The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-16

nounced himself as candidate for the
state Legislature, and as he had the
support of the party leaders, his NOM
ination followed. In the course of time
Mr.. Harrington hopes to be able to APP
ply himself, or rather to have the
Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives in Washington apply to him, the
term which made the title OF his first
book, The Gentleman From Indiana
There has been much discussion in
London recently over a proposal to
found a British Academy in England.
| Fifty authors and prominent men in
other callings have petitioned the King
for a charter and the King has re-
ferred the matter to the Lords of the
Council. According to the present plan
the incorporators are carrying out the
suggestion of Mathew Arnold In not
attempting to cover the whole province
of literature. The new academy is de-
scribed as the British Academy for the
Promotion of Historical, Philosophical
and Pathological Studies. Poetry, fic-
tion and the belles-lettres are not in
cluded. 1t Will be seen, therefore that
the English incorporators do not hope
to establish an organization as COM
prehensiVe as that of the French.
One of the New York daily papers
recently began a serial story i'm It's
columns under the title of "Strategems
and Spoils." The title, unfortunately.
had already been copyrighted by Will
liam Allen White for his collection OF
political stories. Accordingly the news
paper changed its story's title to "Spoils
and Intrigue" Then some one discoy-
cred that the alleged author had merely
copied one of Charles Reade's novels,
Foul Play" and the serial was broken
off abruptly. IL seems that there are
a number of persons who make a prac-
tice OF copying some old half-forgor-
ten stories and sending them around
to various publishers. Indeed, some OF
the plagiarisms are quite recent. One
of the minor magazines, which is said
to be edited by the office boy, is a par
ticular sufferer from these pirates.
Only last month this periodical reprint
ed as fiction story a special feature
article which had appeared in a num-
ber OF Sunday newspapers less than a
year ago. In case OF this kind there
is not likely to be much sympathy for
the editor.
II Will be remembered that "The
Eternal City, Hall Gaines latest novel,
was to have been published serially in
England by one OF the magazines. A
few installments of the story actually
did appear, and then the matter was
suddenly discontinued. Then followed
a lawsuit between the author and the
publisher, which promised TO attract
considerable attention and furnish a
quotable case In future disputes OF the
kind. News comes now, however, thar
the matter has been settled out OF
court. the publisher agreeing 10 pay
fol as much of the story as he used
and 10 withdraw the imputations he
made against IL. Herbert BreWster
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