The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LO.NDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1867.

of 10 sovs each, for all ages; 12st each ; those that
never started in any steeplechase allowed 71b; winners
of a steeplechase in 1866 or 1867 value 50 sovs 71b, twice
141 b, or of a steeplechase of the value of 150 at any time
281 b extra; gentlemen riders, professionals 61b extra;
about three miles.

A Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for three year
olds and upwards; the winner to be sold for 40 sous;
three furlongs.

The Guy Sweepstakes of 3 sous each, with 40 added; two
year olds 7st 81b, three 9st 41b, four lOst 71b, five and
upwards lOst 121 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ;
maidens in the present year having started twice and
not won allowed 51b, thrice 71b; the winner to be sold
for 100 cove; if entered for 50 sous allowed 71b, 30 141 b;
half a mile.

A Plato of 50 sous (Handicap); winners after March 13 (at
ten a.m.) 51b extra; three quarters of a mile.

Age st lb
Volunteer ... a 9 0
Quee❑ of Trumps a 812
Indian Star ... 4 7 9
Crown Prince ... 4 7 4
Goojerat 4 7 0
Quirina 4 6 12
Ilavannah 4 6 9
Her Ladyship ... 4 6 9
Under the Cloud... 6 6 9
Greenford 3 6 7
Efervescence 4 6 5
La Maudite 3 6 4
.Lady Pain ... 3 6 4
Match, 100, h ft; two mil,
aged, 154 t, agst Mr. P.
14st.

Age st lb
Canard ... 3 6 3
y cee ... 3 6 3
Dragoon ... 3 6 0
Miller's Maid ... 3 6 0
Adamanthea ... 3 5 12
Mayonaise b f ... 3 512
Anchorite 3 5 10
Amour Propra ... 3 510
Mouchoir 3 5 9
Miss Elizabeth 3 5 7
Feodor ... 3 5 7
Peggy 3 5 7

.s.—Duke of Hamilton's Vet,
Rowland's The Guide, 5 yrs,

PROGRAMME OF THE RUGBY HUNT STEEPLE-
CHASES MONDAY, March 18.
The National Hunters' Steeplechase Stakes of 5 soya each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 50 added; four year olds list,
five 12st 21b ; six and aged 12st 101 b ; gentlemen riders
or farmer riders ; any one having ridden the winner of a
handicap steeplechase 51b extra; the second to save his
stake ; about three miles.
Wild Irishman aged, Fleetwing, Black Drake aged, The
Circle (h b), Round Text 5 yrs, Vitulius bk g (h b) aged,
Cock Robin aged, Vanity aged, Come Again (11 b) aged,
Scrambler (h b) aged, and dam by Loup Garou 5 yrao.
The Farmers' Plate of 80 sous; gentlemen riders, ecc.; any
one having ridden the winner of a handicap steeplechase
valve 50 soya 51b extra; four-yr-olds list 101 b, five 12st
71b, six and aged 13st ; winners of any steeplechase,
hurdle, or flat race of the value of 50 soya before the time
of starting 71b, of 100 141 b extra; horses never having
started allowed 51b; thorough breds 101 b extra. About
three miles.
Malvern Hill aged, Beverly aged, Leighton (11 b) 6, The
Count aged, Jerry (late Jeremy Diddler), Snowdrop 5,
The Rover 5, Firefly aged.
The Rugby Open Steeplechase Handicap of 7 soya each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 60 added; winners of any steeple-
chase after the weights were published 71b, twice 101 b
extra. About four miles.
Age at lb I Age at lb
Tally Ho ... ... all 7 Bird's Eye (h b) 10 6
Sir William ... a 11 4 Plinlimmon ... 6 10 4
Sportsman ... a 11 0 Master Oliver (h b) a 10 3
Brandy Apple ... 10 9 The Flea alO 0
Sylph ... alO 9 Miss Dodson (h b) 610 0
The Selling Steeplechase Handicap of 3 sous each, 1 ft (to
the fund), with 25 added ; the winner to be sold for 40
soya ; winners of any steeplechase after March 12 (at
eleven a.m.) 71b, of two 101 b extra. About two miles
and a half.

