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righted works as separate publications. And only in that view am I to consider it.

Now, will this encyclopædia at all affect that demand? Is it probable that a single individual purchaser who desires these articles or works as separate publications will be lost to the owners? Is it probable that the opportunity of selling to any individual will be lost to the owners of these copyrights-the plaintiffsby reason of the publication of these articles in the encyclopædia?

Then, again, is it probable that the reprint ing of these articles in the defendants' book will increase the circulation of the encyclopædia itself to any considerable extent? It must be borne in mind in this respect that these plaintiffs have consented to the publication of these articles in the encyclopædia Now, is it probable that the defendants' publication will increase the circulation of the encyclopædia at all? In other words, if the reprint were not published and circulated, may it not be inferred, reasonably, that the great number of those who will purchase the reprint would have purchased the original work. In other words, is not this contest between the British publisher and these defendants a contest for the field for the encyclopædia, and if the defendants' work were not printed, would not the field be covered by the foreign publisher? I have said enough to indicate the thought already, probably, that the defendants' publication will not increase the circulation of these articles through the means of the encyclopædia at all. If it does not increase it, in my judgment it will be but to a very limited extent. The defendants' publication is said to be cheaper. A few persons may be induced to buy it who would not buy the other for that cause, but the character of these publications, and the character of the individuals who subscribe for or buy them, is such as precludes the idea that the circumstances would make any material difference in the circulation of the work. Looking at the subject in all its aspects, I am inclined to think that the injury to be sustained by the plaintiffs from the republication of these articles in the reprint of the encyclopædia, between this, at all events, and the final decree in this case, must be very small indeed.

On the other hand, the injury to the defendants from the issuing of this writ at this time must be serious. There can be no room for doubt about that, and the seriousness of it does not arise from the importance of these articles of themselves, for they do not strike the court as being very important.

But an earnest contest has arisen between the foreign publisher and his agents, and these defendants a contest for the field for this work -which has led to anger, ill-will-probably to a resort to means on the one side, and on the other, that should have been avoided. Now if the court at this time was to interfere in such way that the defendants could not reproduce the foreign edition (it makes no odds that they might have added an occasional article), but if it could be said by the publisher of a foreign edition and his agents, that this is not a reprint, that these defendants are forbidden and prohibited from reprinting a part of the matter found in the foreign edition, it would, in my judgment, virtually drive the reprint out, and leave the field to the other side, and it would be occupied and harvested probably before this case was concluded.

The defendant is not to be looked upon simply in the light of an ordinary wrongdoer. This is not an ordinary case. At the time he commenced this publication there was nothing unlawful in what he did. To reproduce a foreign publication is not wrong. There may be a difference of opinion about the morality of republishing here a work that is copyrighted abroad, but the public policy of this country as respects the subject is in favor of such republi cation. It is supposed to have an influence upon the advance of learning and intelligence. The defendant at the beginning could not know that, before this work was completed and fully issued, it would contain articles which were copyrighted.

He had seen previous editions of this work published, one after another, without any such obstacles being cast in the way of a reprint. There was nothing, therefore, to warn him of the insertion of such matter. Indeed, he had every reason to believe that there would be nothing of the kind. He is not to be blamed, therefore, for what he did up to this time. Whether he is wrong now depends altogether upon how the questions to which I have adverted are decided. But to interfere with him at this time would, in my judgment, be almost, if not quite disastrous. I will not enlarge upon the subject.

There is another question involved here that I will not consider- that which affects the bona fides of the applications for these writsthe question whether or not they are really intended for the protection of these copyrights, or for the purpose of giving to the publisher of the foreign edition of this encyclopædia an advantage in the contest for this field. That question I will not consider. I will say nothing about it. It is not necessary for the purposes of this motion.

For the reasons indicated the writ is refused.

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FRIEDRICH VON BODENSTEDT, the German poet, who is now in this country, is best known as the author of "Lieder des Mirza Schaffy." These songs are so much in favor in Germany that they have gone through more than eighty editions in German. They have also been translated into a number of other languages, not the least being a translation into Hebrew. An English translation has recently been made, with which the poet is especially pleased, and which he commends highly. Propositions have been made to him for publishing this volume, but before accepting any of these he desires to call the attention of publishers generally to this translation, with the view of securing for it an especially fine appearance. Mr. E. Steiger, 25 Park Place, will be glad to forward to Herr von Bodenstedt any propositions which this notice may call forth.

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ENCOURAGED by the success of his recent "Bibliography of Ruskin," which had passed through four editions in little more than a year, Mr. Richard Herne Shepherd has been for some time past engaged on another work of the same nature and scope, entitled "The Bibliography of Dickens: a Bibliographical List arranged in Chronological Order, of the Published Writings in Prose and Verse by Charles Dickens, from 1834 to 1870." This little work, which will be issued before Christmas, will contain many items and entries of interest, entirely new to collectors, and will remedy, says the Academy, the glaring deficiencies in a recent attempt of Mr. James Cook, of Paisley, in the same direction.

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