The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-15
KING HAS. ALL RIGHTS
FOR PRINTING BIBLE
~ LA MAnau1sE DE FoNTENoY.

By LA NIARQUISE DE FONTENOY.
ING GEORGE. by virtue of his ac-
II cession to the crown of England,
IN has become invested, like all his
predecessors on the throne since
the reign of James l.. with the mo-
nopoly of printing the so-called "Au-
ttorIzed Version" of the Bible, and of
the Book of Common Prayer" that is
to say. of the Liturgy. Licenses are
granted in his name to the Oxford
and Cambridge University Presses. and
to certain societies. such as the Brit
ish and Foreign Bible Society, TO print
and publish the Bible and the Prayer
Book But this can only be done with
his permission, and were he to will II.
he could by mere decree. put a stop
to the printing of every Anglican Bible
and Prayer Book IN the United King
dom. Under ordinary circumstances
copyright privileges do not extend be-
You'd forty-two years, or for the life
of the author and seven years follow-
Ing. whichever may be the longer.
But here Is copyright which has eX-
listed for centuries. and It's continual.
ton can best be explained by the legal
fiction that the sovereign never dies,
and that the so-called demise Of the
crown" merely consists of the transfer
Of the royal authority from one
publishers or individuals taking upon
themselves or himself to print and
issue Bible or Liturgy OF the Church
or England, without having duly oh,
be liable to all the pains and penal-
ties provided for the infraction Of the
copyright laws.
King George has also become en-
ali ali the tn acts Of Parliament, proclama-
lions and orders of Council. that Is to
say. DEGREES of the Privy Council, and
this right he farms out to couple OF
publishers. who, are known as the
Kings printers"
Clocks ms Souvenirs.
1t is probable that among the SOU
venirs which Dowager Queen AleXan-
dra and George y. VII ~ aistrlnn y {
the friends and attendants Of the late
King, clocks will figure largely. u
Edward VII. had one hobby more than
any other. it was that Of collecting
clocks. and at the ume % thn ms uda T.,
his 'possession. He had Inherited
large number Of them from his moth,
err, Queen Victoria, and these, added
to his own very large cIlie srao, b ~
time Il me- oe his accession until his demise.
must have rendered him the largest
individual owner Of clocks ~ me
United Kingdom. M w i!tusoi ~ ~ . q ~
alone there are between l,50o and 2.ooo.
while Buckingham Palace, ST, lanes s
Palace, Sandringham and Balmoral
were simply full of them. 49,,
Some of them are of great hlstorl-
cal value, such as, for instance, one
at Windsor. given as present Ply
her wedding day. It Is only tour
inches deep and ten inches hl 1G, dSI,i
merly belonged to Horace Watpole,
and was purchased by the late CleeI
Victoria when his effects We're SOLO a.
Strawberry Fill. for about $60o, rms
mon remains the same after near
iy four centuries, The clock stlll goes.
Strictly speaking. it should have stop-
ned for ever when Queen Anne was
sent to the scaffold after four Years
of marriage The weights are beauti-.
fully engraved, III. A." and true
lovers knot on the one, and HI ~,
alone on the other,
The chief curiosity In the way OF
clocks at Buckingham Palace IS the
negress's head clock, made by Lepine
gagged to establish a watch manufae-
tory near Geneva. In this clock the
hour numerals are shown In one or
the negress's twinlsltng eyes, ana thosa
OF tho minutes In the other. " STANDS
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