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    pointed allusion to the subject m the recent Presidential Message is itself . significant of

    the importance which the question lias at" length won in the political life of the nation .

    Still , such unexpected difficulties have hitherto arisen , tWt ^ eii yietat the eleventh Hour ,

    there is Jtisi tKe possibility , that a narrow and short-sighted policy of mistaken

    selfinterest may prevail , ^ and , therefore there is all the more need of unremitting vigilance

    and strenuous action . According to Senator Chace—a statesman whose name will always

    be honourably associated with the agitation to secure International Copyright- —Presidents

    Washington , Jefferson , Buchanan , as weir as Gar fieldr Arthur / Clevelandand Harrison , ¦ ,

    have all in turn favoured such ^ a proposal . Half a century ago , Henry € Jlay presented

    an able ancl voluminous report , advising immediate action , * and since then , fin spite of

    public apathy and priyate greed , tlJe question has never fallen altogether into the

    background . ? Senator . Chace believes that the explanation of the discreditable delay which has

    arisen is largely due to theHack of concerted action on the part of those who are more

    immediately concerned in the settlement of the matter p & the basis of justice . But to-day

    this ' union of interests' is established al ^ over the great Republic of the West , and

    therefore all that is now needed is a ' long pull , a strong pull , and a pull altogether / to

    render the year 1890 a memorable one to ilhe authors and publishers of the ( Old World as

    well as the " ^ ew , by the enactment of twhat President Harrison—in his recent message to Congress— = has rightly termed an ' eminently

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    commemorate the eventt ,, by the publication of a * Lexicon Concordance ' to the poet'is works .

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    the Mr works . Sydney of Oblvin Me i ^ redith preparing Mr a book Colvin on ' s

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• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1889, page 1863, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121889/page/5/