Age st lb I Ago st lb
Beverley ... all 7 Betsy (h b) ... 10 5
Wedding Peal 511 3 Mary Aun (h b) alO 5
Wild Irishman ... a 10 7 I Brown Charley a 10 0
bk gbyVitellius(hb) a 10 6
A Scurry Steeplechase Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 20
added, for hunters; 12st each; horses that have never
started allowed 51b; winners of anysteeplechase, hurdle,
or flat race of the value of 50 soya 71b, of more than 50
at any one time 111 b extra. About two miles and a half.

PROGRAMME OF MARGATE SPRING MEETING.
MONDAY, March 18.
The Hunters' Stakes of 2 sovs each, with 20 addod ; three
year olds Ost 41b, four list, five list 71b, six and up-
wards list 121 b; professionals 71b extra; one mile and
a half on the fiat.
Tho Stand Plate of 30 sovs; three year olds 7st 71b, four
Bst 121 b, five and upwards 9st 71b; mares and geldings
allowed 31b; maidens allowed 41b; the winner to be sold
for 50 soya; if entered for 30 sovs allowed 71b; six

furlongs.
The Kent County Cup, value 25 sovs, for hunters; list
71b each; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs; if entered
for 50 sovs allowed 71b ; winners of a► steeplechase value
30 sovs 71b extra ; professionals 71b extra; three miles
over the Steeplechase Course.
The Hurdle Race Handicap of 3 sovs each, 1 ft (to the
fund), with 25 added; winners after March 9 (at ton
a.m.) 71b extra ; two miles, over six hurdles.
Age st lb!
Cutler a 11 5
Slender 4 11 2
Medici 5 11 2
Lydia 5 10 12
Orontes 5 10 12
Robin Adair a 10 10
Wedding Peal 5 10 7
Jessie ... 6 14 5
Charity ... ... 510 0
Peewit ... 6 10 0
Tho Ramsgate Plato (Handicap) of 40 sovs; winners after
March 9 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra; six furlongs.
Age st lb Age st lb
The Monk... a 8 12 Wheatley Rocks ... 3 7 2
S lender 4 8 7 Preferment ... 4 7 0
Medicis 5 8 4 Vicious ... 3 612
Venturer 4 8 4 Colenso ... 4 6 12
Lydia ... 57 12 Binnacle ... 36 0
Isabella 4 7 10 E►burg ... 5 6 10
Queen Mary 4 7 7 Mont Blanc ... 2 5 12
The Margate Open Steeplechase Handicap of 5 sovs each,
2 ft (to the fund), with 50 added; winners of any han-
dicap after March (at ten a.m.) 71b, any other winner Sib
extra. About three miles.
Age st lb Age et lb
Harold
Sportsman a 12 0 Cockfightor (h-b)... 5 11 0
The Rogue
The Nigger 1 11 10 Vindicator a 10 7
Cutler
Helice
The Tradesmen's Steeplechase Plate (Handicap) of 40
sovs ; winners after March 9 (at ten a.m.) 71b extra.
About two miles.

Age st lb
Greybird 6 10 0
Isabella 4 9 12
Equinex ... a 9 10
Knapsack 4 9 7
Vindicator... ... a 9 7
Triumph „. 4 9 5
Mrs. Naggleton ... a 9 4
Hello° 5 9 0
Prescription ... 4 9 0

Age st lb
Sir Bobby a 12 10
Harold
Sportsman a 11 4
The Rogue
Cutler a 10 12
Vindicator a 10 10
Helice
Peewit

Age st lb
Greybird
Orontes
Wedding Peal
Wade 5 10 4
Humphrey Davey 4 10 4
Over the Sea a 10 0
Prescription

