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    • St. Dunstan's House, E.C., December 31, 1890.
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      Literary Intelligence 1646 Trade Changes...

      LITERARY INTELLIGENCE 1646 TRADE CHANGES 1655 BOOKS AND RUMOURS OP BOOKS 1647 IJST MEMORIAL 1656

      ANALYTICAL TABLE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN REVIEWS , & C 1656 1890 " ¦ 1648 INDEX TO > BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT

      NOTES AND NEWS 1649 BRITAIN BETWEEN DECEMBER 16 & 31 1662 CONTINENTAL NOTES 1651 BQ 0 KS puBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FR 0 M

      AMERICAN PROPOSALS RESPECTING COPY- DECEMBER 16 TO 3 r 16 G 3 RIGHT 1652 NEW BOOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED 166 G

      THE ENGLISH COPYRIGHT BILL 165 ,. MISCELLANEOUS 1 «» THE ILLUSTRATING OF BOOKS . ^ A '

      LORD TENNYSON'S CHILDHOOD . 1655 BUSINESS CARDS ,, .. 1681 BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION ...... 1055 BOOKS WANTED .... 1683

      RAGGED SCHOOL UNION 1655 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 1683

      Notice.—We Have To Remind Our Readers Th...

      NOTICE . —We have to remind our readers that this is the last issue of the Publishers' Circular in its present form . The next number will be the first of

      the New Series , and loill be published on January 9 . The page will be similar in

      size to that of the Athenaeum , and new and interesting features will be introduced .

      St. Dunstan's House, E.C., December 31, 1890.

      St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C ., December 31 , 1890 .

      In Our Issue Of To-Day We Give The Full ...

      IN our issue of to-day we give the full text of the American Copyright Bill , which it

      is expected will become law on the 1 st of July next . In commenting in our last number

      on a brief telegraphic summary of the measure , we expressed dissatisfaction with some of its

      provisions . A perusal of the entire Act does not lead us to modify our unfavourable opinions .

      The Bill , looked at superficially , is plausible , but it does not bear examination . The

      Americans , while pretending to give a liberal free-trade measure , have in fact given a closely

      protective one . The English author , to be sure , will be benefited provided he complies

      with the requirements of the Act . The probabilities are that he will , when his popularity

      will enable him to put has inclination into practice . In fact , there is every reason for

      thinking that he will . We do English authors no wrong when we say that as a class they

      know the value of money . There was a time when they were thought to have an

      exceedingly scanty knowledge of business principles . Some of them are still , we are sometimes

      assured , in a state of infantile innocence respecting the fact that they have interests to

      protect . Bub we believe these simpletons are in the minority . In any case , there are many

      English authors , and among them the most popular , who have mastered more than the rudiments

      of commerce , and these will naturally and rightly take advantage of the fresh means of

      augmenting their incomes . But their complying witty the provisions of the Bill means a

      crippling oij an important British industry aMkilin mi I I I imii . im . i hi ii i I in ii i ¦ » i . i ¦ .

      In Our Issue Of To-Day We Give The Full ...

      that gives' employment to many thousands of men . While the liappy English author

      increases his gains , increases them fairly and legitimately , the English printer is in

      somedanger of starving . And he is reduced to this deplorable condition that his American

      brother may flourish and grow rich . This is scarcely justice . It seems fair enough to

      say that no book shall obtain copyright in the United States unless it be printed in the United

      States . But what does the clause really mean ? It means , so far as we can judge , that after

      July next English authors will insist on having their books printed in the States and imported

      to England in sheets . The three-volume novel must of course continue to be ' set up' in

      England , because the English people will have it and the Americans won't . The story of

      orthodox length is therefore secure to the British printer as heretofore . But the popular

      one-volume work will come to England ready made . This will mean a serious reduction in

      the number of men employed in this country in the manufacture of books . The Printing

      and Allied Trades Association recognises this , and Messrs . Clowes and Waterlow , its

      chairman and vice-chairman , have addressed a letter to the press on the subject . ' The

      Copyri 4 has been ght promoted Bill in its by present and in form the of interests , ' they say of

      the printer ^ and compositors the United States , with the intention of transferring the

      profits of printing and composing all English books from the United Kingdom to the United

      States . ' And after tracing the actual operation of the new Bill , they say : * lt will thus

      be seen that the effect of the new Bill must

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    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1890, page 1646, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121890/page/4/