . of , ; in , of of , on . , as in in . of , of do , or a an at on of to as as a a a in . As it . is D it is in . TO of be as , be , of to , It . . of , . . . MUSIC on or 's to . this be . . . a , is of . . , , it , of . . , Society informing young writers or a REMITTANCES . . to . of of by be or , be to of , . of to The Secretary give notice the Society begs by return that all remittances are acknowledged post All remittonces should crossed Union London and chanoery registered Smiths Bunr Lane sent letter only . . be a be a to at be at .6d of .26 , at of in the of . be be a of D to of , in typewritten duplicate foolscap paper forwarded the offices the Society together with registration fee two shillings and sixpence will carefully compared by the Secretary qualified assis stamped and returned tant One copy will theauthor and the other filed the register Copies the Society any time by scenario thus filed may obtained the author only typing small charge cover cost Original Plays may also filed subject the same play will rules with the exception that charged for the price per act is , on CENARIOS the in . assist by of greatly its work BRANCH existence Their MSS can read and composition treated by coach The term MSS includes not only works fiction but poetry and dramatic works and when possible under special arrangement technical and scientific works The competence and experience Readers are writers Tbe fee one guinea treated . of is READING is AND its branch asof a OF SCENARIOS ORIGINAL PLAYS in of ' THE UTEMBERS will REGISTRATION 6d . to its of . . of to , , of of , . on be . of of , stamp copies The Society undertakes music per 100 part behalf members for the fee 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 . a , As to is is . An author inust remember that the dramatic market exceedingly limited and that for novice the first object obtain adequate publication incomplete these warnings must necessarily account the wide range the subject dramatic con tracts those authors desirous further information Secretary Society are referred the the of 11 . . STAMPING in all 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 the more carefully the beginning 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 careful therefore when entering into should agreement and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above - for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced . MUSICAL COMPOSERS , consideration , 9. Agreements ITTLE a 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 to . 7. Authors should remember that performing rigbts in a play are distinct from literary copyright . A manager bolding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. be 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 , authors should seek the advice the plays into the hands before putting present agent As the law stands play who has once had his hands may acquire percentage perpetual fees the author claim plays from far the placing concerned general rule that there are only may be taken anything for very few agents who can author that he cannot under the guidance the Society do equally well better for himself The collection fees many cases intermediary also matter which required purposes For certain such the collection general the trans fees amateur performances and frequent petty authorisations action with different foreign individuals and also for the collection fees countries almost all dramatic authors employ agents and agents are real and valuable these ways the services But the Society warns authors against agents who profess plays have influence with managers the placing principals by offering purchase who propose act any case rights the author the present state agent employed under any the law should not agreement approved circumstances without the Society to be reserved. AGENTS . AND Society agents T one act are often sold outright, but it is a small nightly fee if possible , and a sum of such fees in any event . It is extremely the amateur rights of one - act plays should AUTHORS RAMATIC a 4. Plays in better to obtain paid in advance important that DRAMATIC an (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 avoided the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect . The other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply also in this case . 199 �com THE AUTHOR . , his , or of in a the 's , at on a of re of , a to of . in in so if as on of - to , to as do to . ." of a : , , . 's , , in be by , of W .C . . , ." , , a to be to of is an to . as , to for in of .C . B ., D .C .L ., . in of K , G .C .I . E ., of to , of of . in in as to it its of a it of he of in as a he by no , to is it , of , readers is , in to , " , is a , is It . of , , to in “ is in , , . is Perhaps the book best which most likely and the book which published Lord Dufferin his Life endure great work ably two volumes 1905 addition many other books He wrote written referring India and among these we would career . on obtained is is it . . to to — of a to and by it as , - to re to likewise abilities not this side known it had 1908 council not deal with his great talents India the Empire worker to , of . is publisher elected need We as go or or . was interest his life which may The Author however distinguished letters that man rather have been but the field authors and his work will appeal less distinguished than his public literature was A . - . other ALFRED LYALL . of SIR We regret record the death the Right Hon Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall 1905 and Authors who joined the Society . be , the to , the matter by a is an . on is that he , if . as be 11 , settling . to of . an , at in of in be he ; hands promise report . or that the undisputed the the society placed the secretary have been met under this Mond and we must thank Sir Alfred We are now able members claims , of in he on of future editor the English Reriew which Chapman published and Hall from Messrs offices Henrietta Street Covent Garden We are further informed that the unsatisfied claims contributors management the Review under the old will settled the new management We are very pleased able make this announce ment officially not often that new proprietor taking over the assets old company also takes over satisfy them its liabilities and undertakes will to . of . in an , of — a on placed his whole reputation stake owing his folly ignorance such We have also pointed out the danger royalty transfer when author remunerated publisher the sales Should the company become bankrupt the author into liquidation who has transferred his copyright can only obtain damages against the bankrupt estate The position There are also other difficulties which absurd But what has recently lost sight must not and case the following come forward musical copyright occurred with regard this perhaps more likely occur with regard musical composer transferred same property right unfortu his copyright and performing nately most musical composers still refuse band together against this demand the publishers every royalty was receive The composer copy sold The publishers were threatened may be taken for granted another publisher REVIEW 1910 " to copyright our notice has come these columns the evils Time without number copyright have connected with the assignment been put forward and especial emphasis has been technical author engaged the case laid writing specialist his own particular subject may By such transfer excluded from writing agree again enters into his subject unless ment wholly unfair and unsatisfactory with the fact he may have his own copyright holder ENGLISH issue The Author state the following effect We understand that Mr Austin Harrison has been the March ment appeared appointed COPYRIGHT the transfer in evil inherent new OF TRANSFER . 's , is THE “ . A THE firm of . . ; - , William Heinemann Vice President and Mr James Blackwood has been appointed Treasurer H bankrupt . ' ; of . is ' on a of to We are glad see that the Council the Publishers Association have been firm matter which of most vital importance We see from the same issue that Sir Frederick MacMillan has been appointed President the Publisbers Association for the current year Mr , . ." to . of to to a of of no he forbe “ A member the association received from request tax collector furnished with par payments ticulars authors the purpose the assessment their income The council are advised that right had make the request income is of an . ' TAX COLLECTORS FOR AUTHORS ACCOUNTS no be follows : It . OF runs INCOME CONCERNING as of of ' of of a . to all authors REQUESTS INFORMATION stances would should find that his composer once not selling and not catching work acknowledge the infringement and withdraw the composition from the market rather than face complicated copy expense and inconvenience right action The unfortunate composer who may entirely innocent any infringement can take steps whatever have his property estab lished for the publisher owner the copyright keep the work not obliged the market he does not desire The position this case ridiculous the case the unfor tunate author who has claim damages against is of In interest THE an of TAX In INCOME AND ' . AUTHORS the April issue the Publishers Circular report the Publishers the Council we find this report must be One item Association in - a transfer of the copyright from the unfortunate poser making claim for infringement the publisher copyright setting certain air air The first publisher these circum “ NOTES . GENERAL it 200 �THE AUTHOR . , . is by in in of , , of I am - to as " “ to ” , or . “ If ; all no . at , , or “ of 's . to , as a . so . of in ." ' 's “ I , of . all - a of in a at - . , his , to , as it of as of “ the . , of as do by A . of , as so , is , of ; , ; in of it to , - on a of to in of ; is to to 's to is . is do It . . in six of ; to be to ' — up be It Tit - of papers like Answers who have been fed Bits the babies food the young remains seen whether this public anything better will ever educated but present they are incapable absorbing any para graph length They more than five lines or ; . public and reader of of of on of a at , to of in on , its of , of , ; . to to a on of in “ to ) a : . did of books But few months happened the Westminster actually invite the opinions Gazette readers the momentous question the Length enough Modern Novels and curiously this departure from the old tradition met with consider able success For some weeks the novelists England entrusted their opinions this fascinating topic the correspondence columns our premier paper commonly length inversely evening proportioned the importance the writer The diversity opinion registered was remarkable , about the making ago the unexpected chapter third writing undistinguished ungrammatical but the author has gener ally the merit keeping the story well view from start finish He has discovered that the one thing he must not allow the reader attention wander far more likely wander than was the old days and this not entirely due inferiority the artist the twentieth century due rather the rise new and half educated characters wooden even . , to be . to is as ( it " its ; is a or , if they deal with formidable proportions especially religious moral subject With literature the general public justly supposed less con paper opening cerned and rare find any discussion columns the phrase runs the The fact that far construction goes the technique of the novel has been improved out all great recognition during the last thirty years very poor novels are published year number year but bad they are they not generally err technique the direction The plot may be thin in , in to of treating the office indicate the best methods truly the topic these arguments sometimes reach The Stroller Tale The Pickwick Papers the - of a , . a on a of , view starting habit now and again dis the subject cussion and inviting correspondence from interested readers With little judicious fostering and certain number letters written pleasant or V , of .) of , ( from there happening is The Dial Chicago nothing great importance from the journalistic point press has the our enterprising Reprinted VHEN it ITS PUBLIC AND at NOVEL . MODERN is THE he , off to - of to . behalf as it the work on for the the their but because their authors had not learned the art excluding matter not germane the story Scott prefatory and introductory remarks alone would many pages often fill modern novelist re quires for Thackeray they would whole book say was always introducing long apostrophic reflec things general tions Dickens invented many subsidiary characters and side issues that he was forced were strike balance sheet the end the book telling anxious readers few words what had become the secondary personages who had fitted across his pages dare not imagine what the modern publisher would say interpolating whole stories such his other habit his , its , , it be , , , or society whether members deeply indebted has undertaken be by 's of on . of all its to to before them and authors society not must , is in a is , of a , it , is it of , of THE Copyright Bill 1911 now before the public and though not from the author point perfect bill view more advanced condition than the bill 1910 The Society Authors may congratulate itself the fact that the Board Trade not only gave every oppor tunity through the society committee put views before the Board but accepted nearly the important suggestions which laid ” , 1911 . Bill COPYRIGHT I . . is as in to , of in Alfred took considerable interest the the society from his election and was prominent the debates that occurred relative The Times Book War known what affairs do read his work at last one sensible man propounded the theory that a novel , like a pair of trousers , should be cut to the measure of the material it was meant shortly to contain . The correspondence closed afterwards . Generally speaking , the public prefers a good long novel to a good short one , as is only natural.. The more the buyer gets for his money assuming equal the better pleased the quality But also true that the modern reader does not any want his attention taken the main theme irrelevant matter not think the ordinary day spends much time consumer of novels read ing the old masters London that Most houses have any library doubt possess editions Scott Thackeray and Dickens but they are rarely taken down from the shelves Quentin Dur Vanity Fair ward Martin Chuzzlewit day were offered the London trade new books unknown authors confident they would refused not because their mere length be widely how show Sir to until to fact will tend has been . i is English it his “ Life of Warren Hastings ” in the Men of Action Series , published in 1889 . He was also a poet of no mean distinction , his " Verses Written in India ” having been re quite recently , in a cheap edition . published This mention 201 �THE AUTHOR . re , is it . . . H . . . 's ] . of , in of [ , of ; of — for its no all , . , a , its is of is it - , , up is is by , , “ , he . . . . to of is of is A A in of . . ." .' is . at , all In , by • . , ‘ a " as . on a * “ , , , . , to its a , to on so do ; . , ; of “ , a in of , a . , is ” is a ; . which the reader the proposition is , it as it , . to of ”, Style more extended proof be may because must make Words therefore to used fashion as — is be - , as , it hindrance The Philosophy referred shall such of little then but it . a , . , So of , of ; to , in is It . , or to used in is , I , “ of . , , in to , to a . very well for to of a , of far a . to , of in . , , a ; . it , theological argument fact the elementary nothing beyond the elementary thought and by action which thus lends itself illustration but that event we see the significance the action reaches the intelligence more immediately and more forcibly than could the significance though Herbert the spoken written word Spencer has come near the reductio ad absurdum Language valuable lesson he has taught thought but indispensable hindrance — . ; - , , to , a of ? it at in , clear however that the possibilities pantomime are limited We can suggest Come gesture but all the here most dramatically by gestures the world will pot convey the sense a of is a It . of of a . it I of ; . language action will convey the idea more readily consequently and we had better without language altogether of — of . a an of to of of all in . to a in , to . in if be in to am to in ; do is a moments emotional stress There big thus formula for the construction the anyone could ever work seller formula and Personally the literary agents are correct last month style the hilt and reasonable method after reasoning fully better remembered when Turning then philosophy we find understood perhaps the point argued most convincingly Language says Herbert Spencer must regarded thought hindrance Placing finger the lips more forcible than whispering Do not speak beck the hand shrug better than Come here the shoulders would lose much translation into words danger and short there the use It to ; . I , - possessed curious and instructive fact that the most popular writers the present day the world fiction are novelists for good word say whom the reviewers never have The people are not only uneducated then but they hear the voice obstinate their master but deliberately stuff their ears with cotton wool they not wish learn And the critics can only sigh and point out for their own satisfaction that all branches art the public has ever admired with curious consistency the worst that put before What does sell novel The irresponsible my chatter women afternoon tea say some great friends think fact that women have They read say deal the matter more they take their reading more novels than the men seriously and are more likely discuss their favourites afterwards Thus some the literary agents now lay down as cardinal rule that successful story the feminine interest should be they argue like dominant Women read about especially themselves and learn how they should II. the omission the superfluous word and the inclusion only the neces sary hardly calls for justification seem ingly after what has been said carries endorsement upon face and there need the introduction more pbilosophy Still good cause you know none the worse for being proved be . to on of In a a a in ; or that our forefathers CONOMY " been DUNN The commencement this article issue discussed the broad requirements T this would have ago of . a in , . on be E of to By ARCHIBALD . it years Sometimes almost inclined think that damps the ardour chorus commendation things they suspect the public sorts organised attempt personal boom the work perhaps even bribery They have lost friend their child like faith the infallibility the critic , " a LACON WATSON LITERATURE IN . STYLE to of ; . Some sufficient there was time when few enthusiastic acclamations the more important papers sent new book gaily forward the road success these days the criticisms the press seem have lost their effect upon readers the reviewers may praise until they have exhausted every adjective their vocabulary yet the buyers will refuse come if a art a . of in of to too much concerned with the his work , side - be to is , it is easy reviewers behave , of of is a -w he un of up as not commercial incorrigible theorise about the production books but still extraordinarily difficult predict accuracy how the public will with any approach receive any given specimen Yet one can generally reception will meet with from the tell what sort It well for , . a of ) of ( is in he . in as to found fear that the great secret eludes analysis . Like many so - called games of chance , the successful novel riting matter fortune with servation favour the better player The good man will commonly achieve modest independence trying goes time For the rest , himif - of if a : of a a . in of require a series of shocks to keep them awake , and consequently the modern novelist has learned the indulging prolixity The page imprudence physical appear new novelmust not even present solidity publisher sees the proofs come ance from the printer with more than ten inches quite capable broken matter has bappened my own case breaking more than once the Only paragraphs himself few the old guard such Mr Henry James are permitted some lati probably because they were tude this respect in 202 �THE AUTHOR . of to be , a be . an by be , a , in , is . It , to of ; , , as - a , or to of , of in an an is of a , ; as of in of do , a of , an , an of , is a It to ; , , . to to a so is , , a ; of , in is a to in a to it , , . fit its of -- , - ? to its be . of ! , is It ! . a of , . , to , is , to ! of is of of , , in 's , , , , to it . , to is . , ; so as to , of a is a , species but rather absence order and imperatively aimlessness and this what calls for the drill sergeant the author and demands him that he shall set each one these trouble some units into and proper place And Why then depend upon failing this we twinkling have drifted back again that Old Man the Sea literature that bogey rule which will have the way paved smooth for the reader Here blessed muddle and that was part never the bargain a it . to of 's of , of as a , is . , a at to for a do units handled the company the management army men easier than the manoeuvring propor grow will the problem for author tion the length and number sentences necessary the expression of his thought For these sentences unluckily not take position themselves but with most irritating perverse straggle ness tend and fall into certain confusion not perhaps actual disorder of of by . , by be ignorant profundity with the depth spend you crowd Yet given few shillings may bay you please much this profundity any stationer shop and then equipped with English words and phrases safely Thesaurus pomposity and affectation unfurl the standard long word for everything believe me There repay the mere trouble the clerk work searching through the pages and nothing this prevent you beating record world but laziness vocabulary Yet when all said and done travesty what comes when setting out gravely accomplished one thing another enlightening when with the object the reader against this the end fuddle him forsooth the quantity and just author 80 is to of is , , , of I in is - , . of is , in , — both must suited know course that amongst the illiterate mighty fine thing use long words here reader is a of , , a as of . a of , or a set many instead resort must had the use words and these words build up sentence with may without subsidiary clauses Advance the thought once more and the single sentence becomes inadequate the need has arisen now for group explain the sentences each helping meaning and when completed forming intelli gible paragraph steady increase fact , is it . ? , all , , I One would not for instance ploughmen gathering write scientific text book the phraseology the nursery There the wide distinction the conditions and the simple fact incomprehensible that what the one often the common language the other The whole regulated question short relative the subject regulated again the capacity the the circumstances address students “ Halt ! " and every reader recognises the command to stop . But as the thought advances in com plexity , the simple word will no longer suffice but , of But , is this to say that the erudite is to be and that the nearer a writer approaches to the one -syllabled language of a child the greater he shall be ? Is that the inference to be drawn from this law of simplicity and economy , the real meaning of it Well surely not For most obvious think that much will depend upon taboo come now to the treatment of the sentence and of the paragraph , and here , again , we shall find that the whole aim and object is to make things easy for the reader . The position , then , is simply this . The elemen tary thought is expressed in a single word — write a shall be few , direct of meaning and expressive , familiar and , consequently , easy of comprehension , there is the treatment of them in the compass of a putshell , the commonsense solution of the difficulty . 