PROGRAMME OF BROMLEY SPRING MEETING.
FRIDAY, March 22.
Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added ; three-year-
olds 7st 71b, four Bst 121 b, five and aged 9st 71b ; mares
and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 50
sovs ; if entered for 30 sovs allowed 71b ; nearly seven
furlongs.
The Bromley Cup of 30 sovs; three-year-olds Ost 71b, four
10st 91b, five list 41b, six and aged list 71b ; mares and
geldings allowed 31b ; starters three times in 1866 with-
out being placed allowed 71b; professionals that have
won a flat race value 100 sovs 71b extra. About one
mile and a half on the flat.
The Tally-ho Plate of 50 soya; four year olds, 11st; five,
list 101 b ; six and aged, 12st ; half-breds allowed 71b ;
horses that have run twice in 1866 for any flat or hurdle
race and have not been placed allowe171b; professionals
that have won a flat race value 100 sovs, 71b ; pro-
fessionals that have won a flat race value 100 soya, 71b
extra ; the second to receive 5 soya out of the Plate ;
the winner to be sold for 200 sovs ; two miles on the
fiat.
The Bromley Plate (Handicap) of 100 sovs; winners of
50 sovs after March 14, 71b extra; any other winner,
51b extra; nearly seven furlongs.
Age st lb
Monk ... a 8 12
t'ruosgtimc oureeau.vy 55 88 95
Tomahawk ... 4 8 0
Hop Leap ... ... 47 10
Wild Bee
of
... 53 77 7
10
3
Wor-
cester
Risk ... ..• 5 7 4
Q
7 4
Au a 2
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Hurdle Race Plate (Han
after March 14, 71b extra
hurdles.

. Age st lb
Pinchbeck... ... 4 7 0
Wheatley Rocks ... 3 7 0
Fanny ... 3 7 0
Algar ...4 612
!Alumina ... 3 6 9
Gaiety ... 3 6 7
Grafton ... ... 3 6 7
Colenso ... 3 6 4
Lupa 3 6 2
Fauchette ... 3 6 0
Gentian ... ... 3 512
Knight of Downe... 3 5 10

[kap) of 50 soya ; winners
about two miles, over six

- Age st Ibi Age st lb
Fortunatus 411 121 Victoria ... 4 9 4
Cutler alO 7 ; Triumph ... ... 49 2
Balham a 10 7 ! Chicken Hazard ... 4 9 2
Contraband 510 5 Vindicator... ... a 9 2
Havelock 6 10 5 Red Ron ... 5 9 0
Olivia • ... 6 9 12' Pirate ... ... 59 0
Maid of Erin ... a 9 101 Dovedale ... 6 9 0
Lord Waldegrave... 5 9 101 Northill ... 4 8 12
Meclicis ... 5 9 101.aelice 5 8 12
Risk 5 9 10 ' Saucy Lase ... 4 8 12
Mrs. Naggleton ... a 9 10 Equinox a 8 10
Lady Peel 6 9 7 Tottie ... 4 8 7
Slelider 4 9 7' Ned of the Hills ... a 8 7
Orontes 5 9 4 Graft0n......3 8 7
Sisyphus......s 9 41
- -

. -
The Railway Steeplechase Stakes of 5 soy's each, (2 ft to
the fund), vrithso added; anj winner of 100 owls after
March ,at a.m. 101 b, of 40 soya 71b extra ; about two
miles and a quarter.

Sir Bobby, aged, Cutler, aged, Harold, 5 yrs, Clementi,
aged, Orontes, 5 yrs, Vindicator, aged, Triumpher, 6 yrs,
Risk, 5 yrs, Wedding Peal, 5 yrs, triumph, 4 yrs, Helice,
5 yrs, Nabocklish, 6 yrs, Gardener, 5 yrs, Contraband, 5
yrs, Havelock, 6 yrs, Hecate, 5 yrs, Pirate, aged.
A Hunters' Stakes of 3 soya each, 2 ft, with 20 added, for
horses that have been regularly hunted in Kent, Surrey,
Sussex, Berkshire, or Middlesex during the season
1866-7 ; horses that have been in any training stable this
year 71b extra; llst 71b each ; the winner to be sold by
auction for 50 soya, and any surplus to be divided be-
tween the owner of the second and the fund; if entered
to be mold for 30 soya allowed 711', A 11Qt t 9 DO 13914 to

carry 101 b extra ; any winner of a steeplechase value 60
soya 71b extra; professionals that have won a steeple-
chase value 50 sovs 71b extra ; about three miles.
SATURDAY.

