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Title A name given to the resource The Author Subject The topic of the resource <em>The Author</em> Description An account of the resource A digitised run of the Society of Authors' monthly periodical, <em>The Author</em>, 1890<span>–</span>1914, made available together for the first time.<br /><br />Currently users can browse issues and <a href="https://historysoa.com/items/browse?search=&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bjoiner%5D=and&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Index&amp;collection=&amp;type=&amp;tags=&amp;exhibit=&amp;date_search_term=&amp;submit_search=Search+For+Items&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle">indices</a> (not available for all volumes). Full text search for all issues, and other additional search functionality, will be added in 2022. 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) 1913-12-01 Volume 24 Issue 3 Pages Page range in volume 63–92 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19131201 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin Che Butbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. FOUNDED BY SIR Monthly.) WALTER BESANT. Vor. XXIV.—No. 3. DECEMBER 1, 1913. [PRIcE SIXPENCE. TELEPHONE NUMBER: 874 VICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: AUTORIDAD, LONDON. ge NOTICES. 4 | ae the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or paragraphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. Tue Editor begs to inform members of the Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. Tue Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of cost, its production would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 5s. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed to the offices of the Society, 1, Cen- tral Buildings, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all literary matters treated from Vou. XXIV. the standpoint of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be. made to return articles which cannot be accepted. ADVERTISEMENTS. Messrs. Matthews’ Advertising Service, Staple Inn Buildings, High Holborn, W.C., will act as agents for advertisements for “The Author.” All communications respect- ing advertisements should be addressed to them. As there seems to be an impression among readers of The Author that the Committee are personally responsible for the bona fides of the advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case. Although care is exercised that no undesirable advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and never have accepted, any liability. Members should apply to the Secretary for advice if special information is desired. ——_—_——_——_+—_—___—_ THE SOCIETY’S FUNDS. —— ++ ROM time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these con- tributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, either in fighting a question of principle, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, or in dealing with any other “9  64 matter closely connected with the work of the Society. . : 8 (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. ————__+—>—_+—___—_ THE PENSION FUND. — N January, the secretary of the Society I laid before the trustees of the Pension Fund the accounts for the year 1912, as settled by the accountants. After giving the matter full consideration, the trustees in- structed the secretary to invest a sum of £300 in the purchase of Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway 4% Extension Shares, 1914, £16 fully paid. The number of shares pur- chased at the current price was twenty-five and the amount invested £296 1s. 1ld. The trustees are also purchasing three more Central Argentine Railway New Shares at par, on which as holders of the Ordinary Stock they have an option. The trustees desire to thank the members of the Society for the continued support which they have given to the Pension Fund. The nominal value of the investments held on behalf of the Pension Fund now amounts to £4,764 6s., details of which are fully set out in the following schedule :— Nominal Value. £8. dk: Bocsl Loans. 2.6.0.6 boss chien 500 0 0 Victoria Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ........ 291 19 11 London and North-Western 3% Debenture Stock ............ 250 0 0 Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ........ 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed StOCk = 0.6, 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Rail- way 4% Preference Stock .... 228 0 0 New Zealand 34% Stock ....... 247 9 6 Irish Land 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Corporation of London 24% Stock, 1927—57 ..1......5.... 438 2 4 Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919—49 .. 18218 6 Mauritius 4% 1987 Stock ....... 120 12 1 Dominion of Canada, C.P.R. 34% Land Grant Stock, 1988 ...... 198 3 8 Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway 5% Preferred Stock .......... 237 0 0 Central Argentine Railway Or- dinary Stock ,........ 0... -. 282 0 0 THE AUTHOR. Nominal Value £ sd. $2,000 Consolidated Gas and Electric Company of Baltimore 44% Gold Bonds ........... 400 0 0 250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5% Preference Shares .........+. 250 0 0 55 Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway 4% Extension Shares, 1914 (fully paid) ............ 550 0 0 8 Central Argentine Railway £10 Preference Shares, New Issue... 80 0 0 PENSION FUND. + Tue list printed below includes all fresh dona- tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received by, or promised to, the fund from January 8, 1913. It does not include either donations given prior to January, nor does it include sub- scriptions paid in compliance with promises made before it. Subscriptions. 1913. April 8, Caulfield-Stoker, T. . ; June 12, Wimperis, Arthur . : June 16, Ballantyne, J. W. June 16, Thorold, Rupert Oct. 8, Rees, Miss Rosemary Oct. 8, Pearce, J. : ; : Oct. 9, Drummond, Miss Florence Oct. 9, Rumbold, Hugo Oct. 18, Knowles, Miss Oct. 20, Collison, Harry : Oct. 21, Buchanan, Miss Meriel Oct. 25, Baker, E. A. . Nov. 6, Bentley, E. C. : Nov. 6, Petersen, Miss Margaret Novy. 7, Lang, Mrs. John Nov. 19, Langferte, Raymond Nov. 24, Webb, W. Trego Nov. 24, Mackenzie, Compton OR et Or MOCO COOOHO OOO OHOHOM coceoococooscoosooooooOF® OM Or Or OL OT OLS Or OLS Donations. 19138. April 2, Daniel, E. H. . April 2, Hain, H.M. . : : April 7, Taylor, Miss Susette M. . April 7, Harding, Newman . . April 9, Strachey, Miss Amabel_ . April 10, Aspinall, Algernon . ecocoeooo Arana oooooom  THE AUTHOR. DH RON OOOO OO ON DN & et OO Or OTe ee April 15, Craig, Gordon : . April, Robbins, Miss Alice . . June 12, Peel, Mrs. . : June 13, Barlow, Miss Hilaré . June 13, Kynnersley, E. M. Sneyd. July 5, Williams, Robert . : July 11, Broadbent, D. R. . : July 22, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte . Sept. 29, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. : Sept. 30, Healy, Wallis : : Oct. 7, Darwin, Sir Francis . : Oct. 9, Carroll, Sydney Wentworth Oct. 21, Troubetskoy, The Princess Oct. 27, Frankish, Harold : Oct. 30, Rossman, Miss . : Nov. 3, Holland, Theodore Nov. 3, Steane, Bruce ‘ Nov. 3, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite Nov. 10, Elvington, Miss Helen Noy. 10, Waterbury, Mrs. _ -_ MOSS SOSOSHOMNON HEH COCO Eh pat SmMASSSSCORSOARGCOCCOCOOOCCO® —— a ComPpLETE List or ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS. Ir is the custom of the Committee of Management of the Society to publish, once a year, the full list of subscribers to the Pension Fund. Owing to an oversight, the list was not published in the October issue. As from time to time members of the Society complain that the list doesn’t contain the names of many well-known authors, the Committee desire to point out that when the Fund was started and since its foundation, there have been many liberal donations by well-known authors, which donations have been chronicled from time to time in these columns. It does not follow, therefore, that because an author’s name is not down as an annual subscriber, that he has not on previous occasions been a liberal donor. i} AMonocnononkKH aoe. Abbott, The Rev. E. Acland, Mrs. C. D. Allen, Mrs. Grant . Anderson, Arthur Andrews, Miss C. C. Annesley, Miss M. Anonymous . Anonymous Armstrong, Frances Arnold, Mrs. J. O. Askew, Claude Avery, Harold. ; . : Baden-Powell, Miss ; : > Bagnall, Miss L. T. : _ — —_ ecaccoooaococo® ecoeoorSoorooerth Baker, E. A. : Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred _. Ballantyne, J. W. Banks, Mrs. M. M. Barne, Miss M. C. Barnett, P. A. Barrie, Sir J. M. Barrington, Mrs. R. Bashford, H. H. Beale, Lady . : Bedford, Miss Jessie Begbie, Harold _. Bell, Lady . . Benecke, Miss Ida Benjamin, Lewis . Bennett, Arnold . Berkeley, Mrs. F.R. Blaikley, Miss Editha L. Bland, J.O.P. . : Bland, Mrs. Nesbit Blow, Frederick Bolton, Miss Anna Bond, R. Warwick Bosanquet, E. F. . Bowen, Miss Marjorie Bradshaw, Percy... Brandon, Miss D. . Breakell, Miss Mary 5 Brend, C. Cunningham . Brinton, Selwyn Brodhurst, Spencer Broster, Miss D. K. Brown, R. Grant . Buchanan, Miss Meriel . Buckley, Reginald Budgen, Miss ; Bungey, E. Newton Burmester, Miss F. Burton, J. B. : Caillard, Miss E. M. Caine, William Calderon, George . Cannan, Gilbert Capes, Bernard Capes, Mrs. . : Carlyle, ‘Rev. A. J. Carr, Miss M. E. . : Caulfield, Kathleen M. . Caulfield-Stoker, T. ‘Channon, Mrs. Frances . Chase, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. - Chesterton, G. K. Child, Harold H. . Clifford, Lady Clifton, Mrs. Clodd, Edward . Clough, Miss B. A. . — SMSMSSSSSSSSSSSSOHSSOHMSSSSSSSSSOS OOH SH SCOOC OO OmMHHN HOS O OOOO CO OHOHm bt — _ ht SCOTKM NOH OCOAAAANAonaan _ Aonra1onn ee cooorocso o> Or MoooeoresoesooooacooacsososooSoOAaSoSoOORaSASSOAS OOOO OOOO ONO SOC OSC CSO O®  66 THE AUTHOR. Q Q SS SSS SO SS SBS OO SB OS SOS SSS SSS SSS SSSOSOAMSS SS SSS SSS SSOSSSSSSO.S S* jul aooocooooooeocoooscooaoooooosoooscooeoeoe: Freshfield, Douglas Fuller, Sir Bamfylde Galsworthy, John Garvice, Charles Gay, Mrs. Florence Geddes, Mrs, George, W. L. Gibb, A. : Gibson, Frank ; Gidley, Miss.E. C.. Giles, Miss Edith J. F. Gilliat, The Rev. E. Gilson, Capt. Charles Glenconner, Lady Gonne, Capt, C. Gosse, Edmund Graham, Capt. Harry Graves, A. P. : Greig, James Gribble, Francis Grier, Miss Julia M. Griffin, Miss V. C. Grogan, W. E. Guthrie, Anstey Haggard, Mrs. Hain, H. M. Halford, F. M. Hamilton, Henry . Hands, Mrs. Morris : Hannay, The Rey. Canon J. O. mos ooo eH oreo HH oo oro & Oe Oe Cohen, Mrs. Herbert ; Collier, The Hon. John . Colquhoun, A. R. Cooke, W. B. Cooper, Miss Marjorie Cotesworth, Miss L. E. Coulton, G. G. : Cox, Miss M. Roalfe Cromartie, Countess of . Crommelin, Miss May Crozier, Dr. J. Beattie Cuming, E. D. Curwen, Miss Maud Dailley, R. H. ; Dale, Miss Nellie . Darbishire, Otto . Davy, Mrs. E. M.. Dawson, Forbes Dawson, Warrington De Brath, Stanley De Morgan, William Desborough, The Lerd . Dillon, Mrs. . Dixon, A. F. Dixon, Miss H. M. Dixon, W. Scarth Dobson, Austin Drake, Maurice F. Drummond, Miss F. : Dummelow, Rev. J. R.. Dunsany, The Lord Harland, Mrs. Durand, Ralph —. Harraden, Miss B. Durand, The Right Hon. Sir Henzy Harris, Miss Jessie Mortimer . Harrison, Austin . Diiring, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Darent . Edgington, Miss May Haultain, Arnold . Ellis, Miss M. A. Hawkes-Cornock, Mrs. . é Escott, T. H. S. Hawkins, A. Hope : j ia Esmond, H. Vv. . Heath, Miss E. : : Eyre-Matcham, Mrs. Heath, Miss H. Fagan, J. B. Heath, Sidney Felkin, A.L. Hecht, Mrs. Arthur Felkin, The Hon. Mrs. Hedgecock, FOAL : Fenwick, Miss Sik. Heming, Lieut.-Col. D. : Festing, Miss Henderson, R. W. Wright . Fiamingo, Carlo. . Henley, Mrs. Z Field, The Rev. Claude . Hepburn Thomas Fieldhouse, Arthur Hills, Mrs. M. : Fitzgerald, Colin . Hitchens, Robert . Fitzgerald, Mrs. E. A. Hitchings, F. W. . Fleming, Mrs. A. D. Hollins, Miss D. Forbes, Lady Helen Holme, Miss. ‘at So one ooNneooc: _ —_ Oe = ON OF oOo Meer OOC OCC OCC OF OOrHSCOCOCSOHOFSOmK fon — ee o OunNnouwraww1c OS 1S Ct cCoocooconow bo Gt Or Or OTN OUD Or et Rt eR Or Or COMNSCOCCOCOCOHHONOHOSOSOOSOHOCONH OMI fool Oo fml ood Ho _ CSOmMeOMNMOoOUNorFonannadauH — oroooooowmoororossooooorewownecore _ Oe WOOO O OW OO RY Orr Or © Or Or COMKCNH NH OOOO SCORMRFrOUMSoOOC oF cosoceosoacooaososeooscsessesce Forrest, Sir G. W. 2 Holmes, Miss E. - Forrester, J. Cliffe 5 Hood, Miss Agnes J acomb 1 : Forster, R. H. 1 Hughes-Gibb, “Mrs. ‘ e Fox, A. Dd. : 5 Hutchinson, Rev. H. N. Francis, René 10 Hutton, Edward . :  HOC. Inkster, C. L Jackson, €.S: James, Henry James, Miss S. Boucher Jane, i. Cecil Jerome, Jerome K. Jessup, A. E. Jones, Henry Arthur Jones, W. Braunston Keene, Mrs. Kelly, W. P. : Kennaway, Miss E. Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole . Kersey; W.H. . . : Kilmarnock, The Lord . Kupling, Rudyard Kitcat, Mrs. Lambe, J. Laurence Larden, Walter Larken, E. P. Laurance, Lionel . Laws, T. C. . : Lee, Rev. Albert . Letts, Miss W. M. : Lewis, The Rev. Arthur. Lewis, T. C. : Liddle, S Lincoln, C. . Lion, Leon M. : Little, Mrs. Archibald Locke, W. J. Longe, Miss Julia . Lueas, E. V. Macdonald, Greville Mackenzie, Miss H. Macnamara, Margaret Macnaughton-Jones, Dr. H. Macpherson, J. F.. ; MacRitchie, David Madison, Miss G. R. Malcolm, Mrs. Ian Malet, Lucas : Mann, Mrs. Mary E. Maquarie, Arthur . Marchmont, A. W. Markino, Yoshio Marks, Mrs. M.. . Marriott, Charles . Martin, Miss Violet Masefield, John E. Matheson, Miss Annie McCormick, E. B. Meredith, Mark Middlemas, Miss Jean Miller, Mrs. . Miniken, Miss B. M. M. THE AUTHOR. HOSCCOSHH OSHS OONSCOSSOOOHHONNOSSOOH OOOO OOCOHH UMS OCOO OO OHH MOHNOOH me _ od bot bee bh ht _ ee low MOOSCNSCAMOAH TH SON SOLO OTH OOOO OTOH RK OOOUN OOOH HK OMEN OO pen ouaunnotroonr cocooscoossoooaesesosessesescosesssoescsesessooscosoosceososeosooacoesoosescsoosoeo® Moffat, ‘Miss B. Montgomery, Miss K. i Montresor, Miss F. F. Morton, Michael Mulliken, Mrs. : Murdock, W. G. Barn. M. W. : Narramore, William Nembhard, Miss M. Newton, Miss A. M. Nicholls, F. C. Niven, Frederick . Northeote, The Rev. H O’Brien, Rev. G. E. : O’Donnell, Miss Petronella Orezy, Baroness : Osgood, Irene Owen, Charles : Pakington, Hon. Mary . Parr, Miss O. K. . ‘ Parry, Sir Hubert Paull, H. M. Pearce, John Pearson, Mrs. Conny Pendered, Miss M. L. Pettigrew, W. F. . Phillipps-Wolley, C. Phillpotts, Eden Phipson, Miss Emma Pickthall, M. W. Pinero, Sir Arthur Plunkett, G. N., Count . Pollock, Miss E. . : Pollock, The Right Frederick, P.C. . : Pope, Miss Jessie . Portman, Lionel Prelooker, ad: Prideaux, Miss S. T. Probert, W. S. Pryor, Francis Punshon, E. R. Rawlings, Burford Rees, Miss R. : Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, Mrs. Fred Rhys, Ernest : Richardson, Mrs. A. Riley, Miss Josephine Rittenberg, Max Roberts, D. G. Roberts, Morley Roe, Mrs. Harcourt Romanes, Mrs. Ropes, A. R. Rorison, Miss E. ‘Rossetti, W. M. _ SeOMNocoKooneoocorooooreooceooooooroorroch Hon. Ceormrococooocoooooorw oe eH eH OH OHM a _ _ HOSS OH SON O&O & Or Or Ot OS HH Ot OS & OF Or OF OU OU Ot OU et Or ts —_ Lal — te 7 oS _ AoAanraoanrnawie ake Onc uae Sete aaEKtoce oD J eoococeocoooacecsooooooroo Sceooaecsoeseoooscsesesescosaceoosseesescoooe  68 Rotherstein, A. D. Rumble, Mrs. Russell, G. H. Rutter, Frank Sabatini, Raphael Saies, Mrs. . : Salmond, Mrs. . Salter, Miss E. K. Salway, Reginald . Sanders, Miss E. K. Schwartz, Prof. E. H. Scott, G. Forrester Scott, Mrs. C. Seaman, Owen Sedgwick, Prof. A. Sedgwick, W. : 2 Selincourt, Mrs. Basil de Sergeant, Miss Constance Seton-Karr, H. W. Sharp, Miss E. Shaw, Fred G. Shaw, Mrs. Bernard Shepherd, George H. Shera, Miss B. M. Sherwood, Miss A. Shiers-Mason, Mrs. Shipley, Miss Mary Simpson, Miss Gaynor . Simpson, W. J. . Sinclair, Miss Edith Sinclair, Miss May Skrine, Mrs. J. H.. Skrine, Rev. J. H. Slaughter, Miss F. Smith, Bertram Smythe, A. . Snell, Miss Olive Somers, John : : Somerville, Miss E. Ck. . Speed, Lancelot Spens, A. B. Spiers, Victor : Sproston, Samuel, Junr. Spurrell, Herbert . ‘ Stanton, Miss H. M. E. . Stawell, Mrs. R. : Stayton, Frank Stein, Sir M. Aurel Steveni, W. Barnes : Stewart, J. C. McDougal Stockley, Mrs. ‘ ‘ Stott, M. D. : Sturt, Geo... ; Sullivan, Herbert . Summers, J. ‘ ‘ Sutherland, The Duchess of Sutro, Alfred. THE AUTHOR. £ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 i 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 ~D f= or Or OF OF O OF OT OL OL OL GT OTT Or O & Ore Or or Ore I — eH or or O Or Or OF 01 O OF OD ON SO Or Or Or Or _ _ DD Oe Oe SO Orr O OVS OV Q oo eee Seo esses ooaccoesssasoosoosssoosessonecs** Taylor, Mrs. Basil. Tearle, Christian . ; Teixeira-de-Mattos, Alex Tharp, Robt. C. . : Thomson, Lieut.-Col. J.. Thurston, E. Temple Todd, Miss Margaret, M.D. Todhunter, Dr. J. : Toynbee, Paget Toynbee, William Travers, Miss Rosalind . Trench, Herbert Trevelyan, G. M. . Trevor, Major P. . Truman, Miss Olivia Tuckett, F. F. : Turner, G. F. é Turner, Reginald . Tuttiett, Miss M. G. Twycross, Miss M. Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor Underdown, Miss E. Vachell, H. A. Vacher, Francis Vernede, R. E.. . Von Holst, Gustav Voynich, Mrs. E.L. . Waldstein, Sir Charles . Walkley, T. . ; : Walshe, Douglas . Ward, Mrs. Humphry. Ward, The Rev. F. W. Orde . Warden, Miss Gertrude . Watt, A. P.. Z : Weaver, Mrs. Baillie Weston, Miss J. L. Westrup, Miss M. . Weyman, Stanley J. Wheelhouse, Mrs. . : Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard Whiteing, Richard Willard, Mrs. ‘ Williams, W. Wynn Wills, The Rev. Freeman Wilton, Margaret W. Wimperis,.Arthur Winchelsea, The Countess of . Woods, Miss Mary A.. Worsley, Miss A. . Wright, E. Fondi . Wynne, Miss May Yolland, Miss E. . Young, Ernest OK HMOOH NOH OH HOH OOCOOOHOHHUSOON SH (oer oocooee cero osc oueceroeoso aw put Ce OnNwon oy, _ a Me HOM OT HH OAH OM O OUMNH S _ ~ bt et NOAA TNOM AHH ODMAMOMMOH AMON & a ee esc e seco o coe o ooo sooooosoosesoSSssoeeee**  THE AUTHOR. COMMITTEE NOTES. aed HE Committee of Management held their November meeting on Monday, Novem- ber 8, at 1, Central Buildings, Tothill Street. After the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, the committee proceeded with the election of members and associates. They are glad to record the election of thirty- eight members and associates. The full list appears elsewhere. The total elections for the year number 315. The committee accepted, with regret, three resignations. The solicitors reported on the cases passing through their hands during the month. In a ease of breach of agreement by a pub- lisher, the matter had been settled when the solicitors of the Society had given notice of an injunction. In the second case, against the proprietor of a magazine, the amount and costs paid into court had been accepted, and the matter was ended satisfactorily for the author. In two claims against a music publisher, the accounts had been delivered and the moneys paid. In a case against a magazine, an agreed sum had been paid and handed over to the author. There were two very small cases in which arrangements had been made for pay- ment by instalments. This statement will show that many of the cases open from the former month have now been closed. The solicitor reported on a serious question which had been mentioned at the former meeting, where a publisher had refused facilities for vouching his accounts. The publisher had 2 since withdrawn his objection, and the solicitor VE was instructed to see that the accounts were 'y duly vouched. Two cases were reported in ‘+ which no final decision had been arrived at. One related to the infringement of authors’ rights in America, and the other dealt with the rights of publication in England. The solicitor explained that it was necessary to wait for fuller information before any practical decision could be come to, and the matters were accordingly adjourned to the next meeting. A dispute between a member of the Society and her publisher respecting the publication of a book was fully discussed by the committee. The solicitor explained the details. The committee regretted that it was impossible to take any further steps than those which had already been taken, and instructed the solicitor that the member concerned should be informed of this decision. The last case mentioned by the solicitors was a dispute between author and 69 publisher as to the fulfilment of a contract commissioned by the publisher. After full consideration of the evidence, the committee decided it was not possible to proceed further, as it appeared that the author had no ground of action. The secretary then reported one or two cases in his hands. He stated that an action for infringement of dramatic copyright in Winnipeg had_ been settled, and the author had offered to pay the Society’s expenses. The committee thanked the author for his generous acknowledgement of the Society’s work by the offer that he had made. A serious question of alleged infringement of dramatic copyright came before the committee, and after due considera- tion it was decided to give the member all possible assistance and to guarantee a sum towards counsel’s fees on certain conditions laid down by the committee. The next four eases related to complaints in America and Canada. In the first, against a dramatic agent, the secretary was empowered, if he did not receive satisfaction, to place the matter into the hands of the Society’s American lawyers. The second, against an American magazine for breach of an author’s rights, it was decided to place into the hands of the Society’s Ameri- can lawyers immediately. In the third case the secretary reported that a_ satisfactory arrangement had been made by the American publishers for the payment of the debt by instalments each month, which arrangement had been accepted by the author. In the fourth case—against a Canadian publisher— the secretary was instructed to place the matter in the hands of the Society’s lawyers in Toronto, A case against an English publisher con- cerning an agreement was discussed at full length, and the committee decided to instruct the Society’s lawyers to proceed, as it appeared to them that the agreement was wholly unfair and unreasonable. The secretary reported that, during the past month, on the authority of the chairman, an important case had been placed before counsel with reference to dramatic contracts, cinematograph rights, and international law. The committee confirmed the action taken. Another case, referring to the infringement of rights in Australia was deferred for further consideration. Counsel’s opinion bearing on a difficult question of mechanical rights in Germany was placed before the committee. As that opinion was in favour of the member, it was decided to accept counsel’s advice and to commence action.  70 Lastly, the secretary was instructed to write to a publisher with reference to the alleged publication of an author’s books contrary to an existing agreement, and to ask for an exX- planation from the publisher. The committee then proceeded to consider the question of the appointment of their nominees for the committee election at the end of the year. The names will appear in The Author in accordance with the Articles of Association. : The secretary reported on the question of the appointment of nominees to mect the Societies of Composers with a view to obtaining their adhesion to the Society of Authors. At the suggestion of the Composers’ Sub-Com- mittee, Mr. Cecil Forsyth was elected a delegate, and Mr. Stanley Leathes was suggested as a second delegate to accompany Mr. Forsyth. Failing him, the secretary was instructed, in conjunction with the chairman, to choose some other member, and when the delegates had been finally settled to make arrangements to meet the Society of British Composers or any other Society acting for composers. The proposals put forward by the com- mittee in the matter of the banning of books by the libraries and referred back to that body next came forward for consideration. Mr. Maurice Hewlett kindly attended, and put before the committee one or two important points. The matter was then discussed at great length, and all the points raised by the Council were fully considered. The committee decided, after careful deliberation, to abandon the proposal which had been made to call a conference, as such proposals appeared con- trary to the desires and wishes of the Council of the Society. A draft circular respecting the Collection Bureau, which the committee propose to issue, was left for settlement between the chairman and the secretary. It will be sent to all members of the Society in due course. A royalty agreement was finally settled, subject to one small question which it was decided to refer to the solicitors of the Society. The agreement is now ready for those members who desire a copy. The question of the dinner guests was left to the chairman and ‘secretary. A proposition to bring the Society’s work to the notice of the younger members of the pro- fession was considered, and the secretary was instructed to make arrangements with a view to obtaining their names and addresses if ossible. The Publishers’ Association drew the atten- THER AUTHOR. tion of the committee to the Copyright Bill now before the Indian Legislative Council, with special reference to the Clause dealing with translation rights. It was decided to act with the Publishers’ Association, with a view to strengthening the rights of translators, and, if possible, to obtain for authors the same rights over their translation as are enjoyed under the Berne Convention. Certain letters from members were placed before the committee and the secretary was instructed to answer those that required answering. Two matters—loans to authors on contracts, and the International Gathering of Authors at San Francisco, 1915—were adjourned to the next meeting. The committee thanked Miss Annesley Kenealy for a donation of £1 1s. towards the Capital Fund of the Society. DRAMATIC SuB-COMMITTEE. A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee was held at the offices of the Society on Friday, November 21, at three o’clock. After reading the minutes certain dramatic cages were considered. In the first case the secretary reported the action the Committee of Management had taken on the sub- committee’s recommendation, and he was instructed to try to obtain further witnesses for the plaintiff. Consideration of the second case—an infringement of copyright—was adjourned as the report necessary to lay before the sub-committee had not been received by the secretary. The third case, which raised the question of cinematograph reproduction, was fully discussed, but the sub-committee considered that, at present, any action would be premature, as the member concerned had no clear evidence to lay before the sub- committee that action had been taken against; him. The sub-committee decided to re- consider the case should the member’s fears be realised that his rights were being challenged. The question of providing powers of attor- ney in favour of lawyers in foreign countries to assist the Society in stopping infringements, which had been raised at the former meeting, was discussed, and it was decided, with the approval of the Committee of Management, to obtain powers of attorney which could be sent out with a carefully worded covering letter conveying the information that the . powers were not to be acted upon until cabled instructions were given from the Society’s office.  