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    discredit of issuing printed arguments in support of the doctrine that dishonesty is the

    best policy . The paper before us , shows how uaueh money working printers make , and how

    much American readers save , by robbing foreign authors . Almost every word of it .

    however , coulofbe used in support of a welloonceived plan for swindling clothiers ,

    supposing theria were no legal penalty for such an offence . That is , the clothiers are a small

    body , while the wearer * of the clothing are an immense body * Men must have clothing , they

    cannot go naked ; and the practice of charging money for clothes puts an impediment in the

    way of the satisfaction of an absolutely necessary and most salutary want on the part

    of people of small means . One of the funniest parts of the circular is that which pleads

    against depriving the foreign author of the " popularity" he now enjoys through the

    cheapness of his printed books . If he were paid for his copyright , says the pamphleteer ,

    fewer of his books would be read ; and then where would be his " popularity " ? This

    argument might also be turned against the clothier . A clothier who got nothing for his

    goods would , if he stayed in the business , soon be the most popular man in the United

    States . The practice of paying for them necessarily limits the extent io which he is

    known and admired , and exposes him to the

    charge of selfishness . '

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    extenso 1 Mystery the of most the Christmas interesting Book article , ' which on Mr the .

    0 . B . Bunce contributed lately to the New York Critic . Publishers will find much to

    interest them in this contribution . A long time has passed since the leading producers

    in this country gave up the general practice of issuing elaborate books at the season of

    the year when the appearing of such books waa considered appropriate . English

    publishers now devote their Christmas aspirations wholly to 'juvenile' books , for the habit of

    seasonable gifts is here confined mostly to the nursery , the school , and the ' lasses and lads /

    It is different in America , where presents are looked for among all ages , conditions , and

    classes . But big volumes seem to be failing Wen there . Sumptuous volumes are now rarely

    produced in this country purely as gift-books . ( Generally speaking , their preparation has been

    h labour of love unattached to season or opportunity . Some old classic sometimes animates

    the veneration of ari admirer , who hastens to give the public his favourite work in the

    linest garb that modern talent can devise .

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    The result in such cases is pleasing , as a rule , jf and will command but there j

    always respect ) can : be little doubt that the elaborate original . !

    Christmas gift-book , with all its . wealth of art | if not of imagery , has gone the way of the

    * Keepsake' and the * Book of Beauty . ' I

    The Patent Systems Of The World.— Under ...

    The Patent Systems of the World . — Under the title of '* The True Position of

    Patentees , ' Mr . Henry Moy Thomas has contrived frivAf ? to f . r » A-K-nljM lain Ti within wif . h'm the f . JiA limits limitst of r » f a shilling fthilliTicr

    book the exp patent laws and regulations of ; Great Britain and her colonies and possessions as

    well of all other countries which are sufficiently ; civilised to afford protection to inventors . The

    leading the comb idea ined of the effect treaties of home is that colonial of showing and I

    foreign regulations from the point , of view , of the interests of British inventors . The little

    book shall — — , . j is and — _— published , _ Messrs _— ^ _ _ _ _ . A by , _^ yrfcon — Messrs — & __ \ Thomas . Simpkin t __^ , of __ & 59 __ Mar and

    -60 Chancery Lane . The CiiElttJY List : —^ 1 ? his important annual

    wil Adams l in & future Co . be published by Hamilton ,

    An English Library in Vienna . —The Vienna Weekly News recently contained the

    following remarks from A € rrumbling Briton ' : * I have-lately cottie from St . Moritz , where ,

    a being desultory a man hour of literary in the perusal habits , of I passed the Eng many lish

    books in the English library there . I have found libraries of a similar kind to exist at

    other fashionable continental resorts besides St . Moritzand they were everywhere much

    appreciated , both by the English and American travellers and residents . I was not a little

    Library surprised or , on Eng asking lish Reading my way -room to . thB at ~~ Vienna finglish

    to be told that no institution of the kind existed , here . The hotel porter had not the remotest

    idea where I could find any of the well-known English and American monthly publications ,

    which elsewhere are considered indispensable to the happiness of the reading worldand

    went so far AX as to suggest that - - -- I should , order them at a neighbouring bookseller ' s . It so

    happens I am interested in seventeen monthlies , British and Transatlanticand the idea of

    postponing my departure fro , m Vienna till the new cargo arrives is ncrtrwithout its shady and

    not without its humorous side . ' Dr . Geffcken . —Dr . ( Jeffckenwhose name

    has of late been so prominently , before the public in connection with the publication in

    the Deutsche Rundschau of the late Emperor Frederick's Diary , first saw the light one day in

    Hamburg December , merchant 1830 . A scion princes of an Dr old . Geffc family ken of

    entered the diplomatic service , in 1854 , and became Secretary of Legation at Paris for the

    year Hanseatic with the League absorption , which of came the to last an remaining end last

    independent Hanse Tow , of Hamburg into the new German EireIn 1856 DrGeffcken

    was tthree U hree *» Vl ** appointed VJ- »» VA VV lllUili later later Charg JL he lie -tKM mp . MVJM ^ became became .. d . \ ' Affai . m jl . AM . Res Jtie res JLVW sident ident at Berlin M . . . VJ minister Minister VXJL , and 1 VV 1 . X years years

    -at the , Prussian Court , where he remained I «

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Jan. 15, 1889, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15011889/page/5/