The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-01

Efendi late Director General of Ports, aud
editor OF suppressed popular paper. Now
the Mukhbir has been stopped. The Muthbir
made a great sensation in Constantinople,
where it was smuggled; but the HTriyet,
though politically more violent, creates less
excitement. The conductors tried to make
Paris their centre, having French sympathies,
but found the political atmosphere of London
was safer. Thus, strangely enough, London
is q centre Of propagandism against the gov
ernmental system of the Sublime Porte; aud
yet there are Euglishmen in Constantnople
still alive who remember the Janissaries in
all their seditiOD, and the booming Of the guns
on the dsy of their massacre and suppression.
The case OF Low VS.. Ward, reported at
length in the claw Journal Reports" "Chau-
cery," p. SAL, a1firms, under somewhat singu-
lar circumstances, that copyright may exist
in some chapters of book, while others are
unprivileged. The circumstances are shortly
these-Whle Professor Holmes, of Boston,
was bringing out his story of "The Guardian
Angel in serial form in the atlantic Monthiy
the plaintiffs (the wellknown publishers of
Ludgate HID entered into an agreement with
him that he should acquire a British copy
right in the story, and sell it to the plaintiffs.
Professor Holmes accordingly, in October,
1867, went to Montreal, the tale not then hav-
ing been completed in the Atlantic lIomhiy
and while there the entire work was published
by the plaintiffs. AT that time the last six
chapters had not appeared in America. The
defendants (who are publishers in Pattern oster
Row afterwards brought out cheap edition,
and the suit was instituted for an injunction.
The plaintiffs relied on the well-known case Of
Low vs.. Routledge, which establishes that an
alien who, during q residence in q British
colony, publishes work in England, ac-
quires copyright therein. 1t was rather in
geniously argued for the defendants that it
was an essential condition of copyright that
the entire work should first appear in the
United Kingdom; that the benefit Of such first
publication was, in fact, the consideration in
respect of which the privilege of copyright was
in part of work only. The Judge, Vice
Chancellor Giffard, chad not the slightest
doubt about the case" He decided that
where the parts of a work can be separated
there may be copyright in any distinct part of
it; and he granted the injunction, restraining
the defendants from printing or selling copies
containing the last six chapters of the work.
"A fictitious Elizabethan writer on the
English language-one Hare-has Just been
expunged from the list of our linguistic au-
thers by Mr. Alexander J. Ellis. The MS.
Reg. II, G. vii, IN the British Museum, is
described in the printed catalogue as "Hare'S
Censure of the English Language" and is
labelled on the back "Hare on the English
Language" The MS. was recommended to
Text Society for publication in the Society's
series of Early Dictionaries and Grammars,
and Works illustrating the History of the
English Language. The Committeeman re-
ferred the matter to Mr.. A. J. Ellis, and he,
on examining the MS, found that the writer,
in the Dedication, page A, clearly wrote his
name, John Hart. Mr.. Ellis also found that
many passages of the MS. were quite familiar
to him; and on comparing it with his old
friend, the "Orthographie, conteyning the
due order and reason howe to write or paint
thimage of manners, voice, most like to the
life or nature" by John Hart, Chester Herald,
London, 1869, it became evident that the MS.
was simply the authors first draft OF his
printed "Orthogrsphie," which he states in
that work that he wrote about twenty years
before he published his book-in reality,
eighteen years; for the MS. is dated 1851,
and is in Hart's own handwriting. Though,
then, we have lost Hare, we have a more in
teresting subject in the original Hart; yet
less valuable one than phonetic treatise
by an independent writer in 1851 would have
been. If the Trustees and their keeper of
MSS. ere bibliographically minded, they will
not complain of their loss Of Mr.. Ellis cor
re ction.
"A few lately-msde identifcatons of MSS.
in the Cambridge University Library may in
terest manuscript men. The poetics treatise
on the Ten Commandments, described in the
Catalogue III, 449, turns out to be a copy Of
part OF Robert OF Brunne's "Handlyng Synne,"
taken out of that work, and put on to some
one else's treatise on "The Seven Deadly
Sins" The Corrections to Parish Priests,
'Women's servyce thou must torsake,'''
Catalogue II, 506), is part of Myrc's work,
issued this year by the Early English Text
Society. The fragment, "On King Arthur"
Catalogue III, 700), is a small part of a YER
sion of "Sir Lambwell," p" differing from both of
those printed in the Percy Folio Ballads and
Romances.
"A bill has been laid on the table of the
Dutch legislature for abolshing, after the lst
OF May, 1869, the now existing heavy tax on
newspapers and advertisements. The law of
lo43, which still oppresses Dutch journalism,
is simply intolerabte. In 1866 an anti-news-
paper stamp league was formed in Rotterdam,
and it rapidly spread all over the country.
Its influence is considerable, and caused, no
doubt the present measure to be introduced.
In no country of the world is the tax on
papers and advertisements so excessively
heavy as in the Netherlands. We sincerely
hope for its suppression, as the "tax on
knowledge" is totally unworthy Of free
State.
There will soon be an interesting auction
In Amsterdam OF the works of Mic. Pleneman,
who was in his lifetime one of the best painters
OF the modern Dutch school, and chiefly ex-
ceIled in portraits.
The announced inedited work of Hugo Gro
thus, "De Jure PIede," has made its appear
ance atsthe Hague.