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    164 The Publishers' Circular Ffeb _

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    From Mr. John Murray.—The Laws Of Copyri...

    Stationers' Company , and it at length gained a quasi protection ( which ro"bbed it of its birthright )

    by statute in 1710 . Then it received a limited , but definite , protection by an Act so unfortunately worded as to lead to endless disputes on the

    question whether this statute , limiting the period of copyright , did or did not substantiate or override the common law , which recognised o — copyri r «/ g ht in

    perpetuity . From the date when the first limit of copyright authorised by that unfortunate Act expired , down to the present , these questions have

    been in dispute . Asa matter of law , however , they were set at rest by Talfourd ' s Act , and our author , whilst he clearly demonstrates the right and common sense of the common law side of the question

    , seems to be quite satisfied with the f . ict that at the present time ' statutory law exists alone , as fiir as published works are concerned , and has been

    gradually extended in the interests of authors and the community . ' 31 r . Scruttou bears generous testimony to the work of Mr . Dronewhichhe says

    tj , , ' - % / , is 'the best book on copyright in existence . ' It may be remarked , however , that whilst the American author is a strong advocate for absolute property in

    literary production , and devotes much space to pr <» ve that an author has , by common Jaw , a , property in his intellectual . productionthe English

    , author seems to join with those who assert that copyright is not an absolute right , and that it has no claim to be more than what , in fact , and tinder

    existing circumstances , it is , viz ., a limited monopoly , created and regulated by statute . Mr . Scrutton confines himself chiefly to the Copy — — £ ¦ r— iht Cod — e of

    ^ ^/ j g ^ England , and under the several headings—The Fundamental Question—The Principles on which Copyright should be based—The History of English

    Copyright—The Laws of Literary , Artistic , and Musical Copyright—most valuable and useful information may be found ; andfinallyhe discusses

    , , , "with some elaboration , the vexed question of international copyright , more especially in connection with the attitude of is the United States respecting it .

    Here , again , th ^ re a marked difference between the views of the two authors—a difference which one might Books Received : —

    From Messrs . W . H " . Allen & Co . — ' First Love and Punin and Baburin , ' by Ivan Turgenev , D . C Jj T ^^ . Translated ^ — — — —^ — ™ from ^ ^^ ^ ™ ~ ^ the ^ " ¦ •• ¦ ~ i ~ ^ Russian , ^ r ^ pj v . ^ - _^ p p ^« p ^ ^ , a \ 9 > w y m the ^ s m m ^ *

    permission of the Author , by Sidney . Tcrrokl . The recent death of Ivan Turgenev , the Lrilliant Russian novelist ¦ and raconteurhas # 1 Pi called *¦> forth ¦¦ Wkr

    — — - — - ——• - — ^ - - ^ ^ - ^ - **• w v ^ p ~ ^^ - ^ - ^ v ^ B ^ ^^ ~ r ^^»* . ^ P * ^ W » ^^^ ^^^^^ pBl ^^ p * p ^ from the English , American , ^ ; ind Continental press many glowing tributes to his lasting achievements as a delineator of the beauty and pathos

    of the life and struggles of the Russian people . It is , however , as a writer of short tales that ho gained his greatest success in his own

    country , and especially on the continent of Europe . * In most of them , though the incidents and plot are contrived with great — oriinality

    and are ofte x n very dramatic , it is in the perfection g ' , of the details , the vivid descriptions and dialogue , ¦ that Turgenev ' s art _ found _ its best -v expression .

    m .- _ .. — _ . ___— ^ ^ - — W" — ^™ ^** r ^ * ¦* ^—^ p . ^ ¦ # This is forcibly shown in the volume under review , and to those of our readers who are desirous of becoming - — — ~~ " — - — ~ r—^^ K acquainted ~ ~—~ ~~ ™ h ^ p" ^« ^ m*—— »™ ~~ — — ^^ " ~ i - — with ^ w ~ - *¦¦ ^ - ^ ^^ this *^ " — ^™ r ^™ ¦— i m portion ¦¦^^ - *^ v ^ ^ r r * ^^ p * p . ^ p | of ^ pr p ^ the ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ *

    author ' s work ( also for the better understanding of class distinctions in a land that has hitherto borne the etigma of being semi-barbarous ) we

    can cordially recommend a close perusal of theso two most pathetic recitals of First Love / and 'Puriin ----- and Baburin i i / of impartial pipi ¦» ' *¦ bur . life-like

    — —^ - — - ~ - « M ^ ^ - *^ - ^^ " *~ p » ¦•• m * - ^ ^ ^ p- »^*^* nph m'Bv , « ¦ w ^ ^^ vi # m 9 > * ^^ m m M ^ ^ - ** truthfulness , told in terse , and , at times , glowing English . The volume has also a eomriu-ndaMo

    4 > j —— ¦ i _ .

    rather have expected would have been ^ Mr . Drone , the American , is an ardent advocate reverse i considerations the rights of au and thors concludes , quite apart elaborat from all tra )? '