203 Thus clear that some definite order must decided upon some order whicb virtue natural sequence shall seem the natural order genius amongst those who find their and writing there livelihood their pleasure not one contradict For somehow some unlucky chance expression the natural process seldom precise and the point but something speak the truth and ever ready wobble upon the wander happens and rule training and only after years that infinity say labour that man learns the end just exactly what he wants say and nothing more considering this one essential always Now remembered that proposition must neces sarily discussed one two ways either inductively deductively that we may first group together our facts and particolars and lead and prove the main proposition stating the propo alternatively we may begin prove sition itself and then proceed One adopted always other these methods must to of , or so , it * Literature ." Success in . of Principles an be to of is is to . * “ ; of a - . in of of of ) to a ( as a Climax which necessarily implies sequence preliminary brings us broader consideration style the subject We have spoken the general sense treatment the word we in or it . , be to by , to , is ; or in of a — be up is , in , . a so , ; , by it in minimum intelligent debate brought the subject definitely and sharply before the mind outside person the better method autho As which suggests that rities are disagreed Lewes if . of to an to in to a , as a , , of it so ; of is it be is by , , of to , to , go of is a the reader and reduce his effort visualising the picture to , “ in . to him or " ; , , " " To , so . as ! , stands is economy and simplicity that the law the surest safeguard Pity then that its fulfilment should be gather much thought into few difficult says Schopenhauer stamps the man of words danger �THE AUTHOR . a ; to is its 's of of is , , as to , , as , of it be , . , , or is , in , ; or , is to a , . an . is by , of to — . in , of , in of in is of , a , , , of a of if ; be to is ? , it at , if , , if to ; if . by a be to I ! , , , is of in , ; is to , , . of , : , . in be , in of is of . of idea him of the depravity proper objects In devil , or fiction whether man summate and universal qualities which are the and the qualities which contempt preserve to in in or : , is is . of - on , , at , to as it to so if its , , wits , . be , to , about me when the time comes Based the law nature the law climax that the progression sentences shall not only logical order but that easy stages and follow addition they shall cumulatire effect point the moral take an extract from To Macaulay This what he says about Barère Our opinion then this that Barère approached history nearer than any person mentioned then . . I or an its my on a ; , ; it , - no , it is a a the series increasing force noted the way Moreover heighten the final result you step this for from the shady corridor into the sunlight the sun you will explain will never look brighter and me beforehand the utmost possibilities of some danger there terrible no surer means creasing my fear though mark you shall have steadily in in to to of it is to 's a in , all if , . . . distract and with , - be be . As ; in a a so as a . of , as , , more import move each detail can allowed , of a is in it . 's is its , of is to is a It blank ever there was one hopeless and complete easily And yet could be cleared up by starting just little lower down the ladder knowledge complex matter but origin Here origin was simple Then start with neces sary with simple and familiar facts any rate carrying the attention with you lead and progressive and explanatory fashion those facts simple and not which are not familiar question easy stages that all and when the really complex reached last believe me there is a , of - to is is “ it, .” , , a , this the fault common bad writing that the equal author assumes the reader knowledge his own Then moment the mind often not goes abroad has nothing catch hold stand by nothing that has starting point work ever come across before nothing anywhere but from indescribable haze It , so be , as to a . — be it of to rightly backwards and forwards order connect them That however not the end for you may sequence without tangle and yet sequence have very nature incomprehensible which from complex mean course where unfamiliar subject has been introduced too suddenly And it a be , In in or of , . a ” to be , to to be tion the reader comfort he shall not left disentangle the tangled threads Herbert Spencer puts stated the events should go ench sequence that the mind may not have have this inevitable conclusion that the mental faculties like all our senses are subject deaden ing reaction after any very vivid impression and that the extent the reaction commensurate some degree with the strength the impression case fact the greater overshadowing the less and when this occurs literature need period we wonder blankness ensues which appre does not actually destroy the power least weakens On the other hand ciation nothing the trifle can claim attention when there if familiar truths of light of the is best when wish and rouse upon details emotions upon new particulars unsuspected relation those truths short lighten the task proposition then the reader likely accepted without question should stated at once and afterwards emphasised whilst proposition unlikely accepted should first proved and then consequence such proof finally stated adopted But whichever method and the writer will select according the conditions the moment certain that the process either progressive ques case must Here again direct deductive method I I But the to or a to at . of , is that the most effective method the inductive culminating wave which leads your mind upon evidence emotion the very point aim appeal direct to the reason . Unluckily , this is but completion there half the task . For still another phase the mind activity consider phase which the emotional rather than the reasoning type example This best illustrated by Walk suddenly from shady corridor the sunshine into light enough and though perhaps there read the corridor will seem absolutely dark again remember how the unexpected presence startling sight the mind some horrible blinded sometimes wholly always partially other considerations Common experiences such these carry their the effect which cannot denied own inference and accepting we must do we in is it , to a a of to is , “ ”, or he to depends upon the circumstances , and that certainly seems the commonsense way of looking at it . “ If my object says convince you general truth impress you with feeling which accept you are not already prepared obvious “ 204 con the of an to as . , . as as But when we put poltroonery base , , . , of or , , a as as a ; . In . , a to , an so , , a we have made our him is . so do the most obvious and fashion ; it . in to as , , at is , is is it . , is so of , be It to , a a nothing complex about as So will of met with them read them everything together sensuality in convey and we convey most easily appreciable so logical order far then concerned far we have nothing else than follow out explanatory system which can be readily grasped thought the course clear enough We have hatred are the proper objects exquisite and absolute harmony every particular almost sort wickedness he has had rivals His sensuality was failing common immoderate but this was with many great and amiable men There cowardly have been many men he some impudent There mean few cruel few may also have been as great liars though we never �THE AUTHOR . for , to , a , ! a in , it, in it , is as , be to as , , of , , . to , . To To To of ! , , of , of of . of In be ! , of as , * I to - “ It . ” of a it . , at of . of of by ; , , , of is of , ! - , it in “ ” is , it a ” “ , if , to of - to on be — of to , in a us to at It . so of I of at , or - . ! , ? , , by ? a it to , It softening overpowering in , , knell the dinner bell - the soul - The tocsin of That - writing all to of it . a is be to is of worth noting that the imposing thought succeeded tendency towards the ridiculous Hence the trivial has humorous be made out some capital there . is ofof of is . an in I . seeing that they were all crucial moments when nurse was called away and you were left kicking your bare legs legs about the floor Do you re kicking your bare about how you member then how you watched the door Do you and listened for footstep crawled up degrees remember how your excitement grew you know You had been interested before but moment by * It to ? ? of— , to , of do be or to of . , , ! in be I ! it by re - , ; . , , - of in - in in getof , of , of of - of to ? of : a : journeying back should Eternal the Islands the Blessed the land the Hereafter not know how this emotionally But do more truly more may ruined by the mere stroke of know how simply transposing the third and fourth casting them for the conclusion lines and the Hiawatha Oh at , of ToIn In To To To Is it improve this picture make more impressive the glory the glory closing beautiful life the glory the mists sadness the sadness the sunset everlasting happiness that too evening but it possible a of in , Thus departed Hiawatha Hiawatha the Beloved the glory the sunset evening the purple mists regions the the home wind Of the North west wind Keewaydin the Islands the Blessed the Kingdom of Ponemah the land the Hereafter more realistic the smallness the thought And the certainty you see that romance must scotched find ourselves thus thrust back from the fascinating dream ethereal things which we only believe beautiful and which natural for the imagination rest back again with out warning the commonplaces life the damp had you please and everyday siidset nearly written unpleasant mist damned near As Longfellow has however the glory evening the sunset and the purple mists well nigh perfect its artistic setting has painted the scene course and brought the picture realistically before the eye but more introducing has heightened the final effect momentary suspension the main thought That strength rather than this should be source weakness not first sight quite apparent economy and simplicity Here we have the law jogging the elbow and demanding the direct and straightway concise statement and putting troublesome quandary But would remind you what the nursery and the days once again happened when that story you were listening attentively was unexpectedly interrupted was just near the end any rate the crucial , a : itself evening — suggests the purple mists is -& be so , of - , , " “ ; , or , a , , old in go to the over Islands the Blessed Kingdom Ponemah land the Hereafter glory the sunset - it , no is to is of of - by a in , if be . , is , , is . . , it so , - , -- , on . a in as of at ? , - is of . no the weakness . is need Hiawatha pen the the the In the , , us , if do , , the other and there ground argument again inay however given One show passage will read and instance how differently impress the mind when without changing either meaning we get anti climax instead words climax and for this purpose the final scene evidence a mist of thoughts reward , . , that terrific whacking the big drum each stroke heavier than the one before along must carry whirlwind irresistibly We may amend our judgment later and sball the evidence be insufficient but meanwhile the art the writer has triumphed and for the Illogical any rate we condemn Barère moment you say And At the same time getting very real human nature and there away from that Clearly then climax essential effective sequence which the imposing ness anti climax thought succeeded the trivial must for bidden The strength the one sufficient and and of , in — . a to of - in of individual forms wicked the crescendo treatment And the end though we assertion without the backing proof that tempest words a - of only have listened the shadow , ; , a no is , individual rivals a of to by , & to , had ness neat contrast goes steadily forward paragraph . It is a small thing , with the sense remaining just the same and the words too , but life and truth have gone out of the picture ; the mind tuned the fever pitch cannot drop back thus suddenly the inconsiderable The thing that has really mattered all along the thing that concerned the reader and held him was the fate Hiawatha that was the culmination the end and yet just the secret revealed just the attention would dwell upon and grasp its why just then full significance and revel dig bless your heart there comes the ribs and silly idiotic distracting remark about sunset a ." in in up so a A be ness, effrontery , mendacity , barbarity , the result is something which in a novel we should condemn as caricature and to which , we venture to say , no history parallel can found writer less gifted than Macaulay the art building begin climax might have hesitated slashing and violent with sentence lest those comparison others follow should seem weak But analysed this sentence more than general statement preparing the mind and then starting with the admission that Barère perhaps 205 �THE AUTHOR . of , so ; in a , it of . , of ? , , is at all , is , . to no is no , , . as in - to as as it is he , - , if be or , , to ; of an , if , of a is be by , . . To be a is be to an of , , for up to no a of a in of , to . , , , in or , in , , in is ; is a It , . up . of , of , is - a in ; " “ to , a It is . he of , " of is at of , “ , a as , . is of a so - a on - , , , it -s it ; , , it , - be is 's of of . - - a - of to as , , , to go , . to be , to as for to -- do I ; is a ; , is a it to , of of no , at in , So . , , we ? . In ." to as , a its to if " , , - - to in in , in , is is , to , , ! . is , , it a writing endured the art some infrequent periods where somehow and there must come those moments relaxation those change which shall serve short intervals the keep the faculties alive fresh stimulus things adjust But difficult job fine balance where sure does routine and stereotyped order cease assist and instead begin tire We must observe the rules and must break them the trouble choose the fitting moment and not know that the true pass word this tricky Sesame has yet been found to is to - a of up ; it a , of to of of ; it an half hour Think the bare statement and school boy bare statements iteration every turn essay think the author who introducing ego the inevitable think Macaulay with the everlasting grand crescendo and see the end how feeble was fine thing that crescendo course the first time you met rouge one like soul tirring and apt bugle call vexing passed but later into irritation and finally like the bugle call too often repeated fell still born the senses Such this vengeance and depend dead levelness with upon complete presentation flatness not so us it , if we is , ! , it in , at a to , of if to . , , a , of brings Variety the third law literature really strange and surprising result For appear that now shall bave been truly Economy and Climax faithful the laws we sturdy shall have followed these principles with persistence and without ever once kicking over the traces we shall the same time have gone far towards becoming the very worst writers the astonisbing world Yes direct contra building diction seemingly the edifice for knocking down again the mere pleasure But listen the explanation When student bends his mind too intently pro one subject common knowledge that rapidity and cess time the intellect loses the power ready appreciation and the student grows stale also common knowledge Herbert Spencer points out that we hold flower the nose for long we become insensible scent so , , of is to of to a the explanation and justification Variety and there little said its practical use literature that not avoiding self evident matter you see Nothing however good groove itself may served too often too regular order give only the necessary word the shortest possible intelligible sentence the cumulative progression give On the other hand events excellent paragraph after paragraph page after page them with never break the routine the catalogue monotony against perfection achieve which reader could hope hold his head then the law concerning to , , . shorter the sentence the better different stimulus Such ; . in - as . of , , - of , , a , a all a be of in of to to . a to , to a , a , is, in of it or , — to is , of creating then the risk deliberate distraction only this And now there add that what applies the paragraph applies also the sentence subordinate The sentence often enough contains thought thoughts within the main series thought fact miniature paragraph Clearly then there must well observed sequence the order the sentence the order the paragragh well defined progression the climax and never under any circumstances suspension Subject too long the main issue economy the this then for the sake we move from the flower the open drain there doubt that we shall smell the drain the student translated from his study the chess board pro vided course that cares for chess there that the brain will start again doubt about working freshly and vigorously ever Thus there second inference draw that whilst the faculties most certainly collapse the presence monotony their real power remains unimpaired merely resorting and they can set going anew in , is a to of ; . in to to it to , ; for mind would wander from the main issue — the fate of Hiawatha — and become centred instead on the scene itself . So much so , indeed , that the final lines might seem out of place — in fact, the moment almost without meaning we might have stop and worry out for ourselves we might even have refer back the first line all find true connection the passage This the danger But now neighbourhood of anything but an impediment and a source of weak ness . Supposing that Longfellow , instead of using only two lines to describe the scene , bad used twenty , what would happen ? Why , clearly the flower the faculty seems the other the dulled case the student the mind has become accomplished accomplished that what with effort less speedily than usual less satisfactorily Why surely that monotony What the inference enfeebling the faculties and tends has the knack make them inoperative the one case the case smell has been killed - end ! how deepened with is The - little brain was working into a fever . the mystery and the wonder of it suspense ! Ah ! you remember ? Very well, then , we have whittled down the pencil and come to the lead , for this idea of suspending the main thought in literature is only that same pleasant old idea resurrected from the nursery though played of course more artistically nowa days for the benefit of those bigger children , the grown -ups . But there is danger in it , nevertheless . For , just as the slight suspension can prove a source of strength , the really lengthy suspension is seldom your now re - 206 �THE AUTHOR . be a of , a , ; , as , of so . , to , , as by a , , if . it it be a of 's it in — of to an - , a in ! as in . , 's on it of To , . , , be it to ? or his he ? of its ; of , in a , . , all is to , ' s all at be be , a in . its to an , of , ; in be of , so in do ; to to a at is it , . up - of . a in , of it to ; to in to . up , an , , to ? be at of , of - , of all , as — . , inquired the vacant eye Was he out what And when after moment his former friends those gay spark and ? back a a Literature .” in of Success show , , - do I . the bent ? is a . , is , in Principles . of a — to an , a The of , of so it , to , so to . , to . * * Presently puzzling broken man he stood over the array new buildings the strange names upon the doors the absence the familiar land marks which had once meant his home presently the young men and maidens gathered round him youth and the frivolous way started nudging one another and giggling sight the tattered rag bag Who could this stranger This quaint old man with the long white beard , , to an ; a 's , of is of , . of in endeavour for or be . , it we as , aim to Hence fulfil author shall be order his mind train thought may always himself that the expression logical tend fall automatically into some sort intelligible and pleasant phraseology sequence and With regard the latter requisite there study ready suggestion good that we should models For believe me there no more con tagious thing the world than frequent inter course with writer wbo can write not the obvious law is , a practical affairs The nowadays mnst always understand anything accomplish with the least possible expenditure effort This the safeguard many achieve against overstrain the secret ments the short period life and therefore against the accepted view - . ill . . , of - in , business and of a wasting setting wholly wearisome and time labour saving age all good its finished state least commence ment the right direction and have gone far have left little enough the final polishing regard variety And just one more thing language We have considered its application applies equally we may well believe that the thought itself that the character the thought shall not remain one groove for too long period Rip You remember the home coming Van Winkle He had been asleep for twenty years the Katskill Mountains and then awaking he trudged back his native village old and ? of of it in is re - a a . , is The disentangling and expressioned composition . to “ I an , , to is — , an to ; , In 80 . by simplest fashion too honest back time and again the laws Economy and Climax that author shall submit his spontaneous effort the test those conditions and never pass until the conditions have been fulfilled But even this sense unsatisfactory the reference seems inevitable has assayed the worth own material and instinctively whether he will not the trifles must drop into the background and the features real consequence stand prominently forward And though this may not order to in . , . ” ? think is ; , ? is of Sincerity . a its , to , cardinal principle as . ; of , , I to be be it great to a be to is of a be , , . — is at , no is system , . of be to — which brings about ask you will adopt downfall for which likely Clearly lead confusion none There must order that essential Then can obtained whilst abandoning ourselves the author , of no , is ' , .” of to be to , in is In is , It proposition what the ear orderly pre And for the other condition sentation the thought seems that this must spring primarily from clear vision the author explain he must first have understood part fog but with And mark you not vaguely each detail sharply outlined his own sight and with illustrative value distinctly set forth He thought picture has which some things thought matter more others less but which nothing must blurred Need we doubt then that author business before ever he puts pen paper sure himself sure aright that he sees the finished picture and sees painting too through the processes And then Then the practical consequence in in is to It " :- ? " in secured And answer he says for obey the great cardinal principle the writer Sincerity and express himself brave enough his own way Lewes idea course that man can speak straight from the heart and speak montonously the moment the meaning the impetuosity blurted out anyhow and with words scarcely weighed and thoughts but indifferently considered monotony ceases possible There may tangle good there generally and deal Variety too confusion but least there must likely quarrel with the contention and one just the very completeness however this , - , is “ , , . , ", .* “ - of , of , a , its , is sideration and here method which whatever demerits will nevertheless compel more often than not the accomplishment the end view Variety Style The suggestion comes from variety Lewes How he asks be mean that we shall ever hope actually to imitate him or that we should do so if we could , but that , process time and after fashion something may the master charm but shadow will fall inevitably upon the student like blessing Under such circumstances will slowly none the found the habit modifies and less surely takes smoother turn and the vocabulary widens day day the niceties expression grow familiar with experience will the appropriate word come more promptly hand and the sentence round itself off more pleasantly heof - , , , . to , - is , fix see Still , where the aim is at the practical, it does up the sponge too readily . not do to throw As upon the definite border line we we cannot Very well then that certain abandon the precise turn the more general the broader con 207 �THE AUTHOR . 