THE AUTHOR. 71 The secretary placed before the sub-com- mittee an agreement which had been submitted to certain members of the Society, and it was decided, with the approval of the Committee of Management, that an article should be published in The Author on the terms of this agreement. The sub-committee regretted that the delegates from the Dramatic Clubs Association were unable to attend the meeting, but they discussed the resolutions that had been submitted to them, and the secretary was instructed to draft and to forward a reply. As the sub-committee understood from the Society of West End Managers that it was impossible to call a meeting at the present time, owing to the absence of Sir George Alexander, one of the delegates, the matter was adjourned pending the receipt of a further communication from the Society. The secretary was instructed to write to the members of the sub-committee in regard to the election of the sub-committee for 1914. The sub-committee decided to appoint their nominees at the December meeting to be held on the 19th of that month. ES OPES Composers’ Sup-CoMMITTEE. Tue November meeting of the Composers’ Sub-Committee was held at the offices of the Society, 1, Central Buildings, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W. After reading the minutes of the pre- vious meeting, the secretary reported that the Committee of Management had confirmed the appointment of Mr. Cecil Forsyth as a delegate to meet the Society of British Com- posers with a view to conferring with that Society as to the best means of drawing into the Society of Authors, Composers not members of any existing Societies. He reported also that the Committee of Management had appointed Mr. Stanley Leathes to act with Mr. Forsyth, and that Mr. Leathes had expressed his willingness to serve. It was decided that the two delegates should meet at the Society’s office in order to discuss the preliminary steps to be taken. The sub-committee then considered a para- graph to be inserted in the papers calling the attention of composers to the work the Society was willing to undertake on their behalf, and inviting them to join its ranks. Mr. Forsyth agreed to draft the paragraph according to the sub-committee’s wishes. It was decided that the paragraph, when drafted, should be sent to all the members of the sub-committee, and, when finally approved, inserted in the papers. Letters from the Ammre and _ the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs, referring to the collection of mechanical instrument fees, were read. The consideration of the letter from the Ammre was adjourned. It was decided to accept the invitation contained in the letter from the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs to send a representative to discuss the matter with the secretary of that Society, in the event of enquiries which the Society of Authors had already instituted producing no satisfactory result. The attention of the sub-committee having been called to the fact that stamps affixed to records under the Mechanical Instrument Clauses of the Copyright Act very often fell off the records when in the hands of the retailers, it was decided to collect all possible evidence on the matter, and to bring it to the notice of the Board of Trade. The prospectus of the Copyright Protection Society was considered by the sub-committee, The secretary was instructed to draft an article dealing with the Prospectus and to submit it to the members at their next meeting, when the article, as well as the position of composers in relation to that Society, would be re-discussed. A letter from Mr. J. B. McEwen was received by the sub-committee, in which Mr. McEwen regretted he was forced to resign owing to his inability to attend the meetings. The resigna- tion was accepted with regret. pep Cases. THE even roll of cases goes on from month to month. In spite of the monotony of the proceeding, they are chronicled in order that members may see the steady work the Society continues to perform on their behalf. To some, this chronicle may appear of little importance, but this is not so; all members should have an opportunity of seeing that the work is carefully and accurately attended to. The cases during the past month in the secretary’s hands number twenty-one, and there has been a considerable increase. in the number of those in foreign countries. We chronicle five claims for the return of MSS. ; one of these lies in the United States, another in South Africa. It has not, of course, been possible to complete these two within the month. In two other cases, the MSS. have been returned and forwarded to the authors. In the final case, as the Society could not  responsible f all of which have Following this for money ; into the han on agreements. considerable amoun negotiations are being referring to t by degrees, as t on fixed dates. Bagley, Miss L. . Bentley, Edmund Cleri- ‘ Bridges, Robert . Burdett, Osbert . Calthrop, Dion Clayton Carter, Huntly . THE AUTHOR. in the courtesy of a reply, formal notice es to the lier that he would be held or any wrongful use of the MSS. There have been three claims for accounts, been successfully dealt with. there have been six claims f these have been transferred ds of the Society’s solicitors ; one has been settled and the money has been forwarded to the author ; so far that a definite date has been fixed for payment, and the last ha to the office. : There have been two claims for accounts and money, one of these lies in the United States, the other has been satisfactorily ended. estions arising copyright are bei one has been settled s only recently come from infringements of ng dealt with. One in Austria is in course of negotiation. It is hoped that the remaining one in England will be settled shortly. There were three cases arising from disputes These involve necessarily a t of correspondence, and carried on in two cases, while the third has only recently come to hand. The cases from former months are being closed up. One with a literary agent he return of MSS. is being settled he agent has to call in the MSS. that have been sent out to editors. There will be no difficulty. There is a claim for money from the United States, and this is being settled by payments Two instalments have already A third case dealing with a dispute over an agreement is still in the course of negotiation. The remaining cases have been settled, save those which had to be transferred to the Society’s lawyers. —— 4 — November Elections. Bagenol, Miss Violet E. Benekerry, Carlow, Ireland. Rock Bank, Whaley Bridge. 28, Lymington Road N.W Chilswell, Oxford. Shotwick, Vernon Road, Bushey, Herts. 7, Oakwood Court, Kensington, W..: Waverton Street, Mayfair. Clarke, Madame Emilie Down, W. Oliphant Elrington, Helen Foy, Slieve. Garland, A. P. Grogan, Gerald Hadath, Gunby, M.A. -Hemmerde, Hendley, Mrs. (I. E. Dawson) Hill, Walter (Adelphos) Howell, T. Francis Lancaster, G. B. Lang, Mrs. John Lauzerte Raymond Lawson, Lucy S. . Lounsbery, G. Constant Lulham, P. Habberton Mackenzie, Compton Nellen, Amy E. . Norton, Robert Doug- Peterson, Miss Margaret Roberts, Helen C. Robertson, H. R. Russell, E. 8. Sarmento, Vicomte de Steane, Bruce 24, Biddulph Man- sions, Maida Vale, W. Elmcroft, Gilling- ham, Dorset. 6, Eaton Square Monkstown, Co, Dublin. 70, Danecroft Road Herne Hill, S.E. Toorvagh, St. An- drews, N.B. 12, Hallam Street, W. 4, Loudoun Road, N.W. Trafalgar House, Leeds. 22, Stafford Terrace, Kensington, W. C/o. Bank of New Zealand, London. 2, Salisbury Road, Edinburgh. 14, St. James’s Place, S.W. 254, Albion Road, Stoke Newington, N. 18, Rue Boissonade, Paris. 11, Prince Albert Street, Brigh- ton. La Caterola, Capri, Italy. 9, Clifton Road, Brighton. Argyll House, Chel- sea. 3, Markham Square, Chelsea, S.W. Tudor Lodge, Wor- thing, Sussex. 1, Steele’s Studios, N.W. Bryan’s Ground, Presteign, Rads. Lisbon. ‘Prospect House,” Sundridge, Seven- _ oaks Kent.  THE AUTHOR. Taylor, G. R. Stirling . 1, Pump Court, Temple, E.C. Spondon, Derby. Volta House, Wind- mill Hill, Hamp- stead, N.W. Minsmere, Dunwich, Suffolk. Topham, Miss Anne ., Wanklyn, William Mce- Connel. Webb, W. Trego. ee BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS. While every effort is made by the compilers to keep this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will co-operate in the compiling of this list, and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it substantially accurate. . ART. 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Illustrated by Jules Guérin. 268 pp. Hodder and Stoughton. 25s. n. Prepmont. By Esrenia Canztani and ELEANOR RHODE. With fifty reproductions of Pictures and many Drawings by Esretna Canzrani. 114 x 9. 204 pp. Chatto and Windus. 21s. n. A Winter in Invi. Light Impressions of its Cities, Constantinople. 10% x 7. Peoples and Customs. By A. B. SPENS. 72 x 5. 302 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s. n. eo LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL NOTES. — + — N November 14 a new edition was pub- lished of Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s “‘ Just So Stories,” with twelve plates in colours by Mr. Joseph M. Gleeson, in addition to the author’s original black-and-white illus- trations. The publishers were Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Edward Arnold is publishing a new and revised edition of Mr. Laurence Binyon’s “ Painting in the Far East,” in the preparation of which the author has been able to utilise a THE AUTHOR. variety of new sources of information, while a fuller and more representative selection of illustrations is now possible. Mr. Binyon has also brought out, through Messrs. Macmillan, a work entitled “‘ The Art of Botticelli: an Essay in Interpretation ’’—a quarto volume with twenty-three collotype reproductions in colour and, as frontispiece, an original etching by Mr. Muirhead Bone. Of “ The Art of Botticelli” only 275 copies are being issued, and the price is £12 12s. net. Mr. Douglas Ainslie’s “‘ Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic,” the forth- coming publication of which was announced in the October Author, appeared on November 4 (Macmillan). It is the second part of his translation from the Italian philosopher, Benedetto Croce. M. Maurice Bourgeois’s ‘‘ John Millington Synge and the Irish Theatre ” was issued on October 29 by Messrs. Constable in Great Britain, and by the Macmillan Co. in_the United States. It has sixteen full-page illus- trations by John B. Yeats, R.H.A., Jack B. Yeats, James Paterson, R.S.A., John Currie, and others, and the price is 7s. 6d. net. “The Western Rebellion of 1549” is the title of an account of the insurrections in Devonshire and Cornwall in the reign of Edward VI., by Frances Rose-Troup, E.R. Hist. S. (Smith Elder, 14s. net). Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling’s ‘‘ Macdonald of the Isles ” was published on November 25 (John Murray, 12s. net). Mr. W. H. Koebel is the author of the history of South America in Messrs. Black’s “ Making of the Nations ”’ series. Lady Dunbar is bringing out a book called “The Chow-Chow,” dealing with that breed of dog from the point of view of one who has had long and intimate acquaintance with its habits (Pitman). Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer Maude edit a new edition of Tolstoy’s ‘“ Plays,’’ which contains for the first time all the six plays written by Tolstoy, including the posthumous ones (Constable, 5s. net). Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson’s ‘‘ Old English China,” with sixteen coloured plates and sixty-four half-tone illustrations from photo- graphs, is published by Messrs. G. Bell & Sons at 25s. net. Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron’s travel-book ‘* A Woman’s Winter in Africa’ (Stanley Paul). . In connection with the new cinematograph film ‘“‘ Sixty Years a Queen,’’ which portrays  THE AUTHOR. 77 the reign of Queen Victoria, Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. published on November 10 a volume consisting of an account of the Queen’s reign specially written by Miss May Wynne, illustrated with fifty-five photographs taken from the film. The price is 1s. net. The first number of Mackirdy’s Weekly is to be published on the third Saturday of the New Year, January 24. The moving spirit of this new weekly is Mrs. Mackirdy, née Olive Christian Malvery, author of ‘The Soul Market.” Mrs. Irene Osgood publishes, through the firm of John Richmond, ‘‘ Where Pharaoh Dreams,” with illustrations by W. Gordon Mein. The same firm has issued ‘“‘ The Irene Osgood Thought Book ” and ‘“ An Anthology of Verse of Butterflies, Birds, and other W inged Things,” compiled by Irene Osgood and Horace Wyndham. Mrs. Edghill’s “‘ Is it Well with the Child ? ” —a book for mothers and for speakers to mothers—is published, with an introduction by the Bishop of Edinburgh, by Messrs. Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co. His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of Mr. C. E. Gouldsbury’s new book, “ Tiger Land,” now in its second edition (Chapman & Hall). Mr. Rafael Sabatini’s “Life of Cesare Borgia ”’ is one of the first volumes of Messrs. Stanley Paul’s new Essex Library, a series which is to include ‘‘ recently published works that have attracted special attention as dealing authoritatively with subjects of serious in- terest,” and is to be issued, with illustrations, at a price convenient to all purses. Major P. T. Godsal brings out his ‘‘ Woden’s, Grim’s, and Offa’s Dykes,” through Messrs. Harrison & Sons. A map illustrating the conquest of the Dee valley accompanies the pamphlet. Mr. John B. C. Kershaw, F.I.C., is the author of a book on “ Electro-Thermal Methods of fron and Steel Production,” to which Professor Fleming, F.R.S., contributes an introduction (Constable, 8s. 6d. net). Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson published last month a new novel called ‘* The Unconscious Quest,” by E. Reid Matheson. The scene of the story is laid in Egypt. The Burlington Magazine for October and November contains an article by Ethel Ross Barker, entitled ‘‘ The Symbolism of Certain Catacomb Frescoes.”’ Miss Gladys Davidson has out a volume of original stories about birds, fully illustrated (David Nutt, 2s. 6d.). Mrs. C. Irwin Smart has a serial running in The Lady, entitled ‘The Long Lane.” She was the author of the “ Novel in a Nutshell ” in the Sketch of August 13. Mrs. Edith Wharton’s new novel is “The Custom of the Country,” of which Messrs. Macmillan are the publishers. The same firm has issued Mr. James Stephens’s new volume of fiction, “ Here are Ladies.” Wet Magic,” by E. Nesbit, author of “ The Treasure Seekers,” is published by Mr. Werner Laurie. H.M. the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of “ Weeds,”’ by Miss Olave Potter and Mr. Douglas Sladen.—A new 7s. 6d. edition is appearing of Mr. Sladen’s “‘ Oriental Cairo” (Hurst & Blackett). Messrs. Alston Rivers publish Miss Leslie Moore’s “The Peacock Feather”; and Mrs. Steuart Erskine’s “The Ring of Necessity.” Messrs. Duckworth & Co. have published “The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans,” a story in the essay manner, by Mr. Edward Thomas ; and Mr. George Bourne’s volume of village studies, ‘‘ Lucy Bettesworth.”’ Mabel King’s ‘‘ The People of Ebenezer,” thirteen stories reprinted from The United Methodist, is published by Messrs. Drummond of Stirling, price 1s. The same author will have two serials appearing shortly, “‘ A Modern Midas,” in The British Messenger, and “‘ The Work God Gave Her,” in Wings, the organ of the Woman’s Total Abstinence Society. Mr. Albert Dorrington’s novel, ‘‘ The Radium Terrors,” has just finished its serial publication in the well-known Spanish journal La Ilustra- cion Artistica. The illustrations were by A. C. Michael. Two books by the same author, “The Half-God” and ‘‘A South Sea Buc- caneer,” will appear in a German edition early in 1914, “The Tale of a Shipwreck, a Brownie, and a Baby; and other Stories ” is Miss Amy Hale Rankin’s book for children (Cornish Bros., Birmingham, 1s. net, illustrated). Miss Caecilia Moore’s novel, ‘‘ The Shadow of the Dragon,” is published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. Miss Theodora Wilson-Wilson is publishing with Messrs. Blackie two books for children, one entitled ‘‘ Cousins in Camp ”’ (2s. 6d.), and the other a series of ‘‘ Stories from the Bible,” illustrated in colour by Arthur A. Dixon (8s. 6d.). She has also sold a children’s story to Messrs. Nelson & Son for publication next year. In the spring The Christian Age will serialise  78 one of her novels entitled “A Navvy from King’s.” Mrs. T. P. O’Connor’s story, “ Little Thank You,” has a novel feature in the end-papers, which take the form of music and reproduce Little Thank You’s lullaby, “ Captain Kidd,” written and composed by Mr. Frederick Norton, composer of “ Pinkie and the Fairies.” Charlotte Mansfield’s story, ‘The Girl and the Gods,” is to be reissued by Messrs. Greening & Co. in their new Shilling Net series. The Westminster Review for November contained a poem by Mr. Alfred Smythe entitled “The Sentinel.’”” There was also a poem by Mr. Smythe, called ‘* A Yarn of the River,” in the Poetry Review. Mr. Erskine MacDonald is publishing at once in a shilling Christmas booklet, an “ Anthology of Little Poems,” compiled by E. Crosby-Heath, and including a_ critical essay. The same publisher has brought out “* Dreams of Arcady,” by Octavia Gregory, author of “The Garden Enclosed.” Mr. Erskine MacDonald further announces that he is publishing a poetic drama, “ The Master,” by Mr. W. G. Hole, with an intro- duction by Stephen Phillips, at 2s. 6d. net ; and Miss Maude Goldring’s new novel, ‘* The Wonder Year,”’ which deals with the effect of modern thought on country life. “ June ” is the title of the first poem, which gives its name to the book of verse by Miss Cicely Marshall, published by Arthur Stockwell. Jean Roberts, author of ‘‘ Musings on the Magnificat,’ etc, has out a new volume, entitled ‘‘ Hope: and Other Verses” (A. R. Mowbray, ls. 6d. net). ““Songs Satanic and Celestial,” by Mr. Lewis Spence, is published by Mr. Elkin Mathews at 1s. net (cloth, 1s. 6d. net). Mr. K. C. Spiers brings out in one volume his play, ‘‘ The Soul of a Doll,” and a number of poems, of which “ The Madness of Lancelot ”’ and two of the lyrics appeared originally in the Fortnightly Review. Messrs. Chapman & Hall publish the book at 2s. 6d. net. Miss Nora C. Usher issues, under the title of ‘‘ Swallow-Flights,”’ a collection of thirty- seven of her poems, some of which have appeared in The Queen, Chambers’s Journal, ete. The price is 1s., or 1s. 1}d., post free. _ “ Lone Age Epics,” by Mr. James Saunders, is published by Whitehead Bros., Wolver- hampton, at 2s. net. THE AUTHOR. DRAMATIC. Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Great Catherine ’’ was produced at the Vaudeville Theatre for the first time on November 18. On November 21 Mr. Thomas Hardy’s ‘‘ The Three Wayfarers,” originally seen at Terry’s Theatre in 1898, was revived as a curtain-raiser before Mr. G. K. Chesterton’s ‘‘ Magic” at the Little Theatre. Sir J. M. Barrie’s “Quality Street” was revived at the Duke of York’s Theatre on November 25. It is announced that a new three-act play by Mr. Israel Zangwill, entitled «Plaster Saints,” will be produced at a West end theatre early in the New Year. Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Doctors’ Dilemma,” and Mr. John Galsworthy’s ‘Silver Box,” are among the plays which Mr. and Mrs. Granville Barker are to revive before the end of their repertory season just commencing at the St. James’s Theatre. M. Maurice Bourgeois’s French version of Synge’s ‘‘ Playboy of the Western World ”’ is being performed at the Théatre Antoine by M. Lugné-Poe’s Théatre Subventionné. The title of the play in French is “‘ Le Baladin du Monde Occidental.” Among the five one-act pieces produced by the Leverton Players at the Court Theatre, on the afternoon of November 21, was “‘ England Expects,” by Mr. F. Leonard A Gibbs, to which the Navy League has extended its patronage. ———__+——_+—___—_ PARIS NOTES. + o HRETIENNE ” is the title of the new novel by Madame Adam (Juliette Lamber), whose salon has been the favourite rendezvous of the Parisian literary and political élite for very many years. Madame Adam’s own evolution has been shown by her recently published memoirs. Years ago she wrote her novel * Paienne,”’ and this present volume is a fitting epilogue to the former novel. The key to ‘“‘ Le Roman Merveilleux ” by the late Pierre de Coulevain is given by the author in her preface. ‘“ The Wonderful Romance,” she says, “‘ is not one of those that the human brain produces. It is the romance which the Divine Powers are elaboratirig in the depths of the Infinite. It is the romance which we are all living, from morning to night  THE AUTHOR. and from night to morning; the one in which we are the heroes and the martyrs. It is the romance of this earth of ours. . Thanks to my age, I now find myself on the boundary line of two worlds. My impressions on leav- ing the one world, and my intuitions with regard to the world beyond, may, thanks to their absolute sincerity, have some value. . . .” This author’s works have had phenomenal success in France, and have been translated into nine languages. “Sur la Branche”’ i is now in its 179th edition. The present -y volume has been awaited with impatience |. for the last three years and was completed | just two months before the author’s death. : The book now published in volume form by ) Camille Piton, entitled ‘‘ Le Costume Civil en | France,” will be invaluable to artists. It » contains over 700 illustrations from authentic sources. ‘“‘ Napoléonette ” is quite a new departure ot for Gyp. It is a kind of historical novel, in *. which the author allows herself plenty of ~{- latitude as regards local colour, probability, etc. -| Napoléonette is a girl who has been brought up by her military father as a boy. She has accompanied her father everywhere and is quite at home on the battle-fields. Napoleon is her god-father and she is a devoted admirer of ‘‘ The Emperor.” Her father is killed and she is compelled to accept the hospitality of her aunt and uncle, who hold high office at the Tuileries Palace under Louis XVIII. The description of Napoléonette’s various escapades and of her friendship with the king is highly entertaining, but the dialogue is distinctly in twentieth century style. ‘Pour l’Empereur”’ (Pages d’histoire na- tionale) is the title of Frédéric Masson’s latest volume. The volume treats of events from 1796 to 1821. The second volume of “Souvenirs” by Ch. de Freycinet has just been published. It takes in the years 1878 to 1893, and treats, among other subjects, of the Resignation of Marshal MacMahon, of the death of Gambetta, Boulangism, the Egyptian question, etc. The first volume of these Souvenirs takes in the years from 1848 to 1898. “Henri Rochefort (1831-19138) ” by Camille Ducray gives some idea of the agitated life of the celebrated journalist and _ politician about whom so much has been written. Ernest La Jeunesse has written the preface. At the Variétés, Alfred Capus is having his customary success with his new play “L’ Institut de Beauté.” It is distinctly amusing, and, as usual with this author, the > FD ets a ey gh br spate Nah la fa E > 79 piece is the result of shrewd observation and great knowledge of life. Mr. Philip Carr’s idea to start a_ Little English Theatre in Paris, bringing over English plays and English artistes once a month, is welcomed by the French as well as by the English and American colonies. Two meetings have been held and a large number of sub- scribers has been the result. “ Chrétienne.” (Plon.) “ Le Costume Civil en France.’’ (Flammarion.) “ Napoléonette.” (Calmann-Lévy.)} “ Pour ’Empereur.”’ (Ollendorff.) “Souvenirs.” (Delagrave. ) “ Henri Rochefort (1831-1913).” (L’Edition Moderne.) —___—__+—<>—_—______ CORELLI v. GRAY. —~<— EFORE the Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Swinfen Eady and _ Lord Justice Phillimore; this was an appeal by the defendant from an order by Mr. Justice Sargant, granting an injunction: re- straining him from performing a play called “The People’s King,” which the plaintiff claimed was an infringement of the copyright in her novel “‘ Temporal Power.” In his judgment given in the lower court Mr. Justice Sargant took the view that the similarities in the play and the book were not due to coincidence, but must be taken to have resulted from appropriation or copying by the defendant from the plaintiff. The Master of the Rolls in the course of his judgment expressed his concurrence with the judgment of Mr. Justice Sargant, stating that he thought they must approach the case on the footing that the defendant Gray had the plaintiff's book either under his eyes or in his memory when he wrote the sketch. Dealing with a possible suggestion that the matter alleged to have been taken from the plaintiff's book was not matter which could be held to be the subject of copyright, his Lordship stated that when, as in the present case, it appeared that not merely one or two stock incidents, but that a number of such incidents had been taken, it would be an unreasonable view of the law to say that the plaintiff was not entitled to succeed. The new copyright law gave protection not merely to the form of words in a novel but to the situations contained in it. In this case, however, his Lordship did not accept the view that the situations were stock situations : some of them were distinctly original. 