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      A Fter More Than Half-A-Century Of Persi...

      will effectually protect English literary property in the United States . But there is one serious

      drawback : by a subsidiary clause it is provided that all books copyrighted under the

      Act shall be printed from type set within the States or from plates made therefrom . We

      confess that this provision somewhat sobers our joy in the promised law , for it seems to us

      it involves a grave injustice to the many concerned in the mechanical production and

      distribution of literature . To make the Bill perfectly fair to all parties there should be no

      limitation as to the setting of type or the casting of plates . There ought to be absolute

      freedom to set the type and cast the plates wherever it might chance to be most

      convenient . We do not object to the importation of American plates into England ; why , then ,

      should Americans object to the importation of English plates into America 1 Until this

      restriction regarding the printing be removed , the Copyright Bill cannot be accepted as

      wholly just and satisfactory .

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      Dec . is , 1890 The Publishers' Circular i 597

      Important Notice. As Has Already Been An...

      IMPORTANT NOTICE . As has already been announced , in order

      to increase the value of the Publishers ' Circular as a means of bringing publishers '

      announcements rapidly under the notice of the whole bookselling trade at home and abroad ,

      and to increase its usefulness as a medium for all who wish to buy or sell books , new or old ,

      or obtain information about them , it has been decided , on and after January 1 , 1891 , to issue

      the Publishers' Circular once a week instead of twice a month as at present , and to

      increase the size of the page ( thus allowing larger illustrations to be printed than has been the

      case until our last special Christmas Number appeared ) . There will be no increase in the

      cost to our present subscribers , nor to any new subscribers whose names and subscriptions are

      sent to us on or before January 15 , 1891 . In the Editorial and New Book List departments

      no trouble or expense will be spared to make them as complete as possible . This important

      change has not been decided on without consulting many of our most influential subscribers

      among the publishers and booksellers , and is made with their almost unanimous approval .

      Our aim ia to make this journal indispensable to the publisher •¦ k and to the bookseller , and , as

      we have now some thousands of annual subscribers , we confidently hope the British and

      Irish publishing and bookselling world will support us in our endeavour to place them on

      the same footing as their brethren in America , France France . tfermany Germanv , nonana Holland , , << ko & . c , by Dy giving jorivinc

      , , them a weekly trade organ . j ^ . ^ , ,

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      BooR ? Mr . William Andrews' new

      book'Old-Time Punishments / is announced by Messrs , . Simpkin , Marshall & Co .

      * * to the The Times publication 1 has of been ' The posi Letters poned of until S . G . the O .

      middle of January . # *

      * Achievements ft . * ¦ in ¦ Eng " »¦ *• ineering • / by m Prof -m- ^> a . Vernon Harcourt , will be published in

      February by Messrs . Seeley & Co . * M . M .

      * * Mr . J . J . Piatt ' s new book , 'The Return to Paradise , and other Fly-Leaf Essays , ' will

      be published immediately by Mr . Elliot Stock . * *

      A new edition ^ 1 of Mr " »«• . Sidney /~ H ^ ¦ Button - « -fc * ' s ' Political Manual' is about to be published .

      There will be considerable matter not included in the previous edition .

      * * Archdeacon Farrar has written a novel

      dealing with early Christianity . It is entitled * Darkness and Dawn / and will be published date b

      at an early y Messrs . Longmans & Co .

      * w # j « . jfc * Lucas —¦ Malet - ~ 's new novel' The Wages of

      Sin / -w —~ which — —^ ^_ appeared ^ — - - — - serially — - » - , -v in the ^ r— r ^^ - Universa - - >_~^ J ^ i ^ K ^ 1 ^^ W ^^ ^ l Reviewis announced for publication to-day by

      Messrs , . Swan Sonnonschein & Co . *

      1 Messrs . Macmillan & Co . have issued the works of Lord Tennyson «/ in a handy and

      handsome one-volume edition for the pocket ^ . It is a gem in the way of bookmaking .

      # ? * Me - ssrs . Burns --- & -r- - Oates —¦ - - _____ have ^ in — the ^ 4

      — . —r — . . — — — — — — _ — __ . ^ ^^ _ - ^ press — . r ^^ r ^ w ^ r a Pollen collection , and prefaced A of documents by Father edited John _ b y Morris . Father _ An , ^ ,

      on the English Catholics who suifered death under Elizabeth and James . Messrs . Morgan & Scott announce - - - - a serial

      - - j—j ^ — — ____ ^ - ^ w - *» -w r >^ ^ b * dh » w * nr J & issue Christian , in thirteen Portrait monthl Gallery y / parts a collection , of * The of

      nent over 100 Christian portraits men and and biograp women hies of to- of day promi . -

      # # Mr ¦ . Stanley - - J . Kill by j announces t ¦ a political # ¦ ¦¦•

      —— — — — — m -- - ^ -- — - * - — ^— - « v » - - * -. ^ <^» imv ^ v ^ novel entitled ' The Flowing Tide / by John Little Johns . The book will be ready in abput

      impressions impressions a fortni g ht , regaramg recra and rdin will . tne the set forth relation relation the or of writer politics nolitma ' s

      to religion . * *

      the Messrs •» following tr . W . new < fe R . books Chambers *>» % : ' Chambers have 1 just ' s issued . Ency ' -

      cloptedia / vol . vi . ; 'UnamhersH New Qw * -

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 15, 1890, page 1597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15121890/page/5/