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    GHimp^e^ of Eminent People

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    John Fiske. Before he was eight years ol...

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    Marie Bashkirtseff. The first time that ...

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    Copyright In Titles. To The Editor Of Th...

    out in London a halfpenny comic journal under the w title of Punchsuch a person is

    liable UlAUV * to prosecution for fraud , , which offence is punishable by common law— ' copyright' is out

    I / l ***** - """ 9 / X % f C 3 of the question . Authors and others who continually talk

    of * copyrightingtheir titles would do well to bear in mind that unless they are in a

    position to prove that their ' trade mark '—f or that is what a title really is—is being copied to

    their _* detriment *¦• i , it ** is * idle 'm ^ to i expect ¦ that ^ * they •• can restrain another person from using the

    same set of words to describe another book . G , W . Redway ,

    [ Our correspondent * J . Dent' does not claim copyright in a mere title . He publishes

    5 , series _ of lists ^ m a _ which ^ h a ^^ he ^ h call ^_ ^ h s The * Book __^ - finderandas the title is thus app I— lied to a

    work _ vrvv w — , , 7 his claim , to copyri g ht is certainl — I — ^^ y ^^ valid ^ — ^^ * . ^^ Vice-Chancellor Bacon ' s dictum had reference

    to a mere title which , of course , cannot be protected . —Ed . P . 0 . ]

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    % L ~— ' ' ; m - '*— ¦ * ™ juiy 15 , l 8 9 ° ^ Publishers' Circular 867

    Ghimp^E^ Of Eminent People

    GHimp ^ e ^ of Eminent People

    Alexandre Dumas . Alexandre Dumas is now sixty-sixbut he

    enjoys such good health ----- — , and — - is — — alway — m - — — s , -j in * -v ^ v ^ such — ^—^^ ^ f ^ happy _ — ^^ g sp _ irits , ^— that - — — — he - _ - does - w —» r - _~ ~ _ r not —— — ™ - — seem — ~» - h ~^ . ~ — ^^ ^^ h to ^^ - ^^ ^ have ^ m ^ h ^^^ ¦» ^^^^

    entered his grand climacteric . Looking at him as he sits in his studio , one can see that his whole

    person breathes strength and power , physical and moral . He is one of those rare beings

    who realise the ancient ideal of raens sowia in corpore sano . The proud , powerful head does

    not show a wrinkle on its front , but the black hair of younger days is grey and fringy ,

    althoug The forehead h scarcel is y thinned high and , even haug on hty the , crown heavy .

    brows arch the soft-blue eyes ; the lips are tne voluptuous , and disclose a fine set of teeth when

    b is a face race dull break breaks brown s into into , as if a a smile ainilft tanned . , The Thfi and complexion mnrmlftxirm is relieved y a delicate rose-tint on the cheeks . Dumas

    is tall , robustly built , his broad shoulders are streaked a little rounded with veins , and en he relief has the muscular fingers hands being ,

    , supple and delicate—the hand of a writeror if of an athleteHe is , an ,

    earl necessary y riser ; , andafter dressing . . , . he . goes to his stuay studv , . where whftrA he hft , lig lic"ht hts . H his hia own own tire firft . reads r « a ^» his hia

    letters , receives his friends , and works , a little . hears He does the not news read before the it papers gets , into for the he general journals l . y

    when After he breakfast goes out he for work a promenade s until about . He walks four ,

    a rapidl little y . , with He is head very erect orderl , rolling y , and dusts his shoulders his own Btuay studv ; : while whilft occasionall ofiftftsionnllv . and and al alw wav s on on a

    Sunday , he is seized with y , a house- ay cleaning and niania aided , when b he a goes servant about changes in his shirt the position sleeves ,

    , y , ° cats f the and house some furniture time . contribute He haB a d passion an article for to the , Fiextolling ago the virtues of and

    garo puss , much comparing to — the them disadvantage with ITT Tit the of \ A qualities * the latter of Ai animal

    dogs—- » - wa ^ v 'V * A ****!^* . V ¦ ¦ in T r ^ i ' JfcJ *^* AMIVV ^^« WIAkMIMat . Another subject , upon which he holds strong | y ^ ^^^ SSS 2 SS !! im ! r ^'~**^**~*** > ~**~" ' "' "" ' " ' . in'mt'i" i ' in ' uni i i' ' . ' —

    views , is dietetic reform . He is a vegetarian by convictionand it is only out of obedience

    to the behests , of the medical faculty that he

    tastes meat . —From Art and Literature for July .

