Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-05
OECLART He GAVE CREDIT
HANNIS TAYLOR SAYS HIS CITA-
TONS WERE SUPPRESSED.
Asserts That DR.. Goudy Furnished a
False Record in Presenting His
Charges of Plagiarism.
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
As YOU were the first to reproduce DR..
Goudy's attack upon my Science or
Jurisprudence" permit me to explain to
your readers the pitiful and humiliating
dilemma into which his mad desire to
defame me has finolly driven him. l
made my formal answer to his first at
tack in the London Times of March H..
Feeling. no doubt, that l had demolished
his first assault he was driven to a sec
ond. which appeared in the London Times
of the 18th ultimo His charge in the
second is that in my chapter on Eng
fish law / have been guilty of the same
kind of pla giarism of which he had ac-
cused me in the first instance He rests
his second case upon single specifica-
ton, which charges that | have been
guilty of plagiarism in taking certain
matter. displayed in parallel columns.
from Pollock x Maitland's History of
English Law without giving the proper
credit for il to that work. In the effort
to maintain that charge he furnished 10
the London Times for publication, in
credible as 1t may seem. what pretends
to he copy of an extract from my
book. which pretended copy is false IN
three vital particulars.
Copy Furnished to London Times.
The false copy is thus printed in the
Times of the 18th ultimo:
II. r.. p. go For a time after the conquest
English seemed 10 have a fair chance OF holding
which William used for his laws. his charters
and his writs were Latin and English. While
many foreign words made their way into Domcs
day. many old English words with definite legal
meanings were preserved. But during the cen,
his the time came for the regular enroll
ment Of all the kings acts and Of all the juds,
which II not dislodGed until the year 1881.
when II gave place 10 English.
In giving the Times the extract in that
form Dr. Cloudy mutilated my page by
removing from it, after the word pre-
served. the figure - and the CORE
spending foot note 10 which ii refers:
=. See Maitland. Domesday Book, s."
In that work the matter in question, the
product Of Mr. Maitland. originated. So
To the original source from which it
came I made my first reference. The
matter WIS then restated and amplified
in Pollock & Maitlands History of Eng
fish Law. ID ed. i. S0-S1.
The second particular in which the
copy given TO the Times by DIR. Cloudy
for publication is false is this: Instead
of printing at the head of the extract
II T.. D. 30 it should have been
printed II. r.. PIP. 265-266.' as the eN-
tract ends on page 266. The motive of
that suppression is manifest. At the
foot of page go occurs my second clta-
ton as To the matter in question: See
Pollock x Maitlands History of Eng
lish Law. I'd ed. i, SO-S1.
Says Credit Was Given.
Thus YOU see that | carefully cited. first
the original work in which the matter
in question originated; second, the work
in which it was reproduced and ampli-
fed. In the false copy given by Dr..
Cloudy TO the Times both citations were
suppressed and the figure , actually re-
moved by him from my text. He then
made il appear that the printed extract
did not extend to page 2t6, at the foot
Of which the second citation appears.
No augmentation is necessary to prove
this stupid and CHASTITY attempt to de-
fame. Any schoOiboy can understand il
al a glance if ne will open my book at
PIP. 26J-266 and contrast those printed
pages with the false copy of the extract
as published in the Times. What action
the University of oxford will lake as to
one who has thus published a false copy
of printed record, with the intent to
defame, remains to be seen. Perhaps |
should be content with the fact that at
almost the very moment when my as
sailant was thus destroying himself the
Institute of France Zen Seance publique :
was honoring my book with Rodolphe
Dareste. one of The Oldest members of
the institute and one of the most famous
jursts of France, as the spokesman
HANNIS TAYLOR.