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      UTBRAKY INTBLLIGENCB 206—228 KMIN PASHA 208 , 2 O 9 i NOTES AND NBWS 209

      CONTINENTAL NOTES r AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 210—212

      SALE JOTTINGS 212 BALLADE OF THE OLD BOOKSELLER 212 , 213 CORRESPONDENCE 213

      OBITUARY 213 , 214 TRADE CHANGES 214 ANNOUNCEMENTS 214—225

      REVIEWS , & c 225—228 INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT

      BRITAIN BETWEEN FEBRUARY 15 AND 29 . 228—230

      BOOKS . PUBLISHBX ^ IK GREAT BRITAIN FROM ^ EBRUAJftY 15 TO 29 230—236

      RECENT FOREIGN WORKS ... 236 NBW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PT 7 B-

      LISHBD .... 236—266 , 288 ^ MISCELLANEOUS 267—280

      BUSINES 3 CARDS 275—277 BUSINESSES FOR SALE 278

      ASSISTANTS WANTED 279 WANT SITUATIONS 279

      BOOKS FOR SALE 280

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 281—287

      St. Dunstan's House, E.C : March 1, 1888.

      St . Dunstan's House , E . C : March 1 , 1888 .

      Hether They Beg, Borrow, Or Steal, The E...

      HETHER they beg , borrow , or steal , the English dramatic ' authors ' of to-day are in a pitiful plight . Cynics % / may say that the

      J . A . u •/ m / genus is totally extinct as a native product . But we are reminded of their continued presence by

      their unconquerable desire for notice , not as mere compilers or translators , but as creative

      authors . How many of the latter are to be found among our stage writers ? Originality

      seems to be dead among them ; or it may be that stage managers kick at native originality ,

      when ' adaptations ' or ' translations '—rank piratical infringements—are good enough for

      the listening ear of the British public . We have little to say about the depressing

      influence which this selection must inevitably exercise on the natural power of the English

      drama . But all literary workers must resent the wholesale appropriation of new novels by !

      unauthorised ' adaptors , ' who raise reputa- i tions on the productions of talent which

      they themselves do not possess . By the case which has recently occurred , we are reminded

      of the troubles of Wilkie Collins , Dickens , Charles Reade , Mrs . Henry Wood , and others ,

      who suffered through their stories being dramatically mutilated by stage craftsmen who

      by all appearances were but slightly ahead of I knowing the difference between a pen and a

      poker . No knowledge of right and wrong had ever been developed in their egotism . '

      Any new arrangement of the Anglo-American copyright question should include

      this subject of stage adaptations ; and we sincerely hope that some substantial alterations i

      in this respect may in time be made in our domestic laws . The subject is an old one and

      strangely vexed . English authors have suffered under peculiar stage grievances patiently and

      long in their own country ; but when a stranger and a lady becomes a victim the

      revolt of feeling is very much intensified . It would be well if an examnle could be made of

      Hether They Beg, Borrow, Or Steal, The E...

      some of these copyists , who at present work so freely with the property of others ,, and

      come before the curtain blithely to bow £ heir acknowledgments of authorship , the title of

      which belongs to others .

      Booksellers' Provident Institution.— The...

      Booksellers' Provident Institution . — The monthly meeting of the directors of this

      institution was held at 56 Old Bailey , on Thursday the 16 th inst . ; there were twenty - one directors presentMr . Charles James

      Longman presiding . The , sum of j £ 114 . 19 s . 2 d . was voted in temporary and permanent

      assistance to 68 members and widows of members . The annual general meeting is arranged to take place at the offices 56 Old Baileyon Thursday

      , , , March 8 , at 7 o ' clock in the evening . Newspaper Statistics . —From The

      Newspaper Press Directory ( Mitchell & Co . ) for 1888 we extract the following o on the present x jposition t

      of the Newspaper Press : — ' There are now published in the United Kingdom 2177 newspapersdistributed as

      follows C 7 : — - , ~ JL A , ,

      Englando London 454 Provinces 1 , 273—1 , 727

      Wales 82 Scotland 189 Ireland _» 158

      Isles 21 Of these there are—136 Daily Papers published in England

      6 « J M . Ditto M . Wales C 21 Ditto Scotland 16 Ditto Ireland

      1 Ditto British Isles On reference to the first edition of this useful

      Directory for the year 1846 we find the following interesting facts _ —vi _ __ ^ ' that in that ___ year

      _____ _— _ -, v ^— . , _ _ there were published in the United Kingdom ^ 551 ^^^ - ^^^^^ ^^^^^ Journal - ^^^ ¦ - ^^ . - ^^ r ^^ r ^ r ^ m ^^^^^^ r ^^ r ^^^ r ^ s i ; - j of ^ these ^~ — 14 were — issued — ~ ^~ - ^~ ^ — ™ ^ - ^ ~— dai — — — ^ ly m —

      viz ., 12 in England and 2 in Ireland ; but in 1888 W there ~^» " are now established and circulated ^ m ^^ . ^^^ r ^^^^ - ^ ¦ - ^^ ^^^^ " ^^ ^^— ¦ — ™ - ^"" ~ ~ — — ^ ' — - ¦ " - ¦ — ~ — ~ — —

      2 , 177 papers , of which no less than 180 are issued 1 dailyshowing — — — that the Press of the

      ~~ country w *^ ^^^ ' ^^ ^^^ ^ - ~^ has ^^^» ^ m , ~ m nearly quadrup W _^ M — — led during the last forty ^ -two years ¦ ¦ . The increase ¦ in daily h papers

      ^ p ^ ^^^^ - ^^^^ ^^^ _ ^ b ^ w - ^^ H ^^^^ —^ r - ^ r — —^ - — - ^— - - — -- - — — —w * — - ^ w ^^ - — ^ j— — ^ m has been still more remarkable ; the daily

      issues standing 180 against 14 in 1846 . TJae I

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1888, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031888/page/4/