80 The Lord Justices delivered judgments to the same effect, and the appeal was dismissed with costs. ————“7——o—___—_ UNITED STATES LAW. —-—~o—+ N interesting matter touching the A validity of copyright in the United States is being at present heard in the courts of that country. We are informed that there is little probability of the case being decided before the expiration of seven or eight months, but as the facts must of necessity be of great interest to English as well as to American authors, it may be as well to put forward some details. Mr. Jack London entered into a contract with the Balboa Amusement Co., of Los Angeles, California, by which that company acquired the right to produce in moving pictures all of Mr. London’s past work and all his work up to and including 1915. In that contract there was a clause providing that the contract should be forfeited if the company took no steps to fulfil their part before a fixed date. This they failed to do, and Mr. London declared the contract forfeited. In spite of forfeiture, the company proceeded to produce in moving-picture form his novel entitled ““The Sea Wolf,” and Mr. London thereupon brought suit in Los Angeles against the company in the Federal Court of that district, for breach of contract and infringement of his copyright. His next step was to apply for a preliminary injunction. Upon the hearing of this application, the defence has been set up on the suggestion of the lawyers—copyright specialists—that Mr. London’s copyright is invalid, that his work, having appeared in magazine form, is thereby dedicated to the public so far as subsequent rights are concerned. This defence appears to be based upon the case of Dam v. Kirk La Shelle Company, which indirectly, apparently laid down the doctrine that, if an author sells his serial rights in his story to a magazine, reserving to himself all other rights, and the magazine copyrights the issues, that is, the magazine rights, then all other rights must be unprotected and aban- doned to the public. It is also claimed that the copyright notices in some of Mr. London’s books are insufficient, and misleading, and that, therefore, the books are not properly copy- righted. Mr. London’s preliminary application for an injunction was denied, after the court had heard the objections advanced against THE AUTHOR. his copyright on the ground that Mr. London has insufficiently established his ownership. The court, however, granted permission to Mr. London to renew his application after he had obtained more definite information about his copyrights. Ifthe theory is upheld that the publication in a magazine in America only covers the editor’s rights, the position — : is very serious, both to American and English authors, as it would leave those authors that publish in serial form absolutely unprotected, and book publishers would have no rights in their books whatsoever. It does not appear probable, after a careful reading of the Act, that this theory can be maintained. The second point of the defence, namely, the inadequacy of the copyright notices calls for special comment. It has always been the case when any technicalities are required under i” U a copyright law, that the first point at which — | ser the defendants strike is the technical defi- — We are glad to think that in the © present English Act, technicalities have been ~ abandoned, but the position is still very serious — in the United States, and we trust that Mr. — Jack London will not lose his copyrights owing _ ciencies. to these deficiencies. The former question is by far the most : i ah important. Technical difficulties can be over- come with care, but legal difficulties can only be overcome by an amendment to the Act. - We wait with anxiety to hear the final result If it should go against Mr. — of the action. London, the American Copyright Act migh almost, as far as the writers in magazines ar concerned, be torn up. 9 MAGAZINE CONTENTS. te British REVIEW. Dramatists of To-day. I. H. Granville II. John Galsworthy. By Edward Storer. Leeds Musical Festival. By Sir Home Gordon, Bart. CoNTEMPORARY. Christina Rossetti. By George Lowther. Poetry in Drama. By William Poél. ' 6 a Child and Education in Shakespeare. By Hubert rd. Barker. EneuisH REVIEW. Art in America. By Aleister Crowley. Editorial Amenities. By The Editor. FoRTNIGHTLY. A Literary Cham and His Court. By T. H.-S. Escott. Trish Dramatists and Their Countrymen. By H. M. Walbrook. An Apostle of Melodrama. By George Paston. Sees  3% on b Ba THE AUTHOR. 81 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. — 1, VERY member has a right toask for and to receive advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel’s opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved member, and all costs borne by the Society. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi- ence of ordinary solicitors, Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 8. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the document to the Society for examination. 4, Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of members’ agreements and their preservation in a fire- proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers: (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu- lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. This The 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution. Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 9. The subscription to the Society is £4 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. 2 WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. et ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement, There are four methods of dealing with literary property :— I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained, But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Il. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement), In this case the following rules should be attended to: (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise- ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements, (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,” unless the same allowance is made to the author. (to 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. ae well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or octor | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in Zhe 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. —__—_t_>e_—_ WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS. 8 EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the N 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,  82 (>.) 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 (‘.c., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always avoided except in cases where the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply also in this case. 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should be reserved. 5, Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time. This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed- ingly valuable. ‘'hey should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should-remember that production of a play is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con- tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. —_——$_-——e—__ REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. eo ne typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis- tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to theauthor 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 subj ( ject to the same rules, with the exception that a pl ill at the price of 22. 6d. per act. Ve cee eee ie THE AUTHOR. DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS. ee 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, de 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. er Ss 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 twe tights 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. ae 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. a EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach, The term MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea, ——-—>— REMITTANCES. — The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. All remittances should be crossed Taio of London and Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only. .  Bt THE AUTHOR. 83 COLLECTION BUREAU. + <4 HE Society undertakes to collect accounts and money due to authors, composers and dramatists. 1. Under contracts for the publication of their works. 2. Under contracts for the performance of their works and amateur fees. 3. Under the Compulsory Licence Clauses of the Copy- right Act, i.e., Clause 3, governing compulsory licences for books, and Clause 19, referring to mechanical instrument records. The Bureau is divided into three departments :— 1. Literary. 2. Dramatic. 3. Musical. The Society does not desire to make a profit from the collection of fees, but will charge a commission to cover expenses. If, owing to the amount passing through the office, the expenses are more than covered, the Committee of Management will discuss the possibility of reducing the commission. For full particulars of the terms of collection, application must be made to the Collection Bureau of the Society. AGENTS. Holland ; . A. REYDING. United Statesand Canada. WALTER C. JORDAN. Germany . Mrs PoeGson. The Bureau is in no sense a literary or dramatic agency for the placing of books or plays. GENERAL NOTES. PUBLISHERS’ AGENTS. Ir is the practice of certain agents to act both for publishers and authors. In many of these cases, there is no attempt at conceal- ment from the author. Indeed, the agents, not infrequently, boast that the author’s chances of a market are increased by the fact that the publisher is also a client of them. As agent of the publisher, the literary agent claims to have unique opportunities of placing the works of his authors. This is the excuse invariably made by the agent who is found in the service of two masters. Here is a possible example. The publisher comes to his agent and asks him, say, to find a writer to undertake work for a series which he, the publisher, is issuing. The agent has on his books an author who is quite capable of undertaking the work, but, in many cases, the author is given no opportunity, the agent preferring to use the offer in order to attract another writer—not on his books—to place his literary work in the agent’s hands. Having succeeded in drawing in the new writer, that writer, when the next opportunity “of placing the works of his authors ” occurs, is forgotten, while the agent goes in search of the fresh client. But the real objection to the agent acting for the publisher and the author is not merely that the author seldom gains anything by the process, but that it is impossible, however honest and straightforward the agent may be, for him to act fairly to both parties. If the agent does his duty to the author, his second principal, the publisher, must suffer. If the publisher’s interests are looked after, then the author suffers. In a recent case brought to the notice of the Society, a literary agent refused to take any payment from the author, stating that he, the agent, was paid by the publisher. If every literary agent acted in this way, we should not so much object to the position, so long as the agent made his position clear before attempting to advise the author; but we should still have to warn authors against the danger of treating with publishers’ agents— especially if the author were paying for the production of his book. In such a case it is almost inevitable that the publisher’s estimate would be increased by the amount which the agent would receive. UNITED STATES Dramatic RIGHTS. SomME time ago we printed in The Author instructions from the Library of Congress, Washington, as to the filing of copies for registration (1) when a dramatic work is for sale in the U.S.A.; (2) when it is not for sale. The registrar was kind enough when the notice was printed to forward a number of copies for the benefit of members of the Society, and whenever a requisition is made, a copy is handed out. Mr. Maquarie, a member of the Society, has drawn attention to the fact that it might be useful not only to have the forms of instructions from the registrar at this office, but also the actual forms under which various works are registered ; as he has received a number from Washington, he has kindly deposited them at the offices of the Society. The secretary has written to the registrar on the matter, and it is hoped that in future a good: supply will be ready to hand. _Piays AND THE Ricut TO TITLE. Wirth reference to this article which appeared! in last month’s Author, one of the members has,  84 been kind enough to draw attention to the fact that in 1910, “The Stage Cyclopedia of Plays,” containing an alphabetical list of 50,000 play-titles, was published, and that in addition, every year “‘ The Stage Year Book ’ publishes an alphabetical list of pieces pro- duced in all the principal foreign countries as well as in England and America. It would appear, therefore, that with a little research it would not be difficult for dramatists to avoid trespassing on the property of other dramatists as regards the question of title. We hope this information may be of use to members of the Society. ———_———1—< > —_—- THE DINNER. eo YHE annual dinner of the Society of Authors was held at the Criterion Restaurant on Thursday, November 27, Mr. H. Hesketh Prichard, the chairman, presiding over a gathering of about 250 members and friends. The guest of the evening, Field-Marshal the Karl Roberts, V.C., K.G., ete., sat on the chairman’s right, and the others seated at the high table were Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, Lady Elizabeth Hesketh Prichard, Miss Marie Corelli, Major Lewin, R.A., Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Everett, Sir George Forrest, K.C.1E., Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K.C.V.O., Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Lady Florence Bourke, Mr. Ernest Davies, Mr. Thomas Marlowe, Sir James and Lady A. C. Wilson, General Wilson, C.B., D.S.O., and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. A. Cherry Garrard, Mrs. Jopling Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Temple Thurston, Major-General and Mrs. Saward, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garvice, Mr. R. D. Blumenfeld, and the Rev. P. H. Ditchfield. At the seven lower tables Mr. E. W. Hornung, Mr. Francis Gribble, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Frederick Hewett, Mr. Phillips Oppenheim, and Mr. G. H. Thring presided. At the conclusion of the dinner the usual loyal toasts were given by the chairman, who then rose again to propose the health of ‘‘ The Society of Authors.” He drew attention to the fact that their numbers were increasing, and there were now 2,500 members and associates. Last year 345 had joined the Society, and this year, so far, 338, so that there were hopes of breaking the record. He would like to mention one or two points about their progress apart from numbers. Their THE AUTHOR. relations with publishers and editors were excellent. It was noteworthy that this year one publisher, having a dispute with an author, had offered to submit the case to the committee of the Society, which showed in what estima- tion he held the Society’s sense of fairness. Things had changed since the days of George Borrow. ‘‘ What, do you eat meat, sir?” asked the publisher then. ‘‘ Yes,” said the author. ‘‘ You should eat bread !’’ was the reply. There had been a round-table conference this year between the committee and_ the editors in connection with the question of the prompter payment for magazine articles, and most of the editors had agreed to a resolution that payment should be made on acceptance or within six months’ time. Then there was the matter of the library censorship. The committee had heard several schemes proposed, but none of them promised great success. He regretted that the sugges- tion of a round-table conference between delegates of the Publishers’ Association, the booksellers, the Library Association, and the Society, though brought up before the council, had been referred back for further considera- tion, and that therefore nothing had yet been done. A certain number of members wanted the question of the ban upon books to be taken up, but it was impossible for the Society to deal with individual cases. Its duty was to look at the question broadly, from the point of view of all its members. He, as chairman, had even been obliged to deny himself the pleasure of reading the censored books ! He mentioned that letters of regret at inability to be present had been received from Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Rider Haggard, Mr. Owen Seaman, Mr. Egerton Castle, Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and Mr. Sydney Holland ; and that Lord Roberts had, during the dinner, received a telegram from Yorkshiremen gathered at Skipton Town Hall that evening, wishing him all success in his great patriotic work. : In conclusion, the chairman congratulated the Society on the possession of one of the best —if not the best—of secretaries in the world. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle then proposed the health of “The Guests.” It was a pleasant duty, he said, when they had with them so numerous and distinguished a company, among them Mr. Cherry Garrard, who was with the lamented Captain Scott in the Antarctic, and Mr. Reginald Smith, the publisher, who came to show that the lion could lie down with the lamb. There was, however, one guest who,  THE AUTHOR. short of Royalty, must always take the first place in any gathering of their countrymen, the first, not only in rank and in distinction, but in the grateful love and veneration of Englishmen. The qualities of Earl Roberts were well known. He had given in youth the strength of his right arm to his country, in middle life the genius of his generalship, and in later years the matured wisdom of his whole life. Now that he had earned his rest, he had thrown it aside and embarked on a most difficult and arduous task for purely unselfish and patriotic motives—a campaign in which, whether they agreed with him or not, they must admit there had been a dignity and restraint and moderation of utterance which was an example for all time. Since, at the age of 19, he joined the Indian Army, his life might be looked on, if one could visualise it, as a sort of cinematograph proces- sion of British history. There was first the Indian Mutiny; then the Afghan War; and they all had seen his work in South Africa— work not only as a soldier, but as a statesman and diplomatist. Lord Roberts had had a great deal to do with the reconciliation of South Africa. The speaker himself well recalled how, when he was in Bloemfontein, they were not 's . allowed to loot the villas of the Boers around them. Those houses would have made nice little cribs, and at the time they chafed at the prohibition, but as he looked back he saw how at every point of that great crisis Lord Roberts prevented just those things that would have left a rankling feeling which might have retarded the reconciliation of the two races. As an author, it might be said of Lord Roberts that his ‘‘ Forty-one Years in India ”’ was an unique record. His style was that of aman of action. The book was an index of its writer’s thoughts, so infused throughout with gallantry, fine spirit, and patriotism that all who had sons must be glad that they could read such a book as that. Earl Roberts, rising to respond, said that he was highly honoured by being invited to become the guest of the Society, and it was a great pleasure to him to find himself weleomed by such a distinguished gathering of men and women. His own claim to be an author was very small, and he could not imagine himself being in the slightest degree representative of literature. He was nearly sixty years of age -when the idea entered his head that he might some day at his leisure write an account of his Indian experiences. The idea was suggested to him, while walking on the Maidan at Cal- eutta, by a friend to whom he had been talking of the Mutiny and the second Afghan War. 85 He had never kept a regular diary, and he had no record of events except what he put down in letters to his father and mother in the Indian Mutiny, and later to his wife. He had not, therefore, at the time, responded to the invita- tion to write a book. But not long after that his service in India came to an end, and he had to bid farewell to a country in which he had spent forty-one most interesting and happy years. It was a sad parting, not only because of the innumerable friends he left behind, but because it looked as if his career as a soldier was coming to an end—a thought which was most distressing to any soldier. It was with a heavy heart that he left the land that he had learned to love so well. When he arrived in England he found himself unemployed for a considerable time, and as the days hung rather heavily on his hands he bethought himself of theidea which his friend in Calcutta had put before him. Looking over his letters he found that they were more numerous and more comprehensive than he had expected, and it seemed that the task of writing his life would, perhaps not be so formidable. His wife, who had been with him for thirty-three of his forty-one years in India, was blessed, like himself, with a good memory, and was able to help him. He there- fore set to work to produce the book to which he supposed he must attribute the honour they had paid him that evening. In spite of his small claim to that honour, he returned his sincere thanks, and was much touched by the way in which they had received him. He had not intended to say more; but the chairman had called upon him that evening as he was dressing for the dinner and had told him that he hoped he would not confine him- self in his speech to the returning of thanks. So, though he had previously not the slightest idea of talking—especially on a festive occa- sion like this—about a subject in which they knew him to be deeply interested, he would endeavour briefly to explain to them and place before them what he thought was the remedy for the danger in which this country stood. He hoped that those who were opposed to his views would not object to his expressing these now. It was difficult to begin and difficult to end. But they had as a starting-point the report of the deputation which waited on Mr. Asquith the day before. That clearly showed the opinion of those men who had spent four or five years working very hard to make the Territorial Force a success. It was greatly to their honour and credit though the majority of those men were not of the same political 86 opinions as Lord Haldane and the Government. They had worked for it as if it had been their own child. He himself had even at_ times expostulated with them. He had said: “I can hardly conceive why you should take the trouble to support a Force with which you have nothing to do at the start. You have certainly carried out this duty in a manly manner, but are you quite right in supporting a Force which you yourselves know can never be of any use?” They had read what the deputation said before Mr. Asquith the day before—how they had pointed out that the Territorial Force which now existed was of no use. They asked that some more money might be given them. It was a very difficult thing indeed for men to forego their pleasure, to give up their time, and wear out their boots and clothes for the public good, although the numbers who came forward were comparatively few, and, as Mr. Asquith said, the burden was not equally borne. But the remedy which they proposed was not sufficient. More money would not do what was required. More money might possibly fill up the number of officers and men that Lord Haldane laid down, but it would not make them efficient. If they doubled or trebled the money that was given, and doubled or trebled the number of men who came forward, those men would not be of the slightest use in war unless they were trained as soldiers. He would tell all those among them who did not agree with what he was saying that, if they were patriots, if they loved their country and desired it to remain the great country that it was, and if they desired to maintain the integrity of that great country, they should not trust to men who were not trained to fight. Untrained men were no better than a body of schoolboys. Panic would spread among them on the shortest notice. They could not be trusted, no matter what their individual courage might be, to fight a trained enemy unless they too were trained. He could give them many instances of what could be done by a very few trained soldiers, men who believed in their own skill with their arms and who trusted their comrades alongside them, or even at great distances apart. Fighting in modern days was quite a different thing from what it was even in the days of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, or the Peninsular War. The first battle he was in was under the walls of Delhi. At that time they were in close order, touching each other in fact. The non-commissioned officers and men were shoulder to shoulder, and the firing commenced, as at Waterloo, at forty or THE AUTHOR. fifty yards’ distance.~On the Heights of Abraham, Wolfe did not give the word until the French were within forty yards. Now they came within the fire-zone at 2,000 yards, and from that time until he came to close quarters every man was going along, not in close order, nor constantly advancing, but lying down to take cover, getting up again, and so on. The strain on each individual soldier, knowing every moment that he was being fired at, was enormous, and could only be borne by trained men. He would defy the whole of the Ministry and the Army council to assert that untrained could fight against trained men in modern times, and unless the country insisted on some system being devised by which the men, however few in numbers, could be properly trained, and by which, they could be made to have confidence in their comrades, and more particularly reliance on their officers, the Territorial Force might just as well be disbanded. One could always trust trained men, if only a few thousand in number, to hold their own against hundreds of thousands. He had him- self felt no anxiety lest defeat should occur in Afghanistan, because he knew that his men could be trusted. They never showed the least sign of alarm at the hordes around them. He remembered four or five days’ hard fighting among the hills once, when he could not see into the valley beyond the highest hill in front of them. He signalled to the officer in charge of the outpost on the height, asking for the number of the enemy in the valley, and the answer came back by signal—it was in the days long before the field telephone—* They are like Epsom on Derby Day!” He had with him only 6,000 or 7,000 men, but those few were perfectly willing to stand up against any num- ber, because they had been properly trained. This was the necessary point, which he wanted the country to realise. For defence we want trained men, who can be trusted to hold their own against any number. Mr. E. W. Hornung gave the toast of “‘ The Chairman.” He had accepted the task pro- posed to him by Mr. Thring, he said, with a certain indecent alacrity, because his old friend, Mr. Hesketh-Prichard, was a man who re- commended himself to them all in various and romantic ways. He recalled the first story he had read in Cornhill, years ago, over the signa- ture of E. and H. Heron, and how he had been told that it was from the pen of “‘ a young giant who writes in collaboration with his mother ”— a fact in itself sufficient to impress the heart. Then he had played on cricket fields terrorised os THE AUTHOR. 