this the casting vote as between parties in Eng- towns. They were vetoed by the Governor, | disgrace than Louisiana extricated herself land is to compensate them a thousandfold for any "incapacities" imposed on their Dublin Assembly.

London Daily Chronicle (Ind.), Feb. 14.Mr. Gladstone did not say a word to indicate that he knew that such a question as Home

but the Legislature passed them over his veto.
It is charged that the Governor acted with
suspicious haste in sending in his vetoes before
public sentiment could be thoroughly aroused.
Newark Advertiser, Feb. 27. The manner

from, and has done it for a more paltry amount of money. Fortunately, the next Legislature united effort to relegate to political obscurity may repeal the laws, and there ought to be one the old-party politicians who have stood together to enact this infamy. It is, we may add, the logical consequence of the license system of the liquor traffic.

Rule all round existed. But when the Welsh- of passing these infamous bills is evidence of and the argument used to support it in the case

men and the Scotsmen find themselves deprived of the help of the Irish on their own measures, they will insist upon being protected from the adverse votes of English members, and thus the eventual withdrawal of all local business from the Imperial Parliament will be the natural result. The constitution of the Irish Legislature under the new bill is in every way superior to that which was proposed in the bill of 1886. The Irish Viceroy will have precisely the same power of giving effect to legislation in Ireland as a Colonial Governor in one of our self-governing colonies. In all ordinary matters he will act on the advice of his Irish Ministers, but in cases of emergency, and where Imperial interests may be concerned, he will ask for instructions from Downing street. This arrangement seems to us to answer all the purposes of an effective veto. Dublin Freeman's Journal, Feb 14. The measure, while it is open to improvement, merits the description of a genuine measure of genuine autonomy. It provides, indeed. for

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argument and

EXTRADITION OF RUSSIAN REFU.
GEES.

The new treaty with Russia contains the

'Any attempt against the life of the head of either Government. or against that of any member of his family, when such attempt comprises the act of either murder or assassination, or of poisoning, shall not be considered a political offense, or an act connected with such offense."

the callousness of the mercenaries who are
responsible for them. It is just one week ago
that the bills were first heard of. Last Monday
night the now notorious Parker of Monmouth
introduced the three bills which were ingenious-
ly contrived in the interest of the gamblers,
pimps, and blacklegs who infest the disreput-
able race-tracks of New Jersey. The presiding following clause:
officer of the Assembly in which these bills
were introduced is a paid hireling, a starter
on one of those tracks; and a member of the
committee to which they were referred is
owner of one of the vilest of those racing
resorts. Think of that! Next day the bills
were reported back for passage and were
lashed through the House by a vote of 34
at
Every attempt
New York Volkszeitung (Socialist), Feb. 24.
every appeal for time to hear from the people
whose representatives these creatures are sup- America an organized propaganda seeking to
-There can be no doubt that there exists in
posed to be was met with stolid indifference;
and the same brutal tactics were pursued in systematically work upon public opinion in
the Senate. That body actually sat on Wash- the interests of Russian despotism.
ington's Birthday—a legal holiday-in order sian gold that has caused the press generally
to railroad the bills through without giving real) of Russia for the United States. To the
to dwell upon the friendship (pretended or
the people a chance to be heard from. The
same guilty haste was manifested when the rubles of the Russians we are indebted for the
Governor's veto came in and a special session tale about the help so generously given us by
was held to enable the Legislature to override the Russian fleet during our Civil War. It is
the Governor's weakly-stated objections. The as agents of the Czar that these men, disre-
entire scheme was a surrender of the law-mak-garding the truths of history, prate to us about
ing power into the hands of an unclean gang and strive so strenuously at this time to per-
the identity of American and Russian interests,
who propose to make this State a sink-hole of
every variety of vice and crime that waits on
gambling.

the removal of fears and the lulling of suspi-
cions, and it maintains the Imperial supremacy
intact. But it proposes at the same time to
give Ireland efficient and, speaking the language
applicable to periods of time in the life history
of nations, almost immediate control of Irish
affairs. It is, in short, taking it all in all, "a
good watertight measure of Home Rule," to
use Mr. John Morley's phrase. We see in it
the principles and germs of a Government for
Ireland that will bring classes long separated,
not perhaps into agreement, but into working
Jersey City Eventng Journal, Feb. 25.-Never
harmony-a Government that without trench-before in the history of the legislation of this
ing on the rights of any class, will be able to
State have the people, or those who would
remove the obstructions that impede the general speak for them, been denied the opportunity to
prosperity.
be heard in relation to pending measures of
legislation. But this time, both in the As-
sembly and in the Senate, the gambler's gag
was ruthlessly applied, and the sacred right of
petition and remonstrance was denied to the
people of New Jersey by their own Legisla-
ture: Urgent and eloquent appeals were made
in both houses by members of the minority to
respect this right of petition, and to give the
people at least a hearing, but in vain.