208 ' us , its of , at , no I , in , it , I . be be to , , 's be of as to a of am . I is to 's , of , of to in . I of to , us of . ill - of is . on ” to “ ” by it in has , . Is " “ in " ” ? “ to an . , of of which they may enter , . Sir , the FRESHFIELD II . . W , am I with into . women by for interest the utterances Ward with regard the many Committee She deplores that the unfortunate method to with its of Academic occasions have read Humphry on Mrs . of by . I . to by so a , of . at , . if to door . to of in of to , . to a by at , , to to , , in the action our Committee this business On the contrary open the Committee has done its best leave COMMITTEE of It of , is , it - co an as I up dignity Management SIR on the game the bad behaviour our dawned slowly her This way grave slights which and indignities generally strike their victims not possible that Miss Toplis has been deceived false dawn When real daylight reaches her appreciate she will probably that her sex slighted subjected neither been nor by all . , in Miss Toplis tells Committee hardly the DOUGLAS SIR must confess some surprise that you you have published the letter addressed Miss Toplis the absence women from the , I the even understand rules which timed examples have been given lately by ladies from whom we might have hoped for better things in , fill to of , THE ACADEMIC my mind play honour and without unseemly disputes coveted dignity Yours obediently .) be CORRESPONDENCE not only affairs but “ in ; ; be of . , is of 's ( To the conduct us , at of of of it , , is it , of , . contains have incapacity ” an . to to , in it to . , of of * to respect a , . of , to , in . is ; of “ ”, us up To if , or , only given verbatim This scene course Rip Van Winkle concluding remark which the whole point continued of , of , in in ; of of , , let tears sum then there are the two leading principles economy and climax and the third principle variety which controls the other two transposed you please the position may But anyway the suitable harmonising good writing and the three that makes the basis first trouble all writers apparent in to , to in , of by is , an of of no to the eyes with reluctant witnesses its ” * . of , to it as , , of I , do be in . to a of is , at , Rip clients that their cause not more successful they have largely themselves thank not now referring the too notorious exhibitions intem perate conduct and language petulance and the followers the women movement silliness which their friends have been recently the “ ! ! it “ 's , he , ” So . , , ” ! 's do , -s in It active state That the home any Van Winkle sad enough time one will dispute but needs the magic wand the artist that little touch antithesis opposition the end that two thoughts which are the reverse each other some just prominent trait emphasise the sadness just just grip the real truth to their most coming practical difficulty vacancies there can Speaking for myself this course being followed may interested outsider trust and without delay may however one who some years ago gave not unimportant post for the sake women claim admission scientific society allowed perhaps take this opportunity warn my former a “ . - , ! ! of at , for , “ “ to I of the situation lies wholly the use contrast grave from the the sudden change from gay humorous the pathetic and the certain exaggeration effect which results from the unexpected transformation the point view open air like the first breath the invalid the tonic fresh idea and the mind startled responds with and stirred the surprise alacrity and magnifies the picture unaccustomed thought This then the work of variation energetic capacity create the reader and insight and appreciation stimulate his powers on did Academic Committee seemed most when the question was mooted that the better and carry out important and less contentious way possibly step controversial would be the option the Academic Committee itself first lady members Since dozen vacant seats were left the disposal the nominated members present and there are believe least ten like the rest and buried these nineteen Rip Then Van Winkle laughed too That funny said that damned funny damned funny nearly breaks my poor old heart There may more affecting incidents than this be found fiction but not know them any other which strikes more not know straight surely more rapidly more directly the heart trings And seems me the strength of course years in in a first list of the Academic Committee of the Royal Society of Literature without the editorial note , which , I venture to think , the occasion might have suggested . The Committee the Authors Society not true express any formal opinion the question the inclusion women the his with whom he had been wont to drink and make merry in other days , the laugh burst out openly . “ Dead ! " they cried . “ Dead ! the whole drunken lot of them ! " And when , a little later , he asked them wife they held their sides merri ment and the answer came back him shout Why Gretchen Old Gretchen dead �THE AUTHOR . to is I . of be , to a , " is to of . to as a - of as if . a of , on a ? as to I , , to . -o . ; to of , of he be a to an , , aa pl a , if a no . in of , he is it , in ; of be If And . of am the society suggesting would . - to , it is infinite labour and much thinking the first and most important step towards organisation operation and All accom co real I plishment that entail to if so . . It be is it ; to is to it of on . in , to , — , in a be worth while difficult cannot done moment but can done There are born reactionaries even amongst dramatists hopeless pessimists content let things slide fearful lest change should bring tyranny its wake Such people have always been the brakes the wheel human progress But seems me that the society is . a is to , it if of its . , . under the banner the scheme that my mind . 5 to be of , it If ? a and would obtain businesslike treatment and courtesy they are But stand together they must although in is a do - a a success upon do . so ; 10 — to is to it of if to if us ; ; us it to a , . an to as so a , , of . , is — to be to diseased time limit should considered then that has accepted that play and that liable for sum royalties advance connection with that play dramatists would stand together they would longer the victims abuses they could demand - . “ . , is in , a of co can if . : do . . F be agreed him DRAMATISTS AND THE SOCIETY incapable The average dramatist after his own financial interests he agent and pays him employs per cent commission But seems me that what the agents are doing the Society Authors represent officially become necessity the inducements come are obvious that not be member not exist dramatist could much better purely commercial point And from view why does the society philosophically accept the large portion fact that these commissions might with little trouble diverted own charged only per cent for bank account collecting royalties and drafting contracts its increased income would more than balance its increased expenditure SIR looking most Certain and every dramatist should demand percentage and certain minimum recognised conditions which should be one manager having requested that author play keeps that play beyond send certain send him dramatist , to . ) - to of to , a : to , to be , in is on a is of in . , an , POLLOCK yet the - . to , is , as so 's in - very careful an , I of of a of to at ( , , eren then they should written the dramatists But theatre organised body went out strike what would commercial enterprise the theatre become Personally cannot understand the selfishness organisa the individual dramatist who objects peration Whatever consideration he tion and his own interests he still owes some owes Naturally and rightly his profession those larger standing fees than can demand dramatists but any win those who still have their spurs of a have always understood that being fully respon anonymous articles editor As alter them entitled sible for the contents courtesy and prudence he will consult matter practicable the case But far the writer signed contributions editor except with the consent may only correct manifest errors writer spelling and punctuation and conformity see objectionable require omitted matter need pub really limited refusal case but this Publishers not the same footing lisb which and proof readers ought not interfere except flagrant error which has emergency stop happen but escaped the author such things long experience an . or ." I . . its in ." , 's an 's an to is a an ful working no “ , - as " in inform the author could have exeunt before their names Managers cannot exist without plays payment author the person whom grudged box office famine times managers look upon him kind being totally unnecessary the parasite - ' IN ALTERATIONS AUTHORS MANUSCRIPTS Surely the statement that editor right publisher has MS author alter the April issue too wide literal terms agree signed work and author Read pretty through editor and contributor Both SIR : to , . , INTERESTED he for am - ? 's Yours truly ONE , of the com of favour in the public the best argument abolition mittee formances but how know that has not serenty given And there that very fruitful source income the Stock Company America permission perform play together with the prompt copy that play had obtained from representative the society authorised those managers who perform plays and those agents forget who lease plays for stock work and ? of it in an in its it Is give advancement would the public the best argument for the abolition of the House of Lords . possible that the Royal Society Literature bas pursued this peculiar method election may give Academic Committee order that — The this said to Prime Minister . , hoped that a certain of Minister , it was Prime 's on the advice of the profession , and from the public generally . A king once raised a gentleman to the peerage If my play is pirated , I instruct my agent to sally forth and capture the pirate ; but pirate chasing annoys him , because , as likely as not, he is chasing a future client , and your agent cannot afford to offend managers . All managers are honest , but some are absent -minded . The manager who produces my play in New Zealand or India on a royalty basis sends me returns seventeen per ; of the trust which other members of to have from of the way in a body If will stand ought election such 209 �THE AUTHOR . .) 9 is ) to an be be to . . I 's is 1 , a at ; or , it of or , a to a , he as ? is , to an , on of of ; to to to ; at 's to . to do , to I , ; a - to is in to a in be he , , in to a to an to or . in to , it of It ( . to I an . . If in . - in in , . It ' of I . ' in ] a ! , to ( or a as " to prices naturally From work was pleasing very sane and proper find that she Madame Audoux had curiosity prices and conditions England After equally had somewhat satisfied this curiosity she showed English proper annoyance and that the at the fact sane and American rights Marie Claire had been sold outright for ridiculous sum She told me the exact sum was forget which either £16 £20 the success the England book America equals its success and will who knows the market trusts his wealth agent with greater confidence literature than he would entrust his earnings stock broker his legal business solicitor with many cases fatal results The agent order wholly save himself trouble gives advice which unsatisfactory spend lest should asked obtaining more time and energy sounder agreement This refers not only the rights England but also placed the rights America person of to , he : , has had with that work After their conversation of of which ” “ on “ of a an ” of 5 , . , ” of in ", to of “ ” , by “ , in , — be “ of interview Madame Audoux the author recording the commencement Jacob Topson continues to . , Rights (? ) MINOR SIR The following paragraph from the weekly literary causerie Books and Persons London and Paris Jacob Tonson The New Age your readers may interest some having stated that Jacob Tonson 000 copies the English translation Marie Claire were publication goes sold within week describe is " “ 's , a , in A . DRAMATIST , Yours truly an is an , ( ' SIR -- ofof worthy is it I , think AGENTS Through long and varied experience have found that the author agent rather than the author himself ruins the prospects of the minor constantly author The Society Authors dinning into the ears its members that they should not write under certain price per 000 periodical contributions that they should words subsequent books not publish their first their own expense and think that many authors have wisely and their benefit followed the advice that has been given them But what are they sign con when the author agent advises them sign tracts ruinons rates contracts giving sign all their minor rights the publisher contracts for the payment sums towards the production their books for the production their books deferred royalty which when microscopically The author small does come goes agent being ignorant himself . a , ; . but , , ( , AUTHORS ; of to a of is of consideration fees suggestion . to all a the collection only This , an ." , no is to . of , of , expert would seem then that the who good enough assure the author that his foreign rights are too trifling and translation worth bothering about and had therefore better entrusted the said expert sole care individual whose activities are not confined this side the Channel Yours faithfully WARD MUIR so of I to - as a , of or , in — of on in , or it a , it if by , brought no accusation of any kind against anybody . agreement and absolute sale absolute sale matter how the financial consequences may thereof work out New Age March that An agreement It to are a be ; to be dramatists as a body ; if the induce greater than the ments to come in stay out the Dramatic Sub Com temptations doing very usefulwork both for the mittee would body individual dramatist and for dramatists during the coming year would draft scheme which could either shunt the agent and take his place appoint certain agents various places who would act solely through and behalf the Society experience discretion Authors men and integrity who could keep touch through the theatrical papers other sources with the move managers ments and productions all classes safeguard the dramatist from unauthorised and performances his work thus making itself not only luxury the individual dramatist but necessity dramatists while the extra expense involved could be met by the percentage charged on represent of 210 it , he to if in . 20 to . 15 be , , to is of . , . 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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) 1911-05-01 Volume 21 Issue 8 Pages Page range in volume 183–210 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19110501 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. 8. MAY 1, 1911. (PRICE SIXPENCE. CONTENTS. РАОЕ 198 Notices The Society's Funds List of Members ... The Pension Fund Committee Notes The Meeting of Dramatists. Books published by Members Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes PAGR 183 183 183 184 185 187 191 193 195 196 198 198 Warnings to Dramatic Authors Registration of Scenarios and Original Dramatic Authors and Agents Warnings to Musical Composers Stamping Music ... The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes The Modern Novel a Style in Literature Correspondence ... 199 199 199 199 199 199 200 201 202 208 Publishers need not preserve Pseudonymity (U.S.A.) Warnings to the Producers of Books How to Use the Society 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 10s. 6d. per vol. 3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38. 4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By 8. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 1s. 8. The Cost of Production. (Out of print.) 8. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses therein. 38. Addenda to the Above. By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts collected at the office of the Society since the publication of the “ Methods." With comments and advice. 28. 7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. 13. 6d. 8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. 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April 1, The XX Pen Club April 6, Channon, Mrs. E. M. . 0 5 0 April 7, Henry, Miss Alice. . April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga . . 2 2 0 April 11, Robins, Miss Alice April 20, MacEwan, Miss. 10 April 20, C. N. and Mrs. Williamson. 5 5 0 April 21, Shirley, Arthur . . 1 1 0 April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson . 1 0 0 April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace . . 0 10 0. · · · · · · བྱr ༤ Total ............. .. £4,377 19 4 ·············· £ $. d. Subscriptions. 1911. Jan. 3, Yolland, Miss E. Jan. 3, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . Jan. 9, Bolton, Miss Anna . . Jan. 13, Edginton, Miss May . Feb. 11, Cannap, Gilbert . . 0 5 1 1 0 5 ( 5 0 10 0 0 0 . . . . 6  ## p. 185 (#255) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 185 COMMITTEE NOTES. and, in short, did not think anything more could be done by a professional auditor than he had done already. The committee decided, in these circumstances, that it would be a waste of money to send in a professional auditor. M HE April meeting of the Committee of The next question related to the infringement of I Management of the Society of Authors was the copyright of a member's work--work dealing held on Monday, April 3, at 4 p.m. with a technical subject by the publication of This was the first meeting after the Committee another book of a similar character. The solicitor Election for 1911. The present Committee of reported that as far as he had been able to look Management consists of the following:—Sir Alfred into the matter the infringement seemed clear, and Bateman, K.C.M.G., Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Mrs. that a breach of copyright had been committed. E. Nesbit Bland, J. W. Comyns Carr, Maurice The committee decided to support the action for Hewlett, W. W. Jacobs, Aylmer Maude, Arthur the member, taking the case through the courts if Rackham, G. Bernard Shaw, S. Squire Sprigge, necessary. A case of infringement of the dramatic M.D., Francis Storr, Sidney Webb. rights of one of the members by a performance of The first business before the Committee of his play in India was next discussed, and the Management was to elect a chairman for the secretary was instructed to place the matter in the carrent year. Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, who did so hands of the Indian solicitors of the society. much in the early days of the society under Sir The committee then discussed a dispute affecting Walter Besant's chairmanship, was, on the pro- some contributors to a magazine, and a paragraph posal of Sir Alfred Bateman, seconded by Mr. dealing with the matter will be found elsewhere in Bernard Shaw, and supported by Mr. Francis this issue of The Author. The magazine referred Storr, unanimously elected chairman for the to was The English Review. current year. After the minutes of the former The editor of an Indian paper having “ lifted” meeting had been read and signed, the committee a story by a member of the society which had been proceeded with the election of members. Twenty first published in The Westminster Gazette, and members and associates were elected, bringing the having in his letters to the secretary avoided total elections for the current year up to ninety-two. coming to any settlement on what appeared to be There were five resignations, bringing the total an unreasonable excuse, the committee decided to number of resignations for the current year up to commence proceedings. fifty. The committee are pleased to report that the The solicitor then made to the committee a elections are well up to the average of former report on the small cases which he had dealt with years, whereas the resignations are somewhat during the past month. In three claims against a below the number at the corresponding period of magazine it had proved impossible to obtain any 1910. satisfaction, as there were no assets to meet the Cases.--The solicitor of the society attended the claims of the members. Two small cases for meeting and made a report of the cases in hand. recovery of money due had been satisfactorily The first matter related to the infringement of settled. One case for the recovery of a MS. had the dramatic rights of two members. This case, been settled, and in one case, where a portion of a the solicitor reported, had been settled by the MS. had been lost, the defendant had promised to payment of a sum after the society had issued a pay reasonable compensation. The solicitor, accord- motion for injunction, and is now closed. The ingly, was instructed to proceed in this case. In result illustrated forcibly the practical value of the regard to certain cases taken up by the society society's intervention. against Mr. Henry J. Drane, judgment was obtained The next case had been before the society for before Mr. Justice Eady. There was another case some months, the member concerned asking the taken in hand against a literary agent for money society to put in an accountant to check the due to one of the members, which the committee accounts of a firm with which he was dealing. In instructed the solicitor to settle as quickly as this case the society had already obtained a con-, possible by service of a writ. siderable gum from the publisher, with a full After theconsideration of the cases, the committee statement of account and of the copies printed, and discussed the question of the new Copyright Bill, the author had received the stock. The only which had just been printed and made public. question remaining was whether the printers' The committee instructed the secretary to send voucher for the number printed in the first copies of the Bill to members of the Committee of instance was correct. The solicitor added that Management and to the Copyright and Dramatic he had inspected the books of the publisher, Sub-Committees, and to refer the Bill to both the checked the sales' account and seen the invoices, last-mentioned sub-committees for report. The  ## p. 186 (#256) ############################################ 186 THE AUTHOR. Committee of Management decided also to have a The committee were glad to see that, with very special meeting for consideration of the Bill. few exceptions, all the suggestions made by the The re-election of the sub-committees followed, Society of Authors had been accepted. There and the Copyright and Art Sub-Committees were were, however, a few exceptions, of which one or re-elected in due course. The Committee of two were unimportant; but on two points, at least, Management accepted the recommendations of the committee considered that the views of the the dramatists of the society and elected the society must be pressed. persons whose names were laid before them, subject, (1.) (Members are referred to the bill which is of course, to their assent to undertake the duties. printed as a supplement to this number of The The Dramatic Sub-Committee for 1911 will be :- Author). As regards clause 2, sub-section 2, the Rudolph Besier, H. Granville Barker, R. C. Carton, society had suggested that the importation of Anstey Guthrie, Miss Cicely Hamilton, Captain copies should be illegal even though not “ for sale Basil Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, Henry Arthur or hire," and the Joint Committee considered that Jones, W. Somerset Maugham, Cecil Raleigh, G. this point should be still pressed upon the Govern- Bernard Shaw, Miss E. M. Symonds. ment as an amendment. The agency agreement was again laid before (2.) The Joint Committee considered that the committee, and after discussion the secretary clause 4 should not stand as drafted. was instructed to send fresh copies to the members Several proposals were made, and these will be of