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      ! Utebary Intelligence .. ... 214—287 * ...

      ! UTEBARY INTELLIGENCE .. ... 214—287 * COPYRIGHT IN CANADA . 215—217

      | THE "UNDERSELLING- QUESTION IN GERj MANY 217 , 218

      NOTES AND NEWS . i 218—220 CONTINENTAL NOTES . 220 , 221

      AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 2 $ 1 , 222 j LORD HOPETOUN'S LIBRARY 22 J 2 , & 23

      j PROPOSED RUSSIAN DICTIONARY 223 , 224 j OBITUARY 224 , i

      TRADE CHANGES 224 , 225 ! ANNOUNCEMENTS 225—235 REVIEWS , < fcc ¦ ¦ 235—237 j ; ( _^

      ! Utebary Intelligence .. ... 214—287 * ...

      Index to books pubiiIshed in great BRITAIN BETWEEN FEBRUARY 1 & < fe 23 .... 238 , 239

      B 0 OK & PUBLISHED IN GEBAT BRITAIN FROM FEBRUARY 16 TQ 28 ; ... 28 fr—242 NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY

      PUBUSHflD .. ; 242—277 , 296 MISOELIiANEOUS J ; 278-2 ^ 8

      BUSINESS CARDS 284—286 ASSISTANTS WANTED * .. * ... 288

      WANT SITUATIONS 288 ' BOOKS FOB SALE 289

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 289—295

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      f » | , Sr . Dunstan ' s Souse , E . C . ' March 1 , 1889 .

      I R/^Ianada Is A Country Most Difficult ...

      I r /^ IANADA is a country most difficult to deal v ^ with in connection vith copyright , and

      the report which we print in this number will j sufficiently show some of ' the marvellous

      intri-[ cacies of a very peculiar colonial problem . On | referring to the pamphlet entitled ' Copyright

      National and International' ( which we look upon ap the most concise and comprehensible

      epitome of this vexed question yet published ) , we find the law clearly set forth in three

      paragraphs : 1 . By the International- and Colonial Act ,

      1886 , any native or foreign resident in Canada first publishing his work there or in Great

      Britain or in any British possession , gets copyright throughout the Britinh Dominions .

      2 . The works of a British author cannot fbe reprinted in Canada without his permission ,

      but if he does not comply with the Canadian Law , reprints may be imported into Canada

      from' foreign countries ( on payment of the Customs Duty [ 12 J per cent . ] aforesaid ) .

      3 . The works of a British author who complies with the Canadian Xiaw can neither be

      rejprinted in , nor imported into , Canada without his permission .

      The new , or rather renewed , trouble seems to have ita origin in the terms of the Berne

      Convention , which , to some extent , may interfere with Canadian manufacturing concerns ,

      though ita provisions cannot in any degree affectotherwise than beneficially , the affairs

      ' I jof l _ i » authors ^ and publishers V 1 _ 1 _ . . The JTVL - ^ * appeal A _ l for J ? -. — -justice * which has been Advanced by the

      [ Canadian trade is wholly attached to productive or business matters , much in the same

      ( way as an equitable copyright law is held in (( bondage by the working-classes of the United

      States j the popular vote being against what jfc called a * tax on knowledge' without the

      I R/^Ianada Is A Country Most Difficult ...

      ¦ ' v distinction of determining from whom the

      knowledge has to come in future years and

      what wiH be the reward thereof , \ i tQm ¦ i . Hi _

      A Friend Of Mr. Gladstone Has Kindly Bee...

      A friend of Mr . Gladstone has kindly been *

      revealing to ~ the public that eminent statespresent man ' s views century regarding . These the views novelists were i of once the ' \

      enunciated in private—when , is not precisely stated . We are told that the * palm was

      awarded to Scott , and , though we rpay scarcely i be surprised at this decision , we are consider- j

      ably astonished to hear that the * Bride * of Lammermoor' was preferred to all of the I

      Wizard of the North's works : next to this being placed * Kenilworth . ' As to who should

      come second in the order ofcmerit Mr . Gladstone seemed doubtful , but * supposed George

      Eliot 'Silas , ^ the Marner best /" favoured 4 Adam Bede of her , ' < The books Mill being on

      the Floss , ' and the * Scenes of Clerical Life / | AH this is very interesting , but many people

      will be wondering what Thackeray has done that he should be thus relegated to an inferior

      position , and even Dickens , though essentially a humorist , will not be wanting in his host of

      disappointed admirers . But , indeed , thus to arrange novelists like boys in a class list is

      simply impossible } , and for every great mind that would agree with Mr . Gladstone ' s award ,

      another equally intellectual mind could be found to put one of the other scarcely less

      distinguished writers at the head of the poll . Apprec J . JL iation of a novelist depends M . very Umuch

      on the reader ' s individual tone of thought and tendency of sympathy . But H is at least

      gratifying to know-that Mr . Gladstone thought * Jane Eyre * a great and powerful work , and

      many readers will agree with him in failing to appreciate the genius of Emily Bronte . But

      in here ' ' , ¦ : for again Mr emotional . Gladstone sympath ' s chief y seems objection to come ^^ to —^ oi y - - . . . . -j-i . l --- - . ^—— -l—— i-a . ^—^ . MMfcMiM * M *< k * mJi »^ ini ^* it<— W ^ P ** ^ T ^ 9

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), March 1, 1889, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01031889/page/4/