It is Rus

suade us that the odious Russo-American treaty is a measure for binding to us two influential European allies-France and Russia. It is necessary, imperatively necessary, that a general protest against this treaty should be inaugurated at once; that all our people who have in them any emotion for liberty, and especially the working classes, should lift up their voices. A most energetic resistance should be opposed to this scheme to make the Republic a humble servant of the bloody Russian absolutism. The Russian Government is the archfiend of everything implied by the word freedom. Down with it!" should be the rallying cry of all who share in any way the desire for progress.

Dublin Daily Express, Feb. 14.-The bill in its essentials is the Home Rule Bill of 1886. In its main outlines, in the character of the Legislature and Executive which it will set up, the bill is the same. In so far as the two measures differ from each other, the revised version is more complicated and less workable than its predecessor. Irrespective of the retention of the Irish members, which will Springfield Republican, Feb. 25.-The worddoubtless be one of the main points of conNew York Christian Advocate, March 2.- ing of the clause in the treaty with Russia test, his proposal to establish two Chambers Yet the men who have done this work will go which surrenders the right of asylum confirms in the manner indicated by the Prime Minister home, and hundreds of their constituents will our assertion that no Russian refugee in this cour-country is safe under it. If by any twist or appears to be most illusory of all the safe- treat them as before; they will be as guards that have hitherto been devised in im-teously received as though they were philan- turn the Russian police can connect any of aginary protection of the minority. To Irish thropists; and many will refuse to speak these refugees with one or more of the frequent lest it hurt the party or hurt their own business against the abominations they have legalized, plots to assassinate the Czar, we must, by its interests. They should be met with averted gaze as betrayers of public trusts, for they have directly legalized iniquities heretofore outlawed. New Jersey has sunk lower than Louisiana, whose discredited lottery managers might apparently, without much risk, move to the State and form an alliance with those who have debauched it. Unless the whole State boils with indignation, till party lines are for the time submerged, the fathers and mothers who see such things done, while they sit idly by, will deserve to see their own sons and sons-in-law ruined.

Loyalists the bill is, if possible, more objec

tionable than the bill of 1886.

Belfast Northern Whig (Unionist), Feb. 14. ---Mr. Gladstone has not a friendly word to say of the Irish Unionists, but passes them over almost contemptuously. Practically the bill concedes all the Nationalist demands, but some of the concessions are veiled. It will not be accepted by the Irish Unionists nor by Unionists generally.

SOCIAL TOPICS.

THE NEW JERSEY RACE-TRACK
BILLS.

provisions, allow him to be extradited. There is little doubt but what the necessary evidence would be forthcoming on which to demand the extradition of any refugee we are now sheltering who is much wanted in Russia, and once in Russia it is easy to imagine his fate.

Denver News, Feb. 25.-The natural tendency of the decrepit and corrupt Republican party at this time is to toady to European aristocracy. Its plutocratic managers are ever ready to bow and scrape to money bags and autocrats. This fact was vividly illustrated by the action of the Republican majority in the New York Voice, March 2.-The time for dorsement of the recently ratified Russian Colorado Legislature last Thursday in its enthe outburst to have made itself felt was in the refugee treaty. By the terms of the treaty no last campaign, for the purpose of the gamblers Pole, Finlander, Caucasian, Israelite, or Muswho run the tracks at Gloucester and Gutten-covite can receive the protection of the stars Last week the New Jersey Legislature berg was even then apparent. The effect of and stripes should the Russian secret police these tracks is only second throughout the demand his or her extradition. Race-Track Bills." They pro- country to that of the Louisiana Lottery. The It is only vide for licensing race-tracks (the license to sole purpose of maintaining them is to fur-necessary hereafter to merely allege a crime, and the unfortunate refugee from tyranny may endure for five years in each case), for practi-nish material for gambling. Horses are run cally doing away with restrictions upon "book-throughout the winter, in sloppy mud or slush, be shipped off from free America to the hormaking" and betting on race-tracks and at Louisiana Legislature did not, at least, overthat the bookmaking may be kept up. The agricultural fairs, and for the establishi ient of ride the Governor's veto; but the New Jersey race-tracks within the limits of incorporated Legislature has plunged the State into a deeper

passed the "

rors of Siberia !

