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    The Bible and Sttn.—In our review of

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    It Is To Be Hoped That One Of The Result...

    Grafitfs book ! Ws the laigest paid on airjr book in any country In ¦ any sge < of the world , the royalties

    ** -i - - w ¦ ¦• v ** # ' ¦ ¦ ¦ V " » ' paid in France . t and Germany ; . were also exceedingly large . These came as the result of the convention

    with England . ' Mr . Lowell remarked that nobody would

    maintain that there was property in an idea ; the property right was in the fashion of presenting the

    idea . The Constitution recognised this in granting patents , which were nothing bnt an idea fashioned

    in a certain way . Mr . Lowell said that there was one kind of books better than cheap books—that

    view was books of the honestly question conje . Many by . such He took arguments a moral as

    Mr * flubbard use ! might be used in defending pocket-picking . One could lire easier if living

    upon other people ' s labours ; but this was not considered honest when he was young .

    ' Mr . Dana Estes , publisher of Boston , advocated the passing of the UBill , as any Bill was better than

    nolle . He said that' he would not now undertake the publishing of works of American authors ,

    whatever their merit , who were unknown . He was often compelled to return manuscripts , iuir . _

    opened because the > existing arrangements made it impossible to publish them with profit , owing to

    the competition of pirated foreign works . ' Mr . Estes' remarks point to a highly

    significant , influence of defective Copyrignt Laws , namely , the restraint imposed upon the

    rising talent of the country . Every question has a comical side , and in

    this case a good deal of amusement has been caused by a prop Mb <¦• osal which appeared «¦ A > the other

    day in the Pall Mall Gazette under the startling heading , 'Is the that Black Flag to be

    hau hauled led down down ? « ' It It appears atynears that , >»* an an eminent fimin « nt . American , who at present desires to be anonymous , ' has , conceived the idea of

    employing stamps , such as those used by the Revenue , to prevent the infringement of copyright .

    ' The author might then , for a price agreed upon , issue so many hundred or thousand

    stamps to any publisher in America who thought it worth while to reprint his work .

    This would leave untouched the present Free Trade system . ' Publishers are unfortunately

    too Well acquainted with the sanguine temperament of inglorious Miltons and latent Spotts

    to have any confidence in the stamp theory . Besides it is an old idea ,, which was rejected as

    being impracticable many years ago , and at best is only another form of the royalty system .

    A great difficulty connected with this subjw ect is that authors , ¦ , especial mm ly inexperi ^ -

    enced authors , do not recognise that there is a business aspect of the question which

    allows of no variation . The views of the majority of young authors upon such points ;

    are usually unpractical . They recognise nothing

    I between themselves and the general public .

    In our opinion , the best modes of getting 1 ^~ " - out * of the jpresent difiiculties are ( 1 ) the I

    immediate carrying out of the ' suggested codification of otir home Copyright Lawsand

    ( 2 ) the adherence to a firm policy of I , International Law , based upon the programme of /

    tyjie Convention at Berne and the principles

    of the Hawley Act in America .

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    appeared Mr . Welsh on ' s December * Life of John 31 , we E gave ewberjr an , illustra , ' which

    -Farran tion of & the Co old . at house the corner of Messrs of St . . Griffith Paul ' s ,

    Cturch , yard ., The beautiful edifice which lias been erected ' on the old site was built in less

    the than ¦^^^ » - ^ v old -w - ™ six w « fabric mr months s r * r ^ v » ^ v V . The from « a ^ i ^ - exterior ^ the r w time ^ 1 B M » >» is o £ faced pulling » W ^^ Mi on h down B the V ^ lft ^ h ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ " ^^ ^^ ^^^** )^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^

    ground stone and andi polished * first floors granite with pilasters red Mansfield , and the ; superstructure with white Portland ^ ihe whole

    old beiiig sign surmounted of the house by of John a carvin Newbdry g in stone , The of Bible tl ^ e

    and Sun , wfth the motto , ' Fiat Lux / On the capitals of the pilasters of the ground floor are

    ISTewberyy carved , oii stone the founder medallions of , the the heads firm ; of Oliver John !

    hia G-oldsmith description , who of rendered him in * Th hiiu e Vicar immortal of Wake by

    ciated field . ' wit Dr . ! n Johnson both Newbery , whb was and Goldsmith intimately ; asso and - "Bewickthe father of modern wood engraving !

    who embellislied , many of the books issued by , the house at the end of the last and the

    beginning of the present century . The interior fittings dre of oak throughout ; a handsome

    antico staircase , from , with the a ^ dado ancient of quarries marble , called of Numidia giallo , with a capping df ancient JPio di Persicoas

    found in the ruins of Romeleads from , the retail shop to the magnificent , show-room

    li and ghted book by -saloon the new , on Cromartie the first lamp floor ) where ( both is

    a complete assortment of books in all , departments of literature , and in all varieties of

    binding form a . reading In thi -parlour $ room , , which will be is found intended news to

    the pape clergy rs and and writing others material of the friends s for the of the Use firm of

    to whom they , would be a convenience . On the , second floor is the bounds stock department

    devoted counting- to house stock , & and c , ahd packing the . floors Two above lifts run are ,

    which from the is also top fitted to the throughout tottom with of the hot- house water ,

    apparatus turning to and the every ground modern floor app , we liance hav . e Re the

    entrance to the trade department in Ludgate Hillwhich is entirely separated from the

    other are a , r « , e fiTttfmsivft xtensive part of the - aarfi re house also a . lar . receptacles rftc The ^ entarJfes basements tor for , stock stock which -.

    formation In excavating were , these found , traces at about of a road six or of seven chalk

    feet below the pavement , ; and at a considerably greater Cj ^ > depJL th were the remains of . an old , .

    causenvay ance , of with having a foundation been constructed which had of reedsi the appear It was - 11

    only after figging down a distance of U 5 feet ||

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1886, page 99, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021886/page/5/