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THfi Booksellingquestion is decided . Since , we last wrote , Messrs ; Parker nd Son have issued a pamphlet of Letters , written by eminent authors of H classes , showing the unanimity of thfe Authors on this subject ; and jy lr . John Chapman , who was the first rebel , and prime mover of thfe agitation , has also pubHshed a pamphlet of Letters from Political Economists , equally decisive against the present system ; to the authors and political economists we have now to add the judicial decision of the Urop iresj , -Lord Gampbel . 1 / , Dr . Milman , and Mr . Grote , whose clear and adnurable verdict' will be * found in another part of our paper . The old syste ^^ ia'i ^ -mote ^ - ^ laiiiiyta- say the truth , by the energy and skill of John Gyapman ; wfcroi brin ^ into the trade the feeling of a literary man , the far sight of ' apluldsopher , and ' . the public spirit of a leading reformer .
It now remains to organize a new system . We leave to their own reflections those journals which constituted themselves the chainpiofls of l ^ Bookselling Association . It is bad enough to be defeated j-butPtb He so utterly without support from all the quarters that inigbt justify a causie , is more ^ than defeat—it is humiliation .
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On « , cognate subject of- great interest——that , uamely , of International Copyright- ^ -it is gratifying to see how heartily American authors iire taking up the subjects 'The New York Literary World is devoting a series of unanswerable arguments- to it . The tone is indicated in the following extract' :- — ' .. . ¦ , .. • ¦ . ¦ ¦¦ . .. . ; . ' ; . . , " Any ' plearinbehalfof a \ New Copyright ^ Ad ;; which fails to open with a solemn declaration that theAuthbr ' s riglnVisa ' s good , as true , as substantial' as the farmer * si the mechanic ^ tinsmith ' s ; the mason ' s , stumbles at- the threshold ; Approach the subject as- we may , through : mazes of logic , through statistical tables , through gatherings of observation- ^ we musfe always come upon this great , central , Eddystbne Fact , against which We pauseahd retir © again ; If it could be shown that
the supposed Right is > : a matter of gift , of statute , or popular favour merely , we doubt whether anew Copyright Actwouldin reality , and in the fynfif trial ; be of any use to sitch-as asfc for iti or permanently , to any others . This is the salt which savours the whole application ; and that it can be reMed on ^ built upon , stood uporij aridargufedfrom ,- Appears at once ; whenyou beguv to put the question —why is adistinction made between Author's property In * any body else ' s property ? The author is a man , af'free man , not formally disfranchised ; supposed equal to all other investitures , arid-Why should he fail in the power to hold-his own ? Show the line which divides him from other men ; the mark upon him by which he is to be unhappily distinguished 1 and segregated from the mass of mankind . It does not exist . Ifc cannot be shown . He stands before you and all the world , as high , as broad , as firmj as capable of the tenure of his own property as any of all
mankind . It is not for him to show that his property is property ; but for such as doubt to show that it is » to £ property—by some definition or other of property , to throw it out of the pale ; whether ho shall follow and ' reclaim it if he can . And why should his right' be limited- either as to time or place ? Has it a vitality only within bounds * which it loses passing out of them ? Or is it endowed with an evil or injurious potency when it has endured beyond a certain term of years ? Farms are * not held on condition that they shall be thrown into commons on the expiration of the first lease of fourteen * twenty-eight , or forty-two years ; nor is there any known country in the world which the American people would allow to be represented at their Seat of Government , where ' such as enter it from abroad shall be rifled by law , and made to give over their whole bulk of property for the benefit of the' resident population : "
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Among the curiosities of literature , not the least curious is that little tract , Reflexions sur la mis & ricorde de Dieu , by the repentant Magdalen , Madlle . de La Valliere , corrected 1 by Bossuet . When we say corrected , we use the conventional term ; we should say " moderated : " the fervent , mystical , and sometimes passionate , style of the original being softened into phrases more suitable to ears episcopal . The original appeared as the La Vallikiib wrote it ; but on the margin of the fifth edition , 1688 , Bossuet wrote his correctionsy some of which have been
adapted by subsequent editors ; and now M . Damas Hinaud publishes an edition according to the text of Bossuet , with the variations in the form of notes . This is really worth studying . Bos suet , a great stylist , correcting the style of a passionate nature ! Sometimes the wandering tresses of the Magdalen seem to cross the pages of the penitent , and these the bishop severely pushes aside ; sometimes passion rises into mystic eloquence , as in this phrase : " O God ! enrich the poverty of my love with the magnificence of thine ! ' * which Bossuet " corrects" into "O God !
enrich the poverty of my heart by the magnificence of your gifts . " Oh oh ! Hero is a phrase the bishop will riot suffer to remain : " O my God ! by continued acts of faith , of hope , and of charity , accustom my heart to become an Oratory where in all places and in all hours I may pray to thee . " We have said enough to indicate the style of those corrections . Ppi'E a dvises us " To write with fervour , and correct with phlegm ;" advice which , though neatly antithetical , would not be productive of the best result ; conviction is creating anew : shall wo create with phlegm ? Jn Mdlle . de La Valliebk wo have the fervour ; in Bossuet the phlegm , and you sco the result .