the committee, who decided to consider the considered at a subsequent meeting of the Com- terms and clauses at the next meeting. mittee of Management, when a definite report will The attention of the committee was called to be laid before them on these points. At the the letters in The Times on the subject of the meeting of the Joint Committee no form of com- Academic Committee, and to letters from members promise which seemed likely to be acceptable to on the subject of the library censorship. all parties was suggested. The secretary reported that he had received £3 (3.) It was felt that the proviso to clause 11 from Miss Emma Brooke towards the capital fund should be withdrawn, as under that proviso it and £5 from Mr. A. Eggar towards the same fund, would be possible for any piratical printer to print and the committee decided to purchase £140 of a publisher's or printer's name on the pirated copy, consols out of the life membership account. and thus the onus probandi would be shifted from the pirate to prove innocence to the shoulders of the author to prove guilt. The Joint Committee considered that the alteration should be pressed. JOINT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF (4.) With regard to clause 25, the Joint Com- MANAGEMENT AND THE COPYRIGHT mittee considered this clause as now drawn a SUB-COMMITTEE. distinct improvement on the clause of the 1910 bill, and were glad to see that several of their · suggestions had been accepted ; but they did not THE Chairman opened the proceedings by an approve section B. as it stood ; they decided to nouncing that there were no agenda before reconsider it at a subsequent meeting, when here, the meeting except to consider and report on too, they hoped it would be possible to suggest the Copyright Bill, and, accordingly, suggested that some compromise. in the first instance the broad lines to be adopted All these points of discussion arose out of the by the Society of Authors should be considered, report of the Committee of Management on the and that a report should then be formulated, con- bill when it was introduced in 1910. taining the suggestions which the Committee of Other matters in the bill were discussed, and it the Society of Authors considered should be made was settled that the Copyright Sub-Committee when the bill was being carried through Com should make a report to the Committee of Manage- mittee of the House of Commons. Mr. Mac- ment at their next meeting. Gillivray then proposed that he should go through the new bill of 1911, considering how far the report of the Committee of Management on the DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. bill of 1910 had been accepted and their sugges- tions and those of the Copyright Sub-Committee had been embodied in the present bill. This M HE first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com- course was adopted, and Mr. MacGillivray went 1 mittee of the Society of Authors since its re- through the bill, indicating the alterations that election by the Committee of Management was had been made and the places where they con- held at the offices of the society on Friday, April 21. formed to suggestions of the society. The first business was to elect a chairman for the  ## p. 187 (#257) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 187 Managers of America, which set out at length the procedure for stopping infringements of dramatic rights in that country. The secretary was instructed to write to the counsel, Mr. Ligon Johnson, for further particulars, and to lay the matter before the Sub-Committee at their next meeting. The consideration of the managerial treaty was adjourned to the next meeting, and in the meanwhile the secretary was instructed to draft a form of contract and to circularise the Sub- Committee with it that they might consider it carefully before they reassembled. THE MEETING OF DRAMATISTS. current year, and on the proposal of Mr. Granville Barker, seconded by Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. R. C. Carton was unanimously elected. After the minutes of the former meeting had been read, approved and signed, the Sub-Committee turned their attention to the agenda. The secretary laid before the Sub-Committee a report that Sir Alfred Bateman had received from the Advisory Com- mittee of Commercial Intelligence of the Board of Trade with regard to the applications he had been making for reports from the consuls and commer- cial correspondents touching the performance of English plays. The Sub-Committee thanked Sir Alfred for the steps he had taken and hoped he would be able to carry the matter through successfully. The secretary then reported the legal cases that had been taken in hand on behalf of the dramatic members of the society since the last meeting. In one case of a cinematograph performance in America, the secretary reported he had obtained the opinion of the society's American lawyer, and that he was now waiting for further evidence as to title, and that the matter would go before the next meeting of the Committee of Management when he hoped, on the recommendation of the Sub- Committee, the case would be taken up. The next case related to the infringement of dramatic rights in India, and the secretary reported that it had been placed in the hands of the society's Indian lawyer. The third case was one of the performance on a cinematograph of a dramatic work in England. After the society had applied to the courts for an injunction, the defendants settled the case by payment of a sum of 2001. Finally, the secretary reported that he had recovered MSS. of some plays which had been lying with the proprietor of an Indian theatre, and he read to the Sub-Committee a letter from the author of the plays expressing his thanks for the work the society had done. The Sub-Committee next considered the Copy- right Bill, and various points in it touching dramatic rights were discussed. The secretary was instructed to refer them to the Copyright Sub-Committee. A letter which Sir Arthur Pinero, the late chairman, had received from the Society of West End Managers was next read, and the secretary was instructed to acknowledge it. A letter from the Lord Chamberlain's office was also read, and it was decided at present not to take any steps, but to await the further action promised by the Lord Chamberlain, who had stated that no time he would be lost in putting forward the points raised by the Dramatic Sub-Committee. An important letter was then read from the general counsel of the Theatrical Producing MEETING of the dramatist members of the Society of Authors was held at 3.30 p.m. on Friday, March 31, in the Large Room of the Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, Sir Arthur Pinero being in the chair. The agenda-list was as follows:- 1. Sir Arthur Pinero, the chairman, will call on the secretary to announce the result of the ballot, and move that the result be communicated to the Committee of Management for its guidance in appointing the Dramatic Sub-Committee for the ensuing year. The motion will be seconded by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the vice-chairman. 2. The Chairinan will present the report of the Dramatic Sub-Committee, and will, after a general discussion, move its adoption. 3. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones will propose, and Mr. R. C. Carton will second, a motion “That the Government be called upon to carry out the recom- mendation of the Joint Committee by the establish- ment of single licence.” 4. Mr. Bernard Shaw will propose, and Miss Cicely Hamilton will second, a motion “ That the Dramatic Sub-Committee take into early considera- tion the possibility of negotiating a general treaty with the Managers Association, embodying the clauses common to all dramatic authors' agree- ments, with a view to simplifying dramatic contracts." This was the first meeting of the dramatists, as apart from the other members of the Society, since the reconstitution of the Dramatic Sub-Committee two years ago. Proceedings commenced with the reading by the secretary, at the request of the chairman, of the result of the ballot, which was as follows:- 1. Henry Arthur Jones . . 85 2. R. C. Carton . . . . 82 3. John Galsworthy . . . 79 4. G. Bernard Shaw  ## p. 188 (#258) ############################################ 188 THE AUTHOR. . . . 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5. H. Granville Barker. 6. Anstey Guthrie 7. Captain Basil Hood. 8. W. Somerset Maugham 9. Jerome K. Jerome . 10. Cecil Raleigh. . 11. Rudolph Besier . 12. Miss Cicely Hamilton 13. Miss E. M. Symonds . 14. J. H. McCarthy . 15. Mrs. K. C. Thurston. 16. Mrs. Cohen . . . . 9 The Chairman announced that Mr. John Gals- worthy had written to him to the effect that, living as he did in the country, he felt that he would be unable to serve on the sub-committee, and accordingly begged to withdraw his name. The vacancy thus created would be filled by, Miss E. M. Symonds, the thirteenth on the list. At this point Mr. R. C. Carton rose to express his regret that Sir Arthur Pinero had decided to retire from the Dramatic Sub-Committee. He hoped that the collective voice of those present would ask him to reconsider his decision. Sir Arthur Pinero was sorry to be unable to accede to this request. He had served for two years as chairman of the sub-committee and he now asked for a little holiday. Probably at some future date he would serve again if desired. Mr. W. J. Locke then proposed, and Mr. Cecil Raleigh seconded, that the result of the ballot should be communicated to the Committee of Management. The Chairman then, proceeding to the report of the Dramatic Sub-Committee, proposed that, as it was in the hands of all present, it should be taken as read. Mr. Cecil Raleigh having proposed, and Mr. Henry Arthur Jones having seconded, a motion that the report should be adopted, Mr. Anthony Hope said that Mr. Raleigh was too quick for his slow-moving brain. Before the report was adopted he would like to say a few words. Referring to the history of the Dramatic Sub-Com- mittee, he stated that at one time it was a question whether the dramatists of this country should not form themselves into a separate body to look after their interests. The members of the Society of Authors, however, had a strong feeling that there should be only one body in charge of the interests of all authors. The result of this was that the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society was formed which was in existence. He heartily congratulated all concerned on the procedure adopted. The Chairman said that the members of the sub- committee were very glad to receive Mr. Anthony Hope's congratulation, for which they thanked him. Mr. Bernard Shaw rose to point out that now was the time-during the discussion on the report- for anyone who had any grievance over what had been done to bring it forward. No one having anything further to say concern- ing the report, after a brief discussion as to who should properly move its adoption, Mr. Walkes proposed, and Mr. Hope seconded, that the report should now be adopted. The motion was put and carried unanimously. The Chairman then called upon Mr. H. A. Jones to propose the motion standing in his name, viz., “That the Government be called upon to carry out the recommendation of the Joint Committee by the establishment of single licence.” Mr. Jones said that it was about time that this sketch business was settled. Nearly two years bad elapsed since the Parliamentary Committee reported on the point. That committee came to the con- clusion that the only way to settle the question was to institute a single licence. In the meantime, however, the scandal continued. Shakespeare and himself, he continued amid laughter, were consis- tently and foully boycotted at the music-halls. Mr. Lewis Waller's recent appearance at the Palladium cost £160, and the magistrate in charge of the case seemed to think that Mr. Waller and the management had done something criminal in pro- ducing the forum scene from “ Julius Cæsar." There could be no greater reductio ad absurdum of the whole business. His own “ Dolly ” sketch, an easily detachable scene from his comedy “Dolly Reforming Herself,” was refused just before at the Coliseum because of an agreement between the theatre and music-hall managers. For the present, therefore, he was deprived of his right over his own property. By this absurd agreement he must wait for fifteen years before his sketch could be produced on the music-hall stage. He pointed out that there were really four bodies of people to be considered in the matter—the two sets of managers, the authors, and the public. And why should theatrical managers object to the performance of the music- hall sketch ? He instanced the state of things prevailing elsewhere than in London. At the Theatre Royal, Dublin, they had a double licence, for stage-plays and music-hall performances. This was really only a clumsy way of having a single licence. If a manager could give a variety enter- tainment at certain seasons of the year, this would help him to carry on his theatrical business at others. Perhaps music-ball managers were afraid that the introduction of a single licence would enable the theatres to cut into their business. But really the public had a right to see whatever sort of entertainment they desired. Mr. R. C. Carton, seconding the motion, said he could add little to emphasize what Mr. Jones  ## p. 189 (#259) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 189 had said. He could not imagine a more dangerous, their sketches, if they were free to produce them a more treacherous state of affairs than was pre- there. Music-halls in the provinces were, as a rule, vailing at present. It was a contemptible piece of far more attractive than the theatres, clean, bri gh treachery that the managers should have had and cheerful. The drama there had gone down, recourse to a miserable old law to prevent dramatic down, down until all that would draw good houses works being performed at the music-halls. He was something of the class of “ The Best Girl in could not say all that he thought on the subject, Birmingham ” or “ The Worst Woman in Wolver- for if he did his language would be such that the hampton.” In London what was wanted was a chairman would call him to order. Mr. Jones had double licence such as could be got in the provinces. soffered a particularly painful and cruel injustice ; Perhaps authors did not realise that in the present and Mr. Jones's late distinguished colleague, Mr. state of affairs no sketch agreement was even Shakespeare, was almost an equivalent sufferer. He legal. referred to the case of Mr. Seymour Hicks, who After calling attention to the fact that not only attempted to boil down“ Richard III.” into thirty had the sub-committee petitioned the Lord Cham- minutes. Mr. Hicks found his task an impossible berlain and received a reply, as mentioned in one, and the result was that he had to cancel bis the report, but also had made a second applica- engagement, and about two hundred poor supers, tion, and within the last three days received an who had their bread to earn, and did not find it answer to the effect that the Lord Chamberlain was easy to earn it nowadays, were thrown out of putting the proposals before the London County employment. He regretted to say that it was Sir Council-from which it would be seen that matters Herbert Tree, who had done more for Shakespeare were not standing still-Mr. Raleigh concluded by than anybody else, who, stepping in to say, “No, saying that what was wanted was one licence for this shall not be," was responsible for the existing entertainment, leaving the drink question to be anomaly. Not only in Dublin, but also in other settled by itself, since it was this question which provincial towns, the other system was in use ; and now apparently stood in the way. He hoped that the double licence worked very well. In conclusion, they would one day in the near future call a big he was glad to see that they had got their Dramatic public meeting of all parties interested to enforce Sub-Committee on a dimocratic footing. In the their rights. future the sub-committee would feel that they had The Chairman said that he had been going to ask something in the nature of a mandate behind Mr. Raleigh for a suggestion as to what further them ; and thy would not be unmindful of their measures they should take beyond their petition to responsibility. the Lord Chamberlain. Mr. Cecil Raleigh said that he had been called Mr. Raleigh said they (the dramatists) were the an “expert” on the sketch question, and as such people to call such a meeting as he had suggested. be was obliged to draw attention to the practical He would not hesitate even, democratic as he side of the matter, that the number of theatres in was, to present a petition direct to the King England was not as large as dramatists could wish, himself. and the music-halls offered them an opening for Mr. Locke said he would like to draw attention work by which they might earn money to pay to the fact that Sir Herbert Tree had only taken for their daily bread. The remuneration to be got steps in his capacity of Chairman of the Theatrical from the halls was desirable during those intervals Managers' Association to stop the representations when the actor-manager chose to produce the works referred to. of Shakespeare or some other blank-verse blackleg. The Chairman agreed that this was the case, and There were no fewer than 150,000 sketch Mr. Shaw said that Sir Herbert Tree in his performances in England every year—he could personal capacity had strongly advocated a single assure them of the correctness of the figure—and if licence. they took the estimate of £10 a week they could The motion was then put, and was carried work out the sum for themselves. It was a huge unanimously. industry and involved a capital of millions of Miss Cicely Hamilton, proposing the motion stand- pounds. Dramatists had a great grievance in the ing in her name, said that it was absolutely necessary, matter. The question was, what could they do in order to remedy the present state of affairs, that with their failures if the right of producing the Dramatic Sub-Committee should draw up a sketches was cut off ? In their worst plays there general treaty, which managers should be called was generally one good scene which could be used upon to accept, and it should then be an understood to make a sketch. Those present represented thing that when an author and a manager came to 240 dramatists. But there were not in England terms the provisions of the general treaty were 240 theatres suitable for putting on their plays. adopted ipso facto. This would mean a great There were, however, sufficient music-halls for saving of time, for one thing. There were a great  ## p. 190 (#260) ############################################ 190 THE AUTHOR. many general conditions which were essential in Mr. Carton having remarked that there had every contract, and to which no one could possibly already been a lot of consideration given to this object. She had herself suffered much from the point on the Dramatic Sub-Committee, Mr. Shaw absence of such a treaty. She was subject, as she said those present at the meeting might guess that supposed others too were subject, to hot fits and the spade-work had been done. cold fits concerning her work. And in a cold fit Mr. S. M. Fox bringing up the subject of con- one was ready to make the worst of bargains. tracts made by agents, Mr. Shaw derided the Mr. Bernard Shaw said that he seconded the pretensions of agents to place plays. Authors motion with great pleasure. Such an agreement as could do the work much better themselves. that suggested was badly needed. The condition Mr. Sydney Grundy, referring to Mr. Shaw's of affairs with regard to dramatic authors in this suggestion concerning the West End Managers' country was really extraordinary. The 240 Association, said that this was the right body to dramatist members of the Society of Authors were approach. It would be useless negotiating with practically all the dramatic authors in the country the “ Managers' Association." capable of producing actable stage plays. There The Chairman proposed to adopt this as an was no monopoly like it in the world, and they amendment, which was accordingly done. ought to be able by combining together to get Mrs. Cohen expressed her fear that the general almost any terms short of making the business treaty would be against the interests of the young unprofitable to the speculator. Yet only within author, whom it would prevent from obtaining a the last three weeks he had heard of the case of a hearing at all. dramatist who had a play produced at a first-class Mr. Grundy agreed that they must consider the London theatre and got one per cent. of the proceeds. position of untried authors. If he were a young The author appeared to have made no conditions beginner he would not hesitate to write across his whatever save with regard to this one per cent., play : “You may play this for nothing." from which he was likely to get less than he would Mr. Shaw said that what they wanted to do by working as a dock-labourer. was to discourage unscrupulous blacklegging and One of the difficulties he met with was that undercutting, and if they failed in this they would people said to him : " Oh, it's all very well for you, be broken like the sticks separated from the for Pinero, for the leading lights, to make your bundle. terms—but what about the beginner ? ” But this Mr. Charles Garvice asked if all well-known argument was all wrong. The beginner might dramatists would stand by the Society in whatever well be in a better position than Sir Arthur Pinero. action it might take. When the managers wanted plays, it was the Mr. Shaw said they might say : We will not opportunity of the young beginner. deal with any theatres not accepting this treaty. In a general treaty such as suggested at least Mr. Raleigh said that when they stuck together twenty clauses would be found necessary—and they would get their treaty, just as the music-hall could a young author each time he made a contract artistes recently gained their object by com- argue over twenty clauses ? A general treaty bination. But they would not get a trades union would include these clauses and obviate dis- in this country yet for dramatists. Let the cussion. He himself, when he dealt with managers, instruction of the meeting to the Dramatic Sub- put forward a long agreement and said : “ Will Committee be to go slowly and carefully. you sign these twenty clauses or will you argue Miss Festing bebought them not to be too bard them out with me?” The manager always said on the small people, whom trades unionism might he would sign. crush out of existence. Let them not make the It did not matter, Mr. Shaw continued, whether rules of the game too hard for the small people to they converted all the managers to accepting the play it. general treaty. Why not negotiate it with the The Chairman explained that during the past West End Managers' Association ? That would be two years the Dramatic Sub-Committee had sufficient. With regard to the general treaty always borne this in mind, and in the future also already in existence in France, it was of incredible they would never forget the interests of the young stringency. For instance, the French manager author. had to account to the author for every seat in the The resolution was put and carried unanimously. house, and in addition to furnish him with a large The proceedings then terminated. number of seats. He did not say that a general treaty on this model was needed here. Indeed he hoped that they would not be tyrannical. A good man of business would prefer a bargain that was good for both sides..  ## p. 191 (#261) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 191 Cases. The statement of the cases in the solicitors' DURING the past month fifteen oases have been hands will be found in the committee notes. placed in the hands of the secretary, Perhaps it would be as well once again to explain the term “ cases." These are matters in which the secre- April Elections. tary, intervening between an author, dramatist Albanesi, Madame . 