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    564 The Publishers' Circular May 1518 90...

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    THE LAW OF NEWSPAPER LIBEL.* Mr. Kelly v...

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    sure expressed one b finds y Oliver on looking Wendell at Holmes these . is ' well The places I most wish _ to see _ ' he says 7 * are

    , - tf ' , individual those associated . ' with the memory of some To possessupon our shelves odd volumes

    is which a p * leasure have been of . no loved mean and extent read . b It y engenders great C 7 men ,

    or rather answers to , a sentiment into which nothing more heinous enters than a selfish satisfaction of possession . ' Sitting last winter

    Hunt among , ' my and books walled X , ' wr round ote k with indly all -hearted O the comfort Leigh

    and protection which they and my fireside could afford me ; to wita table of high-piled

    books at my back , niy , writing-desk on one side of mesome shelves on the otherand the , ,

    feeling of the warm fire at my feet ; I began to consider how I loved the authors of those books—how I loved themtoonot only for

    the imaginative pleasures they , afforded , me , but for their making me love the very books themselves , and delight to be in contact with them . '

    To complete our ideal study , we would have ( if we could , of course ) many trifles in addition to books—trifles having associations

    as distinctly literary as those which cluster around printed volumes . A picture from

    Landor's medley of canvases of all kinds of second and third rate valuewhich at one A h k OK __ , 7- __ . ^ - ^ ^ m _ B

    time he gathered around him , should hang ^ somewhere on the walls ; and the statuette of Napoleon which Carlyle had on his

    mantelpiece when writing his ' French Revolution / should also find a place in some conspicuous

    corner , whilst his old book-shelves , offered for sale by a dealer in such items some years ago , would by no means be rejected . Whilst

    scribbling , we would have for use ( a little mended , by the way ) a worn-out quill of Sir Walter Scott ' s , and it should be dipped A J . in no

    less famous receptacle than one of the two inkstands which graced Longfellow ' s study table . One of these belonged to Coleridge

    and bears his name upon an ivory plate . The , other was once Crabbe's , and was given by his

    son to Thomas Moore , the poet , and by him to Mr . S . C . Hall , who in turn presented it to Longfellow . Our discarded manuscripts should

    be dropped quietly into Moore ' s waste-paper basket , which was also given to Longfellow by Mr . Hall . We would mark the fleeting hours

    on the face of either the old clock which stood sentinel on Longfellow ' s stairs , or that other which once belonged to Izaak Walton

    and was recently disposed of , for some £ 70 , , at the sale of the effects of the well-known vocalist , Joseph Maas . And if the coveting

    it be no sin , we would fain have , to write upon , a certain desk belonging to Sir James Fitzjames Stephenwhich came .-.. in . to his

    possessi on , he tells » us , , in the following manner A . : ' Mr . Carlyle asked me to be his executor , and

    so some me little little time time atter after 1 T had had accepted accented that thatdutv duty ,. invited me into his drawing-room , to choose one of the articles of furniture or p JLictures

    contained in it to keep as a memorial to him . I chose the table—or rather desk—in question , partly because it was of hardly any intrinsic

    value ( it was valued for probate at £ 2 ) , and ffik partly because t it is of rather a peculiar make , -

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    * m and had for many years been associated with him in my mind . He told me he was glad I

    had ' 111 chosen it ; that ili ' it had belonged ^ ^ to his — father-in-law ; that it was remarkably solid

    and well ^ « made ^ k ; and that _ ^ m _ he ^^ had ^ B ^ B written A — - * all his oooks books on on xi it except except '' Schiller iscniuer . . " And Ana who who

    indeed , would not wish to write at the desk on which the " copy" of iC Sartor Resartus " and the * ' French Revolution " had lainfresh

    from If the to sit author in the ' s han chair d ! ' once ied , b | occupy a

    man what a f p genius ick we would have— assist or rather us had to insp at the iration late , sale of Mr . George Godwin ' s collection of \

    as h H istoric ere our i nine s chairs Sha teen kspeare — th and cen *— ' ' s ' t all ury chair at tradesman moderate for 120 gui hath prices neas it , ! ; ' i | |

    Bulwer Lytton 's , 13 guineas ; Shirley Brooks O 's , i 1 gu O inea ; Planche ' s , 3 J £ guineas o ; Hepworth j ; - !

    Dixon ' s , half a guinea ; Mrs . Browning ' s , 5 | guineas ; Mrs . Siddons ' s , 7 guineas ; Samuel

    Warren's , 2 guineas ; John Gay ' s ( fitted with papers contriva ) , nces 30 guineas writing ; Samuel and storing C . b Hall ooks ' s 5 [

    guineas ; Mrs . Hall ' s , 2 ^ guineas ; Cruik , - shank ' s , 2 guineas ; Theodore Hook's , 19 guineas C , . 1 ; Dante Rossetti ' s , 29 s . ; JSir Walter

    Raleigh ' s , 2 guineas ; Dr . Watts ' s , 3 £ guineas ; Walter Savage Landor ' s , 3 | guineas ; Anthony Trollope ' s 3 guineas ; Thackeray ' s 3 £ guineas ;

    Alexander , Pope ' s , 5 ^ guineas ; , Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s 15 s . ; Lord Byron ' s 2 £ guineas .

    —But Dickens , 's Vacant Chair was , not there ! If the si g ht of an old p A . lay t / -bill had , to

    Charles Lamb , the power of calling up images of old actors and the parts they played , what scenes and thoughts are to us suggested by

    such relics as these odd pieces of furniture ! The imagination loves to linger in the regions thus createdmaking for itself a world wherein

    the honoured , dead live their lives for us again . But the field fancy may roam through of this kind is limitless—the pen-wiper and old

    slippers of this great man , and the lamp which once held midnigO ht oil for the other , are

    possible of multiplication ad infinitum . By our plans of what we would have , but cannot , we

    are reminded of the whimsical conduct of Balzac , who , when he had spent all his money in building the house he christened The

    Jardies , and had nothing left wherewith to purchase the furniture , amused himself by marking out in charcoal where thisthatand

    the 4 Here other an ornament coming article in Parian was marble to be , located here , a : cedar-wood pedes JL tal ; here a ceiling {_ , * ; painted JL

    by Delacroix ; here Aubusson tapestry ; here scraw a scul led ptured one marble of his mantel friends piece one ' day an y , d * ' here here a /

    picture by Raphael , beyond all price , and such as hath never been seen . ' And these things never came !

    564 The Publishers' Circular May 1518 90...

    564 The Publishers' Circular May 1518 90 ,

    The Law Of Newspaper Libel.* Mr. Kelly V...

    THE LAW OF NEWSPAPER LIBEL . * Mr . Kelly does not attempt to give in hia

    handy volume v a complete exposition JL C ? of the law of libel , as it has recently been illustrated

    Amendment * The Law Act of L 888 Newspaper . By JMohurd Libel J , . as Kell defined y , Barrlstor by - the at-Luw Libel ,

    W . Clowes & Co ., Iilmlted .

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), May 15, 1890, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15051890/page/14/