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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th May 1887, Edition 1 of 1, Page 491

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      Some Years Have Elapsed Since The Pamp •...

      right . It is a * concrete subject , and should have a cohjerettrfc law .

      As might be expectecl , 'A Publisher * speaks to the point on the recent contention of- Author

      v . Publisher , admitting that it is difficult for him to approach ¦ or to treat of it without , perhaps

      - ¦¦ -- - ~ unconscious , partiality . This . portion -- of the •¦• pamphlet , besides giving special trade views of

      the aspects of the controversy , is certain to obtain notice as a contribution to the history

      of publishing and its present position . The most important j > art of this copyright

      question is our relation-with the United States , and this in recent forms is amply set forth in

      the new pamphlet . Several fanciful stories and theories of copyright are completely upset by

      the practical declarations of the author , who , for example , has reiterated , with documentary

      evidence , the contradiction of the well-worn assertion that Milton received only five pounds

      for the copyright of ' Paradise Lost . '

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      Messrs. Tay:Lo:R Brothers' Almanacs.—

      Messrs . Tay : lo : r Brothers' Almanacs . —

      The Leeds firm have already shown some very promising examples of fine

      chromo-lithograp The h desi A y for the of these calendars JL works of are the sure year of 1888 - . gns appre

      ciation , while the workmanship in colour and finish leaves nothing to be desired .

      Messrs . Casse : l : l & Co . ' s Exhibition " . — We understand that Messrs . Cassell & Co . 's

      fifth annual Exhibition of Drawings in Black and White will be opened L early in June , tat

      the Memorial Hall , Farringdon Street . Mr . Charles Welsh o : n" ' Children ' s

      Books . ' —A paper on ' Coloured Books for ChildrenPast — and Present / illustrated — by

      examples , _ , was read by Mr . Charles y - Welsh , the _ ^ , Chapman ™ ^^ bbj bbbb ^ . n ^ B * bbi am bb » bb-bf bb > bbi to ^ bw v the ° bb ™™ ^^ "bb- Sette b -bb —b- b » - ™ r ¦ of ^ " — ¦ Odd - ""~ w — — " ^ r Volumes ^ " ^ ^—¦ ^™ b— ¦ ' ¦— ' " "b ^ , bh at -b ^^ b- *» - ¦

      Willis ' s Rooms , on May 6 . Mr . Welsh divided his subject into three periods—the early

      middle or ante-Crane and Caldecott , and the , modern — — —_ — . . The _ first was represented ^ - by the - _

      books in which the pictures were coloured by handat the end of the last and the beginning

      of the ^ , present centuries 4 . . The jbbbbm fb middle A « A ¦« < M period m . m ' b y the toy-books with which the market was

      flooded soon after the invention of steam lithogra — — C 3 —JC phy mJ . The modern period JL began -- ^^_ — with .

      the toy-books of Crane and Caldecott , of which a complete series was shown . ; but the great

      torrent of coloured books for children did not begin to flow until after 1879 in which year

      Kate ^ WT * " ^* ¦ Greenaway ^« bl BK 's * ¦¦ * Under *• ¦¦ . bbs ¦ the _ 4 K ¦ , Window b ^^ V ¦¦_ « . ^ b , Bl ^ ' was publish / ed . The productions of each year since

      that date down to 1886 were shown and ¦ classified . Mr . Welsh described in some

      detail the ori the inal methods pictures of and manufacture the proofs , exhibiting in various

      ¦ stages g of ~^ the . ^_ development A * ^ m > , of , the . ^ picture ^ a . . He V ^^* . ^^ BH criticised criticxsea somewhat somewnat severely severelv twie & e verses verses which wnicn

      have books disfigured , aiid gave so some many interesting of tjhe ^ modern information colour as to the relative popularity of % he various '' ' ' ' . * . ' . ' ^

      issues . Mr . Walter Crane , Mr . Oscar Wilde , Mr . Austin Dobsonand MrB . Quaritch . took '

      part in the discussion , which , * followed . We understand that this pape ^ r will . be amplified

      the and dpuscula printed of for the private 4 Sette circulation , ' with a catalogue as qne of of

      the specimen books of exhibited an old hand and -coloured described picture , and . a

      T ^ ce Progress of Education . —In 1837 there were not above a quarter of a million

      or of children children at at school school ; : m in 1849 1849 there there were -were only about 500 , 000 , or one in every thirty-six of the population . Nowone in every six '

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      1886 , gives * the number of children in schoolsthe excellence of the instruction

      in which , is guaranteed by Government inspection , ' as 4 , 465 , 818 ! In 1841 , the first

      year when such information was , given in the census returns , forty-one per cent , of persons v

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      instruction , or management of any school . The office of school inspector is vastly different

      now . He is representative of a great Government department j . ' , possessing * . car : almost arbitrary «/ t

      power in everything touching the efficiency of schools , and by his official reports he kaeps

      teachers and managers up to the mark , since these reports largely determine the amount of the —— — grant — as well as make known the state ___ of each

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 16, 1887, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16051887/page/5/