3, Gloucester Terrace, or composer, and the disputant on the other Hyde Park, W. side, takes up the matter in order to obtain a Arthur. Lady . . 23. The Boltons, S.W. settlement of the member's rights ; in opposition Bean, C. E. W. . . " Sydney Morning to those matters in which the society, through its Herald,” 40, King secretary, gives advice merely, or in opposition to Street, Cheapside, those matters which are placed in the hands of the E.C. solicitors of the society either for action or for Besier, Rudolf . . St. Augustine's Man- advice. sions, Westminster, There have been three cases dealing with the S.W. question of accounts. In all three the accounts E. M. Channon (Mrs. have been rendered. In one the matter has been Francis Channon) Eton College, Windsor. settled absolutely, but the other two are still in de Knoop. Baroness , 31, Rutland Gate, S.W. course of negotiation for particulars with regard to Fox, Miss Agnes . . Kippington Grange. certain items. Sevenoaks. There bas been one application for accounts Gamble, Frau Kathleen. Wullenweberstrasse. 7. and money. Here the accounts have been Berlin, N.W., Ger- rendered and the money paid. many. There have been four applications for money Kitts. Eustace John . Eversleigh, West only. In one of these, part of the money has been Worthing. paid, and the secretary has given fnrther time for Langworthy, Mrs. C. D. payment of the balance before the matter is placed (Ferrier Langworthy). The Fuchsias, Clay- in the hands of the society's solicitors. The other gate, Surrey. three cases only came into the office just before Palmer, G. Molyneux . Tullagee, Willingdon, going to press. Eastbourne. There have been two cases of infringement of Phibbs, Miss Lena Stan- copyright, one of which has been placed in the ley . . . . Helensdene, Church hands of the solicitors, and the other has been Road, St. Leonards- satisfactorily settled. on-Sea. Three applications have been made for the return Prothero, Miss J. K. . 17, Wolverton Gardens. of MSS. In two of these the MSS. have been West Kensington. returned by the editors to the office, and in the Robbins, Miss Alice E. . 57, Warrington Cres- other, a dispute with an agent, the matter is cent, W. practically settled, as the agent has undertaken Thorold, Rupert A. . Kildonagh, Sligo, Ire- to return the MS. as soon as it comes back from land. the publisher with whom it lies. Urquhart M. . One dispute on an agreement for publication is Visiak, E. H. (E. Vis H. still in course of negotiation. The matter needs Phrainly ". 30, Cavendish - road, careful adjustment. Brondesbury, N.W. Finally, there is one case with regard to trans- Ward, Leslie . 279, Knightsbridge, lation rights in Germany, which the secretary is S.W. endeavouring to settle through the German Wicks, Mark . . 19, Liverpool Road, Consul. Thornton Heath. The cases from former months have been closing (One member does not desire publication.) up. Two cases in America are still open. A difficult matter dealing with the settlement and cancellation of an agreement is waiting for a board meeting of the Publishing Co. The only BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS. case remaining open besides these, a case of money due from an editor, will have to be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors, as it has been WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have impossible to get any answer to the letters sent some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact from this office, that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office  ## p. 192 (#262) ############################################ 192 THE AUTHOR. 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, AGRICULTURE. RURAL DENMARK AND ITS LESSONS. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 9 X 54. 335 pp. Longman's. 6s. 6d. n. ART. OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN AND WORKS OF ART IN CAINA. By A. W. BAHR. 104 X 61. 160 pp. Cassell. 308. BIOGRAPHY. RACHEL : Her Stage Life and her Real Life. By FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 9 x 58. 276 pp. Chapman & Hall. 158. n. DRAMA. LYSISTRATA : A Modern Paraphrase from the Greek of Aristophanes. By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. 74 x 5. 77 pp. The Woman's Press. 18. n. LADY PATRICIA : A Comedy in Three Acts. By RUDOLF BESIER. 78 X 51. 215 pp. Fisher Unwin. 28. n. "THE FOUNTAIN. By GEORGE CALDERON. 54 X 4. 161 pp. Gowans & Gray. 6d, n. ECONOMICS. SELLING SCHEMES FOR RETAILERS. Proved Methods which will Help the Retailer to do More Trade. By MAX RITTENBURG. 7} X 5. 188 pp. Routledge. 18. FICTION. BRAZENHEAD THE GREAT. By MAURICE HEWLETT, 71 x 5. 333 pp. Smith, Elder. 68. THE STREET OF TO-DAY. By John MASEFIELD. 74 x 5. 392 pp. Dent. 68. DOUBLE LIVES. By FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 71 X 5. 352 pp. Nash. 68, THE ELDEST SON. By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL. 7* X 51. 344 pp. Methuen. 6s. DICK COMERFORD'S WAGER. By A. P. CROUCH. 74 X 5. 283 pp. Robert Scott. 6s. THE SHADOW OF THE MALREWARD. By J. B. HARRIS- BURLAND. 78 X 5. 411 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68. THE SEA LION. "By PATRICK RUSHDEN. 78 x 5. 448 pp. Mills & Boon. 68. PHYLLIS IN MIDDLEWYCH. By MARGARET WESTRUP (MRS. W. SYDNEY STACEY). 71 x 44. 320 pp. Lane. 1s. JOHN CHRISTOPHER: STORM AND STRESS. By ROMAIN ROLLAND. Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. 71 x 5. 412 pp. Heinemann. 6s. VITTORIA VICTRIX. By W. E. NORRIS. 73 5. 283 pp. Constable. 68. LOVE IN PERNICKETTY Town. By S. R. CROCKETT. 73 X 5. 320 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68. CAPTAIN BLACK. By Max PEMBERTON. 78 x 5. 338 pp. Cassell. 6s. THE GENERAL PLAN. By EDMUND CANDLER. 74 x 5. 306 pp. Blackwood. 68. A BED OF Roses. By W. L. GEORGE. 74 5. 384 pp. F. Palmer. 6s. LOVE IN THE BALANCE. By ALICE WILSON Fox. 77 x 5. 311 pp. F. V. White. 68. THE PRICE. By GERTIE DE S.WENTWORTH JAMES. 78 X 5. 319 pp. Everett. 68. A ROGUE IN AMBUSH. By HEADON HILL. 74 x 5. 316 pp. Ward, Lock, 68. DEAD MAN'S LOVE. By Tom GALLON. 74 x 5. 316 pp. Ward, Lock. 68. THE JEWESS. By MOLVY OUSELEY. 78 x 5. 366 pp. John Ouseley. 68. “THALLASSA I" By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. 61 X 45. 320 pp. Hutchinson. 7d. n. THE GREAT GAY ROAD. By Tom GALLON. 7 x 47. 317 pp. Long. 1$. n. THE WOMAN IN THE FIRELIGAT. By OLIVER SANDYS. 78 x 54. 283 pp. Jong Long. 68. MRS. THOMPSON. By W. B. MAXWELL. 74 x 5.383 pp. Hutchinson. 68. DIVIDING WATERS. By J. A. R. WYLIE. 74 x 5. 411 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s. Two GIRLS AND A MANNIKIN. By WILKINSON SHERREN, 74 X 5. 336 pp. Stanley Paul. 68. THE MAGIC OF THE HILL: A ROMANCE OF MONTMARTRE, By DUNCAN SCHWANN. 78 X 5. 284 pp. Heinemann. 68, JOHN VERNEY. By H. A. VACHELL. 71 X 5. 338 pp. Murray. 6$. JOAN OF THE TOWER. By WARWICK DEEPING. 74 x 5. 399 pp. Cassell. 6s. THE SOCIALIST COUNTESS. By HORACE W. C. NEWTE. 78 X 5. 312 pp. Mills & Boon. 68. Moil o' THE TOLL BAR. By THEODORA WILSON-WILSON. 73 X 5. 350 pp. Hutchinson. 6s. THE GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER. By NORMAN INXES. 78 X 5. 352 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s. THE WOMAN IN IT. By CHARLES GARVICE. 71 x 5. 349 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68. HAUNTED. By GERTRUDE WARDEN. 74 X 5. 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 68. JANE. By MARIE CORELLI. 7 X 41. 142 pp. Methuen. 18. n. TONO-BUNGAY. By H. G. Wells. 67 x 47. 383 pp. Macmillan. id.n. THE PILGRIMAGE OF DELILAH. By JOHN L. CARTER. 74 X 5. 320 pp. John Long. 68. THE QUEEN'S HAND. By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. 7 X 5. 344 pp. Mills & Boon. 68. THE YELLOW GOD: AN IDOL OF AFRICA. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 X 5. 352 pp. Cassell. 18. n. THE WATERS OF JORDAN. By H. A. VACHELL. 64 X 44. 281 pp. Nelson. 7d. n. THE HOUSE of INTRIGUE. By PERCY WHITE. 61 X 41. 320 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 7d. n. A QUESTION OF QUALITY. By MADAME ALBANESI. 64 X 41. 320 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 7d. n. THE GREAT BETRAYAL. By HAROLD WINTLE. 312 pp. John Ouseley, Ltd. 68. JOHN MERRIDEW. By F. ARTHUR. Longmans. 68. LITERARY. SUCCESS IN LITERATURE. By W. MORRIS COLLES and HENRY CRESSWELL. 7 x 41. 360 pp. Methuen. 58. n. SOME SUPPOSED SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES. By ERNEST LAW. 81 x 63. 80 pp. Bell. 38. 6d. n. LOVE AND EXTRĀs. By FRANK RICHARDSON. 78 X 6. 305 pp. Grant Richards. 68. MEDICAL. FAITH MEDICINE AND THE MIND. By CHARLES REINHARDT, M.D. 74 X 41. 281 pp. London Publicity Company. MISCELLANEOUS. A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE. By G. H. PERRIS. 63 X 41. 256 pp, Williams & Norgate. 18. n. MAN : KING OF MIND, BODY AND CIRCUMSTANCE, By JAMES ALLEN. 70 pp. William Rider & Son, NATURAL HISTORY, A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT- HAMILTON. Part V. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.  ## p. 193 (#263) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 193 POETRY. Messrs. Chapman & Hall are publishing a new FLINTS AND FLASHES. By E. H. VISIAK. 7 * 47. 42 pp. novel by Mrs. Fred. Reynolds, entitled “The Elkin Mathews. ls. 6d. n. Horseshoe.” It deals largely with the life, POLITICAL customs and quaint beliefs of the Cornish people, for the study of whom Mrs. Fred. Reynolds has RUSSIAN FLASHLIGHTS. By JAAKOFF PRELOOKER. With a Biographical Sketch of the Author. 9 x 51. 310 pp. had exceptional opportunities, having recently Chapman & Hall, passed two years in a fisherman's cottage at REPRINT Sennen Cove, a tiny village under the granite THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By GILBERT cliffs within a mile of Land's End. WHITE. With notes by R. KEARTON. 73 x 54. 294 pp. Mr. Elliot Stock is issuing "A Marriage Cassell. 3x. 6d. THE DOUBLE GARDEN, By MAURICE MAETERINCK. Hymnal,” by James Saunders, consisting of over Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. eighty new hymns specially suited for weddings, (Pocket edition). 61 X 4. 293 pp. Allen. 28. 63, n. and fitted for a wedding present or souvenir. SOCIOLOGY. A third West African novel from Miss Louise Gerard may be expected some time before the THE POSITION OF WOMAN: ACTUAL AND IDEAL. With a Preface by SIR OLIVER LODGE. 8 x 51. 170 pp. Nisbet. autumn. Messrs. Mills & Boon will publish the 38. 60. n. novel, which will be called “A Tropical Tangle.” SPORT. Messrs. James Baker & Son (Clifton) will RACING AT HENLEY. From reports printed in The Field publish early in May a book of Fairy Tales of newspaper from 1903 onwards. Edited, with a Preface, Ashdown Forest, Sussex, called “ Across the by T. A. Cook. 7 X 44. 209 pp. Horace Cox. 38. 6d. n. Forest and Far Awas." by Geraldine E. Hodgson. TOPOGRAPHY. D.Litt. The volume will contain three illustra- THE PLACE-NAMES OF BERKSHIRE. By the Rev. WALTER tions by Gerald G. Hodgson, M.R.C.S., and will be W.SKEAT. 67 x 43. 118 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. published at 1s, 6d. net. London : Frowde. 28. n. Miss Renée M. Deacon, whose book “ Bernard TRAVEL. Shaw as Artist Philosopher,” published in England AS EASTERN MISCELLANY. By the EARL OF RONALDSHAY, and America last year, was mentioned in these M.P. 9 x 58. 422 pp. Blackwood. 108. 6d. n. columns, was also represented in The Lady's Pictorial of October 1 and October 8, 1910, by two articles. To the former issue Miss Deacon LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL contributed an article on “ The Art of Life,” and to the latter one entitled “ The Spell of London.” NOTES. At a session held on the 10th instant, the Royal Academy of Arts of Madrid elected Mr. James 6 THE NEW LIFE," by Dante, has been Baker as an Hon. Corresponding Member of l published by Messrs. Kegan, Paul & Co., England. Mr. Baker has written much upon in the Italian text with English transla- Spain. tion. The work is edited by Mr. Luigi Ricci. Miss A. E. Keeton will give a course of three We have also received the second and third lectures on the individuality of modern British volumes of the lectures of the Dante Society. music as shown in the songs of our younger school Among the lecturers we notice the names of the of composers, at 133, Queen's Gate, S.W. (by kind founder of the society, Mr. Luigi Ricci, Mrs. permission of Miss Douglas), on the three first Craigie, Mr. Alfred Austin, Dean Kitchin, and Friday evenings in May. Miss Grainger-Kerr will Mr. Gladstone. sing the vocal illustrations with Miss Marjorie At a meeting of the Sociological Society, held at Adam at the piano. At the head of the contem- the Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, porary school of British musicians, dealt with by Adelphi, W.C., on April 4, Dr. D. S. Margoliouth, Miss Keeton, stand in priority of age Elgar, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, Granville Bantock, Ernest Walker, and William read a paper on the Universal Races Congress. Wallace. Amongst the younger men are Ernest The chair was taken by Sir Edward Brabrook, Austin, Alfred Hale, J. Holbrooke, Frederick C. K.C.B. Nicholls, Norman O'Neill, Percy Rideout, Cyril “ The Great Betrayal” is the title of a new Scott, and R. Vaughan Williams. A group of povel by Mr. Harold Wintle, author of “The representative songs by British women composers Cleansing of the Lords.” The theme of the story is also included. is the efforts of a foreign Power to obtain British “The Evolution of Katherine," one of Mr. E. State secrets with the connivance of the Foreign Temple Thurston's novels, will shortly be issued Secretary. Messrs. John Ouseley, Limited, are the in sixpenny form in Mesars. Stanley Paul & Co.'s pablishers. Series of “ clear type” sixpenny novels.  ## p. 194 (#264) ############################################ 194 THE AUTHOR. Mr. Arthur Beckett's new book is announced was produced at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, on for publication in July by Messrs. Mills & Boon. March 29. The play relates to the determination The volume is entitled “The Wonderful Weald, of a young lady to make a bold stand against con- and the Quest of the Crock of Gold.” It tells the vention by telling, however distasteful to the story of how the author and his companion made listeners, nothing but the truth. Miss Muriel a twentieth century pilgrimage in the Weald of Pope, Mr. Frank Dyall, and Miss Agnes Imlay Sussex in quest of the “crock of gold which lies were three members of the caste. at the foot of the rainbow." It is therefore a “The Sins of Society," by Cecil Raleigh and record of “high adventure" in the mediæval Henry Hamilton, was revived at Drury Lane manner. The pilgrims set out after the fashion Theatre on March 30. In the caste were Mr. of Don Quixote, with a donkey for their Rosinante. George Barrett, Mr. Frederick Ross, Miss Fanny The book is illustrated with twenty full-page Brough, and Mrs. Langtry. drawings in colour, and forty-one black-and-white Mr. C. Haddon Chambers' new play “ Passers chapter initials, illustrating Wealden incidents and By” was produced at Wyndham's Theatre on scenery, by the Sussex artist, Mr. E. F. Marillier. March 29. The play opens in a bachelor's apart- Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel “ Under the ments in Piccadilly, and when the curtain rises it Salamander”-the badge of Francis 1.-deals, is seen that the bachelor's man has admitted a obviously, with the reign of that monarch, and, cabman and treated him to his master's cigars. At also, with the betrayal of France to Charles V. of first angry, the bachelor eventually repents, and, in- Spain by the notorious favourite, La Duchesse deed, goes so far as to call in other passers-by. Etampse. To a very considerable extent the The story begins when he calls in a woman with author has followed closely the manner of that whom he has had in the past a serious love affair, betrayal, while investing the hero, an actual and the rest of the play deals with situations arising character, with all the romantic adventure for out of this. In the caste were Mr. Gerald Du which the period was renowned. The heroine Maurier, Miss Irene Vanbrugh, and Mr. O.P. Heggie who, under another name, was also an existent “Queen Herzeleid," a poetic play in three acts, personage, also plays a strong part ; and, indeed, by Isabel Hearne, was produced by the Play Actors while trusting to his powers of construction and at the Court Theatre on Sunday, April 2. The invention, Mr. Bloundelle-Burton scarcely depicts caste included Miss Frances Wetherall, Mr. Frede- one character that did not exist at the period, rick Worlock, and Miss Adeline Bourne. from Francis downward. Everett & Co. are the “ The Master of Mrs. Chilvers," a comedy in four publishers. acts, by Jerome K. Jerome, was produced at the Mr. James Allen has just published, through King's Theatre, Glasgow, on April 10. The play Messrs. William Rider & Son in England. and treats of the women's franchise question, and the Messrs. T. W. Crowell & Co. in New York, a new two main characters are a politician and his wife, work entitled “Man: King of Mind, Body and who meet in conflict on the political field. Miss Circumstance." Mary Rorke, Miss Lena Ashwell, Mr. Dennis Dr. Charles Reinhardt's new book, “Faith, Eadie, and Mr. Leon Quartermaine are in the Medicine, and the Mind," published by the London caste. Publicity Company, is an attempt to offer a rational “At the Court of Xerxes," by Mildred Wetton, explanation of faith healing, hypnotism and kindred was produced at the Little Theatre on April 6. It phenomena. The author has, as far as possible, is a biblical play in four acts. It opens with the left subjects of religious opinion alone, whilst refusal of Queen Vashti to appear unveiled before endeavouring to throw some light upon the the king and his court. The second act is con- psychology of the faith that heals. cerned with Haman's successful plot to make Ahasuerus order the destruction of the Jews, and DRAMATIC. the third and fourth acts deal with the final deliver- “James and John," a one-act play by Gilbert ance of the Jews at the intercession of Queen Cannan, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre Esther. The caste included Miss Marguerite on March 27. The theme is the return to his Walton, Miss Mary Whittall, and Miss Jean family of a man who has been sentenced to im- Colmer. prisonment for embezzlement, and the receptions The Women's Aerial League is organising per- which the different members of the family give to formances of Maeterlinck's “ Monna Vanna," him on his arrival. The play was performed by translated by Alfred Sutro, on Thursday and a caste including Mr. James Hearne, Miss Helen Friday, June 1 and 2, at the Royal Court Theatre, Haye, and Mr. J. Fisher White. for the members of their league and their friends. Mr. Keble Howard's comedy “The Girl Who This is the first production in English of this Couldn't Lie,” based upon his story of that name, play.  ## p. 195 (#265) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 195 PARIS NOTES. Among the new books are “ Silhouettes his- toriques,” by the Marquis de Ségur; “ La Liseuse,” T the recent general meeting of the Société by Léon Frapié; “ Figures Littéraires,” by Lucien A des Gens de Lettres, M. Funck Brentano Maury. read the report. “ Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui," by André Prince Roland Bonaparte had placed at the Beaumier, is the title of the volume of sketches command of the society a second annuity of 1201. given by this author with great delicacy and cor- as a prize for literary work. The two annuities rectness. Among the “ visages d'hier” are the have been attributed this year to Georges Lecomte Vicomte de Vogüé, Jean Moréas, Albert-Vandal, and Louis Bertrand. Edouard Rod, Jules Renard, Mark Twain, Frémiet A biennial prize has been founded by Dr. Charles and Lombroso, whilst among the “ visages Richet, to be awarded “ without distinction of sex d'aujourd'hui” we have Henri Poincaré, Jules or nationality, to a doctor of medicine or of science Huret, Mgr. Duchesne, Gabriel Faure, Jules who has written within the preceding six years, in Lemaitre. M. Beaunier's portraits are always true the French language, the best literary work.” to life, and those contained in this volume are Jean Revel has founded a prize to be awarded to remarkably well drawn. a provincial writer whose work shall give the phy- “La Société française du XVI° siècle au XX ® siognomy, habits and customs of his province. The siècle” is another volume by M. Victor du Bled prize has been awarded this year to Hugues Lapaire. belonging to his eighth series of books on the sub- Among members of the society who have won ject of French society. This volume is just as Academy prizes this year are Mmes. Thélen, Leroy- interesting as his earlier ones, and will be read AHais, and Mlle. de Mestral-Combremont, Mme. eagerly by all those who have attended M. dn Delorme, Jules Simon, MM. Charles Géniaux, Bled's delightful lectures. The second part of the Fernand Dacre, Lucien Bonnefoy, Léon Barry, book contains an account of “Le Monde de Henri Allorge, Ernest Gaubert, and the Abbé Moïse l’Emigration.” Cagnac. Gyp has just published another of her amusing The decoration of the Legion of Honour has been volumes of dialogues, “L'Affaire Debrouillar- awarded to Henry Bordeaux, Ernest Gay, Eugène Delatamize.” The first one in the book, gives Le Mouël, Léon Riotor, Jules Troubat, and Camille its title to the volume. There are fifteen Vergniol. dialogues, and each one full of this author's The four great literary events of the year are brilliant wit, satire and humour. the rocognition of the literary rights of French “ La Revision des Valeurs de la Femme " is the authors in the Argentine Republic, in Portugal and title of a curious and interesting book of thoughts Brazil ; the founding of the fund for the widows and ideas by Léonie Bernardini-Sjoestedt. It is of authors, and of the loan fund for authors. divided into six parts : “ La Revision des Valeurs It is to Jules Huret, Pierre Baudin, and Georges de la femme,” “La Généalogie des Valeurs de la Clémenceau that French authors may attribute femme," “ L'inferiorité intellectuelle de la femme,” their triumph in the Argentine Republic, and largely “ La Mystique du Grand Amour," “ L'internelle to Jules Mary for the recognition of authors' rights consolation," " Le Catholicisme comme symbolique in Portugal. de l'amour,” “L'amour de l'enfant.” The post- Pierre Decourcelle is responsible for the founding script is entitled “L'Evangile de la femme.” The of the widows' fund, and Marcel Prevost for the book is written by a Frenchwoman, and some of authors' loan fund. the ideas contained in it are both new and pro- The list of deaths this year is long; Quentin found, whilst much of the psychology is extremely Bauchard, Albert Vandal, Jules Renard, André subtle. Chadourne, Des Granges, Boussenard, Bertol- “Marie Malibran," by Arthur Pougin, is the Graivil, Charles Legrand, Jules Breynat, José de story of this gifted woman's life. Campos, Armand Dubarry, Jean Lionnet, Léon The whole Garcia family have led interesting Bienvenu; Mme. Elise Michel, better known as lives, and have been so intimately connected with Jean Dalvy; Mme. Piazzi, who wrote as Leila England that the volume could not fail to give Hanoum ; and Mme. de Saint-Vidal. pleasure there. The book has been compiled with The Langlois prize for the best translation in great care, and many interesting letters are published. verse or prose of a work from the Greek or from Albert Besnard, whose fame as an artist is world- any modern language has been divided between wide, appears to be able to succeed in all he under- M. Pelisson, for his translation of “ Heine's Songs takes. At the exhibition of his collected pictures and Poems”; M. de Coussange, for “Indi. some years ago in Paris, it was a revelation to many vidualism,” by Ellen Key; and Georges Grappe, of his admirers that he had worked on so many for Barett Wendel's “ France of To-day.” · different lines. Widely different as the subjects,  ## p. 196 (#266) ############################################ 