    , an e cha tT move on the Congress subject to with pas these s a law words inviting : ' Whoever authors sM I and 4 artists iiiof ui nation under com

    posers send jjus ^ iss their , , » u « - treasures usus of every vwry learning niitiun , science unaer , the and L art * t i < deserve our shores a monument , where niore they durabl shall be e than protected br ^ ss , ' xr n \\\ j '

    the other hand , Mr . ftcrutton , the English auth .. ' ' throws the whole weight of his opinion in faronmf ! expedient which ho frankladmits is

    an y ' mainly ' ' fact the which , interest the expediency of the America of tlie b n the recentl publisher American y proposed , ' admitting treaty j !

    viz should ., that was onl copyri propounded y be ght obtained in w orks by b manufacture y a forei publishers gn author in the j ¦ <

    country , and oilier stipulations , wholly in the interest ' of American pubiishers , and of no one else It j 3

    i . " ~ " wtp'W , . J ^ Vfry possible that no copyright ever will be obtained _ j ^ with the United States except . v on some — ^^ such ^^>* - ** a W i /( l 5 ^ , . 3 s I this « l * but iA cannot hel . ii .. »

    as , one p regretting that the author of a work so . valuable and so important as

    th this is should snoula have nave been been misled misled bv by the the very vorv p nlfln lausible «;] . ia arguments of manufacturers which have no voal bearing ins : on on tneaDstract the abstract principle pri nciple of oi copyugnr copyright . . Mr iVir . . Dron Drone ^

    as we have seen , views the matter differently , and so , do most or' the leading American authors ; 30 now indeed - do many ' eminent _______ American publi _ . -- she K rs J 'if we ,

    — , — ..... ^ m 4 II > mny take the word of the New York Nation from which we quoted in our last issue certain particulars , of a proposed Bill by Mr . Dorsheimerwho is r < now 4

    — - ^ - m ^ - - ^ j — — — — — — — , v — - ^ m ^ p ^ w * ¦ m ^ pT p ' moving Cocgress ' in precisely the way wliich Mr . Drone advocates . "We wish success to Mr . Dorsheimerthe complete text of whose measure we give

    , in another page . Apart from these points , which we may venture to call concessions to utilitarianism , Mr . Scrutton ' s book may be taken as a very safe and

    useful guide through the many intricacies of copyright , aud , beinji the latest , it possesses the advantage over other and older works of embracing . ill

    the new subjects and cases which have occurred up ! to the present , time . feature in the interesting introductory bioahy

    * V * % JM \ J \^ JL . V * » . J l'UV > A AJ l / V A V > " J \ - ¦ 1 MM Cfc - * *¦ - » \ JM- 1 . /\ 4 Vt . V- 1 > V *¦ T * V gr O — pt of the author from the pen of the translator , Mr . Sidney Jcrrold .

    From Messrs . a . W . Bacon & Co .- ' Bacon ' s i Ab War LU yssinia ) OOUliit Map , & \^ X of / c V- /» . ' E A t gyp 1 shilling OIllllllJ t , including ^ slie Dil ^ U « U t which " the i- » v | » - , Soudan ty - lance . / its ,

    all brig the ht colouring points of and . interest clear ty in pe , what shows , unhappily at a g , The promises j nii \ to be once clear cicar more idea luua of a scene the vast of extent warf ; ir « of ' .

    the . uo Soudan initp p gives yivos and a intensifies the en feeling ujho > uon of surprise " » - , which wuiun itaa has , been ueen ex o . v pressed ( jri'saeu in iu so bv many m <* uj m quarters " 0 ,

    noticeabl that Sinkat y does was , within left to ' measurable its fate , lying distunoo , ** *\ of j

    the Ked Sea littoral . From Work Messrs in the . Bemrose Household & Sons book uuuk . — ' for Every girla l ^ J !

    domestic vv ( jtk in service i . ne jiiouweuuiu . BCatherine .. ' x A \ Moss . - . There t > -- ' .. s " . unfortunat uniorrunaieiy ely , , oniy only too loo y much inucii reason reneuu to w foar * " - eciuea tlw |

    in tion the '— present us it is day the of fashion higher to term elementary the rutiw mio virtui - »»' . » l V / j - j secondary seoondrtrv fy pvllab lmbTis 'ifl of of many mjmv ot of the the

    schools —the essentials of education will ^ llfK let coi -ted sider , and domesti th « t rhe service girls especially beneath will their fc be notx apt - ° .

    ui ornamenta lunoiuri Ah iiaiiiun . a safeguard uii UL l UiJJuctn iiii ait the 1 against no c - expense CA avi ^ uuiju i this icu of vji tendency il / uijk til ui ' . v e usefu hu ' * > ¦ " to - » > . l , no fXHit - . d * * f hi h ¦ , i 1

    course Ix . ld work cum , be sind taken to this than end to aueli train a g inainirtl irls k > »»^ . * ^ 1 ,

    164 The Publishers' Circular Ffeb _

    164 The Publishers' Circular Ffeb _

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1884, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021884/page/12/