The Bickley Stakes (Handicap) of 3 sovs each, with 20
added, for all ages ; the winner to be sold for 40 sovs ;
winners after the publication of the weights 51b extra ;
about seven furlongs.
The Hunters' Plate of 40 sous; four year olds list 41b,
five list 121 b, six and upwards 12st ; mares and geldings
allowed 31b; half-breds 71b extra; winners of a flat or
hurdle race once 51b, twice, or one of 50 sovs, 101 b,
thrice, or one of 100, 141 b extra ; maiden five year olds
and. upwards allowed 71b ; qualified gentlemen riders,
professionals 71b extra ; about two miles on the flat.
The Bromley Spring Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft (to the
fund), with 60 added ; winners of a race value 100 soya
after March 16 101 b, any o
one mile and a half.
Ago st lb Age st lb
Musketeer... ... 5 8 12 Nabocklish ... 6 6 10
Monk a 8 7 I)ovedale 6 6 10

;her winner 51b extra; tib9ut

Frogmore ... 5 8 4 Nimble 4 6 10
Ropley 4 8 0 Queen Mary 4 6 10
Furtunatus 4 7 12 Pinchbeck ... 4 6 10
Dayrell ... 5 7 12 Saucy Lass ... 4 6 10
Jevington ... 5 7 10 Aigar ... 4 6 7
Slender ... 4 710 Wheatley Rocks ... 3 6 7
Mischief ... 4 7 10 Fanny ... 3 6 7
Clatford 4 7 10 Alcazar ... 3 6 7
Lord Waldegravu 5 7 7 Ned of the Hills a 6 4
Tomahawk 4 7 7 Mosquetaire ... a 6 4
Olivia ... 6 7 4 Mimulus ... 3 6 0

... ...
Little Bobby ... 4 7 4 Gaiety ... ... 3 6 0
Victoria ... ... 4 7 2 Coleus° ... ... 3 510
Hop Leaf ... ... 4 7 0 Knight of Downe 3 5 7
Risk ... ... 5 612 Gentian ... ... 3 5 7

The Tradesmen's Steeplechase (Handicap) of 3 sovs each,
with 20 added ;- the winner to be sold for 40 sovs ; about
two miles. To close and name before five o'olock on
Friday, March 22, at the weighing room.
A Steeple Chase Plato of 50 sovs.

Sir Bobby aged, Cutler aged, Orontes 5 yrs, Risk 5 yrs,
Pirate 5 yrs, Gardener 5 yrs, Triumph 4 yrs, Triumpher
6 yrs, Hecate 5 yrs, Red Rose 5 yrs, Wedding Peal 5 yrs,
Vindicator aged, Balham aged, Clementi aged, Helice, 5
yrs, Wade 5 yrs. _ _

The Kent Open Steeplechase (Handicap) of 10 sons each,

2 ft; three miles.

Sir Bobby aged, Cutler aged, Hornet aged, Marble Hill
aged, Harold 5 yrs, Sportsman aged, Cocklighter 5 yrs,
Balham aged, Clementi aged, Vindicator aged, Havelock
6 yrs, Nigger aged, Gardener 5 yrs, Helice 5 yrs, Stockings
5 yrs, Bishopton 5 yrs.

PROGRAMME OF ROYAL ARTILLERY STEEPLE-
CHASES.
TUESDAY, March 19.

The Gold Cup, ♦alue 100 SOTS, added to a Sweepstakes of
5 sovs each; about three miles.

Mr. Magenis's Pixie, Mr. Prior's Bravo, Mr. Sandeman's
Vesta, Capt. Williams's Vingt-et-un, Mr. Millman's Mabel,
Mr. Huchinson's New Granby, Col. Price's Canterbury,
Major Bishop's Port, Mr. Kinsman's Anonyma, Capt.
Wortham's Wedding Ring, Capt. Wortham's Oldcastle.
The United Service Stakes of 5 sous each, 3 ft, with 60
added ; Gold Cup Course.
Mr. Sharpe's (R.A.) Kingston, Capt. Johnstone's (Gran.
Gds.) Black Diamond, Capt. Johnstone's (Gran. Gds.) Lin-
coln, Lord C. Kerr's (Scots Fus. Gds.) Falcon, Mr. Jack-
son's (81st Regt.) Ebon, Capt. Gibson's (R.H.A) Übique,
Capt. Robinson's (17th Lan.) Garry Owen, Mr. Lowther's
(R.N.) Shanon.

