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750 The Publishers' Circular July 2, 188...
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LTTERAKY ENTEIXIGKNCE 750—760 DICTIONARY...
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I St. Dunstan's House, E.C July 2, 1888.
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OOME days ago an Edinburgh daily startle...
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Mr. J. Russell Endean has written and pu...
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750 The Publishers' Circular July 2, 188...
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Ltteraky Enteixigknce 750—760 Dictionary...
LTTERAKY ENTEIXIGKNCE 750—760 DICTIONARY OP NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY .. 751 , 752
THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY 752 NOTES AND NEWS 752 , 753 BOATING 753
CONTINENTAL NOTES 753 , 754 AMERICAN NEWS AND NOTES 754—756 SALE JOTTINGS 756 , 757
OBITUARY 757 TRADE CHANGES 757 REVIEWS , & c 757—7 &)
INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED EN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN JUNE 15 AND 30 761 , 762 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GRBAT BRITAIN
FROK JUNE 15 TO 30 „ 762—766 RECENT FOREIGN WORKS 767 NEW BOOKS & BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 768—782
MISCELLANEOUS 783—794 BUSINES 3 CARDS 789—791 BUSIIffESSES FOR SALE 792
ASSISTANTS WANTED 793 WANT SITUATIONS 793 BOOKS FOR SALE 794
BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 794—799
I St. Dunstan's House, E.C July 2, 1888.
I St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C July 2 , 1888 .
Oome Days Ago An Edinburgh Daily Startle...
OOME days ago an Edinburgh daily startled ^ Modern Athenians with a heading
' Edinburgh Printing and Publishing Trades Threatened , ' printed in ( large capitals .
Evidently it has taken some time for the northern mind to realise that there is some danger
associated with the passing of the American Copyright Bill . But no sooner do the interested
parties comprehend the significance of the measure than they patriotically band
themselves together and summon an ' extraordinary meeting' of the Edinburgh Chamber of
Com-« merce , to consider what action should be taken in connection with the Chace affair . Of course
nothing whatever can be done , at present , beyond grumbling . Publishers , of whom there
\ are a good number in Edinburgh , were conspicuous by their absence ; but the printing and
¦ sponsibl paper-making y represented trades . were very ably and
re-One gentleman , Mr . John Grant , booksellerattempted to give a political tone to the
, ¦ discussion Cobden himself , a ' Free would Trade have ' hesitated tone , which to adopt even . 1
But Mr . Grant was promptly rebuked by Mr . Blaikie of the University Press , who pointed
i out that the printers of Edinburgh ' had to remember that one reason why business stuck
mr to a place was because it was a tradition of the business to flow in that particular channel . In
Edinburgh they had a large share of the bookproducing business , and for a long time a great
deal of it had been got through tradition . I Their authors had somehow migrated to
London , but the printing of many of the books was Istill done in Edinburgh . The American bill was
j the cleverest thing he had ever known . Under the guise of giving justice to authors , it tried
i to transfer the centre of the literary industry from this country—from London to America .
It was an attempt to get the best authors , printers , and publishers , to transfer their centre
from this country to America . That was what they had been trying to do all along . Their
distinguished townsman , Mr . Louis Stevenson ,
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had been almost carried over permanently , and had been tempted in a way almost appalling ¦— to
^ b V ^ m ^ b ~ i publishers or the book-producing class of this country . '
Now , what will the printers , not only of Edinburgh but of London , say to the latest
actions of one of the most important typographical unions in the United States ? We
present a copy of resolutions adopted by one St of ates the most quoti important ng from the of these Publish unions ers Weekl in the , y
. K . - ¦— - W ^ ( N . Y . ) : — 4 Whereas , a bill granting a copyright on
books , plays , & c , and providing that all books copyri ¦ A . + f g hted in the United States must be printed A
from type set in this country , has passed the Senate of the United States , and is now on the
calendar of the House of Representatives ; and ' WhereasEnglish publishers and printers ,
, professing apprehension that if the bill shall become a law they will be thereby deprived of a
large amount of work , have held meetings in London to devise ways and means to encompass
f JLthe defeat of the bill in the House of Representatives' , and have emp A . loyed •/ American counsel to
create a sentiment against the bill and to lobby for its defeat ; * therefore be it
1 Resolved — , That Typographical Union No . 6 , believing that the American Congressthe
Ameri-, can printer , the American publisher , and the American author are thoroughly competent to
determine what is for the best interests of all concerned ; and believing , also , that this foreign
interference in a matter of vital importance to a large and most intelligent class of American
artisans , and a matter pre-eminently the right of the American Congress to determine under
paragraphs 3 and 8 , Section 8 , Article 1 , of the Constitution of the United States , should be rebuked ,
requests the Representatives in Congress from this State to urge the immediate passage of said
bill . ii ^ ii
Mr. J. Russell Endean Has Written And Pu...
Mr . J . Russell Endean has written and published an account of his inquiry into the
state of public education in Austria . Mr . Endean , during his visits to Austrian schools
lutely * This without statement foundation is , acc . — o Ed rding . P . C . to our knowledge , abso-
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 2, 1888, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_02071888/page/4/
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