New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-18

g. 20 Tho same firm Is publishing MIS- Ger
,r,a. A,herton's novel american wives ana
English Husbands" and Joseph Conrads N""
dren Of the Sea" The last-named Dook j. 'na'
,.sued In England under the title OF the ME-
ger Of the Narc.ssus."
Mrs Harriet Prescott Spofford. who has pup
u.h.a hi, little In recent years. is about 10
bring ou a small volume entitled frisc'i'a
Love Story
Thu DOWNRIGHT system In Russia Is so iHpef'
feet and leads many abuses thht d" IN
neris, commission for the revision OF the coue
has been seriously considering 'ne P"e
russia hes had no copyright convention win
s... c,a,s since 1881 The Pail Mail
Gazette" says: ~ go
when speak,ns at a copyright conference re-
emily held AT ST Petersburg MI SpassoVirhn,
an eminent Russian jurist. pointed ou' - Ito,;ro
A-"uo, S ~ 80 different races several or wnlch
have national nteratures Of their own, As i"I t.
sia protects no translatons. greal ln'"S ox
often done to the Cars own sunlecus. hSrh
omnie Polard ncssesses many novelists OF hish
ard some of European reputc me his."u q. o.
work appears by Pruss or py SlennIe ors in
seized by the translators. ana appeai ,onaoL
Number Of Russian journals without one h"pecN
finding its way into the pocket OF the a no.
But in Russia the author is not inc ON! pf iate
the publisher shares his harushlPs' VI
niracy has been assuming gigantic propo ,iu' ,
Russian publishers denounce the pira'eu WI ne ne
Introduced from Germany, In tne 30 South
poland of the Baltic provinces, ana OF HVu.i "a
Russia such books abound. during ne a.
forty years one firm in LEIPZIG has pupIlsheu W.
Russian) 1--WE hundred different Woiss ,hj COR
most popular Russian rovelisis ana tIilS aoi
eicn production Is now more active tndii ~
In 1895 a German agent was actuals au' 80
ing in Russia cheap editions on nussldI ~?
right works which could be supplied to RUSSIAN
booksellers from German presses me sitaC
extent OF the empire facilitates the lntroNuCllon
of these prated editions. The 81. Pelcls s!t ~
publisher with difficulty detects the procedures
OF some distant provincial dealer. II IS true that
redress Is easy In case OF detection But as tne
law exacts only fine proportionate to the num-
her NJ pirated COPIES found, the culprit VINO
keeps HIS stock low, and relies on week.! SUP
plies from Germany gets off easily pays HIS
fine and continues his practices.
An ANALYSIS of the contents Of fourteen Nau.
ing Russian reviews and magazines revealed that
40 per cent of their contents were trahs'dtlu,ns
Of foreign works In one magazine the trahsie-
lions were 9S per cent Of the whole. The serious
in,nort ~ these figures becomes more apparent
when It is remembered that few russian au-
thors command sale suihclently CERTAIN ~ Vsaa
able them 10 produce their works otnerMlSe
than in the pages OF these periodicals. Ana that
IS partly because the publishers must contend
with deuge of foreign pirated editions. bNeh
Russian euthors of the first rank find them
selves seriously handicapped, While OUTSIDE aus
STA they are defenceless Count To!stoi VINO re-
serves no rights. has been compelled TO declare
publicly that. on account Of their gross mac
curacy he declines all responsibility for certain
French translatons Of his works
The imperial commission has suggested sew
eral steps in advance among them that all
works published in Russia whether by Russian
subjects or foreigners. should enjoy full protec-
ton including control of translation. and that
all works Of Russian subjects, wheresoever pub
ushed. should have the same rights 1t also rec
ommends provisions calculated 10 encourage the
collection Of Russia's vast treasures OF folklore
snecial editions Of THE Romances and Mar
ratives of Daniel Defoe,' Of Boswelrs "John-
SON. and Of the complete "Pepyss Diary are on
the press Of the new Croscup and Sterling Conn
pany.
The story of travel and adventure In the East
which Prince Henry Of Orleans has told under
the title Of From Tonkn to India, Is 70 ne
published in this country by Dodd. Mead & CO.
The book will be interesting in that sixteen
hundred miles Of the journey 1t describes We're
,7ayersedr through country UP to that time uneX-
plored
Cyp's newest book. "sportmanomane,' is said
70 be dismal reading. "Gyp," says tire Paris
correspondent Of The Academy" "is hard on
TIE vulgarity Of the snob the rarvenu on the
social blunders Of the Republican official: but
there Is something far more vulgar than their
bunders of toilet of table and drawing-room
etiquette and that is her insistence upon such
trivialites
THE haute finance. she contemptuNusly
cesignates the Rothschilds, etc, could teach her
many a needed lesson in real-not facttious-
breeding In decacy. in taste and quiet culture
With a Christian aristocracy such as Gyp paints
that OF latter-day France-idle frivolous. uncon-
scously illbred in its bitter criticism Of the
breeding Of outsiders always on matters that
have no real significance whatever, such as the
cut of garments and boots. exterior tenue. peel
ing fruit. while condonng the viest tone and
morals in It's own set-more injury is done to the
country than the fancied evil of Semitic popu-
larity Gyp is known to be fierce anti-Se-
rn,tic: but one would Ike 10 her Justify
her abuse Of the Haute Juiverie In Paris by
pictures Of the Noble Faubourg little less afro
ciously smart fippant and depressngly trivial
At least cannot the Faubourg be shade more
moral?"
Mr. Percy FITZGERALD has written a book
which re calls Editing la Mode" and which
is an examination of DR.. George Birkoeck
Hills Johnsonian Editions" There will doubt
less be food for mirth in this volume.
Mrs Julia c. r. Dorr. better known a poet
than as a prose writer. Is about to publish
novel, entitled I'm Kings Houses or The Ad-
ventures OF Robin Sandys." 1t is a romance OF
the days Of Queen Anne.
In an essay on THE Short Story" Frederick
Wedmore says: "Pessmism, as II seems 10 me,
Is only natural-can only be eXcusable-to those
who are still bowed down by the immense re-
sponsibility Of youth 1t was great poet who,
c.ritinC of one of his peers-a man OF mature
hfe-declared of him. not he mopes picturesque
ly' but he knows the world. firm. quiet and
xay To such a writer-only to such n writer
is possible a happy comedy; and possible. be-
sides true and august vision of pro
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