A Sweepstakes of 5 sous each, 3 ft, with 60 added, for
horses bona fide and unconditionally the property of, and
to be ridden by, officers on full pay of the Royal Artil-

- - - -
lery ; list each; Gold Cup Course.
Mr. Magenis's Bravo, Mr. Magenis's Vertu, Mr. Sharpe's
Kingston, Mr. Medhurst's Taglioni, Mr. Milinan's Leek-
fond, Mr. Turnbull's Corkscrew, Mr. Huchinson's New
Granby (late Saracen's Head), Capt. Gibbs's Übique, Capt.
Wortham's Wedding Rine, Capt. Wortham's Ivanhoe.
The Hunt Plate of 30 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 3
sovs each ; 12st each ; thorough breds 71b extra ; gentle-

men riders.
The limiters' Stakes of 3 sous each, with 50 added, for all
horses that are bona fide and unconditionally the pro-
perty of officers on full-pay of the lloyal Artillery; 12st
71b each; to be ridden by officers on full pay of the

regiment ; Gold Cup Course.
Tho It. A. Drag Hunt Steeplechase Handicap of 2 SW'S
each, for all horses that have been bona fide hunted with
the B. A. Drag ; to be ridden by members of the hunt,
&c. If the lowest weight accepting be under 12st 71b it
will be raised to that weight.

PROGRAMME OF BROCKLESBY STEEPLECHASES
TUESDAY, March 19.
The Brocklesby Steeplechase ; about four miles.
Little Peter aged, Maley (h b) 4 yrs, Joe Muggins 4 yrs,
Butterfly (h b) 6 yrs, Blondin (h b) aged, Slasher (ls b)
aged, Merry Lad (h b) 6 yrs, b g by Lambton (h b) 5 yrs,
May Flower (h b) 5 yrs, Volunteer (II b) 4 yre, Lady Bird
(11 b) 4 yrs, Two on 'Em 5 yrs.
The Brocklesby Open Steeplechase : about four miles.
Wings of the Wind 4 yrs, Cure All (lib) 5 yrs, Francis-
can 5 yrs, Magician aged, B►idegroom (lib) aged, Lincoln
6 yrs, Effie 4 yrs, Highflyer aged. bk in by Martoxt out of
Wings of a Dove, aged, Queen Mab (h I)) 4 yrs, Regina
(h b) aged.
The Yarborough Cup ; about four miles.
Pupil aged, Umballab, 6 yrs, Butterfly (h b) 6 yrs,
Fireaway (h b) aged, North York 4 yrs, The Pet (h b) 6
yrs, Bess 4 yrs, Two on 'Em 5 yrs, General aged.

FOOTBALL.

THE CIVIL SERVICE v. CHARTERHOUSE

SCHOOL.