did right in refusing to adopt the memorial Denver Republican, Feb. 25.-The House condemning the Federal Senate for approving

are

great country that will more command their | Islam has not had that spirit of progress to
respect than our American Sunday.
carry it along. It is Christianity that has been
carried along by Anglo-Saxon progress, and.
not Anglo-Saxon progress that has been car-
ried forward by Christianity.

the Russian treaty. That treaty does not, as
the advocates of the memorial seemed to think,
provide for the extradition of political offend-
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, Feb. 25.-It
ers who may escape from Russia to the United
States. It provides merely for the extradition will be exceedingly gratifying to visitors should
of any fugitive who may have made an attempt the municipal authorities of Chicago enforce
"If you take away from Christianity the
the existing laws against Sabbath desecration ideas of the Trinity, the immaculate concep-
upon the life of the Czar or any other mem-
ber of the royal family. Doubtless the Ni-n the city during the continuance of the Fair. tion, aud the vicarious atonement, you will have
hilists and their friends would like to make To close the Fair doors and permit the the- left practically what Mohammed taught, with
it appear that offenses of this kind atres, concert-saloons, beer-gardens, gambling- the point in favor of Islam of a much more
political in their character, but the United dens, and other vile resorts to run full blast thorough and perfect system of spiritual devel-
States-being civilized
a
country-cannot every Sunday will not be to emulate the exam-opment. Mohammed recognized Christ as a
recognize murder or assassination as a proper ple of Philadelphia. In a word, let Chicago prophet of God. Modern Christianity is not.
show to the world the true meaning and pur- the doctrines of Christ.
method of redressing political injuries. A man
who would attempt to murder a Russian pose of the American institution of the Sab- called Christianity, was really built upon the
peasant could be extradited with the approval
teachings of Paul, about three centuries after
of every one. Certainly the life of the ruler of
the death of Jesus; and Paul not only never
a country should be held as sacred by a friendly
saw the Prophet of Nazareth, but seems to
Power as the life of any of his subjects. It
have had only a very vague idea of what the
would be anything but friendly for the United
latter taught.
States to say to Russia that it could extradite
the murderer of a peasant, but that an asylum
would be given the murderer of the Czar.

RELIGIOUS.

THE SUNDAY CLOSING OF THE FAIR. It is now generally conceded by the opponents of Sunday closing of the World's Fair that their efforts will be without avail. The Chicago daily newspapers find it hard to accept defeat. Some of them are still suggesting expedients, but the general feeling evidently is that the closing of the Fair on Sunday cannot be prevented.

bath.

MUHAMMED WEBB'S MISSION. Muhammed Alexander Russell Webb, the American convert to Mohammedanism, has entered upon his work of teaching the religion of the Prophet in this country. The funds for prosecuting his labors are furnished by rich East Indian Mohammedans. Mr. Webb's headquarters are in New York. He purposes publishing a weekly paper, and will establish a lecture-room, a free library of Mohammedan literature, and a reading-room. He says that the funds guaranteed are sufficient to keep these agencies in operation for five years, and he believes that at the end of that time the work will be on such a footing that it will take

care of itself.

The present system,

I would not

lem brotherhood, it gives you cleanliness and
"Islam gives you the fraternity of the Mos-
prayer, and it gives you the Koran, which is
very much better than the Bible.
permit the Old Testament to be read by any
young person. Many of its passages are unfit.
to print. There is not an impure word in the
Koran."

THE DRINK QUESTION.

PROHIBITION PROHIBITS.

