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      106 The Publishers' Circular " Feb. I, 1...

      106 The Publishers' Circular " Feb . i , 1888

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      Literary Intbiililgbnob 106—118 Messrs. ...

      LITERARY INTBIililGBNOB 106—118 MESSRS . SAMPSON LOW & OO . 'S HOUSEWARMING 109 , 110

      NOTES AND NEWS 1 } 0—112 CONTINENTAL NOTES 112 , 113 AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 113114

      , SALE 114 ^ OBITUARY 114

      TRADE CHANGES 114 , 115 BRAY'S SURREY J 15 MAGAZINE NOTES 115—117

      REVIEWS , & c 117 , 118 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT

      BRITAIN BETWEEN JANUARY 16 AND 31 . T 19 , 120

      BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM JANUARY 16 TO 31 120—123

      RECENT FOREIGN WORKS 124 NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY

      PUBLISHBD : 124—137 , 156 " MISCELLANEOUS 139—149

      BUSINESS CARDS 146 , 147 BUSINESSES FOR SALE 143

      ASSISTANT WANTED 149 WANT SITUATIONS 149

      BOOKS FOR SALE 149

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 150—155

      St. Dunstan's House, E.C. February 1,1888.

      St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . February 1 , 1888 .

      A Nniversaries Are Seldom Successfully -...

      A NNIVERSARIES are seldom successfully - ^ - celebrated in England . Our northern

      neighbours , the Scots , seem to be happier in their efforts at jubilations which commemorate

      the births of their , great men than we are . It is a pity—one might almost say a disgrace

      however , that the centenary of the birth of Byron should have been allowed to pass

      unnoticed . On January 22 few voices were raised in England in grateful praise of one of

      her greatest lyric sons . The small community of Greeks in London celebrated the occasion

      fittingly and with the dignified solemnity which comes from sincere gratitude . The

      chaplet of flowers which they placed in front of the altar-screen of their church bore the

      inscription : * To Lord Byron ' s immortal memory , from the grateful Greeks in London . '

      The poet's memory deserved this tribute from the Greek people , but surely a recognition

      equally noble was due to him from his own countrymen . But none appeared . Even the

      press , with some exceptions , was strangely and inexplicably silent on the occasion . In

      contrast to this we should note that the German newspapers ¦*••*¦ teemed with notices of the poet A . ' s

      life and work . Byron •* is consp JL . icuously a poet Jk . of the Eng ^>

      -lish people . No writer was more suddenly or more enthusiastically given a first place

      among the greatest and proudest of our national poets . It would be difficult to

      exaggerate the interest which all classes of his countrymen felt in his works and career . There

      is touching truth in the remark that he awoke one morning and found himself famous and

      awoke another morning and found himself infamous . But though there is more romance

      than affection clinging to Byron's name , his works are indissolubly wedded not only to the

      literature of the land , but likewise to the lasting favour of the people . In not a few

      points Byron resembles Burns , the 129 th *&

      -anniversary of whose birthday was only the other day , January 25 , celebrated in every part

      of the English-speaking worlcj . That no admirersother than foreign admirers , should

      , have celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Byron V ' s nativity V is scarcely Vcreditable to

      English lovers of poetry ; but it is a good thing that both the ploughman and the peer

      had that within which placed their fame beyond the necessity of artificial

      commemoration . — - ^ —

      The Publishers In The United States Have...

      The publishers in the United States have now joined the authors in demanding

      copyright , and the question may be said to have reached a white heat in the centres of American

      intelligence * On December 29 an influential meeting — ^^ ^ r - ^ ar mr ^»^« f ^ X of ^ " ^ publishers W ~^ ^ " ^ " — ' -c f- ^ n ^^ fc ^ ^^ db p-- » was * w ^ svp >^ - held a i *> ^ w ^ ^ ^> fc % at JV W ^ Delmonico ^^ ^^^ L & AA V / XXli ^^ V ^ '* s J

      in order to give support , to the American Copyright League in pushing forward an

      International Copyright Bill . The result was the establishing of the American Publishers '

      Copyright League , having similar objects as , and acting in concert with , the authors'

      association . The membership is restricted to American publishers who favour the

      programme of the two organisations . It has been announced that though in the first general

      discussion of the new association * there was some diversity of opinion as to the best

      provisions for an ideal measure , there was a very general roadiness to waive personal preferences

      in order to bring about concerted action in behalf of any Bill through which might be

      secured the essential principles of the desired reform . '

      Does this mean that Mr . Chace ' s Billwhich is again at the front unaltered except

      in date—may receive the support of the two societies ? Mr . Chace ' s Bill , it will be

      remembered , grants copyright to aliens on the condition that the books are manufactured in

      America . Should this clause be persisted in , through the agitation of needlessly alarmed

      printers , the passing of the Bill will praeti-- ¦¦¦ ¦ ' »¦ .- ' " . ' ¦ ¦¦ ' . 1 ' : 'Mi .. " ..- L ..-J .. ... IL J U . " -6

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1888, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021888/page/4/