On Wednesday the last match of the season was-played
at the Upper-green at the Charterhouse between two
elevens of the above clubs, and from the known excellence
of the majority of the players excited considerable interest.
The Civil Service were under the command of Mr. C. G.
Waudby, and Mr. E. C. S. Gibson directed the school team.
Play commehced shortly before 3 o'clock, and the choice
of position having been won by Charterhouse, they
kicked off towards the upper end, having the wind
in their favour. Very soon after the commencement
Mr. 0. S. I,Valford, who played yesterday for
the first time this season (having been disabled by a
badly sprained knee), by a vigorous and well-directed kick
landed the ball at the upper base, amid the cheers of the
spectators, and thus secured a goal for the School. In
accordance with the rules of the game, the po.sitions of the
players wero now reversed, Charterhouse kicking down,
and the Civil Service up the ground; but in spite
of the most determined efforts on both sides no other
goal was obtained, both the base-keepers playing ad-
mirably for their respective elevens. On the part of
the Charterhouse, Mr. E. C. S. Gibson, Mr. W. L.
Boreham, Mr. E. E. Venables, and Mr. J. A. Foote,
played remarkably well, while Mr. C. E. B.Neapean was, as
usual, all over the ground, and always in the thick of the
scrimmages, some excellent charges being made by him
and Mr. Foote, and the good strategy of Mr. Venables was
of great assistance to his eleven. Mr. Gibson and Mr.
Foote's back play was also much admired.
For the Civil Service Mr. Waudby, Mr. Alcock, Mr. E.
Freeth, and Mr. J. Kirkpatrick, distinguished themselves
the most, some splendid runs down being made by
the two first-named gentlemen, while Mr. Kirkpatrick
rendered good service in the charges and scrimmages. As
the Civil Service could only muster ten men, Mr. R. Dunn
(of the Charterhouse) played for them as an "emergency."
When time was called, at a quarter past four, the game
stood thus :—Charterhouse School, ono goal; the Civil
Service, 0. The Charterhouse were thus the victors;
and it may be worthy of remark that they have not
been beaten once this season. The following are the
names of the players:—
Charterhouse School.—Messrs. E. C. S. Gibson (Captain),
C. T. Walford, C. E. B. Nepean, W. L. Boreham, J. A.
Foote, C. H. IN ade, W. Wallace, A. S. Mammatt, E. E.
Venables, H. Murray Mackenzie, and E. A. Hammock.
Civil„Service.—Messrs. C. G. Waudby (Captain), C. W.
Alcock, Q. Hogg, W. J. Dixon, E. Freeth, J. Kirkpatrick,
W. B. Geedon, R. Babbington, J. W. Martyn, H. K. Dea-
con, and R. Dunn (" emergency.").

