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The word 'copyright' is of purely English origin, and came into existence as follows: The Stationers' Company was founded by royal charter in 1556, and from the beginning has kept register-books, wherein, first, by decrees of the Star Chamber, afterwards by orders of the Houses of Parliament, and finally by Act of Parliament, the titles of all publications and reprints have had to be entered prior to publication.
It is like a book that advances towards a new edition by going through thousands of reprints with thousands of copies.
The earlier writers appear, from the standpoint of recent investigations, to have been seriously mistaken upon many important points. CHEYNEY gives a selection of documents relating to the subject in Translations and Reprints, Vol. IV, No. 3.
Olive, advised by a clerk in Cook's office, had taken a through ticket to Siena, third class to Dover, first on the boat, second in France and Italy. She got to Victoria in good time, had her luggage labelled, secured a corner seat, and, having twenty minutes to spare, strolled round the bookstall, eyeing the illustrated weeklies and the cheap reprints.
It contains reprints of Laneham's Letter, Gascoigne's Princely Progress, and other scarce pieces, annotated with accuracy and ability. The author takes the liberty to refer to this work as his authority for the account of the festivities.
I am not in favour of studying criticism of classics before the classics themselves. My notion is to study the work and the biography of a classical writer together, and then to read criticism afterwards. I think that in reprints of the classics the customary "critical introduction" ought to be put at the end, and not at the beginning, of the book.
LITERATURE IN PARIS. A correspondent of the London Literary Gazette, under date of June 12, says: "I notice reprints, by Didot, of several of the standard works of Chateaubriand; a condensation, by General O'Connor, of his "Monopoly;" a Treatise, by the Bishop of Langres, on the grave question of Church and State; a very interesting and curious work on the forests of Gaul, ancient France, England, Italy, &c.; a volume of the Unpublished Letters of Mary Adelaide of Savoy, Duchess of Bourgogne which throws great light on many of the principal historical events and personages of her time; a charming series of Sketches from Constantinople, entitled "Nuits du Ramazan," by Gerard de Nerval, a popular feuilletoniste; a big volume of the works of St.
This circumstance must always make the Canadas a bad market for English publications. Most of these, it is true, can be procured by wealthy individuals at the book stores mentioned above, but the American reprints of the same works abound a hundred-fold.
SPECIAL HISTORIES. G. T. Curtis Constitutional History, chs. v.-xiv. Winning of the West, III. Reprints in American History told by Contemporaries, II., American History Leaflets, Nos. 20, 22, 28. The task thrown upon Congress in 1781 would have tried the strongest government in existence.
This implies a doctrine which had great influence with the Utilitarians. In the remarkable essay upon 'Education, which is contained in the volume of reprints, Mill discusses the doctrine of Helvétius that all the differences between men are due to education.
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