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IilTBRAHY INTELLIGENCE 158—170 BOOKS PtT...
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188 Fleet , Street : February 15, ^887.
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BY the lamented death of Mrs. Henry Wood...
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The ' Classical Review.'—There was cer-_...
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! 158 The Publishers' Circular Feb. 15, ...
! 158 The Publishers' Circular Feb . 15 , 1887
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Iiltbrahy Intelligence 158—170 Books Ptt...
IilTBRAHY INTELLIGENCE 158—170 BOOKS PtTBUSHED IN GREAT BRITAIN MR . BROWNING'S NEW VOLUME / . 160 , 161 PROM FEBRUARY 1 TO 15 172—176 DEBRETT'S « PEERAGE' 16 J , 162 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 177
NOTES AND NEWS 162 NEW BOOKS AND BOOK 3 LATELY PUBCONTINENTAL NOTES 162 , 163 LISTE i * t P ^ A ¦ D - * - ^ • • • •• • • •• •••••• • • «• I .... * . . .. . 178 . 9 \ J -192 '¦ M . iffl 212 6 \ ^ , £
AMEKIOAN NEWS AND NOTB 3 163164 ' SALE JOTTINGS ........ : 164 , 104 165 MIS B rt S OBI INB , SS I ^ NEOTJS CASDS 198 193- - - 203 205 I
TRADE OBITUAR CHANGES Y , 165 BOOK , J \ SALE a 4 TT , 199 BOOKS FOR LENT 165-167 ASSISTANTS WANTED .. 201
REVIEWS & c J .... 167—170 WANT SITUATIONS 204 , 20 . 5 , INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BOOKS FOR SALE 203
BRITAIN BETWEEN FEBRUARY 1 & 15 .. 170—172 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 205—211
188 Fleet , Street : February 15, ^887.
188 Fleet , Street : February 15 , ^ 887 .
By The Lamented Death Of Mrs. Henry Wood...
BY the lamented death of Mrs . Henry Wood a remarkable writer has disappeared from
the ranks of femini ze novelists . One literarycharacteristic of the passing generation is the
hold which various ladies have obtained upon public favour , exemplified by the sustained
interest taken in their new books as they regularly appeared at intervals for a long series of
years . While the novels of men have fluctuated in popularity , each depending more or less upon
in its intrinsic some instances merits , , the won fictions the alleg of iance women or have 1 dis- ,
tinct classes of admirers , who looked forward with pleasant anticipation to the appearance
of new books from the pens of their favourites . Women have been creating certain tastes in
fiction lately , perhaps more truly than men . The late Mrs . Henry Wood ' s works form an
example of one school , so to speak . The books of her great contemporaries , * George
Eliot , ' ' Ouida , ' and Miss Braddon are distinctly representative of widely different
classes . Thirty novels were written by Mrs . Henry
Wood , and each and all show the pure nobility and vigour of an English lady ' s genius .
Healthy in tone and teaching , her stories are a combination of original plot and dramatic
force . The great proof of the latter quality is the treatment of ' East Lynne , ' than which
few novels have been more successful . At an early period this work was dramatised .
' Adapters , ' managers , actors , and actresses have made reputations and fortunes for
themselves through the power of Mrs . Wood ' s absorbing story ; but it is a significant fact
that the original writer received no pecuniary advantage from the thousands of stage
representations which have taken place in all quarters of the globe . There are few worse
instances of the purloining which is continually going on among modern playwrights .
It has been argued that the adaptation advertised the booh . This argument is similar to
that of certain \ Americans who say that they give 1
fame , though not fortune , to English authors , whose works they appropriate ^ and live upon .
The idea is more convenient than ingenious . If the late Mrs . Wood had been paid , as she
ought to have been paid , for the stage rights of her story , the book would not have suffered a
jot in so far as advertising was concerned . The fact was that payment , on account of defects
in the copyright law , could not be legally j enforced . But , law apart , it would have been
well if managers and dramatists had shown some respect for fair dealing . Literature and
the Drama are in the closest connection ; and it is hard to think that representatives of such
prof essions should prey upon the works of their living brethren . The Pall Mall Gazette does
not speak too strongly when'it refers to ' the defective state of the law of copyright , which
enables any scribbler to make an adaptation 'and a fortune out of some one else ' s brains . I
The subject is one which has frequently come to the front . No more powerful
illustration of its abuses could be found than the case of Mrs . Henry Wood ; and we can only
deplore that the occasion of its recurrence has been the death of a lady so universally
esteemed . I QI .
The ' Classical Review.'—There Was Cer-_...
The ' Classical Review . '—There was
certainl _ y an opening _ for ^ a publication _ _ intended — ^ to supply reviews confined to classical books .
No English periodical gives full attention , universall UUIVCIOC *!! y ^ j ; to KW the WHO subject O \ JlkJJ ^ ys V . Many jLTXd / lX ^ will W 1 J . L agree <* p" -
with the promoters of the Classical Revi ' V * ( London : Mr . David Nutt ) when they say
that classical books are at present criticise d onl onlv fitf fHvfiillv ully . in in nanfirs mainly mninlv interested infftfP !» f , nd m in
y , papers and other it matters embraces . The matters subject besides is a wide review one - , leading ing . Consequentl object of many y the , as newr we are informed n will be , tlio t <>
record the progress ! of classical orga learning in ull its will diverg find it ah ing « f useful branches v ^ 'nab as a . receptacle Scholar ^ for , it notes is hoped r and ,
queries The « « * AA <»< fc general * h « h ^ , adversaria <«^ a r- ^ editors ^*^«^ mt mr , <^ and »^^» are ¦¦» -w " short » " ^ ¦^¦ the ^ m ^ VwW ^ ori A Rev T * ~ g **¦ ^ inal v . Josep ^ # fcf * ^ studios r ^ v ^— h & " .
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 15, 1887, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15021887/page/4/
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