The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-21

firm many years ago for $50, ana ne hao
no right 10 print It himself with his
works until lately when he purchased 1t
back for a very large sum.
And fourth-that bound up and NUMBER
ed in the series in such a way as to seem
TO be one of Mr.. Kiplings own works, IS
a compilation entitled "A Ken of kiplng,
containing a great wealth of misinforma-
ton about the man and quoting as OF MS
authorship productions that he never
Trtte. 1t is perhaps this section OF the
"Brushwood Edition" that has caused Mr..
Kipling to set his teeth the hardest. A
long account is given, avowedly in his
own words, of how he came to write Re
cessi0naI| The words are not his, how
ever, and the account is entirely untrue.
Then there is reproduced and imputed TO
him a poem addressed to Julia Marlowe,
which he did not write, which he never
saw before it appeared IN this supposed
edition of his works" and of the real
author of which he knows nothing Here
is the poem, and the circumstantial state
ment Cwholly erroneous, of COURSE with
which it is introduced:
Miss Julia Marlowe, the acress. lived
one summer a ueighbor TO Mr. Kipling, in
Vermont. At the holiday season he pre-
scented her, as "a Chrstm gift, one Of his
books with this inscription on the fly
leaf:
When skies are gray instead of blue,
With clouds that come to dishearten;
When things go wrong, as they sometimes
do
In lifes little kindergarten,
I beg you my child, don't weep and wall,
And don't-don't take to tipping;
But cheer your soul with little tale
BY Neighbor Rudyard Kpling
Other blunders and falsiications SINH
lar 20 these are numerous; so that good
part of the ken or Kipling' is as Ear
from his ken or the ken of anybody
no is really Informed about him, as can
be.
The fact that Mr. Kipnng's suit is
against firm of such reputation and
standing as G. P. Putnam's Sons has been
mentioned in some of the accounts with
distinct emphasis of disparagement to Mr..
Klpling's claims. Mr.. Kipling's feeling is
that the eminence of the firm hightens the
offense Not to call a firm of the import
ance and influence of the Putnams 20 sharp
account when il makes so free with am
authors works is, in his view. to do
really serious and perhaps lasting, injury
10 the whole profession Of authors, After
all, Mr.. Kipllng is, his friends say, out
asking the Messrs. Putnam to live up to
their own familiar public professions. In
a suit tried a few years ago and involv-
ing questions very similar to those raised
in the Kipling suit, Mr.. George Haven
Putnam was called to testify as an expert
regarding authors rights, authorized re-
production and kindred matters. Here
are some pertinent passages from his tes
timony:
II have been IN the publishing business
twenty-seven years. The courtesy OF the
trade was in existence then. My father
has made a great point of adhering to 1t
and his sons have always followed his pol
lev . 1t is the arrangement
with the foreign author that in my mind
constituted the fundamental rule of the
courtesy of the trade, We in
tend TO sell no book that is not an author
lied edition. can speak for my
own house, that we have never published
any foreign book except by arrangement
with the foreign author or publisher"
In the course of his testimony, Mr.. Put
nam gave some very interesting trade def
nitions He said: The term pirate, used
not for the first time in this country, so
far as my knowledge of the history OF
copyright goes, always has been applied
to one who should take without sanction
the literary production of another and
should use it for his own benefit; and the
term piracy would come under the same
general head; and the term robbery used
in connection with literature was also so
applied; and the term thief would, of
course. follow that of the term robbery
While not nominally parties to the Kip
ling suit, the firm of Dutton & Co. are
concerned i'm it from being specially asso-
ciated with the Putnams in the sale of the
"Brushwood Edition. Another expert
witness in the case to which I have refer
red was Mr.. Charles A. Clapp, the pres
ent head of the firm of Dutton & Co. In
Mr. Clapps testimony occurred these pas
sages:
''If l Intentionally sold a book that was
an unauthorized reprint 1 do not think
you would be justified in calling me a
thief Under these circumstances, l do
think you would be justified in calling me
rascal. but a robber-yes, but not a pi-
rate. If / did not print the book "
/ think 1t is immortal for any man to sell
a work that has been republished without
authority. We always looked upon
those as thieves that stole everything the
law would not put them in jail for steal
ing"
These opinions of Mr.. Clapp and Mr.
Putnam are very sound and commenda bis
and Il is simply because Mr.. Kipling thinks
the Messrs. Putnam have done them vio-
lence in the matter of the "Brushwood
Edition that he is urging his suit.
Mr.. Kiplng has taken passage on the
Teutonic for June IA for his return &c
/ England, He and his family are now al
! their old home at Bratteboro, VT He Is
| not entirely recovered from his illness, and
/ it may he several months before he car
be pronounced as well as ever; but at the
| same time, the feeling of himself and hi.
! friends is that, all things considered, ht
! is in excellent condition. E. C. Martin
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