Description: The maintenance of literary property. Chairman, Lord Lytton; opened by Walter Besant.- The profession of authorship. Chairman, Sir Frederick Pollock, bart.; opened by edmund gosse.- Dramatic rights and property. Chairman, Sir francis O. Adams; opened by John Hollingshead.- Appendix I. remarks by andrew W. Tuer.- Appendix II. Letter by Geo. M. Smith.- Appendix III. Remarks by Geo. Haven Putnam.- Appendix IV. Summary by Walter Besant