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How intensel y characteristic of the French love of wit was that exclamation " Who would not be charmed with social convulsions that gave birth to
such witticisms ! " hesjoUs mots paid for alL This , amateur ? ought , to have delayed his appearance on our planet till the present time ; lie would have wanted neither events nor bon mots . Imagine the colossal buffoonery of many acts of the reactionary party , the exquisite absurdity of '' theIndex JSicpurgatorius in its senility of excommunication ! But laugh as we may at the Papal index , Russia has this week surpassed even Papal susceptibility ; . It has not only placed Douglas Jerrold ' s story of St . James ' s and St . Giles ' s , under the ban , it has actually carried its fanatical , terror as far ; as Zumpt ' s Latin Grammar . After that , all is- said . There is , a Silence to every Shallow ; in the lowest deep a deeper still ; but unless the Alphabet be placed under the ban , we know not where Paternal Governments are to seek for revolutionary principles .
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MITNDYS AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCES . Our Antipodes i or , Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Coloniesis . with , a Glimpse of the Gold Fields . By I / ieut .-Col . Godfrey , Charles Mundy . 3 vols . Bentley . The agreeable anticipations with which we opened these volumes by tHe author of JPen and ^ Pencil Sketches of India , have not been disappointed . From the first page to the last , we have travelled ; a ! 6 ng witK pleasure and
profit , getting over some thousands of miles without fatigue or discomfort , so well have we been entertained on the way by the conversational powers of . our gpod-kumouredj intelligent , and' well -bred , companion . One of the great charms of the book consists in its style—easy , fluent , lively , often humorous , sometimes witty , always free from pretension of any sort . Colonel Mundy announces in his preface that his work "is intended to be a light one . " This is an intention very often strenuously pursued , yet not fulfilled exactly in the sense in which , it is conceived . The colonel has been signally successful in that respect ,, though lie has not thought it necessary , like many a writer we could name , to prepare for Iris task by getting himself well up in the slang , of the fast cockney or the penny a-liner , in order to adorn his . narrative with flash , graces , threadbare rhetorical frippery , and dreary jocular platitudes . He has really shown that good taste and discretion are excellent Helps towards the composition of an amusing book—a fact , we would fain liope , which future travellers may take note of .
TEe contents of these volumes are taken front diaries ^ extending over a period-of more than five years , the author Having sailed in March , 1846 , For Sidney , the place of his official residence as deputy adjutant ^ general for Australasia . From thence he made sundry excursions , on duty or during leisure , into the interior of New South Wales , to Few Zealand , Van Bieman ' s Land , and Victoria ; and lastly , just before his return home , to the newly-discovered gold field of the Bathurst district . Though , he has evidently bestowed due pains in the preparation of Ms notes for the press , tie has not fused them together so as generally to present the result of his observation and experience only in its final matured form , but has rather allowed the reader to mark the growth of his opinions , by recording
his impressions as they were successively received . The vivacity thus imparted to the narrative * is occasionally obtained at the cost of some apparent sacrifice of consistency on the author ' s part , since we find him sometimes making very clean work of the demolition of a notion which he had put forth s ome hundred pages before . But the inconsistencies which he thus frankly exposes to view , are no greater than become a sensible man , whose opinions are not hide-bound from their birth , but grow and change with , ripening knowledge . For instance , at p . 68 of his second volume , after digesting an immense mass of blue-book by way of preparation for an intended professional tour in New Zealand , he confesses his
regret " that up to that day the Maoris ( the natives ) had never received what he ' verily believes would have been of infinite service to their particular complaint—namely , a good , sound thrashing . " He goes over to the island cherishing a pious hope that , ere long , they will put themselves in the way to receive that salutary discipline , and that he may be there to administer it . By and bye , after he lias become acquainted with the Maoris , the conviction grows upon him that "there will be no more fighting on a large , scale in New Zealand , " for " the Maori is shrewd enough to know when he is overmatched . " At last , he evidently participates in the hope entertained by Governor Grey , that a fusion will irraduallv take place between the native and the imported race ; and ho
deems the Maori , most civilizable of savages , well worthy ot that honour . But it is not ; without some stubborn wrestling with his old soldierly volitions , that he finally settles down on this pacific conclusion . Every now and then his longing breaks out afresh to improve upon the tattooing of the native artists by a few touches of British steel ; though it w easy to see that he is fast coming to like the Maoris so well , that his warlike aspirations have no malice in them ; they are only impulses of esteem and goodwill , taking a professional turn . Apropos of the JNow Zealanders , one famous man among them , Honi Heki , appears to have had the colonel ' s preseripiion administered to him , as a doinestio recipe , in too largo a dose .
" Am I rendering myself liable to prosecution fos defamation of character in stating my belief , that the immediate cause of the doutb , of * the Lion of the North' was a sound thrashing administered by his wife ? It is certain that tho daughtor of tho great chief Hongi was very jealous of her low-born but handsome husband and had caiise to bo so , up to tho very day of his decease . Honi ' s intimate friend and ally , Peno Tani , in reporting his death to tho Governor , 15 Autrust , 1850 , writes : —' Thus it wan , ; Hold was sleeping in tho forenoon , he was Harriott with hani staff cluband struck him
sound asleep . Tlien camo a ( a or , ) , on tho ribs . When she had beaten him she throw him down on tho bed * and whon ho was down she showered blows and kicks- upon him . That w all . '—And quite enough , in all conscience ! Poor Honi never rose again . " Speaking as an impartial observer , who has roamed the wide worftj over and round no land so attractive as the land of Jbia birth , Colonel Mundy accords his preference to New Zealand ( economical consideration * apart ) in comparison with the Australian mainland , a & a home ftwr ijighs ' hmon . ibfi jnoister blimftto of the former he thinks more congenial
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Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22051852/page/17/
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