196 THE AUTHOR. styles, colouring, and technique were, the master donymous and non-copyright books, was decided hand could be traced unmistakably. The collec- by the Supreme Court of the State of New York in tion was a huge one; there seemed to be the work of favour of the defendants. two or three lifetimes on the walls, and since that Nathan Burkan appeared for the plaintiff. exhibition the great artist's hand has never been Andrew Gilhooly was counsel for Hurst & Co. idle. At present we are to see him under a new The following is the opinion of Judge Green- light. M. and Mme. Albert Besnard have been baum: travelling in India, and the painter is now giving “This action is brought under sections 50 and us a series of word pictures as graphic and as full 51 of the Civil Rights Law (1 Consolidated Laws of life and colour as his canvases. of 1909, page 308) to enjoin the publication and " De Marseilles à Port Saïd " is the first of the sale by defendants of certain books with the series, an admirable description of the impressions imprint of plaintiff's name on the covers in which of an artist accustomed to noting the details which they are bound and the wrappers in which they are count, and of rendering the values and effects with inclosed. The plaintiff is an author of standing inimitable skill and feeling. and reputation, who has written juvenile and Paul Bourget's play, “Le Tribun,” is still being historical works during the past forty years. given at the Vaudeville, and “L'Oiseau bleu” at Among his earlier juvenile works are two, entitled the Théâtre Rejane. At the Renaissance “ La “In the Apache Country and The White Gamine" is being played, and at the Théâtre des Mustang,' which he published in 1888 and 1889 Arts “ Les Frères Karamazov." respectively under the assumed name of · Lieu- The Shakespeare League is now formed, and tenant R. H. Jayne,' and which have never been M. Camille de Sainte-Croix wishes to express his published by plaintiff or his authority in connection thanks to the readers of The Author who have sent with his own proper name. It appears that neither particulars of Shakespearean Societies in England. of these publications was ever copyrighted, and no À performance of “The Merchant of Venice" is claim in respect of said stories is made under the to be given in French by his Shakespeare Theatre copyright laws of the United States. Defendants, Company on May 11 as a matinée at the Trocadero. book publishers, have published and offered for Numbers of people are joining the league, the sale printed copies of each of said literary pro- object of which is to give publicity and help to the ductions of plaintiff under his nom de plume of Shakespeare Theatre, and also to attempt a recon- Lieutenant R. H. Jayne,' with the name of stitution of the literature and theatre of the “Edward S. Ellis' and 'Ellis' printed on the Shakespearean epoch in the various European covers and wrappers of the books. Plaintiff con- countries. By means of a théâtre comparé it is cedes that by reason of their dedication to the thought that an interesting literary revival may be public, the defendants had the right to ieprint, arrived at. A paper containing details will be sent publish and sell these books. It is contended, to any readers desirous to have further particulars, however, that the dedication is limited to the books on receipt of a post-card. as published under the nom de plume ; that in the ALYS HALLARD. absence of any permission or consent on the part 60, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris.' of plaintiff to use or print his real name in con- nection with the publications in question, defen- * Silhouettes historiques” (Calmann Lévy). dants had no right to publish them with the “La Liseuse" (Calmann Lévy). “Figures Littéraires" (Perrin). imprint of his true name on the covers and “ Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui” (Plon). wrappers, and that this use of his name is in "La Société française du XVIe siècle au XXe siècle violation of the statute to which reference has been (Perrin). made. The statute reads as follows : Sec. 50, "L'Affaire Debrouillar--Delatamize” (Calmann Lévy). " Marie Malibran " (Plon). Right of Privacy.-A person, firm or corporation that uses for advertising purposes or for the pur- poses of trade the name, portrait or picture of any living person, without having obtained the written PUBLISHERS NEED NOT PRESERVE consent of such a person, or if a minor, of his or PSEUDONYMITY (U.S.A.). her parent or guardian, is guilty of a misdemeanor.' Section 51 confers a right of action for injunction (From the U.S.A. Publishers' Weekly.) and for damages in favor of the person aggrieved under the provisions of section 50. N action brought by Edward S. Ellis, the “Where a statute is doubtful or ambiguous A author, against Hurst & Company, involv- resort may be had to the title of the act (In the ing a number of interesting questions matter of Village of Middletown, 82 N. Y., 195, regarding publishers' and authors' rights in pseu- 199). In construing the broad language of the  ## p. 197 (#267) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 197 court declaring the use for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade' of the name, por- trait, or picture of any living person' without his written consent to be a misdemeanor, the court will consider the mischief which the statute was aimed at, and in order to give it effect words absolute in themselves and language the most broad and comprehensive may be qualified and restricted by other parts of the same statute, or by the facts and circumstances to which they relate (Blaschko v. Wurster, 156 N. Y., 437, 443). “In the light of this rule of construction it may be seriously doubted whether the statute was intended to cover every case of the unauthorised use of another's name, picture or portrait in con- nection with trade purposes, or whether it was intended to be limited to a class of cases where, before the enactment of the statute, no provision of law existed for redressing certain wrongs. The title of the act is “Right of Privacy,' and it is now a matter of general knowledge that the act was passed in consequence of the suggestions con- tained in the opinion in the case of Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Co. (171 N. Y., 538), a view expressly recognised in the opinion of Rhodes v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co. (193 N. Y., 223, 227), the opening paragraph of which reads : 'In the case of Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Co. (171 N. Y., 538) this court determined that in the absence of any statute on the subject, the right of privacy as a legal doctrine enforcible in equity, did not exist in this State so as to enable a woman to prevent the use of her portrait by others for advertising purposes without her consent.' If we turn to the opinion in the Roberson Case (supra) we find that it discusses learnedly and at length the doctrine of the Right of Privacy,' and the incorporation of the phrase in the title of the act under review should therefore be given due signifi- cance. was evidently designed to forbid the unauthorised and wanton appropriation or use of a person's name, picture or portrait for trade or advertising purposes where such use is wholly un- related to the matters or things with which said name, picture or portrait is associated, and it may perhaps also have been intended to forbid the unauthorised use of one's name, portrait or picture when such use is asserted to be related to or con- nected with the things advertised or sold, but where such a relationship or connection is in fact unreal, unsubstantial, pretended or false. If the act were to be construed as broadly as here claimed, then one who advertises the sale of a well-known brand of flour by using without his written consent the name of the manufacturer of the flour would be guilty of a misdemeanor. Or if a clothier • advertises the sale of certain garments and uses in the advertisements the name of the person who manufactured the cloth from which the garments were made without the latter's consent, then would he be guilty of a misdemeanor. Instances might be multiplied showing the absurdity of construing the act in its broadest terms. “In the case at bar, the defendants concededly had the right to publish the books in suit with the nom de plume of plaintiff, and this right carried with it the right to state the true name of the author in such form in the book, either upon the title-page or otherwise, as to show who was the writer or author thereof' (the Mark Twain Case, 14 Fed. Rep., 728, 730). The nom de plume of an author is but the synonym of his true name and, as was said in the Mark Twain Case (supra) at page 731, 'the invention of a nom de plume gives the writer no increase of right over another who uses his own name in the absence of a copyright.' In publishing the plaintiff's name on the volumes under consideration the defendants published a truthful statement, directly connected with the authorship of the books, which they had a right to print. This is therefore unlike the case of Eliot v. Jones (66 Misc., 95, aff'd without opinion by the Appellate Division, N. Y. Law Journal, October 29, 1910), where President Eliot's name was used with respect to a publication not made by him or with his authority, and whicb was therefore a use based upon a false statement of fact and upon a decep- tion. The case of Collier v. Jones (66 Misc., 97). relied upon by the plaintiff, was not brought under the statute here invoked, but under the doctrine of unfair competition, and in the case of Victor Herbert v. Universal Talking Machine Co. (N. Y. Law Journal, March 9, 1904) it appears from an examination of the record that the defendant sold gramophone records, using in connection there- with the name of the plaintiff, who had nothing whatever to do with them. I am of opinion that the defendants' acts here complained of do not come within the prohibition of the statute here invoked and that the judgment should go for the defendants." SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.) Front Page Other Pages ...£4 0 0 ... Half of a Page ... Quarter of & Page ... 1 100 ... Eighth of a Page O 15 0 ..076 Single Column Advertisemontis . per inch ở ó o Roduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series e Six and of 25 per cont, for Twelve Insertions. Oo All letters respecting Advertisernents should be addressed to J. F. BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.  ## p. 198 (#268) ############################################ 198 THE AUTHOR. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. eive 1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub. lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved member, and all costs borne by the Society. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi. ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use a 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 bave 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; 80 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, IY. A Commission Agreement. The main points are :- (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production, (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author, Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are:- (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement 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, TTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an u agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be  ## p. 199 (#269) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 199 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 rigbts in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager bolding 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 inust remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con. tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the Society before putting plays into the hands of agents. As the law stands at present, an agent who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned, it may be taken as a general rule that there are only very few agents who can do anything for an author that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans- action of frequent petty authorisations with different individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable. But the Society warns authors against agents who profess to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of the law, an agent should not be employed under any circumstances without an agreement approved of by the Society WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the 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. UTEMBERS 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. Tbe fee is one guinea. REMITTANCES. CENARIOS, 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 26. 6d. per act. The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. All remittonces should be crossed Union of London and Smiths Bunr, chanoery, Lane or be sent by registered letter only.  ## p. 200 (#270) ############################################ 200 THE AUTHOR. GENERAL NOTES. transfer of the copyright from the unfortunate com poser-making a claim for infringement of his, the publisher's, copyright in a certain air, or setting AUTHORS AND INCOME TAX. of an air. The first publisher in these circum- In the April issue of the Publishers' Circular stances would, if he should find that his composer's we find a report of the Council of the Publishers' work is not selling and not catching on, at once Association. One item of this report must be of acknowledge the infringement and withdraw the interest to all authors. It runs as follows : composition from the market rather than face the expense and inconvenience of a complicated copy- THE REQUESTS OF INCOME TAX COLLECTORS FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING AUTHORS' ACCOUNTS. right action. The unfortunate composer who may “A member of the association received be entirely innocent of any infringement can take from an income tax collector a request to be furnished with par. no steps whatever to have his property re-estab- ticulars of payments to authors for the purpose of the lished, for the publisher, as owner of the copyright, assessment of their income. The council are advised that is not obliged to keep the work on the market if he had no right to make the request." he does not desire to do so. The position in this We are glad to see that the Council of the case is as ridiculous as in the case of the unfor- Publishers' Association have been firm on a matter tunate author who has to claim damages against a which is of most vital importance. bankrupt firm. We see from the same issue that Sir Frederick MacMillan has been appointed President of the Publisbers' Association for the current year ; Mr. THE “ENGLISH REVIEW." William Heinemann, Vice-President; and Mr. James In the March, 1910, issue of The Author a state- H. Blackwood has been appointed Treasurer. ment appeared to the following effect :- “We understand that Mr. Austin Harrison has been THE TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT. appointed editor of the English Reriew which, in future, will be published from Messrs. Chapman and Hall's A new evil inherent in the transfer of copyright offices, 11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. We are has come to our notice. further informed that the unsatisfied claims of contributors Time without number in these columns the evils to the Review under the old management will be settled by the new management. connected with the assignment of copyright have "We are very pleased to be able to make this announce- been put forward, and especial emphasis has been ment officially, as it is not often that a new proprietor, laid on the case of an author engaged in technical taking over the assets of an old company, also takes over writing—a specialist in his own particular subject. its liabilities and undertakes to satisfy them." By such transfer he may be excluded from writing We are now able to report that the undisputed again on his subject unless he enters into an agree claims of members of the society placed in the ment wholly unfair and unsatisfactory with the hands of the secretary have been met under this holder of his own copyright; in fact, he may have promise, and we must thank Sir Alfred Mond for placed his whole reputation at stake owing to his settling the matter. ignorance or folly. We have also pointed out the danger of such SIR ALFRED LYALL. transfer when an author is remunerated by a royalty on the sales. Should the company or publisher go We regret to record the death of the Right Hon. into liquidation or become bankrupt, the author Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., D.C.L., who has transferred his copyright can only obtain who joined the Society of Authors in 1905 and damages against the bankrupt estate. The position was elected to its council in 1908. is absurd. There are also other difficulties which We need not deal with his great talents and must not be lost sight of. But what has recently abilities as a worker in the Empire of India, as it come forward is the following case, and as it is not this side of his life which is of interest to occurred with regard to musical copyright it is readers of The Author, however distinguished it may perhaps more likely to re-occur with regard to this have been, but it is rather as a man of letters that he same property. A musical composer transferred will appeal to authors, and his work in the field of his copyright and performing right—unfortu. literature was no less distinguished than his public nately, most musical composers still refuse to band career. Perhaps the book by which he is best together against this demand of the publishers. known, and the book which is most likely to The composer was to receive a royalty on every endure, is his “ Life of Lord Dufferin," published in copy sold. The publishers were threatened by 1905, in two volumes. It is a great work, ably another publisher-it may be taken for granted written. He wrote, in addition, many other books that the other publisher had likewise obtained referring to India, and among these we would  ## p. 201 (#271) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 201 mention his “ Life of Warren Hastings ” in the until at last one sensible man propounded the English Men of Action Series, published in 1889. i theory that a novel, like a pair of trousers, should He was also a poet of no mean distinction, his be cut to the measure of the material it was meant " Verses Written in India ” having been re- to contain. The correspondence closed shortly published quite recently, in a cheap edition. This afterwards. fact will tend to show how widely read his work Generally speaking, the public prefers a good has been. long novel to a good short one, as is only natural.. Sir Alfred took considerable interest in the The more the buyer gets for his money, assuming affairs of the society from his election, and was the quality to be equal, the better he is pleased. prominent in the debates that occurred relative to But it is also true that the modern reader does not what is known as The Times Book War. want his attention taken off the main theme by any irrelevant matter. I do not think the ordinary COPYRIGHT Bill, 1911. consumer of novels to-day spends much time in read- ing the old masters. Most houses in London that THE Copyright Bill of 1911 is now before the have any library at all no doubt possess editions of public, and though it is not, from the author's Scott, Thackeray, and Dickens; but they are rarely point of view, a perfect bill, it is in a more advanced taken down from the shelves. If “ Quentin Dur- condition than the bill of 1910. The Society of ward,” or “ Vanity Fair,” or “ Martin Chuzzlewit" Authors may congratulate itself on the fact that were offered to the London trade to-day as new the Board of Trade not only gave every oppor- books by unknown authors I am confident they tunity to the society, through its committee, would be refused, not because of their mere length, to put its views before the Board, but accepted but because their authors had not learned the art of nearly all the important suggestions which it laid excluding matter not germane to the story. Scott's before them, and authors, whether members of the prefatory and introductory remarks alone would society or not, must be deeply indebted to the often fill as many pages as a modern novelist re- society for the work it has undertaken on their quires for his whole book. Thackeray, they would behalf. say, was always introducing long apostrophic reflec- tions on things in general. Dickens invented so. THE MODERN NOVEL AND ITS PUBLIC. many subsidiary characters and side-issues that he was forced, as it were, to strike a balance-sheet at the end of the book, telling his anxious readers in a (Reprinted from The Dial, Chicago.) few words what had become of all the secondary VHEN there is nothing of great importance personages who had fitted across his pages. I dare V happening, from the journalistic point of not imagine what the modern publisher would say view, our enterprising press has the of his other habit of interpolating whole stories, such pleasant habit now and again of starting a dis- as “The Stroller's Tale' in the third chapter of cussion and inviting correspondence on the subject “The Pickwick Papers." from interested readers. With a little judicious The fact is that, so far as construction goes, the fostering, and a certain number of letters written technique of the novel has been improved out of all in the office to indicate the best methods of treating recognition during the last thirty years. A great the topic, these arguments sometimes reach truly number of very poor novels are published year by formidable proportions, especially if they deal with year ; but, bad as they are, they do not generally err a religious or moral subject. With literature, the in the direction of technique. The plot may be thin general public is justly supposed to be less con the characters wooden, the writing undistinguished cerned ; and it is rare to find a paper “opening or even ungrammatical ; but the author has gener- its columns" (as the phrase runs) to any discussion ally the merit of keeping the story well in view from about the making of books. But a few months start to finish. He has discovered that the one thing ago the unexpected happened: the Westminster he must not do is to allow the reader's attention to Gazette did actually invite the opinions of its wander. It is far more likely to wander than it readers on the momentous question of the Length was in the old days; and this is not entirely due to of Modern Novels; and, curiously enough, this inferiority in the artist of the twentieth century, departure from the old tradition met with consider it is due rather to the rise of a new and half-educated able success. For some weeks the novelists of public, who have been fed on papers like Answers England entrusted their opinions on this fascinating and Tit-Bits—the babies' food of the young topic to the correspondence columns of our premier reader. It remains to be seen whether this public evening paper, commonly at a length inversely will ever be educated up to anything better ; but proportioned to the importance of the writer. The at present they are incapable of absorbing any para- diversity of opinion registered was remarkable ; graph of more than five or six lines in length. They  ## p. 202 (#272) ############################################ 202 THE AUTHOR. II. require a series of shocks to keep them awake, and fear that the great secret eludes analysis. Like many consequently the modern novelist has learned the so-called games of chance, the art of successful imprudence of indulging in prolixity. The page of novel-writing is a matter of fortune, with a re- a new novel must not even present a physical appear- servation in favour of the better player. The good ance of solidity : if a publisher sees the proofs come man will commonly achieve a modest independence from the printer with more than ten inches of un in time, if he goes on trying. For the rest, it is broken matter he is quite capable (as has bappened well for him not to be too much concerned with the more than once in my own case) of breaking up the commercial side of his work. paragraphs himself. Only a few of the old guard, E. H. LACON WATSON. such as Mr. Henry James, are permitted some lati- tude in this respect-probably because they were found to be incorrigible. STYLE IN LITERATURE. It is easy to theorise about the production of books, but it is still extraordinarily difficult to predict By ARCHIBALD DUNN. with any approach to accuracy how the public will receive any given specimen. Yet one can generally tell what sort of reception it will meet with from the [The commencement of this article, in last month's reviewers. Some years ago this would have been issue, discussed the broad requirements of style.] sufficient; there was a time when a few enthusiastic T CONOMY—the omission of the superfluous acclamations in the more important papers sent a word and the inclusion only of the neces- new book gaily forward on the road to success. In sary-hardly calls for justification ; seem- these days the criticisms of the press seem to have ingly, after what has been said, it carries its lost their effect. upon readers ; the reviewers may endorsement upon its face and there is no need for praise until they have exhausted every adjective in the introduction of more pbilosophy. Still, a good their vocabulary, yet the buyers will refuse to come cause, you know, is none the worse for being proved in. Sometimes I am almost inclined to think that up to the hilt, and a reasonable method is after all a chorus of commendation damps the ardour of better remembered when its reasoning is fully the public ; they suspect all sorts of things—an understood. Turning, then, to philosophy, we find organised attempt to boom the work of a personal the point argued most convincingly, perhaps, by friend, or perhaps even bribery. They have lost Herbert Spencer.