One of them, while there, was suddenly seized

Chicago Union Signal, Feb. 22.-The Local Option Law of the State of Arkansas confers, upon its citizens the privilege of petition against the location of a saloon within a radiusof three miles from any church or school-house. Mr Webb is a native American. He was If a majority of citizens so petition (and a formerly engaged in business and journalism woman's name here counts as much as a man's) Chicago Evening Journal, Feb. 24.-By the in the United States. In 1887 he was appoint-saloon must go. The law is well enforced in the Judge has no choice in the matter-the simplest calculation in arithmetic the directed Consul to Manila, on the Philippine Islands. all "dry" districts, with the exception of twoloss to the World's Columbian Exposition oc- There he became interested in the Islamite or three large cities where miniature Tamcasioned by the Congressional condition of Two gentlemen recently Sunday-closing appears to be $3,750.000. Be- faith, and finally a convert to it. In an inter- manies hold sway. sides this great forfeiture of receipts of the view in the New York Times for Feb. 25 Mr. visited Arkansas on a business expedition. Fair itself, there will be an incalculable pecu-Webb said: with the fear that change of water might result niary loss to the city of Chicago in the curtailment of the harvest it had a right to count "The missionaries go to the Mohammedan in serious disturbances of his physical condition. Therefore, accompanied by a resident on from the strangers it hoped to entertain countries with their noses in the air, with a from May to October. The question which feeling of superiority. We are all right,' they friend, he started out to purchase something the Directors of the World's Columbian Ex- say: our religion is the only true religion. stronger. To the credit of its officials be it 'said that in that town of over 3,000 inhabitants, position Company has to consider is one of We simply want to see how far wrong you are. ways and means to get rid honorably and The average Oriental is not argumentative, but and with plenty of drug-stores, not a half-pint economically of an onerous and unjust condi- is a good judge of human nature, and as soon of liquor could be found. The party had oction. This can only be done honorably by as he sees a foreigner in the dress of a Chris-casion to visit two adjoining counties. and Not returning to the United States Treasury the tian, wearing that air of arrogance and self: found the same state of affairs in each. The mis-all their efforts, nor the efforts of the accomcost of the 5,000,000 souvenir half dollars. importance, he closes up at once. The Evening Journal believes that it is the sionaries draw their opinions of the religion of almost unanimous desire of the 27,000 stock-Islam from what they see of its most degraded holders in the company that this be done. followers. Suppose the East Indian were to judge of Christianity by the Bowery dive' or the condition of the natives of the Philippine Islands.

Chicago Times, Feb. 26.-The appearances are that the crime against the people of the United States contemplated by the closing of the gates will be consummated, and that even an effort upon the part of the local corporation to correct the situation will be unavailing. It will remain, however, a crime-the monumental crime of this latter part of the nineteenth century.

Chicago Standard (Bapt.), Feb. 23.-This outcome instead of being an evidence of stupidity is best for all, even for the laboring classes, about which so much has been said. To disregard the law of the Sabbath may seem to be freedom,-but such disregard ends in bondage. In Germany and France the people do not observe the Sabbath; they have secured what they believed to be their personal liberty, but it is an apple of Sodom. Now their employers will not give them any opportunity to earn their bread unless they will enter into contract to work on Sunday. For many years,

in Berlin and Paris, manufacturers have com

pelled their employés to work on Sunday, or lose their places.

Boston Advertiser, Feb. 27.-Nobody's rights will be violated by finding the Columbian Ex position gates closed on Sunday any more than by finding the doors of a national bank closed on Sunday. Our foreign visitors will find nothing on exhibition characteristic of this

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"I have traveled through all Mohammedan countries and have met thousands of Moslems, and I never met but two who had more than one wife, and they had two each. I have put questions to many thousands, and the almost universal reply has been, one wife is all I can treat justly,' or 'One is enough; two would fight.'

one,

The question of polygamy is a very broad favor of it. I believe that when America beand there is a great deal to be said in comes good enough, moral enough, to be able to use the privilege wisely, polygamy would be a great blessing to our social system. It would abolish a vast class of women who are it would do away with conjugal infidelity and the divorce courts entirely. Those evils do not exist in Mohammedan countries. There are bad women in many of the cities of India, but they are the result of a demand created by land puts in its annual East Indian budget a English and foreign invaders. Christian Englarge sum for the purchase of women for the army there, so many women being allotted to each company.

now a shame and menace to our civilization;

"Orthodox Christianity has lived on that irresistible spirit of progress and energy which may be attributed to climatic influences as well as to the Anglo-Saxon physical characteristics.

modating liveryman, could secure a drink of whiskey or beer.

Arkansas has been looked upon as a kind of Nazareth among the States, but if our Prohibition friends think there can no good come out of it, just let them go and.

see.

CHURCH, SALOON, AND PARTY. - Some church papers jealously guard politics from being influenced or interfered with by the pulpit or Church, but have never a word to say against the saloon influencing and controlling politics. Are these dear brethren too pessimistic or too partisan? Are they pessimistic enough to believe whiskey domination of poliof remedy; or are they partisan enough to tics is hopelessly fixed beyond the possibility accept the whiskey control of politics for its power in gaining party supremacy? We only ask the question.-Tennessee Methodist (Nashville), Feb. 23.