87 by the prowess of a certain fast bowler—their chairman. Then again, there was a mighty hunter ; and it was in this capacity that Mr. Hesketh Prichard was most famous to-day. He wondered whether he would be able as chair- man of the Society, to add to his trophies of the hunt the scalp of one wicked publisher; but perhaps that would not be considered hand- some enough to figure among the antlers and heads. The chairman replied briefly, thanking Mr. Hornung for the kind way in which he had proposed his health. However long he lived, he said, no honour would ever befall him equal to that of sitting next to Lord Roberts that night. After the speeches had come to an end, the members and their guests moved to the adjoin- ing room for the conversazione, at which a num- ber of members of the Society were present who had not taken part in the dinner. ee THE NOBEL PRIZE. ABINDRANATH TAGORE, who has R lately been awarded the Nobel prize for literature, came to England in the summer of 1912, and, at Mr. William Rothen- stein’s suggestion, translated during the voyage some of his lyrics into English. During the summer he worked hard at these, and the result was the book which he called “‘Gitanjali”’ (Song Offerings), of which a small edition was published by the India Society in November. This was received with a chorus of approval, and Messrs. Macmillan published a second edition last spring which has gone through several impressions. The ‘‘ Gardener,”’ a col- lection of love poems dating from an earlier period, appeared this autumn, as well as some lectures entitled ‘“‘ Sadhana,” which Mr. Tagore had delivered at the Caxton Hall. <A book of child’s poems, ‘‘ The Crescent Moon,” with illustrations, has just appeared. Mr. Tagore comes of a literary and artistic family who have lived for generations in Calcutta. He has for many years been recognised as the foremost poet of Bengal, perhaps of India. His advice is eagerly sought and followed by many of his fellow- countrymen. He superintends, and himself largely supports, at Bolpur, in Bengal, a school which has made a name for itself as turning out boys of strong character. He has returned there now to his home at Shantiniketan (the abode of peace), a little tired after a most interesting year of foreign travel, and not altogether sorry to be at rest again. COPYRIGHT AND ‘‘THE LADY.” —+—<—9 ie the May issue of The Author in the current year an article was printed under the above title setting out a form of receipt issued from the office of The Lady. A special covering letter from the editor was sent with the receipt. The following is a reprint of the letter and the form of the receipt :— 39 and 40, BepForpD STREET, Srranp, W.C. March 13, 1913. Dear Mapam,—The manager has requested me to send you the enclosed for your signature. The idea, so I understand, is to save contributors the trouble of sending him a special form of acknowledgment on receipt of each cheque. Once the enclosed has been signed, the endorse- ment on the cheque will be the only receipt required by the manager. Yours truly, Tue Epiror. [ENCLOSURE] To the Proprietor of ‘‘ The Lady’’ Newspaper. In consideration of your publishing in your newspaper or purchasing any article or drawing written or made by me, I hereby assign and transfer to you the original and the copy therein and also agree to assign and transfer to you the original of and the copyright in all future articles and drawings written or made by me which may hereafter be purchased by you or published in your newspaper. Signature Date There is really no need to pass fresh comment. Those who know will only need to be reminded. Those who do not know can easily refer to the article. The proprietor of The Lady has now taken a fresh line, perhaps as a result of that article. It may be that many contributors reading the article altered the receipt and’ cashed whatever cheque they may have received. But it is of the utmost importance to set before members and others the newer methods which the proprietary of The Lady has adopted. On the back of the cheques runs the following story :— Received from the Proprietors of The Lady newspaper the sum written on the face of this cheque in payment for my contributions or drawings and copyright thereof published in The Lady newspaper up to and including the issue dated ; Signature The signature is intended to be an indorsement of the cheque as well as a receipt for the amount.  88 Under the Copyright Act, 1911, any assign- ment of copyright must be in writing. Whether the endorsement of the cheque amounts to such an assignment in writing the proprietors of The Lady must find out for themselves. But it is a fair deduction to make that they intend it to be so. On other occasions articles have appeared in The Author explaining this insidious method adopted by proprietors of magazines to obtain rights from authors.* Sometimes, where the contract has been completed before publication, these rights have never been conveyed. Sometimes they were never intended to be conveyed. What is the reason that editors and pro- prietors cannot deal in a more reasonable and businesslike spirit with their contributors ? Why cannot they say before they print the article (a stereotyped letter is all that is required): The editor accepts the article at the price of £ per thousand words, subject to the transfer of all the copyright ? Or why cannot they, if they desire to print the article, and have no time to communicate with the author, claim only that which it is in the mind of the author to give, and which is the only real value to themselves—the first serial use ? The answer is plain. No author when sending an article to a monthly or weekly paper intends to sell the copyright. Nor does the editor or proprietor desire to use the article except in one issue of the magazine. If in exceptional cases he should desire more, then he should state so before and not after pub- lication. It would seem, therefore, that he endeavours to obtain control of the copyright only in order that, sitting as a dog in the manger, he may obtain a return of part of the moneys from the author should the author desire to republish in other form. This position, from the author’s standpoint, is very serious, especially if he is a technical writer, or happens to have specialised in any subject. The position is unfair to the author and a great hardship, because, as a rule, the bankers have directions not to cash the cheque if the endorsement is altered. The author, in many cases, either being in need of the money or being unwilling to offend the editor signs the document. If all authors refused to sign these endorse- * June, 1913. THE AUTHOR. ments, however trivial the amount in dispute, the matter would be remedied almost immedi- ately, but in many cases, when the article is of ephemeral value, it is not worth the author’s while, and in other cases an author may not care to appear in a county court. The solution of the difficulty lies, however, to a great extent in the author’s hand. He must send a formal letter—keeping a copy— with his article stating exactly what he is willing to licence—generally first serial use in a ‘“‘mentioned” magazine. If, then, the article is published without further reference to the author it will be held to be published on the terms of his letter of which the editor has had notice. If, then, the cheque is sent with the endorsement referred to it would be as well to return the cheque at once and, if the editor disputes the position, to take immediate action by placing the case before the Committee of Management of the Society. ———————_1—-1+—_—_—_ PENS, PAST AND PRESENT. oe (Reprinted by kind permission of the Family Herald.) HE earliest kind of pen known is that used by the ancients—a style of bone or metal, with which letters were sketched on a_ tablet covered with wax. When the use of coloured liquids was adopted, a reed took the place of the bodkin, giving place afterwards to the quill. Egypt was famous for the most beautiful reeds ; there were fine reeds to be obtained near Cnidus, in Caria, Asia Minor ; the marshes of Persia also furnished a good supply. They grew to the height of a man, and were filled with a pith which could be removed when dry, so as to allow of a point being cut. Had the old Greeks known of goose quills they might perhaps have dedicated the goose instead of the owl to Minerva. ‘There is indeed a portrait of Aristotle in a manuscript in the Vienna Library, showing him with a book and quill before him, but the manuscript was not written until 1457, and the writer drew largely on his imagination. But the use of the quill seems to date from not earlier than the sixth century. It is related that Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, could not learn to write four letters at the bottom of his edicts, so four letters were cut out for him in a plate of gold, which was laid on the paper, and he traced out the letters with a quill. The Emperor Justin used a plate of wood, but his case was so much worse that one of his secretaries had to guide his hand. The oldest certain account is, however, that of St. Isidore, who died A.D. 636, wherein he mentions reeds and  feathers. THE AUTHOR. 89 In the same century St. Aldhelm, the English pioneer of Latin verse, wrote a small poem on a quill pen. The gospel manuscripts of the ninth century depict the evangelists with quills in their hands. When the Romans were in what is known to-day as the Netherlands they are said to have paid special attention to the catching of geese ; an old poet said that this was because they could not get Egyptian reeds and wanted to procure goose quills, but Pliny says that it was because they wanted to eat roast goose and lie on feather beds. REEDS AND QUILLS. Reeds and quills were both used in the eighth century in the French diplomatic documents, while the papal Acts and those of the synods were written with reeds until much later. The monks used reeds for text and initials, while they preferred quills for smaller writing. Johann Reuchlin, a great light in the Reformation and Renaissance, was so severely attacked and persecuted that he had to flee for safety, leaving all his writing materials behind him; a letter is extant in which he asks a friend, Porkheimer, to send him some good paper, pen-knives, and peacock feathers. His letter of acknowledgment says :— . “J asked you for peacock feathers for writing ; you have presented me with the choicest swan quills, and, that nothing might be wanting to your friendly offices, you sent also reeds from the Nile, or, a8 | rather think, from Cnidus—more easy for writing—and the most excellent paper-knives.” Reuchlin sent three of these reeds to Erasmus, who writes full of gratitude for such a desirable present, saying that such is the most acceptable gift possible, adding the request that if Reuchlin has any more he will send some to a mutual friend in England, with a hint that more would be welcome sent to himself. _ For some reason writing quills were very scarce in Vienna in 1433; Ambrosius Traversarius, a monk of Carmaldule, sent a bunch of quills to his brother from Vienna, saying :— _ “They are not the best, but such as I received im a present. Show the whole bunch to friend Nicholas that he may choose a quill ; for they are éven scarcer in this city than in Florence.” The feathers of various birds have been used for pens, but in this respect the goose has always been the main contributor to literature. The swan, crow, eagle, owl, hawk, turkey, and peacock have all supplied the pen market to some extent. Swan quills are better and more costly than goose quills, while those of the crow are more suitable for fine lines. The only useful feathers of the goose are the five on the outer part of the wing, and of these the Second and third are the best. Quills from the left wing are more suitable than those of the right wing, because they curve outwards and away from the writer. How QUILLS ARE PREPARED. Preference is always given to quills secured in the spring from living birds, but those taken from dead geese, especially if fattened, are comparatively worthless. The quills are greasy and covered with little pellicles of skin ; this is removed by heating them in a fine sand-bath to one hundred and thirty to one hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit. They are then scraped, and while they are still soft and hot can be stamped with designs and names. Care must be taken that they are finished hard and elastic. Joseph Bramab, the lock inventor, in 1809, made and patented a machine for manufacturing quill nibs ; the barrel of the quill was slit into three or four parts and then cut across into two, three, four, and even five lengths. The nibs were used in a holder something similar to the present holder. Dickens, it will be remembered, speaks of the time when quill feathers were cut and cut again by the writer ; Miss Squeers, in her anxiety to see the new usher of Dotheboys Hall, enters the schoolroom on the pretext of wanting her pen mended. Nine years after Bramah’s patent Charles Watt obtained a patent for gilding nibs, thereby antici- patiug the gold pen. But in 1822 a step further was made; Hawkins and Mordan patented the application of horn and tortoiseshell to the forma- tion of nibs, making the points durable by impress- ing them into small pieces of diamond and ruby ; another part of the process was lapping a small piece of thin sheet gold over the tip of the tortoise- shell, and there were other ways of hardening the point. Merauic PEns. Metallic pens appear to have been slightly known to the Romans, but it is certain that they were not in use, nor were they at all common until after the meeting of the British Association at Birmingham in 1839. A steel pen was made and sold in London in 1803, but it cost five shillings, and was not a success. Bryan Donkin brought out another metallic pen in 1808. Doctor Priestley had had a steel pen made at the end of the previous century by a manufacturer of split-rings, named Harrison, who was eventually associated with Sir Josiah Mason in the industry ; but it was not until after Perry’s invention in 1830 and Gillott’s in 1831 that pen-making became a paying industry. — Pens were made of silver, zinc, German silver, aluminium, and aluminium bronze. Doctor Wollaston, the celebrated physicist, whose advice was so useful to Herschel, used the first gold iridium-tipped pe on record.  90 Joseph Bramah again was in the forefront with his fountain-pen. He had several designs ; one was a tube of soft silver that could be pressed to allow a flow to the nib, and another was a tube with a piston sliding down the ink-barrel. John Scheffer, in 1819, made a pen with a button, which the writer pressed when he wanted more ink at the nib.’ The Americans were the pioneers of stylo- graphs, with iridium points, but Birmingham took and retains the lead for good ordinary pens. A few words on the actual making will not be out of place. The finest quality of cast steel in rolled sheets is used, this being the product of Swedish charcoal iron. The sheets are cut into strips and then tempered in a furnace before being pickled in weak sulphuric acid to remove the oxidised scale. The strips are again rolled, and then cut, stamped, and embossed by band fly- presses with the trade-mark and perforated. Until pow the embryo pen is flat; next follows the rounding into a semi-circular shape. After once more being heated the pens are plunged into oil and then polished by mixing with sand in rotating cylinders. Small emery-wheels then grind the point, and the slit from the perfora- tion to the tip is made ; on this depends the whole perfection of the pen, the desired flexibility being a sine quad non. ‘The surface of the pen is then coloured in a revolving cylinder over a charcoal fire, and finally varnished with a solution of shellac. And the result is—a pen at less than a farthing infinitely superior to one formerly sold at five shillings. A. Kirxuam HaMILton. >< THE REAL “MOTHER DAMNABLE.” N a case in the law-courts some months ago the allegation was made—though it was contradicted at the time and has since been strongly denied—that Roman Catholics, or at least members of the Jesuit order, sometimes speak of the Church of England as ‘¢ Qld Mother Damnable.”’ (A correspondent in the Observer claims that ‘‘ the epithet was first brought into prominence, if not actually invented, by one of the early Tractarian seceders to Rome, and a friend of Newman’s, namely, the Rev. John Pye, who married a daughter of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce ”’.) It would be curious if the name were ever used in this connection, for it once had very different, and by no means religious, associa- tions. Whether one is justified in speaking of a real Mother Damnable is perhaps open to THE AUTHOR. dispute ; but, at any rate, there is a traditional personage who bears the stigma of the title and lingers on as a faint memory in a far from romantic quarter of London as we now know it. Near the end of the eighteenth century that industrious combination of author, print- collector, and print-seller, James Caulfield, published his “ Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters of Remarkable Persons from the Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution.” To this work we owe some details, of doubtful authenticity, concerning the career of ‘‘ Beau ” Feilding, for a brief while the second husband of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland. Another of the memoirs deals with Mother Damunable. ‘“Of the shrew thus denominated,” says Caulfield, ‘‘ whose real name has not reached posterity, nothing farther is known than the following lines annexed to her portrait— ‘London, printed in the year 1676 ’—inform us. ... It is perhaps not unreasonable to conjecture that she might be the original Mother Red Cap and kept the public-house near Kentish Town, known for a century past by the sign of her head ; in rivalship of which a Mother Black Cap appeared nearly opposite : which ale-houses were, within these few years, almost the only dwellings on that spot, now covered with extensive piles of building.” We may for the present leave the lines quoted by Caulfield, while we follow the identification suggested by him. This is supported by a statement in a valuable and entertaining collection of reminiscences called ‘““A Book for a Rainy Day.’ The author, John Thomas Smith, up to his death in 1833, keeper of the prints and drawings in the British Museum, preserved in this much antiquarian information which might otherwise have been lost. Writing of the year 1778, he mentions the Mother Red Cap, “‘a house of no small terror to travellers in former times,’’ and adds : “Tt has been stated that Mother Red Cap was the ‘ Mother Damnable’ of Kentish Town in early days; and that it was at her house the notorious ‘Moll Cutpurse,’ the highway- woman of the time of Oliver Cromwell, dismounted and frequently lodged.” Those who go to Camden Town nowadays by the Underground Railway may see “ The Mother Red Cap” over against the station, at the corner of the Camden Road. There is nothing ancient, however, about the house to-day, except its name. It was rebuilt in the late eighteenth century, according to J. a: Smith. An old gentleman with whom the present writer is acquainted remembers it fifty She THE AUTHOR. 91 years ago, when it was one of the most picturesque inns in the London neighbourhood, celebrated for its old ale and Welsh rarebits, with a parlour where every seat was conse- erated to a regular customer, and with a paved space in front which could accommodate thirty or forty coaches. Since then it has_ been rebuilt at least once, and it is now almost aggressively modern. In this respect it is at least in harmony with its surroundings ; for, where once highwaymen resorted, the chief danger to life at the present day arises from the unceasing streams of motor-omnibuses and trams which run in all directions. Of the ““Mother Black Cap” there is no _ trace, although two public-houses—the authorities have been prodigal with licences hereabouts— may be described as standing nearly opposite. It is a rather strange coincidence that a newspaper of 1776, mentioned in Besant’s Survey of London, states that the space facing the ‘“‘Mother Red Cap” was at one time designed for a second Tyburn. This is sugges- tive of the black cap, it must be admitted. Another of the community of witches is obviously the heroine of a pantomime produced at the Sans Pareil Theatre in the Strand in March, 1809—‘‘ Mother White Cap, or Hey up the Chimney !”’ But she was perhaps only a parody of her red and black sisters. There appears to be little local tradition of Mother Red Cap surviving in Camden Town, beyond that she was “‘ a witch-sort-of-thing.”’ Mother Damnable’s portrait, reproduced by Caulfield, is an unpleasing representation of an old hag kneeling down by her grate, in a much soiled or patched skirt and shawl, stick in hand, with a spilt pot of ale and a clay pipe on the floor behind her, while on the wall hangs a scutcheon with a black and a white cat sus- pended by their tails. In the modern ‘‘ Mother Red Cap ”’ a picture presents the dame quite otherwise, as only of middle age, in a red dress and a red hat with peaked crown. Across it is pasted the legend, “Champagne, 6d. a glass’?! But it is red wine which stands in a decanter at her side, and a glass of it is in her hand. The story, though its origin is difficult to trace, is that Mother Red Cap, or Damnable, was a brickmaker’s daughter in Kentish Town, very wild in her girlhood—like Mary Frith, alias Moll Cutpurse, according to her earliest biographer, “‘a very tomrig or rumpscuttle,”’ “delighting only in boys’ play and pastime, not minding or companying with the girls ””— who, when she grew up followed Marlborough’s army to the wars, and ended by becoming a witch, as well as an inn-keeper, and being carried off by the Devil. The verses saved from oblivion by Caulfield are plainly directed against an unpopular landlady and do not allude to any traffic with the Black Art. They run as follows :— *Y° have often seen (from Oxford tippling house) Th’ effigies of Shipton-faced Mother Louse, Whose petty pranks (though some they might excel) With this old trot’s ne’er galloped parallel. *Tis Mother Damnable! that monstrous thing, Unmatched by Mackbeth’s wayward women’s ring, For cursing, scolding, fuming, flinging fire I’th face of madam, lord, knight, cit, gent, squire : Who (when but ruffled into the least pet) Will cellar door-key into pocket get. Then no more ale: and now the fray begins ! *Ware heads, wigs, hoods, scarfs, shoulders, sides, and shins ! While these dried bones, in a Westphalian bag, (Through th’ wrinkled weasan of her shapeless crag) Sends forth such dismal shrieks and uncouth noise As fills the town with din, the streets with boys ; Which makes some think this fierce she-dragon fell Yan scarce be matched by any this side hell. So famed, both far and near, is the renown Of Mother Damnable, of Kentish Town. Wherefore this symbol of the cats we’ll give her, Because, so curst, a dog would not dwell with her.” “Mother Louse,” it may be noted, is described in another of Caulfield’s memoirs as the keeper of an ale-house near Oxford, called Louse Hall. She was ‘ well known to the gentlemen of that university, who called her Mother Louse, and a portrait of her was engraved from the life by David Loggan, engraver to the University and friend of Antony Wood. It represents her with a ruff, which she was said to be the last woman in England to wear. Oddly, the picture of Mother Red Cap in the modern house gives her a ruff about her neck. Probably there is no reason to doubt the existence, once upon a time, of these two shrewish landladies. George Savile, Marquess of Halifax, speaks, in his essay upon the choice of Parliament-men, of ‘“‘a wet popularity ” as a frail title to fame. An alehouse-keeper, on the other hand, *“ Who (when but ruffled into the least pet) Will cellar door-key into pocket get— Then no more ale,” was sure of a dry unpopularity, which, embalmed in verse, might last centuries when there was a collector about with Caulficld’s love for the quaint. Puitre W. SERGEANT. —_——_1— THE AUTHOR. MR. GOSSE’S ESSAYS.* eae HE second volume of Mr. Gosse’s collected essays will be welcomed alike by those who made the ac- quaintance of these particular essays when they first appeared, and by those to whom they are new. Few writers, past or present, can invest with so much charm the critical and anecdotal saunter round the shelves of a book-room as our author. Few, too, have such sane views of what a library should be—“ a small one, where the books are carefully selected and thoughtfully arranged in accord- ance with one central code of taste, and intended to be respectfully consulted at any moment by the master of their destinies.”’ If fortune made him possessor of one book of excessive value, Mr. Gosse tells us, he would hasten to part with it. This is true wisdom. The first quarto of ‘‘ Hamlet” may be left to the Transatlantic millionaire. The essays before us range over a vast period of literary history. From Camden’s ‘‘ Britannia,”’ early in the sixteenth century, they travel by degrees to Meredith’s “ Shaving of Shagpat.’? The first and the last, it will be seen, deal with well-known works. Perhaps the most pleasing, however, are those which take as their subject obscure or forgotten books — such as Wither’s ‘‘ Shepheards Hunting,” Lady Winchilsea’s “ Miscellany Poems,” Farquhar’s ‘“‘ Love and Business,” and that extraordinary panegyric on prize- fighting, “‘ The Fancy,” of which the author was Keats’s friend, John Hamilton Reynolds, disguised under the alias of Peter Corcoran. The last-named essay—for it takes its title from the title of .Reynold’s book—is an admirable example of the man of letters at the ring-side. With what gusto does Mr. Gosse quote Corcoran’s apology to his lady-love :— “‘ Forgive me, and never, oh never again, T’'ll cultivate light blue or brown inebriety ; Tl give up all chance of a fracture or sprain, And part, worst of all, with Pierce Egan’s society.” and explain that ‘“‘ heavy brown with a dash of blue in it”? was the fancy phrase for stout mixed with gin ! There may be those to whom it seems grotesque to turn the pen to discourse of such things as these. To them may be commended the lines from Samuel Daniel’s “* Musophilus,” which Mr. Gosse quotes as the motto of his book, beginning *O blessed Letters, that combine in one All ages past, and.make one live with all. . . .” * “Gossip in a Library,” by Edmund Gosse, C.B. London; William Heinemann. CORRESPONDENCE. —_-—< 2 — “* ONLY.” Srr,—The irritating misuse of the word “only ’’ to which your correspondent “ Richard Free ” called attention in your last issue, is by no means confined to careless writers. Many who denounce the split infinitive have not yet had their grammatical consciousness awakened to this solecism. For example, I have culled the following three passages from the latest edition of “‘The King’s English,” the best book we have on the ill-treatment of English. ‘“ We shall now only make three general remarks before proceeding to details.” “The mistakes are nearly always on one side, the infinitive being the form that should only be used with caution.” “ For a person’s name can only require a defining cause to distinguish him from others of the same name.” The intended meanings are certainly not ‘only make,” “ only require,’ or ‘“ only be used,” as a moment’s analysis shows. This is perhaps the commonest error in both spoken and written English at the present day ; once perceived, it is undoubtedly one of the most irritating, and your correspondent deserves thanks for calling attention to it. I am, Your obedient servant, Ernest A. Baker. —1+——+—_ New AND AMUSING TRICK OF THE LITERARY AGENT. Dear Sir,—The literary agent has found a new way of amusing his authors. He has a special cheque printed with a receipt upon the back which requires a penny stamp. He pays his author with one of these cheques and of course does not stamp his receipt. The author is abroad, or he has only embossed envelopes upon his desk, and the fun begins. Publishers are taking up this delightful little novelty. ‘The author finds on the back of the publisher’s cheque a printed receipt, in which he is invited to make over to the publisher all sorts of rights he never sold’ when the. bargain was made. Any alteration of the receipt invalidates the cheque. Letters, explanations, recriminations. What an infernal nuisance all this smartness is ! | X. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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