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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st October 1887, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1050

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      Literary Intelligence 1050—1100 Announce...

      LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 1050—1100 ANNOUNCEMENTS TOR THE SEASON 1053—1084 =

      NOTES AtfD NEWS . . ' 1085—10 SS DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY ,

      VOL . XII 1088 AMERICAk ANN 0 UNCEMI ) XT 8 1088—1090 ' CONTINENTAL NOTES 1090 , 1091

      SALE JOTTINGS « ... 1001 BOOKSELLERS . ' CATALOGUES 1091- 1092 CORRESPONDENCE . ' .... ] 1092

      OBITUARY 1093 TRADE CHANGES 1093 REVIEWS AND REVIEWING- 1093 , 10 | 94

      MAGAZINES FOR THE & 0 NTH 1094—1097

      REVIEWS , ^ c . 1097—1100

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT , BRITAIN BETWBBN SEETEMBER 16 & 30 . 1101—1182

      BOOKS FR ^ M PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER IN 16 TO GREAT 30 . BRITAIN 1103—1108 RECENT FOREIGN WORKS" 1108

      NEW BO ^ KB AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISMED / .., 1109—1196

      MISCELLANEOUS 1197—1214 BUSINESS CARDS 1208—1210 BUSINESSES FOR SALE 1212 , 1213

      Businesses wanted ; 1213 assistants wanted 1213

      WANT SITUATIONS ,. 1213 , 1214 BOOKS FOBi SA ! LE ,.... ' ....... ; 1214 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 1215—1219 A ; : ;

      ? St. Dunstan's House, E.G. : , \Oeiober 1, 1887. *

      ? St . Dunstan ' s House , E . G . : , \ Oeiober 1 , 1887 . *

      Tn The Announcement Number Of The Publis...

      TN the announcement number of the Publishers ' -t Circular published a year ago a brief and

      rapid summary was given of the literary work accomplisjied 9 during the past half-century . Tlie

      PublishersCircular was tjien entering upon its fiftieth year , and the opportunity was taken to

      cast a retrospective glance at the books anjd bookmen whose names had appeared in its

      varied chronicle of the past . The half-century of the Circular closes

      today , and it may be well to say a word or two concerning the future . Not many persons seem

      to realise that the close of the century is near at hand , that in a brief twelve years the dawn of

      the twentieth century will appear . With this thoug O ht in our mind , i it is hig hly interesting Oto

      note the lists of new books as they are issued from time to time . How many great works are

      to tell to generations yet unborn the story of the intellectual life of these days ? It is

      impossible to predict how our authors may fare in the judgment of posterity ; but hare we

      today amongst us workers who can be compared to those who gave to the world the fruits of

      their genius in the closing years of the last two centuries ?

      At the end of the seventeenth century , Addison , Pope , Defoe , Swift , Bentley ,

      Atterbury , and in Scotland Allan Ramsay , were alive . To-day , whose works can be placed

      beside theirs ? At the end of the eighteenth century Crabbe , Rogers , WordsworthColeridge

      , , Southey , and Scott were adding to the beauties of our literature . Burns died in 1796 ,

      Coww per in 1800 , and Henry Kirke White in 1806 . Byron , Keats , and Shelley were children at

      the beginning of the century . No one , of course , can say what names

      may arise to eclipse or rival the lights of the past . But there ia no doubt that the direction

      of thought in literature , as in life , is rapidly

      changing . History and Science are the

      subj ects—we might say the only subj ect a— - which have advanced . Originality is impossible in

      history , and accuracy imperative : new lights and new modes of inquiry have therefore

      been employed , so that readers are guided to truth with more facility than in past times .

      Records of science becpnie literature only in the hands of men such , as Darwin , Huxley ,

      and Tyndall , and it is not improbable that these writers will occupy the places which

      poets occupied in the estimation of older generations . Such a result would only be

      another-proof of the utilitarianism of the age . The books which are ipromised for the

      forthcoming winter generally show this prevailing characteristic of our times . As we

      predicted last year , the season was prosperous , and from the evidences ~ of the present

      time we are justified in auguring another Mm , and

      perhaps even a-better , run of success . i

      «<>» Nearly All Tlie Provisions Of Tlie ...

      «<>» Nearly all tlie provisions of tlie

      international copyright convention , -which has recently been ratified "between France ,

      Germany , Belgium , Spain , Italy , S witzerland , and Great Britain , are known to our readersi , at

      least to those who are interested in such questions , the subject having been frequently

      discussed in these ; columns . It is well , however , to speak again of the salient points of

      this long-looked-for agreement between the chief European countries in which literature

      asserts itself . In the first place the convention

      substantially protects the interests of literary and artistic productions , and , free from , prejudice , the

      protection extends throughout all the countries which have become signatories . Briefly stated ,

      authors and artists whose works are introduced to these countries enjoy in so far as copyright

      is concerned all the privileges by law accorded

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Oct. 1, 1887, page 1050, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01101887/page/4/