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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 16th July 1888, Edition 1 of 1, Page 802

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    • St. Dunstan's House, E.C. July 16, 1888.
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      802 The Publishers' Circular juiy 16 , 1888

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      Literary Intelligence 802—811 Wagner And...

      LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 802—811 WAGNER AND LISZT 803 , 804

      CRICKET 804 NOTES AND NEWS 804 , 805 CONTINENTAL NOTES 805 , 80 fr

      SALE JOTTINGS 806 , 807 OBITUARY 807 TKADE CHANGE . 808

      EDINBURGH PUBLISHERS AND THE CHACE BILL 808 BOOKS AND BOOKLETS , WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS 808—810

      REVIEWS , & c 810 , 811

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN BETWEEN JULY 2 AND 16 811—813

      BOOKS PUBLISHED LN GREAT BRITAIN FROM JULY 2 TO 16 . ~ 813—817 AMERICAN NEW BOOKS 8 J 7

      NEW BOOKS & BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 818—835 MISCELLANEOUS 836—845 BUSINES 3 CARDS 841—843

      ASSISTANTS WANTED 844 WANT SITUATIONS 844 BOOKS FOR SALE 845

      BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 845—851

      St. Dunstan's House, E.C. July 16, 1888.

      St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . July 16 , 1888 .

      Att V. Cameron, A Case Which Was De-W Ci...

      ATT v . Cameron , a case which was de-W cided the otjier 1 day , afforded

      book-% 0 S producers some very valuable hints . The complainant was accused some time agoin a

      , letter printed in the Athenaeum , of having used , in a lecture which he delivered in Exeter

      Hall , a large quantity of materials from Mrs . Daly ' s book * Digging , Squatting , and

      Pioneer-, ing in the Northern Territory of South Australia . ' This he seems to have done

      without the slightest acknowledgment . But , rather unfortunately for the lecturer , the authoress

      90 * was herself , we are informed , one of his audience , and she was , not unnaturally ,

      astounded to hear her own words volubly repeated to her from the orator ' s platform .

      Were it not for the injustice of the whole affair , the situation would have been rather

      comical than otherwise . The accusation of plagiarism , sifted through

      various channels , at length reached the North British Daily Mailone of the newspapers

      * s , . A . . a . largely read by Mr . Watt ' s constituents , which , for special reasonsset itself to work and proved

      , the fault up to the hilt . Mr . Watt thereupon , passing over previous exposershit upon the

      X . *—* -1 . » . ' , A . idea of prosecuting the local newspaper which had so minutely criticised his Exeter Hall

      address . Significantly enough , his fellow M . P . for another division of Glasgow is the

      proprie-*—» . a- . & . . tor of the newspaper in question . But with the politics . a . of this peculiar * . transaction we have

      nothing whatever to do . The fact in front of the fault is that Mr .

      Watt , after fair trial before an English jury , was found- to have appropriated largel 9 y ffrom

      A- Jt- X . *—Mrs . Daly's book . There is too much of this easy work going on among our ordinary

      leeturers , and it would do good if a few more were exposed . Our pages have before

      con-JL JL «_/ tained similar remonstrances . It is not

      exaggeration to say that half the philanthropic ( save the mark !) and ' emigrational' lectures de-

      Att V. Cameron, A Case Which Was De-W Ci...

      livered in this country wrare c cribbed' * from

      responsible authors . No objection can be advanced against thisso long as some

      acknow-, ledgment is given . And such an acknowledgment would be immensely to the credit of the

      V lecturer , as it is to the compiler of books , showing the depth and trustworthiness of his

      research . In Watt v . Cameron the course of law seems

      to have run wrong at first , although finally a judgment was justly given , with costs for the

      defendant . What ought to have been done at the outset was to get Mr . Watt into court on

      the question of copyright , he having uttered , printedand publishedwithout permission and

      ^ , , M . without acknowledgment , a considerable portion of Mrs . Daly ' s book . If Mr . Watt

      himself really wanted to start an unprejudiced case , he oug f ht to have begun « — 9 one against ** J the

      Athe ? Lseiim , which first published the accusation of plagiarism ; or against the Scotsmanwhich

      , repeated it : why the North British Daily Mail , which quoted and amplified itshould have been

      J . X . , chosen for assault must remain a mystery to the uninitiated . At the same time the verdict

      is a solemn warning to public men who inadvisedly •/ appropriate M . JL . Jk the contents of books ,

      giving the author ' s thoughts and words as their own . » O *

      Cassell's National Library.—Three New Vo...

      Cassell ' s National Library . —Three new volumes are now before the public . These are Steel's ' Essays and Tales / Johnson's ' Lives

      of the Poeta ( Addison , Savage , and Swift ) , and Part IIof 'King Henry IV' Professor

      . . Morley •^ ^ mm ¦¦ M ' s introduction A - 4 - m ^ J to a the > * latter * m to . is M , as mi ght ^ I Tip be * expected p » Trr » fif'fArl . a masterl ma . st . firlv critical rrition . l stud atnriv . It Tt is is

      much longer , than the y other introductions y , seeing that it consists of about thirty pages . The entry at Stationers' Hall is quoted ( 23

      August , 1600 ) : — * 23 Augusti .

      ' Andrew Wyse entred for their copies vnder the William Apsley handes of the wardens , Two books , the one called " Muche

      word * By could the not way be found Baron in Huddles American ton re Diction marked that thou this h any ary Americana , g

      It surely appears ought in Johnson know what ana cribbing KicliaraBon ' means . The !

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 16, 1888, page 802, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_16071888/page/4/