CRANKISM IN THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT.Those people who profess to believe that the only opposition to the saloon is confined to "the few cranks in the Prohibition party," should glance over some of the bills before the new British Parliament. Four Direct Veto measures-one each for England, Scotland, Ireland, a fd Wales-an English Sunday-Closing Bill, a bill prohibiting the granting of new licenses in Ireland, two Welsh Sunday-Closing Act amendments, and a bill abolishing grocers" licenses. in Scotland, are among the measures soon to be discussed and voted upon.-New York Voice (Proh.), March 2.

THE PUBLISHERS OF

"The Literary Digest" and Literary Reprints.

FROM

THE VOICE," NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 23d, 1893.

The suit brought by Dr. I. K. Funk against The Evening Post for libel resulted last week in a verdict for the defendant. Trial by jury is always an uncertain affair, but the verdict in this case was evidently a surprise even to the defendant's counsel. Mr. Choate, counsel for the defense, virtually admitted the libel in his address to the jury, and pleaded for merely "nominal damages." He is reported to have said, after the case had gone to the jury, "Of course, they [the plaintiff's side] will get a verdict." On the contrary, the jury returned after some 30 minutes' consideration and gave a verdict for the defendant.

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carefully sifted of all Prohibitionists and total | most cases ary consent on the part of the author,
abstainers, and Dr. Funk's attitude on this ques- but solely by reason of this understanding which
tion was obtruded into the trial at the very begin- the publishers had made among themselve It
ning. Throughout the trial Mr. Choate lost no was a very pleasant arrangement for the old pub-
opportunity to hold the plaintiff's Prohibition lishers; but it not only shut out a new house
views up to ridicule, to sneer at THE VOICE, and from anything but the most meagre "pickings,"
to arouse the prejudice of the jury by dwelling but it wronged the English author as well by
upon Dr. Funk's connection with Prohibition shutting out competition for bis works. By means
Park and the East Tennessee Land Company, of this "courtesy of the trade" the high prices
and his consent at various times to be a candidate for standard works of modern foreign authors
on the Prohibition ticket. On the jury there were which prevailed so generally before the advent
five or six Hebrews, and on their prejudices also of Funk & Wagnalls, had been maintained, and,
Mr. Choate endeavored to play by dwelling upon satisfied with their nice little arrangement, all at-
Dr. Funk's title of Doctor of Divinity. What tempts in behalf of international copyright were
effect all this had on the verdict we, of course, discouraged and opposed by at least some of the
can only surmise; but it is evident that Mr. largest of these old-line houses.
Choate expected it to have a marked effect, or he
would not have dwelt so persistently, all through
the cross-examination, on these points.

syllable was lisped against the financial integrity
of the house, but the sole complaint was its
handling in times past of what are called "unau-
thorized reprints" of foreign works. This con-
stitutes the sole offense charged, and is evi-
dently the sole reason for a considerable degree
of hostility against this house on the part of the
old-line publishers. We wish briefly to indicate
the views of Funk & Wagnalls on this matter.
To do so it will not be necessary to question the

Funk & Wagnalls looked upon this arrangement as an immoral monopoly, unjust to new publishers, unjust to the American public, and unjust to the foreign authors. They openly declared their intention to disregard it, and while from the very first advocating international copyright, they paid no respect whatever to this "courtesy of the trade." In reprinting standard English works (at prices which were at that time unprecedentedly low for this country), while they disregarded these assumed rights of old-line American publishers, they did not disregard the rights of the English authors. While there was no law compelling them to send a cent to such authors, their invariable rule was to send to the foreign author voluntarily a fair share of the profits derived from the sales of his book. In every case, with but two exceptions (two excep. tions out of hundreds of cases), the author received the money gratefully, and in some cases rushed into print in English and American periodicals to express his grateful surprise. These two authors, while they did not feel at liberty to