* “ Language," he says, “ must their child-like faith in the infallibility of the critic be regarded as a hindrance to thought. ... that our forefathers possessed. It is a curious and Placing a finger on the lips is more forcible than instructive fact that the most popular writers of the whispering, ‘Do not speak. A beck of the hand is present day in the world of fiction are novelists for better than • Come here.' A shrug of the shoulders whom the reviewers never have a good word to say. would lose much by translation into words ..." The people are not only uneducated, then, but and so on. In short, there is danger in the use of obstinate ; they hear the voice of their master, but language at all ; action will convey the idea more deliberately stuff their ears with cotton-wool ; they readily ; and, consequently, we had better do do not wish to learn. And the critics can only without language altogether. sigh and point out for their own satisfaction. It is clear, however, that the possibilities of that in all branches of art the public has ever pantomime are limited. We can suggest “ Come admired, with a curious consistency, the worst that here” most dramatically by a gesture, but all the is put before it. gestures in the world will pot convey the sense of a What does sell a novel ? The irresponsible theological argument. It is in fact the elementary chatter of women at afternoon tea, say some of my thought, and nothing beyond the elementary, friends. I think it a fact that women have a great which thus lends itself to illustration by action ; deal to say in the matter. They read far more but in that event, we see, the significance of the novels than the men ; they take their reading more action reaches the intelligence more immediately seriously; and are more likely to discuss their and more forcibly than could the significance of favourites afterwards. Thus some of the literary the spoken or written word. So, though Herbert agents now lay it down as a cardinal rule that, in Spencer has come near the reductio ad absurdum, a successful story, the feminine interest should be he has taught a valuable lesson. Language is a dominant. Women, they argue, like to read about hindrance to thought, but-it is indispensable ; themselves, and especially to learn how they should very well, then, it shall be used—because it must behave in moments of emotional stress. There is be used—but in such fashion as to make it as thus a formula for the construction of the “big little of a hindrance as may be. Words, therefore, seller," if anyone could ever work to a formula, and "The Philosophy of Style,” to which the reader is if the literary agents are correct. Personally, I referred for more extended proof of the proposition.  ## p. 203 (#273) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 203 shall be few, direct of meaning and expressive, come now to the treatment of the sentence and of familiar and, consequently, easy of comprehension, the paragraph, and here, again, we shall find that there is the treatment of them in the compass of a the whole aim and object is to make things easy putshell, the commonsense solution of the difficulty. for the reader. But, is this to say that the erudite is to be The position, then, is simply this. The elemen- taboo and that the nearer a writer approaches to tary thought is expressed in a single word—write the one-syllabled language of a child the greater “Halt!" and every reader recognises the command he shall be ? Is that the inference to be drawn to stop. But as the thought advances in com- from this law of simplicity and economy, the real plexity, the simple word will no longer suffice but, meaning of it all ? Well, surely not. For it is instead, a resort must be had to the use of many most obvious, I think, that much will depend upon words, and these words build up a sentence-with the circumstances. One would not, for instance, or without subsidiary clauses, as may be. Advance address a set of ploughmen as a gathering of the thought once more, and the single sentence students, or write a scientific text-book in the becomes inadequate ; the need has arisen now for phraseology of the nursery. There is the wide a group of sentences each helping to explain the distinction of the conditions, and the simple fact meaning and, when completed, forming an intelli- that what is incomprehensible to the one is often gible paragraph. It is, in fact, a steady increase the common language of the other. The whole in the quantity of units to be handled by the question, in short, is relative, regulated by the author; and, just as the management of a company subject, regulated again by the capacity of the of men is easier than the manoeuvring of an army, reader—both must be suited. 80 will the problem grow for an author in propor- I know, of course, that amongst the illiterate it tion to the length and number of sentences is a mighty fine thing to use long words ; here, necessary to the expression of his thought. For forsooth, is the depth of profundity with so ignorant these sentences, unluckily, do not take position of a crowd. Yet, given a few shillings to spend, you themselves; but, with a most irritating perverse- may bay as much of this profundity as you please ness, tend to straggle and fall into a certain at any stationer's shop, and then, equipped with a confusion. It is not, perhaps, an actual disorder, Thesaurus of English words and phrases, safely but rather an absence of order and a species of unfurl the standard of pomposity and affectation. aimlessness, and this is what calls so imperatively There is a long word for everything, believe me, for the drill-sergeant--the author and demands to repay the mere trouble, the clerk's work, of of him that he shall set each one of these trouble- searching through the pages, and nothing in this some units into its fit and proper place. And, world but laziness to prevent you beating record failing this ? Why, then, depend upon it, we for a vocabulary. Yet, when all is said and done, have drifted back again in a twinkling to that Old what a travesty it comes to ! when, setting out to Man of the Sea in literature, to that bogey of a do one thing, another is gravely accomplished ! rule which will have the way paved smooth for the when, with the object of enlightening the reader, reader. Here is a blessed muddle ; and that was the end is to fuddle him! It is against this never a part of the bargain. danger that the law of economy and simplicity Thus it is clear that some definite order must be stands as the surest safeguard. decided upon ; some order whicb, by virtue of its Pity, then, that its fulfilment should be so natural sequence, shall seem the natural order to difficult! "To gather much thought into few the reader and so reduce his effort to a minimum words," says Schopenhauer, “stamps the man of in visualising the picture. genius"; and, amongst those who find their Now, in considering this, one essential is always livelihood or their pleasure in writing, there is not to be remembered—that a proposition must neces- one to contradict him. For somehow, by some sarily be discussed in one of two ways, either unlucky chance, the natural process of expression inductively or deductively; that is, we may first is seldom precise and to the point but something group together our facts and particolars and so of a wobble, to speak the truth, and ever ready to lead up to and prove the main proposition, or, go upon the wander ; and so it happens, as a rule, alternatively, we may begin by stating the propo- that it is only after years of training and an sition itself and then proceed to prove it. One or infinity of labour that a man learns in the end to say other of these methods must be adopted always in just exactly what he wants to say and nothing more. intelligent debate if the subject is to be brought definitely and sharply before the mind of an outside Climax (which necessarily implies sequence as a person. As to which is the better method autho- preliminary) brings us to a broader consideration rities are disagreed. Lewes* suggests that it of the subject of style. We have spoken of the treatment of the word-in a general sense ; we * “ Principles of Success in Literature."  ## p. 204 (#274) ############################################ 204 THE AUTHOR. depends upon the circumstances, and that certainly appeal direct to the reason. Unluckily, this is but seems the commonsense way of looking at it. “If half the task. For its completion there is still my object,” he says, “is to convince you of a another phase of the mind's activity to consider ; a general truth or to impress you with a feeling which phase which is of the emotional rather than the you are not already prepared to accept, it is obvious reasoning type. that the most effective method is the inductive, This is best illustrated by an example. Walk which leads your mind upon a culminating wave of suddenly from the sunshine into a shady corridor, evidence or emotion to the very point I aim at. and though perhaps there is light enough to read But the deductive method is best when I wish to by, the corridor will seem absolutely dark; or, direct the light of familiar truths and rouse again, remember how, in the unexpected presence emotions upon new particulars or upon details in of some horrible or startling sight, the mind is unsuspected relation to those truths.” In short, blinded sometimes wholly, always partially, to other then, to lighten the task of the reader, a proposition considerations. Common experiences such as these, likely to be accepted without question should be the effect of which cannot be denied, carry their stated at once and afterwards emphasised, whilst a own inference, and accepting it, as we must do, we proposition unlikely to be so accepted should first have this inevitable conclusion—that the mental be proved and then, as a consequence of such proof, faculties, like all our senses, are subject to a deaden- finally stated. ing reaction after any very vivid impression, and But whichever method is adopted-and the writer that the extent of the reaction is commensurate in will select according to the conditions of the some degree with the strength of the impression. moment—it is certain that the process in either It is a case, in fact, of the greater overshadowing case must be progressive. Here again it is a ques- the less; and when this occurs in literature need tion of the reader's comfort ; he shall not be left we wonder if a period of blankness ensues which, to disentangle the tangled threads. As Herbert if it does not actually destroy the power of appre- Spencer puts it, “the events should be stated in ciation, at least weakens it ? On the other hand, ench sequence that the mind may not have to go the trifle can claim attention when there is nothing backwards and forwards in order to rightly of more import to distract, and if the series be connect them.” allowed to move with a steadily increasing force That, however, is not the end of it; for you may each detail can be noted by the way. Moreover, have a sequence without a tangle and yet a sequence this is to heighten the final result ; for if you step which from its very nature is incomprehensible. I from the shady corridor into the sunlight the sun mean, of course, where a complex or unfamiliar will never look brighter; and, if you will explain to subject has been introduced too suddenly. And me beforehand the utmost possibilities of some this is the fault so common to bad writing, that the terrible danger, there is no surer means of in- author assumes the reader's knowledge to be equal creasing my fear, though, mark you! I shall have to his own. Then, in a moment, the mind as my wits about me when the time comes. Based, often as not, goes all abroad ; it has nothing to then, on the law of nature is the law of climax, catch hold of as a stand-by, nothing that it has that the progression of sentences shall not only ever come across before, no starting point to work follow in easy stages and in logical order, but that, from, nothing anywhere but an indescribable haze. in addition, they shall be cumulatire in effect. It is a blank, if ever there was one, hopeless and To point the moral, take an extract from complete. And yet it could be cleared up so easily Macaulay. This is what he says about Barère :- by starting just a little lower down the ladder of “Our opinion, then, is this : that Barère approached knowledge. Here is a complex matter, but its origin nearer than any person mentioned in history or in was simple. Then start with its origin if neces- fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of con- sary, with simple and familiar facts, at any rate, summate and universal depravity. In him the and so, carrying the attention with you, lead on in qualities which are the proper objects of hatred a progressive and explanatory fashion to those facts and the qualities which are the proper objects of which are not so simple and not so familiar. It is contempt preserve an exquisite and absolute a question of easy stages, that is all, and when the harmony. In almost every particular sort of really complex is reached at last, believe me, there wickedness he has had rivals. His sensuality was will be nothing complex about it. immoderate; but this was a failing common to So far, then, as logical order is concerned, so far him with many great and amiable men. There as we have nothing else to do than follow out an have been many men as cowardly as he, some as explanatory system which can be readily grasped, cruel, a few as mean, a few as impudent. There the course is clear enough. We have a thought to may also have been as great liars, though we never convey and we convey it in the most obvious and met with them or read of them. But when we put most easily appreciable fashion ; we have made our everything together, sensuality, poltroonery, base-  ## p. 205 (#275) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 205 ness, effrontery, mendacity, barbarity, the result is paragraph. It is a small thing, with the sense something which in a novel we should condemn as remaining just the same and the words too, but caricature and to which, we venture to say, no life and truth have gone out of the picture; for the parallel can be found in history." mind, tuned to the fever pitch, cannot drop back A writer less gifted than Macaulay in the art of thus suddenly to the inconsiderable. The thing building up a climax might have hesitated to begin that has really mattered all along, the thing that with so slashing and violent & sentence, lest those concerned the reader and held him, was the fate of others to follow should seem weak by comparison. Hiawatha, that was to be the culmination, the But, analysed, this sentence is no more than a end ; and yet, just as the secret is revealed, just as general statement preparing the mind ; and, then, the attention would dwell upon it and grasp its starting with the admission that Barère perhaps full significance and revel in it, why, just then, had individual rivals in individual forms of wicked- bless your heart! there comes a dig in the ribs and ness-a neat contrast—the crescendo treatment a silly, idiotic, distracting remark about a sunset goes steadily forward. And in the end, though we and a mist. have listened only to assertion without the backing of the shadow of a proof, that tempest of words To the Islands of the Blessed, and thoughts, that terrific whacking of the big To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the land of the Hereafter! drum, each stroke heavier than the one before, In the glory of the sunset, must carry us along as in a whirlwind irresistibly. In the purple mists of evening. We may amend our judgment later on--and sball do, if the evidence be insufficient-but, meanwhile, Oh, the smallness of the thought! And the the art of the writer has triumphed, and, for the certainty, as you see, that romance must be moment at any rate, we condemn Barère. Illogical, scotched to find ourselves thus thrust back from you say? And so it is. At the same time, it is the fascinating dream—of ethereal things, which we very real human nature, and there is no getting believe to be beautiful and on which it is only away from that. natural for the imagination to rest-back again with- Clearly, then, if climax be essential to effective- out warning to the commonplaces of life, to the ness, anti-climax-a sequence in which the imposing everyday siidset, if you please, and a damp-I had thought is succeeded by the trivial-must be for- & near nearly written “damned”-unpleasant mist !* bidden. The strength of the one is sufficient As Longfellow has it, however, “the glory of evidence of the weakness of the other, and so there the sunset” and “the purple mists of evening” is is no need to go over the old ground of argument well-nigh perfect in its artistic setting. It has again. One inay, however, show in a given painted the scene, of course, and brought the instance how differently a passage will read and picture realistically before the eye; but more, it impress the mind when, without changing either has heightened the final effect by introducing a words or meaning, we get anti-climax instead of momentary suspension of the main thought. That this should be a source of strength rather than of climax; and, for this purpose, the final scene in “Hiawatha " suggests itself : weakness is not, at first sight, quite apparent. Here we have the law of economy and simplicity Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, jogging at the elbow and demanding the direct and In the glory of the sunset, concise statement and putting us straightway in a In the purple mists of evening, troublesome quandary. But I would remind you To the regions of the home-wind, once again of the days of the nursery and of what Of the North-west wind Keewaydin. To the Islands of the Blessed, happened when that story you were listening to so To the Kingdom of Ponemah, attentively was unexpectedly interrupted. It was To the land of the Hereafter ! just near the end, or at any rate at the crucial Is it possible to improve this picture ? to make moment-seeing that they were all crucial moments it more realistic ? more impressive? It is the —when nurse was called away and you were left closing of a beautiful life in glory—the glory of kicking your bare legs about the glory of kicking your bare legs about the floor. Do you re- the sunset: in sadness-the sadness of the mists of member, then, how you watched the door! how you evening : but in everlasting happiness, too. that crawled up to it and listened for a footstep? Do you Hiawatha should be journeying back to an Eternal remember how your excitement grew by degrees ? reward in the Islands of the Blessed, in the land You had been interested before, you know, but of the Hereafter! I do not know how this is to be * It is worth noting that the imposing thought succeeded get more emotionally or more truly. But I do by the trivial has a tendency towards the ridiculous. Hence know how it may be ruined by the mere stroke of there is some capital to be made out of it in humorous writing. a pen, by simply transposing the third and fourth That all-softening overpowering knell, lines and re-casting them for the conclusion of the The tocsin of the soul-the dinner-bell,  ## p. 206 (#276) ############################################ 206 THE AUTHOR. now your little brain was working into a fever. The end ! how the mystery and the wonder of it deepened with suspense! Ah! you remember? Very well, then, we have whittled down the pencil and come to the lead, for this idea of suspending the main thought in literature is only that same pleasant old idea resurrected from the nursery- though played of course more artistically nowa- days for the benefit of those bigger children, the grown-ups. But there is danger in it, nevertheless. For, just as the slight suspension can prove a source of strength, the really lengthy suspension is seldom anything but an impediment and a source of weak- ness. Supposing that Longfellow, instead of using only two lines to describe the scene, bad used twenty, what would happen ? Why, clearly the mind would wander from the main issue—the fate of Hiawatha—and become centred instead on the scene itself. So much so, indeed, that the final lines might seem out of place—in fact, for the moment, almost without meaning ; we might have to stop and worry it out for ourselves; we might even have to refer back to the first line of all to find a true connection in the passage. This is the danger, then, the risk of creating a deliberate distraction And now there is only this to add, that what applies to the paragraph applies also to the sentence. The sentence often enough contains a subordinate thought or series of thoughts within the main thought—it is, in fact, a miniature paragraph. Clearly, then, there must be a well-observed sequence in the order of the sentence as in the order of the paragragh, a well-defined progression to the climax, and never, under any circumstances, too long a suspension of the main issue. Subject to all this, then, for the sake of economy, the shorter the sentence the better. the one case, the case of a flower, the faculty of smell has been killed, so it seems; in the other, the case of the student, the mind has become so dulled that what is accomplished at all is accomplished with effort, less speedily than usual, less satisfactorily. What is the inference? Why, surely, that monotony has the knack of enfeebling the faculties and tends to make them inoperative. But, now, if we move from the flower to the neighbourhood of an open drain, there is no doubt that we shall smell the drain ; or, if the student be translated from his study to the chess-board, pro- vided of course that he cares for chess, there is no doubt about it that the brain will start again working as freshly and as vigorously as ever. Thus, there is a second inference to draw-that, whilst the faculties most certainly collapse in the presence of monotony, their real power remains unimpaired and they can be set