and stereotype founding, printing-press making, in
making bookbinders' tools, in bookbinding and pub-
lishing, was, in 1860, 37,723. The sole reason for
the existence of this class, their sole use, is to fur-
nish the remaining thirty millions with the means
of acquiring knowledge with the least possible ex-
penditure of time and money. That the people of
this country shall acquire knowledge easily, is of
paramount importance. Compared with the ques-
tion of education all other questions of our time
sink into insignificance. Except man's destiny in
the world to come, we know of no theme of such
tremendous moment as the cultivation of his men-
tal powers in this. Suppose all our publishers,
printers, and bookbinders in the United States
swept into the sea to-morrow, we should have to
deplore the loss of many most respectable and most
useful citizens, but would the effect of the catas-
trophe on the wealth ar welfare of the community at
large be comparable to the evil which these gentle-
men are now inflicting on their fellow-country-
men ? In a few months we might get 30,000
other book manufacturers, not perhaps as
good as they, but good enough for the time
being. But whatever makes it difficult or impossible
for any considerable number of the people to culti-
vate any field of knowledge is an injury to society,
of which the effects are incalculable and last through
generations. It would be better for the nation, we
say deliberately, to settle large pensions on every
paper-maker, printer, and publisher in the country,
than have ten poor men forced to deny themselves
a good book or ten scholars forced to limit their
purchases. And yet publishers have apparently
succeeded in impressing Congress with the idea, that
the use of books is to maintain publishers in com-
fort, and that authors and readers are mere appen-
dages or ornaments of the great book-stores, whose
wants and wishes are of no importance. In fact,
in all that regards the acquisition and diffusion of
knowledge, the legislation of the last two Congresses
has been little better than might be expected from
an assemblage of Goths or Huns dealing with the
fading and to them incomprehensible civilisation of
the fallen empire. They have made books dear in
a Republic to whose existence and prosperity the
habit of reading is as necessary as light and air to
individuals. Of their forgetfulness of the interests
of science, a fine example has been afforded in the
tax on alcohol, which is so enormous as to have
almost completely arrested in this country all re-
searches in organic chemistry. The heavy inter-
nal taxation has raised the- price of books pro-
duced and reprinted here ; the duty and high
price of gold have all but put a stop to the
importation of foreign books. Most. of the libraries
may be said to have ceased to import them,
and very few are now called for, except by that
exceedingly small band of wealthy men who
devote any attention to literature. Nothing can be
more disheartening, we had almost said barbarous,
than the indifference of politicians—we do not use
the word in any opprobrious sense--to the interests
of authors and readers ; in other words, of the class
who keep civilisation alive and make progress, either
mental or material, possible. There are very few
men in Congress—we cannot name one with confi-
dence except Mr. Sumner—who have kept the in-
terests of literature and science in view during the
confused financial legislation of the last four or five
years. We have before us a letter from a gentle-
man, himself an author, who has taken a good deal
of interest in the copyright question. In telling us
of the results of his efforts to call the attention of
our legislators to the concern which our writers and
thinkers have in all legislation affecting literary pro-
perty, he says that one orator, not unknown to fame,
and who, doubtless, can spout by the hour on great
moral questions, cut short their -conversation by
saying—" I do not take any interest in the question
of authorship, and I do not believe anybody can
make me take an interest in it." Just such a reply
as a Gothic warrior of the sixth century might have
made ton Roman jurist pleading for guard for his lib-
rary in a town captured by the barbarians. There is a
class of books which can be produced and are produced
just as well in this country as in England, and with
regard to which the American author and publisher
might, with some decency, ask for protection—we
mean school books, novels, epic and lyrical poetry,
tragedies, sonnets, and books of travel. In these
particular fields of literature the reading public does
not tuffer very much from heavy import duties.
Any portion of this class of works which is at all
valuable, American publishers are likely to reprint,
or would reprint if the internal revenue system were
reformed. Those which they would not repriut
society here would not suffer seriously from never
seeing. But there is a large class of books
historical, scientific, legal, politico-economical, and
metaphysical—of which the English press is very
prolific, either original or translated in London from
the French or German, for which there is in
America no popular demand, and which, therefore,
publishers do not reprint, and for which no sub-
stitute is provided here. It is the product of the
higher cultivation of the Old World, and of which
it is not only our interest but our duty to avail our-
selves, if we mean to maintain our place or win a
higher one in civilisation. 'This class of books is
mainly sought for by scholars and students, whose
means are generally limited, and to the wealthiest
of whom an addition of 40 or 50 per cent. in the
price of books is a serious matter. The tax gain to
the Government from even a light duty on books
of this kind would be too small to be worth
counting; the gain from such a duty as is now
proposed would be absolutely nothing, for the tax is
all but prohibitory. The publishers will not
profit by it, for, as we have said, they would not re-
print these books, and native authors can, hardly
produce any books to compete with them, if the
word compete can ever be applied in a commercial
sense to the efforts made by men of thought and
learning to swell the sum of human knowledge. It
cannot be too well understood or too often repeated,
however, that the progress of a nation is not kept
up simply by the general diffusion of a small degree
of education, such as men get in district schools or
" pick up" in the spare moments of a busy life. We
might all know how to read, write, and cipher, and
might all possess a passable acquaintance with what
is called " polite literature," and have a high respect
for knowledge, and yet settle down for ages in a
state in no respect superior to that of the Chinese.
The movement of the world towards purer manners
and nobler laws ; towards larger liberty, deeper in-
sight ; its growth in faith and hope, and in moral
and material power, is due to the labours of a com-
paratively small number of thinkers. Nearly all
great advances in civilisation are brought about by
the labours of men of high culture and deep
thought. They conceive what others execute ; and
it is the duty and interest of every nation, even of
those who conceive material comfort to be the
highest good, to make, by all available means, the
labours of its men of science easy and, if possible,
pleasant. So far from discouraging them here,
there is no country in the world in which they need
to be more cherished and encouraged. We could
name half a dozen men of letters and of science in
this country who are of more value to the nation
than double the whole number of booksellers and
printers which it now contains, to whose door it
would " pay" for the Government to deliver gratis
every work of importance that appears in any part
of the world. To make it difficult for such men to
become acquainted with the result of the labours of
their confreres in other countries is to attack civili-
sation itself. Those who suppose, as some Con-
gressmen seem to do, that the newspaper is the only
kind of literature that America needs, and that the
" reportorial corps," as it calls itself, can supply all
the facts that American students need to know,
differ less than they imagine from the Caliph who
burnt the Alexandrian Library on the theory of the
all-sufficiency of the Koran.—The Nation.

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