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— , 1 188 Fleet Street : June 1, 1887.
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At Oxford, on May 31, Professor Freeman ...
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— , 1 188 Fleet Street : June 1, 1887.
— , 188 Fleet Street : June 1 , 1887 .
The Contemporary M Review For This Month...
THE Contemporary m Review for this month has esp ecial interest for readers of the
literature of the day . From a political { standpoint Mr . Gladstone ' s words on ' The Great
Olympian Seditiqn' may overshadow the lucubrations of other contributors , but we
think that not a few of the readers of the ar Contemporary ticles as 4 Thomas will turn Stevenson with , interjest Civil Eng to ineer such , '
by Mr . R . L . Stevenson ; * Oxford after Forty Years , ' by Professor Freeman ; *
Annus"Aureolus 4 Our : a Position Jubilee Ode in , C ' by yprus Mr . / Robert by Mr . Buchanan H . Rider ;
Haggard ; and * Literary Plagiarism , ' by Mr , Andrew Lang .
The last-mentioned article will be sure to attract wide attention . It might almost 3 be
called Mr . Lang ' s , 'Apology for Plagiarists , and as such it is rather startling in its ingenuity of
argument . ' Of all forms of theft '—Mr . Lang quotes from " Voltaire— ' plagiarism is the least
dangerous to society . ' Mr . Lang himself then says that , * of all forms of consolation , to shout
• 'Plagiarism ! " is the most comforting to authors who have failed or amateurs who have never
had the pluck to try . ' This may be very true . Other conceptions , however , might induce
people to say that among forms of theft plagiarism is one of the most irritating afflictions of
readers as well as authors . The latter often find coincidences which in their e ^ yes are
considered so criminal that they ought instanter to be punis — hed by the nearest magistrate . ^^
Authors , however , can fight their own battles in this respect , and as long as printers can
set up parallel columns the conflict is not likely to come to an end .
Readers on the other hand are often solely troubled by plagiarism , especially in novels .
Upon the whole the machinery of ordinary fiction is very familiar . But when a story is
ostensibly constructed upon a new principle ,
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before the public , it is to be expected that the I work will be subjected to more than cursory I
criticism . Should anything have been bor- I rowed from other constructions , it is somewhat I
aggravating to find that no acknowledgment I has appealed . The man or woman who , I
among social circles , by observation of life , I manners , or anecdote , gathers matter for _ I
literary labour could hardly be accused of I plagiarism . But in all cases where fiction is I
indebted to recorded experiences it would be I well to acknowledge the sources from whence I
the incidents have been obtained . Some I novelists are very shortsighted in this respect . I
The time is past when their productions could I be considered as the outcome of original I
thinking . On the other hand , an admission I of the sources would reflect greater credit I
upon the studious scholarshi p of the writers . I Value v a > j . uu would tvuiuu be vkj g given 1 iven to v \ j many jiictiij' popular jJUJJlLUfc ¦ x novels IIUvCld I
b ^ an indicationof the inspiring sources of I their incidents . The works of Sir Walter I
Scott are remarkable examples of this , for the I notes at the end of each story are of the highest I
value to readers and have added greatly to I the writer ' s undying fame . Why should not I
every novelist who - is indebted w even in the _ I slig — htest degree — to the works of others be I
willing to follow the same sensible and profit- m I able example ? I •<>• I
At Oxford, On May 31, Professor Freeman ...
At Oxford , on May 31 , Professor Freeman I and the Bodleian Librarian protested I
against the amendment of the Provost of I Queen's , who argued that the Bodleian I
Library should be a library of reference—& I library of deposit , and not a lending library . I
Book-lovers , en masse , should be pleased to I learn that Professor Freeman ' s objection to I
the amendment was overruled by M 6 votes to I 60 . Professor Freeman said that the stopping I
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1887, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061887/page/4/
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