going anew by merely resorting to a different stimulus. Such, then, is the explanation and justification of the law of Variety ; and there is little to be said concerning its practical use in literature that is not self-evident. It is a matter, you see, of avoiding a groove. Nothing, however good in itself, may be served up too often or in too regular an order. To give only the necessary word, the shortest possible intelligible sentence, the cumulative progression of events, is excellent. On the other hand to give them, paragraph after paragraph, page after page, with never a break in the routine of the catalogue, is to achieve a perfection of monotony against which no reader could hope to hold up his head for half-an-hour. Think of the bare statement and re-iteration of bare statements in a school-boy's essay; think of the author who at every turn is introducing the inevitable “ego"; think of Macaulay with the everlasting grand crescendo and see, in the end, how feeble he is. It was a fine thing that “crescendo," of course, the first time you met it, soul-stirring and apt to rouge one like a bugle-call ; but, later, it passed into a vexing irritation, and finally, like the bugle-call too often repeated, fell still-born on the senses. Such as this is dead-levelness with a vengeance and, depend upon it, so complete a flatness of presentation is not to be endured. So, in the art of writing-some- where, somehow, and at no infrequent periods- there must come those moments of relaxation, those short intervals of change, which shall serve as the fresh stimulus to keep the faculties alive. But it is a difficult job, as things go, to adjust so fine a balance ; for where, to be sure, does routine and stereotyped order cease to assist and, instead, begin to tire? We must observe the rules and we must break them--the trouble is to choose the fitting moment; and I do not know that the true pass-word to this tricky Sesame has yet been found. Variety, the third law of literature, brings us to a really strange and surprising result. For, it is now to appear that, if we shall bave been truly faithful to the laws of Economy and Climax, if we shall have followed these principles with a sturdy persistence and without ever once kicking over the traces, we shall at the same time have gone far towards becoming the very worst writers in the world ! Yes, it is astonisbing ; a direct contra- diction, seemingly, a building up of the edifice for the mere pleasure of knocking it down again! But, listen to the explanation. When a student bends his mind too intently to one subject, it is common knowledge that, in pro- cess of time, the intellect loses in rapidity and in the power of ready appreciation, and the student grows stale ; it is also common knowledge, as Herbert Spencer points out, that " if we hold a flower to the nose for long, we become insensible to its scent." In  ## p. 207 (#277) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 207 Still, where the aim is at the practical, it does mean that we shall ever hope actually to imitate not do to throw up the sponge too readily. As him or that we should do so if we could, but that, we see, we cannot fix upon the definite border-line in process of time and after a fashion, something -that is certain. Very well, then, abandon the of the master's charm-it may be but a shadow of precise, turn to the more general, the broader con- it—will fall inevitably upon the student like a sideration, and here is a method which, whatever blessing. Under such circumstances, it will be its demerits, will nevertheless compel, more often found, the habit modifies and, if slowly none the than not, the accomplishment of the end in view less surely, takes a smoother turn; and, as the -Variety of Style. The suggestion comes from vocabulary widens day by day, as the niceties of Lewes.* “How," he asks, “is variety to be expression grow familiar with experience, so will secured ?" And, in answer, he says :-" It is for the appropriate word come more promptly to hand, the writer to obey the great cardinal principle of and the sentence round itself off more pleasantly Sincerity, and be brave enough to express himself to the ear. in his own way.” And for the other condition-an orderly pre- Lewes' idea, of course, is that no man can speak sentation of the thought-it seems that this must straight from the heart and speak montonously. spring primarily from clear vision on the author's In the impetuosity of the moment the meaning part. To explain, he must first have understood. is blurted out anyhow and, with words scarcely And, mark you ! not vaguely as in a fog, but with weighed and thoughts but indifferently considered, each detail sharply outlined in his own sight and monotony ceases to be possible. There may be a with its illustrative value distinctly set forth. He tangle—there generally is—and a good deal of has to picture a thought in which some things confusion, but at least there must be Variety too; matter more, others less, but a thought in which and no one is likely to quarrel with the contention. nothing must be blurred. Need we doubt, then, It is, however, just the very completeness of this that an author's business, before ever he puts pen proposition which brings about its downfall; for to paper at all, is to be sure of himself; to be sure what author, I ask you, will adopt a system which that he sees the finished picture and sees it aright, is likely to lead to confusion ? Clearly, none. too, through all the processes of its painting ? There must be order, that is essential. Then, can And, then? Then the practical consequence it be obtained whilst abandoning ourselves to “the seems inevitable ; he has assayed the worth of his great cardinal principle of Sincerity”? I think own material and instinctively, whether he will or 80. In the simplest fashion, too; by an honest not, the trifles must drop into the background and reference back, time and again, to the laws of the features of real consequence stand prominently Economy and Climax—that is, an author shall forward. And, though this may not be order in submit his spontaneous effort to the test of those its finished state, it is at least a good commence- conditions and never pass it until the conditions ment in the right direction ; and to have gone so have been fulfilled. far is to have left little enough to do in the final But even this is, in a sense, unsatisfactory. polishing up. The disentangling and re-setting of a wholly ill. And just one more thing in regard to variety. expressioned composition is a wearisome and time. We have considered its application to language; wasting business and, in a labour-saving age, all we may well believe that it applies equally to the against the accepted view of practical affairs. The thought itself, that the character of the thought aim, as we understand it nowadays, mnst always be shall not remain in one groove for too long a period. to accomplish anything with the least possible You remember the home-coming of Rip Van expenditure of effort. This is the safeguard Winkle. He had been asleep for twenty years up against overstrain, the secret of many achieve in the Katskill Mountains and then, awaking, he ments in the short period of a life; and, therefore, trudged back to his native village, an old and the obvious law. Hence, to fulfil it, an author's broken man. Presently—as he stood puzzling endeavour shall be to so order his mind, to so train over the array of new buildings, the strange names himself, that the expression of a thought may always upon the doors, the absence of all the familiar land- tend to fall automatically into some sort of logical marks which had once meant his home-presently, sequence and an intelligible and pleasant phraseology. the young men and maidens gathered round him With regard to the latter requisite, there is a and, as is the frivolous way of youth, started ready suggestion—that we should study good nudging one another and giggling at sight of the models. For, believe me, there is no more con tattered rag-bag. Who could this stranger be ? tagious thing in the world than frequent inter- This quaint old man with the long white beard, course with a writer wbo can write. I do not the bent back and the vacant eye? Was he out of a show ? or what? And when, after a moment * * The Principles of Success in Literature.” he inquired for his former friends, those gay spark  ## p. 208 (#278) ############################################ 208 THE AUTHOR. with whom he had been wont to drink and make first list of the Academic Committee of the Royal merry in other days, the laugh burst out openly. Society of Literature without the editorial note, “Dead !"they cried. “ Dead! the whole drunken which, I venture to think, the occasion might have lot of them !" And when, a little later, he asked suggested. them for his wife, they held their sides in merri- The Committee of the Authors' Society did ment, and the answer came back at him in a shout. not, it is true, express any formal opinion on “ Gretchen! Old Gretchen! Why, dead of the question of the inclusion of women in the course, like the rest, and buried these nineteen Academic Committee. It seemed to most of us, years !” Then Rip Van Winkle laughed too. when the question was mooted, that the better and “That's funny,” he said, “that's damned funny! So less contentious way to carry out so important and damned funny it nearly breaks my poor old heart!”* possibly controversial a step would be by the There may be more affecting incidents than this co-option by the Academic Committee itself of its to be found in fiction, but I do not know of them. first lady members. Since a dozen vacant seats I do not know of any other which strikes more were left at the disposal of the nominated members, surely, more rapidly, more directly, straight to the and there are at present, I believe, at least ten heart-strings. And, as it seems to me, the strength vacancies, there can be no practical difficulty in of the situation lies wholly in the use of contrast, this course being followed. Speaking for myself, in the sudden change from gay to grave, from the as an interested outsider, I trust it may be, and humorous to the pathetic, and in the certain without delay. exaggeration of effect which results from the I may, however, as one who some years ago gave unexpected transformation in the point of view. up a not unimportant post for the sake of women's It is like the first breath of open air to the invalid, claim to admission to a scientific society, be allowed, the tonic of a fresh idea ; and the mind, startled perhaps, to take this opportunity to warn my former and stirred by the surprise, responds with an clients that if their cause is not more successful they unaccustomed alacrity and magnifies the picture. have largely themselves to thank. I am not now This, then, is the work of variation in thought, to referring to the too notorious exhibitions of intem- create an energetic capacity in the reader and to perate conduct and language, of petulance and stimulate his powers of insight and appreciation silliness, in the followers of the women's movement, to their most active state. That the home of which their friends have been recently the coming of Rip Van Winkle is sad enough at any reluctant witnesses. I have in my mind the time, no one will dispute ; but it needs the magic apparent incapacity not only to play the game wand of the artist, that little touch of antithesis in the conduct of affairs, but even to understand at the end, that “ opposition of two thoughts its rules, of which ill-timed examples have been which are the reverse of each other in some given us lately by ladies from whom we might have prominent trait,” just to emphasise the sadness, hoped for better things. just to let us grip the real truth of it; just to fill Miss Toplis tells us the bad behaviour of our the eyes with tears. Committee “dawned slowly” on her. This is To sum up, then, there are the two leading hardly the way in which “grave slights" and principles of economy and climax; and the third “indignities" generally strike their victims. Is it principle of variety which controls the other two, not possible that Miss Toplis has been deceived by or, if you please, the position may be transposed. a“ false dawn”? When real daylight reaches her, But, anyway, it is the suitable harmonising of all she will probably appreciate that her sex has three that makes the basis of good writing and the neither been “slighted” nor “subjected to in- first trouble of all writers. dignity” by the action of our Committee of Management in this business. On the contrary, * This scene, of course, is only given verbatim in respect to Rip Van Winkle's concluding remark, which contains the Committee has done its best to leave an open the whole point. door for women by which they may enter with (To be continued.) honour and without unseemly disputes into the coveted dignity. I am, Sir, Yours obediently, CORRESPONDENCE. DOUGLAS W. FRESHFIELD. THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE. SIR,-I must confess to some surprise that you have published the letter addressed to you by Miss Toplis on the absence of women from the II. SIR-I have read with interest the utterances of Mrs. Humphry Ward with regard to the Academic Committee. She deplores on many occasions that the unfortunate method of its  ## p. 209 (#279) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 209 election will stand in the way of the trust which If my play is pirated, I instruct my agent to such a body ought to have from other members of sally forth and capture the pirate ; but pirate- the profession, and from the public generally. chasing annoys him, because, as likely as not, he is A king once raised a gentleman to the peerage chasing a future client, and your agent cannot on the advice of a certain Prime Minister. The afford to offend managers. All managers are Prime Minister, it was said, hoped that this honest, but some are absent-minded. The manager advancement would give the public the best who produces my play in New Zealand or India on argument for the abolition of the House of Lords. a royalty basis sends me returns for seventeen per- Is it possible that the Royal Society of Literature formances ; but how am I to know that he has not bas pursued this peculiar method in its election of given serenty? And there is that very fruitful an Academic Committee in order that it may give source of income—the Stock Company of America. the public the best argument in favour of the com If permission to perform a play, together with the mittee's abolition ? prompt-copy of that play, had to be obtained from Yours truly, ONE INTERESTED. the society's authorised representative, those managers who perform plays, and those agents who lease plays for stock work and forget to ALTERATIONS IN AUTHORS' MANUSCRIPTS. inform the author, could have “exeunt" written SIR,-Surely the statement that “no editor or before their names. publisher has a right to alter an author's MS." Managers cannot exist without plays : yet the in the April issue is too wide in its literal terms. author is the person to whom payment is most Read " an author's signed work." and I agree. grudged in times of box-office famine. Certain Both as contributor and editor, through a pretty managers look upon him as a kind of diseased long experience, I have always understood that an parasite, a being totally unnecessary to the success- editor of anonymous articles, being fully respon- ful working of a theatre. But if the dramatists as sible for the contents, is entitled to alter them. As an organised body went out on strike, what would a matter of courtesy and prudence he will consult become of the theatre as a commercial enterprise ? the writer so far as practicable. But in the case Personally, I cannot understand the selfishness of signed contributions an editor, except with the of the individual dramatist who objects to organisa- writer's consent, may only correct manifest errors, tion and co-operation. Whatever consideration he see to conformity in spelling and punctuation, and owes to his own interests, he still owes some to at need require objectionable matter to be omitted those of his profession. Naturally and rightly (but this is really a case of limited refusal to pub- dramatists of standing can demand larger fees than lisb, which is not on the same footing). Publishers those who still have their spurs to win; but any and proof-readers ought not to interfere except to dramatist can, and every dramatist should, demand stop, in emergency, a flagrant error which has an agreed-upon minimum percentage and certain escaped the author : such things do happen : but recognised conditions, one of which should be eren then they should be very careful. that if a manager, having requested an author to F. POLLOCK. send him a play, keeps that play beyond a certain send him a pl time-limit, it should be considered then that he has accepted that play, and that he is liable for a sum DRAMATISTS AND THE SOCIETY. in advance of royalties in connection with that play. SIR,—The average dramatist is incapable of If dramatists would stand together they would no looking after his own financial interests; so he longer be the victims of abuses ; they could demand employs an agent, and pays him a 10 per cent. and would obtain businesslike treatment and commission. But it seems to me that what the courtesy. But if they are to stand together they agents are doing the Society of Authors—if it is must do so under the banner of the society. And to represent us officially; if it is to become a although the scheme that I am suggesting would necessity to us; if the inducements to come in are entail infinite labour and much thinking, it is to to be so obvious that not to be a member is not to my mind the first and most important step towards exist as a dramatist-could do much better. real organisation and co-operation. All accom- And, from a purely commercial point of view, plishment that is worth while is difficult. It cannot why does the society philosophically accept the be done in a moment, but it can be done. There fact that a large portion of these commissions are born reactionaries—even amongst dramatists ; might, with a little trouble, be diverted to its own hopeless pessimists, content to let things slide, bank account? If it charged only 5 per cent. for fearful lest change should bring tyranny in its collecting royalties and drafting contracts, its wake. Such people have always been the brakes increased income would more than balance its on the wheel of human progress. increased expenditure. But it seems to me that if the society is to  ## p. 210 (#280) ############################################ 210 THE AUTHOR. represent dramatists as a body; if the induce that I brought no accusation of any kind against anybody. ments to come in are to be greater than the An agreement is an agreement, and an absolute sale is an absolute sale, no matter how the financial consequences temptations to stay out; the Dramatic Sub-Com- thereof may work out." (New Age, March 9.) mittee would be doing a very useful work both for the It would seem, then, that the “ expert " who is individual dramatist and for dramatists as a body if, during the coming year, it would draft a scheme good enough to assure the author that his foreign and translation rights are too trifling to be worth by which it could either shunt the agent and take his bothering about (and had therefore better be place, or appoint certain agents in various places entrusted to the said expert's sole care) is an who would act solely through and on behalf of the individual whose activities are not confined to this Society of Authors—men of experience, discretion side of the Channel. and integrity, who could keep in touch, through the Yours faithfully, WARD MUIR. theatrical papers or other sources, with the move- ments and productions of all classes of managers, and so safeguard the dramatist from unauthorised AUTHORS' AGENTS. performances of his work ; thus making itself not only a luxury to the individual dramatist, but a SIR,--Through a long and varied experience I necessity to all dramatists ; while the extra expense have found that the author's agent rather than the involved could be met by the percentage charged on author himself ruins the prospects of the minor the collection of fees. author. The Society of Authors is constantly This is only a suggestion, but I think it is worthy dinning into the ears of its members that they of consideration. should not write under a certain price per 1,000 Yours truly, A DRAMATIST. words in periodical contributions ; that they should not publish their first or subsequent books at their own expense, and I think that many authors have MINOR (?) Rights. wisely, and to their benefit, followed the advice that SIR,—The following paragraph from the weekly has been given them. But what are they to do literary causerie, “ Books and Persons in London when the author's agent advises them to sign con- and Paris,” by “ Jacob Tonson” in The New Age, tracts at ruinons rates ; to sign contracts giving may be of interest to some of your readers. all their minor rights to the publisher ; to sign “ Jacob Tonson," having stated that 5,000 copies contracts for the payment of sums towards the of the English translation of “Marie Claire ” were production of their books, or for the production of sold within a week of publication, goes on to their books on a deferred royalty which, when it describe an interview which he has had with does come, is microscopically small ? The author Madame Audoux, the author of that work. After goes to an agent, being ignorant himself, as to a recording the commencement of their conversation, person who knows the market; he trusts his wealth “ Jacob Topson ” continues :- of literature to an agent with greater confidence "From work to prices, naturally! It was pleasing to than he would entrust his earnings to a stock- find that she (Madame Audoux] had a very sane and proper broker or his legal business to a solicitor-with curiosity as to prices and conditions in England. After I fatal results. The agent in many cases, in order had somewhat satisfied this curiosity she showed an equally to save himself trouble, gives advice which is wholly sane and proper annoyance at the fact that the English and unsatisfactory lest he should be asked to spend American rights of 'Marie Claire' had been sold outright for a ridiculous sum. She told me the exact sum. It was more time and energy in obtaining a sounder either £16 or £20-I forget which. If the success of the agreement. This refers not only to the rights book in America equals its success in England (and it will placed in England, but also to the rights in America probably surpass it), the author's profits under a proper and other countries. In fact, it has almost become agreement should be upwards of £800. Who is getting these profits I cannot say, but the author is not getting impossible to persuade an agent to obtain the them.” (New Age, March 2.) American rights for his client. The result in the It is fair to add that in his next week's causerie long run would be much better for the author to “ Jacob Tonson” published the following pay an agent 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. if he could be quite sure that the agent would conscien- paragraph :- tiously fight through his contracts with publisher "Last week, in spcaking of Marie Claire,' I said that or editor, but then the question would always be the author was not getting the author's share of the profits on the very successful sale of Marie Claire,' and that I in dispute whether by increasing the percentage did not know who was getting the author's share. Theyou increase the efficiency. As a general rule, publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, have satisfied me when an author, or a body of authors, has estab- that they are paying quite proper royalties on the circulation lished his or their price, it is difficult to beat the (ten thousand copies up to date). I am very glad to make known this fact. Messrs. 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