New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-29

The third and concluding volume Of the His
tory If the Works OF Sir Joshua Reynolds" on .
which Mr. AlgernOn Graves has been engaged .
for the last thirty years, has How been issued &
10 the suJsrrib4-s only a hundred sets we're
offered. and these we're long ago taken up me .
WORK describes .r=ry known picture from SIR .
JJshua's pencil and the beautiful photographers
have been Chiefly taken from pictures IN PIT
vate galleries. Of which were hardly
known even 10 devoted specialists in the study .
% R-ynpldss work.
4 'Jenersonian Cyclopsdia' IS about 70 be
published oy Funk & WagnaHs II contains
d classified collection Of ten thousand extracts
from such utteranc@s Of Thomas Jef1efsoi as are
enti,l-d-or Ire supposed TO be enttied-to per /
raaHeHt existence and continued consideration |
tn index has cross references
Of the lat- Or. St George Mivart's novel just
republIsheI IN London The Pail Mall Gazette
says that IT Is "a story Of ladies ana gentlemen
and people VINO think By a gentleman and
thinl.e-.' Put" It adds, 1t Is disastrousiy
heasy both in its tedium # construction and
etyIe and IN it's details. The characters con-
verse in stilted. sometimes almost early Vic
tOrian terms. often they argue, IN hackneyed
ays. for pages at a time, whether there ls
Of democracy is good, and They are OPP
pr ssiE- people. most Of them DR. hivart has
repr.dUc-d. he tells US, things suggested By his
personal, local and social experiences ana ne
seems - nave determined 70 get as much IN as
IcssiDle.'
Mr. owen Wister's new book now the Har-
pers' press. Is entitled The JimmyJohn Boss,
and Other Stories" Other collections OF short
stories 70 be brought out Immediately by the
Harpers Mr. J. X Bangs's The booming
Of Acre HID. and Other stories" and Mt. T. A
Jsuvi-r's The Passing Of Thomas, and Other
Stories Longer fiction VIII De found in Mi.
Edmund 2 DoIe's Hawaiian novel, "Hiwa, and
Mr.. Percy Whites story, The West End
The international Monthly is to contain in
the future II new department. dealing with in
teruaffonaI I0!itics It is in process Of organiZa-
t.vr EJr..T.-- Of "a,
It is 10 have correspondents in Spain. ltaly Rus
STA England, Germany, France, Austria and
Turkey.
In dealing with the question Of perpetual
literary copyright The London Globe asks
why copyright should be limited to forty-two
years as in England. THE forty-two year
limit" il adds undoubtedly presses hardly on
the heirs Of authors like Scott, Dickens, Thack-
cray TennysOn and Browning There are cases
TOO IN which a longer term than even eighty
wears seems 10 be demanded by justice. For
ample. Iineal male descendant of Daniel Defoe
is earning his living in the mercantile
ynarine ,rnbeIDed bv the smallest royalty from
Robinson Crusoe' In other cases the extinction
OF a family would lead TO curious results. we
believe there is no living descendant of Charles
Lamb; to whom, then, would royalties on the
Essays # Ella go under perpetual copyright?
Obviously that person who by bequeSt or
purchase had acquired Lambs rights But the
possession Of copyright in Ella by. say, a specn-
lating corn-chandler is repugnant-" Many strong
pleas might lie made for limited copyright, but
this last one seems illogical IN question or
property not sentiment Mr.. stephen Gwynne' )
contribution to the copyright discussion comes
apropcs Of the matter of pensions for great au-
thOrs 'On the whole he says. the best thing
that the public do for the great author is
to cease to rob him and enable him when he
cannot the material fruits Of his own
labor as is 50 often the case, least to be
queath them to others In other words, the one
thing which the public can do and should do
for the great author is to give long extension
OF copyright. for this will benefit none but the
author Of real merit, and will cost the public
only luxury that it does not realize value"
What is least often mentioned in the discus
sion OF copyright laws is the fact that there
has been tremendous change in conditions
since those laws framed, and that they
ili-adaptcd to the time 1t is not to be doubted
that an extension OF copyright, perpet-
ual copyright, would benefit the reputable pub
Usher = much the author, and there is u
good deal in the contention of Mark Twain that
if the public wants cheap editions il will get
them. Most necessities and IuXures have been
cheapened for the consumer in this century, with
great profit to the manufacturer and dealer
why not books?
The critic Of The London Spectator" writes
Of Mr. HoWelIS's subtle obserV alton. decacy''
and sense Of style but h doesn't like the
middle aged hero ard heroine of his latest
book They remind one a little he asserts "of
a certain virtuous but impossible man in a
recent novel. Of whom brilliant woman said,
Poor dear mani or course. couldn't know
him IN London, but trust We shall meet him in
heaNeni' -
The latest copy in the market Of the Edin-
burch edition Of r. l.. Stevenson's works has
been sold for about $1S2. For the edition we
told the author received something like
$I00DD.
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