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WE print elsewhere the text of two measures for regulating the manufacture and supply of text-books for the public schools of New York, which have been recently presented to the New York Legislature (more for the purpose of putting on record everything that may even distantly relate to the book trade, than because we attach any particular importance to them). Mr. Coons' bill we had already referred to editorially in our issue for March 1. The principal object of this measure seems to provide a berth for three officers with a salary of from two to three thousand dollars per year, and possible "perquisites." It is on the face of it a thinly disguised "job" which the honest representatives of taxpayers will no doubt squash when it comes up for a vote. As to the second bill presented to the Senate by Mr. McNaughton and in the Assembly by Mr. Courtney, this is in the line of measures that have been adopted in other States to the disgust and heavy cost of the taxpayer. This journal has time and again given expression to its opinion on this question, and to this day no developments have been made to convince an unprejudiced observer that a corporation can serve its constituents as well or as economically in the matter of manufacturing text-books as it is now being done by individual enterprise. The proof can easily be gotten at. Indiana, the latest victim to this utopian idea, finds itself spending almost as much again on school-books under its paternal system as it did under the old régime. California, which has been its own school-book publisher for seven years with disastrous results, is contemplating legislation to rid itself of its incubus. The McNaughton-Courtney bill instead of be ing as has been stated "a corrupt job, the sole object of which is the financial profit of the School-book Trust'" is one of the measures designed to break up the practices that have prevailed for a generation in the city of Rochester, by which frequent changes were made, series lengthened out, and the books and supplies furnished, limited without regard to price or merit of competing houses, to those controlled by the local agent of one school-book publishing firm. To break down this influence, to defeat particularly obnoxious commissioners with determined efforts, several laws affecting educational matters were proposed by a number of leading citizens of Rochester, headed by the honored philanthropist Henry Lamb. Among the measures presented only the uniform text-book bill received general approbation and was finally ordered to be introduced as a law by a public meeting to which the work of the committee was submitted. So much for the motive which is responsible for the presentation of the bill at Albany. We hardly think that the taxpayers of the State of New York will be willing to saddle themselves with an experiment involving so many risks as the manufacture of any article carries with it, in order that one city may rid itself of political corruption. That might prove too hercic a remedy and in the end might prove worse than the disease. WE are pleased to note that The Christian Advocate in its issue for May 22 admits the "impropriety and immorality" of an advertisement printed in its issue of May 8. The advertisement was made up by some one (presumably the cat) in the subscription department of Hunt & Eaton from a catch-penny circular gotten up by the Historical Publishing Co., of Philadelphia, who are pushing a hack-work, entitled "Heroes of the Dark Continent," made up of the writings of African explorers including Stanley's, with the equivocal assertion that it is equally as authentic and as much Mr. Stanley's own book' as the one" Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons, are about to publish under the title of "In Darkest Africa." The most startling announcement in the advertisement printed over Messrs. Hunt & Eaton's signature, was this: "Do not be frightened by the unjust and u... true statements which appear in papers, and which are supplied and paid for by rival publishers. Remember that you can arrange with an editor for just as strong notices of your book, if you care to pay for them, because the business of an editor is to make money for his paper, and as long as you pay him for what you desire inserted, he will treat you just as kindly as he will any one else." Of course, all who made any allowance for the probable state of affairs might have guessed that such a statement was never made with the ་་ knowledge of the agents of the Methodist Book Concern or of the editor of the Christian Advocate. Dr. Buckley, in calling attention to the unfortunate occurrence, distinctly states that at no time in the long history of the house has a dollar ever been offered to any paper to commend its publications except in pay for advertisements displayed as such." INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ON THE DEFEAT OF THE COPYRIGHT BILL. "ELMWOOD, CAMBRIDGE, MASS., May 15, 1890. 46 I have had too long an experience of the provWe would suggest that the agents of the Meth-idential thickness of the human skull, as well as odist Book Concern point out to that emof the eventual success of all reasonable reforms, ployé in the Subscription Department" the erto be discouraged by the temporary defeat of ror of his way, especially as this is not the first any measure which I believe to be sound. I say 'providential' because the world is thereby time he has gotten his employers into trouble. saved many a rash experiment in specious legisIf it should happen to be the "office cat," they lation. Were it otherwise, the Huon's horn of inconsiderate enthusiasm would lead us a pretty might consult Matt. xviii., 6, for a remedy. dance among the briars. Unfortunately there is, as usual, an exception to this general rule, for the sutures of the political cranium are so loosely knit as to leave a crevice through which considerations of ephemeral expediency find a too easy entrance. Such considerations, it should always be remembered, are most liable to disastrous recoil. EVERY friend of justice lives in hope that the present Congress will not adjourn until the stain of the defeat of the copyright measure is wiped out. The parliamentary position of the bill is such that the motion to reconsider may at the proper time be called up, and the House may have another opportunity to act upon the measure. When it does come up, we are confident that it will pass. Since the action of the House the public press, without regard to party differences and prejudices, has risen almost as one man to protest-a course that cannot be without effect on the members who voted against the measure. The New York Times, which has been doing excellent work in the fight for international copyright, in its issues for May 19 and 20, printed several columns of extracts from its exchanges voicing the indignation of the press. The expressions of sympathy which have been collected would, if they could all be printed, fill nearly a page of the Times. The House, therefore, cannot do better than to consider and reverse its action. THE AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, by some magical means, has succeeded in accomplishing what few would have believed possible three weeks ago the control of the public school books of Harper & Brothers, and of the plant of The Standard Publishing Co. and D. D. Merrill & Co. The latter two, while not absolutely formidable rivals of the American Book Co., were nevertheless in a position to cause it considerable trouble in the West and Southwest, particularly in Iowa, Minnesota, and Arkansas. For this reason it was expected that they would hold out in the fight they had already begun against the new corporation. Their surrender and the purchase of the Harper books now practically puts all the public school book business into the hands of the American Book Company, and places in it a position of grave responsibility. Whether it will use it for the benefit of the public, the schools, and the trade, time alone can decide. "I grant that our hope has been long-drawnout, but since material for it (as for every hope that has a moral care) has been constantly supplied, it has never become too attenuated to bear the strain put upon it. It is seventy-one years lic complain of the price of my work; this is the since Irving wrote, 'You observe that the pubdisadvantage of coming in competition with republished English works for which the publishers have not to pay anything to the authors. If the American public wish to have a literature of their own, they must consent to pay for the support of authors.' "(And why not, I may add, if we consent to pay Senator Jones for the support of a silver mine?) "It is fifty years since Irving wrote: How much this growing literature may be retarded by the present state of our Copyright Law, I had recently an instance in the cavalier treatment of a work of merit written by an American who had not yet established a commanding name in the literary market. I undertook as a friend to dispose of it for him, but found it impossible to get an offer from any of our principal publishers. They even declined to publish it at the author's cost, alleging that it was not worth their while to trouble themselves about native works of doubtful success, while they could pick and choose among the successful works daily poured out by the British press, for which they had nothing to pay for copyright.' "This was in 1840, and in the same year Mr. Clay's bill was defeated. We have been fighting for the same cause with the same weapons ever since, and apparently with the same result. "But for all that we have made progress. We have secured public discussion, and a righteous cause which has done that has got the weather gauge of its adversary. I am too old to be perthat Truth has lost or can lose a whit of that suaded by any appearances, however specious, divine quality which gives her immortal advantage over Error. The adversary has cunningly entrenched himself in the argument that there can be no such thing as property in an idea, and disabuse the minds of otherwise intelligent men. I grant that this is a fallacy of which it is hard to But it is in the form given to an idea by a man of |