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    VALUABLE ART BEQUEST TO THE NATION.

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    of r bo if , f there Stone S neces tone is sary & < K an bon Son to enactment reg v v . . White ister White in at any the the Stationers particular couns counsel el ' Hall tor for colony the the to secure defendant defendant as to copyri registration maintained maintained ght under of copy m in the vie view ri Act g w ht . of of , it In the the shall the Act Act case not of of

    JSSG , that unless the local , ,, Legislature had provided for registration , , of books , they were tha neither tthe copyri plaintiffs ghted ' work nor protected not having in been the colony registered without in Eng reg land istration their in action England must ; fail and .

    Counsel , fox the Plaintiffshowevercontended that there was no , intention in the International and Colonial Copyri , ght Act , of 1886 to interfere with a merely local copyright in a

    copyri if only colony he need was g where ht content wis he * h reg there ed ister with for was a at copyri copyr no Stationers reg ig ht ht istration in also 1 New Hall throug , . but Zealand In hout that other if the he in words British would such , an a follow Dominions colony auth New or the mig under Zealan proprietor ht tak that d e Law his Act of choice a which , local then :

    did not require registration ; g but if he wanted copyri , ght throughout the British Dominions , and in foreign countries where there were copyright conventions , he must register at

    Statjoners' Hall , in order to take advantage of the Imperial Act of 1886 . This latter view was taken , substantially , by the learned Judge , who granted an injunction in the terms asked by

    the Plaintiffs , but reserved costs , as it was intimated that the Defendant would appeal .

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    ixc . 6 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular ! 6 4 i

    . —?Jtr* - I I ! A Scottish National Lib...

    . —? jtr * - i i ! A SCOTTISH NATIONAL LIBRARY .

    f j H / if TT ^^ HHXB fUraliil lFiri / ^^^^^ flUV ^ r 'E formation learn that of mu a National ch interest Library is aroused . The promoters in Scotland of the in regard scheme to wish the to make proposed the

    I B iJL / lJ famous Advocates' Library in Edinburgh the nucleus of the new institution . { ^ V tS f ^^ 2 B ^ sM ^^^ P ^^^^ 2 ^^ yH V'S ^ s '^ B This I , " -Ilf ^ J library ^ X fc— ' A tVl V has A A C < WpnJ great C . ^^ L 4 I V A historic ^ . ^ Pt > J V V ^ ^ JL ^«/ value T ^> V ^> * - «* > - ^ . ^ It " - » was V * % JV 9 * M i founded * . ^— ' V ^ AA V ^* . ^/ V ^* , I as ^ V *^ . far i «> VJ- back W ^ F % ^ V ^ S 1 ^ as 4 _> Wlk _ y 1682 - ¦ - V- ^ X-J * ^ aa , and «^ W > A V >» .

    contains books and manuscripts which no other Scottish library either has , or can ever acquire ; and it has been well said that if anyone had the inclination to write the

    reside history in of Edinburg Scotland h , , which and to should gain be access full to and the authoritative Advocates' , Library he wou . ld David be compe Hume lle , the to i | j p the hiloso promotion pher , once of occu his p historical ied the office studies of librarian . In an to interesting the Faculty of Advocates on the proposed with a scheme view to

    Ij the Glasgow Herald holds that the Edinburgh library ranks next paper to the British Museum and the , I Jiodleian in the United Kingdom ; and , for that reason , the consideration of any other library

    as the the material basis of for a lay Scotch ing the National foundation Library of a would National be Library preposterous . It has . It been is the virtuall only on agreed e possess b ing all

    i but the Government that Scotland should have such a national institutionafter y the pattern y ! ' ot of that that in in the thf > t British Tfcrit . iah Museum TYTiispinm rm « n t f , o all a . ll man ma . n n er ftr of of scholars scholars s stndftnta tudents . and anri , general o"fineral readers readers ..

    | Sir William Chambers laid the , case open for such a library before th , , Social S , cience Congress , more than a quarter of a century ago , and in the interval between that time and the present the

    su }) ject has appeared and reappeared . Dr . Chambers turned his eye towards the Advocates ^ Library took advantage , as if cove of ti his ng statements it for the , nation and are ; . and large all ly indebted his successors to him did for the arguments same . thing A National . They Library is wantedthat there be a depository of national literatureas well as a

    dis-1 Hcininator of both , national and may general learning . It is clear that the first efforts , of the movers " is f j the \ m . m . ^ j scheme KJ \^ ALKJS . AI ^\/ should O . HV 7 14 . J . V 1 . be L / V devoted V 4 \ J V KJ UUU . to UKJ inducing X 11 VA \ JLKS JL . M . A CZ the VX 1 V Government VI V ^ V V * A XXAAAV ^ XAC to U \_ ^ tak U CUIX V e the V ± A ^ . J matter X 1 AU V « J ^> JL in XJI A hand JIU / AXVi . - It « - U

    the believed strenuous that efforts if the public put % / forth knew in more the about past to the acquire library it , the for privileges the nation attaching ¦ they would to «» m ^ it , more and

    ~ *¦ " +- *¦ A " » - A Ji Vt -KJ J JLJ . V-A % / KJ » wV-Ai / JJL AXX VAA IJ «^« K _ r u / Vr Vvl v * ju a . ^_ J * . s m . V-aWA AA il « •—vft _/ -7 - ^>« . « a a w - "V-! i fct urgen »« ps as tly wou insist ^ ' * ld *^ at upon ' least . their f ~ bring ^ * ^ - ' leaders the . * question , whe ^— ' th to an M *^^ issue em ^* b er between s of Par " ^ . l the iamen . ^^ Government t ' * or . ^^ * . * o , thers ** ^^_ , , the taking ^ " ^ Faculty such ,

    I j Juki ind the two peop hundred le of and Scotland eighty . -five We thousand may add volumes that the . Library contains three thousand Mtob ., Ni ^ ,

    Valuable Art Bequest To The Nation.

    VALUABLE ART BEQUEST TO THE NATION .

    \ L fgfi ' H TF l ^ / i Oljl n || nU fjlE many includes are glad of no his to less learn extremel than that y twent Mr valuable . G y- . six F . p of i Watts ctures his , excellent R to . A the ., has na portraits t decided ion . H to compr is hand splendid ising over those beques a great of t

    , lA ^^ ^ ^ MBaLll msi & ^^^ The Gladstone Swinburne , , Carl Matthew yle , T Arnold ennyson hav , , Cardinal John all Stuart Manning Mill , , Lord Browning Salisbury , Leck , Lord y , Rossetti Lytton , ,

    j ' ^ 1 ^ 'f . 'ey < include c . * Love other and eleven Death paintings / ' Hope * e Time a Death high reputation and Judgment in the ' ' The world Court of art of .

    1 « ¦ -w » rw-kv -m mm , 1 ¦ v , i S ~~* , TT , 4 i * W "W T * woll J ' ciath . understand , ' ' Love and that — Life so , ' magnificent ' The Minotaur * a gift , ' as ' Death that of Crowning Mr . Watts Innocence will arouse , ' & c the . We liveliest can in

    ^ latiflcation art and other circles . ~ - * - > *^ . _

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/107/