    John Fiske. Before He Was Eight Years Ol...

    John Fiske . Before he was eiht old he had

    gyears read all of Shakspeare ' s plays . At eighteen , ' besides his Greek and Latinhe could read

    fluently French , Spanish , Portuguese , , Italian , and German , and had gained a fair command

    of Dutch , Danish , Swedish , and Anglo-Saxon , besides making a beginning in Icelandic

    GothicHebrewChaldeeand Sanskrit . In , college , the studies , of which , he was especially

    fond were history , philosophy , and comparative philology . He was graduated from the college

    in 1863 and from the Harvard Law School two years later . Mr . Fiske ' s home is in CambridgeMass . where he spends all of his

    time with his , wife , and six children when he is not travelling G 7 about the country V lecturing -.

    Since 1879 he has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University , and from 1872 to 1879 he was Assistant Librarian in

    that institution . He has visited Europe several timesremaining once for an entire yearand

    has lectured , before the Royal Institution , in ^ London ™^ " ^» *^ ^ v ^^ ~ mr ^ m ~*^ ^ w ^ and H ^^ ^ m ^^ ~^ r ^ m the ^^ ^^ -- ^ - — Philosop ^^^^ — - ^ - ¦ ~_~ ^—w- ~_ - _ hical — — — — Institution — — — — at

    Edinburgh . He numbers among his friends most of the men in England eminent in

    science and literature , who were first attracted b V % ^ y the «^ ^ K ^ b ^^^ p skill ^^ J ^ J ^ ^^^ H 4 ^ with » " ^^ ^ ^^ ^^ which ™ » ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ~ ^™ he ^ " ^ expounded ^^ K ^^ the

    philosophy of Spencer . —From the Book Buyer for July .

    Marie Bashkirtseff. The First Time That ...

    Marie Bashkirtseff . The first time that the present writer saw

    Marie BashkirtseiF was in the autumn of 1880 . She appeared one morning at the Studio ,

    dressed in a white cotton blouse shirt , a dark skirtand with her hair twisted carelessly in a

    knot . , At that time she had lost some of her first beauty «/ , but she was still a most intellectual

    and remarkable-looking girl . Not above the middle ¦ heightshe ¦ had ¦ a ¦ finel ¦¦ " ¦ y moulded i rather

    ^^ a * * r ^ . m ^ ht ^ h ^*^ h " ^ ^ . ^^ ^ " ^ ^^> ^ fc ^ ^^^ f ^^^ " ^^ ^^ m ^^ , *^ ^^^ F ^^ ^^ m ^^ r ^^ ^^ ^ U ^^ T ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ™ ^^ ™ ^ ^ - ^ -- - ^ r —* - ^— —^ — - —r — ^— - ^ — -w ~ — - - —~ — — plump figure ; her hands , wrists , and feet were admirable . Her hair was fair—a peculiar

    shade of warm flaxen — her complexion an opaque whitewhile the expression of her fine

    grey eyes was , haunting . One of the first things Marie said on entering the dingy atelier

    that morning was that she was painting f the portrait of a * jeune homme du mondein her

    own studio , a statement which sent a pious thrill of horror through the ranks of the French

    pupils . The next day the simple student in the w ^ h i . ^ ^ n ^ r blouse w ^^ F *™ ^^^ ^ . *^ . " ^^^ ^^ r had ^^ ^ f ^ r ^^ ^^ f ^^ ' ^ H disappeared ^^ ' ^^ ^^ ^^ ^™ h «^ mt ^^^ ^< " ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ , " ^ and ^^ ^ ^ — ¦ - ~— - Mile — ¦ — ' ~— . ^ Bashkirt — ^^ ^ ^ — -

    seff , dressed in a Worth gown and priceless Russian sablesstepped in on her road to some private

    view or afternoon , party . That was her way ; otxe day the most Bohemian of Bohemians , with

    her lunch in a basket , her hair twisted in a in knot the , and atelier lad a joke discoursing : the for next every , of an last bod exquisitel y ni that ght ' s y she ball dressed liked or a

    young premttre y at , the Francais . But it must be owned that the studio saw far more of the

    hard-working Bohemian than of the fashionable lad—From The Womav ?* World for

    J young « iy- y . ¦ ' ¦ " ¦ _ j

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 15, 1890, page 867, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15071890/page/15/