The history of the case can be abbreviated into very few words. In 1891 the publishers of THE VOICE made arrangements with Macmillan & Co., authorized publishers of Professor Bryce's "American Commonwealth," for a large number of copies of that work at low rates. It had been selling for $6. Funk & Wagnalls offered it at $2 The most effective testimony produced by the as a premium to subscribers for The Literary defense, in fact almost the only testimony, was Digest. The Evening Post received one of the cir- that furnished by several of the old-line publishculars announcing this offer, and, although the ers to the bad reputation of the Funk & Wagnalls circular plainly stated that the book was the reg-publishing house among publishers. Not one ular authorized edition, The Post assumed that this was a falsehood, and denounced Dr. Funk for "piracy," ," "theft," and "robbery," and applied to him the term of "rascal " Being informed by Macmillan & Co. of its mistake, The Evening Post justified itself for the mistake (which it had to admit), and for its language by asserting that the general reputation of the house was bad. In the trial last week the defense set up was that the terms pirate," "thief," "rascal," etc., were used in a technical sense employed among pub-right of other publishers to hold contrary views lishers to indicate the unauthorized reprint of English books; and that, while publishers were When Funk & Wagnalls first entered the field exercising a legal right in making such reprints, as book publishers (14 years ago) they not only they had no moral right to reprint without author- found the whole range of modern works of value ity from the English authors. When witnesses by foreign authors pre-empted by American pub-retain the money, had no words of censure for were called to testify to the personal character lishers then in existence, but they found that that of Dr. Funk, counsel for The Post objected to re- pre-emption was claimed over all future works of ceiving their testimony on the ground that Dr. such authors. This was not due to the consent Funk's personal character had not been assailed, of foreign authors, nor to any shadow of law in but only his acts as a publisher. On thic ground this country. It was due solely to what was the Judge ruled out such witnesses. Among known as "the courtesy of the trade." This these who were voluntarily present in the court courtesy of the trade," was simply a tacit agreeto testify to Dr. Funk's personal character were ment among the old-line publishers never written Dr. Talmage, Dr. Lyman Abbott, General Chris- and never formulated into any very definite tensen, William T. Wardwell, Dr. R. 8. McArthur, shape. According to it, however, any publisher Pastor Halliday, Dr. Josiah Strong, and others, who first made announcement in The Commercial while many others, such as Dr. Buckley and ex- Advertiser, of this city, of his purpose to repubPostmaster-General James, expressed their readi-lish a new English book, thereby established his ness to appear at a moment's notice for the same purpose.

Several features of the trial may be of special interest to our readers. The defense, in addition to securing as attorneys the firm of Wheeler, Cortis & Godkin, secured as counsel Joseph H. Choate, perhaps the most eminent counsel in America. It was Mr. Choate also who was engaged by the Kansas liquor-dealers to defend their case for compensation before the United States Supreme Court, five years ago. He began, when the jury was being selected, by questioning each man as to whether he was a Prohibitionist, a total abstainer, or a reader of THE VOICE. One man said he had sometimes voted the Prohibition ticket. Another said he was a total abstainer but not a Prohibitionist. A third said he was not a Prohibitionist, but THE VOICE came to his family and he sometimes read it. All three were peremptorily challenged. The jury, therefore, was

nor their sincerity in maintaining them.

exclusive right to republish such book unless,
perchance, some other publisher had before this
announcement entered into negotiation with the
author or his English publisher. In other words,
this bare announcement shut off all subsequent
competition for that book. Other American pub-
lishers thereupon kept “hands off," and the pub-
lisher who had made the announcement could go
ahead, either with or without negotiating afterward
with the author or his English publishers, assured of
a clear field and no competition. Moreover, by
this tacit agreement, any American publisher who
was the first to announce and then to republish a
book by a new English author, thereafter had
prior claim on all the future works of that
author.

By this nice little arrangement every English
author of any note had been parceled out among
themselves by the old houses, and all his future
works pre-empted. And this, too, without in

the house, and one of these made arrangements with the house afterward for the publication of a subsequent work. In no case that we know of has the harsh denunciation of this house come from the English authors whose rights the American publishers have so path.tically pleaded for; but it has all come from those publishers themselves whose monopoly was so endangered. The monopoly with its high prices on standard books was broken, and, the "courtesy of the trade" no longer proving effective, the way was cleared to the subsequent united movement in behalf of international copyright, which resulted in the passage of the law about two years ago.

But

This is a plain statement of the case from the standpoint of Funk & Wagnalls. We have no doubt that the old-line publishers, from their standpoint, justified their former attitude in their own minds, and they have now whatever gratification comes from the decision of 12 men, swayed by the magic influence of perhaps the shrewdest and ablest lawyer of America. to our mind the house of Funk & Wagnalls never in its history performed a more courageous and creditable act, or one more beneficial to the American public, as well as to foreign writers, than the act for which they have received such denunciation and incurred such enmity.

We are happy to add that the case will be appealed to a higher court.