The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-25
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1 in Paris in which the editor butch- cred the piece. Voltaire was sorry only for Caesar. Said he: The editor has massacred Caesar worse than Brutus and Cassius ever did"
 In Germany in 1924 a man writ ing under the pseudonym of Will- bald Alexis did 0 poor moved called "Walladmor." To hypo interest in It he claimed that it was translation of @ novel by Sir Walter Scott, for whom there was a craze at the time, He even went 90 far as to dedicate the third edition to Scott, writing: Prom your obliging disposition, Sir Walter, I anticipate the gratifica- ton of few lines by the next post establishing the authenticity of 'Walladmor' Such gall won him ac- ceptance but three years later he admitted the fraud, saying that he was merely satirizing the works Of Scott and the mad fad for 1t.
 Dumas was prolific writer, or maybe 1t should be copist. He had a dozen or so ghosts" working for him in his novel factory, which the French called "the kitchen. It was said of him that he took entire scenes from Schiller, chapters from Scott and pages from Chateaubri- and. Anyhow, he swiped only from the best.
 Bunyan's famous Pilgrims Prog ress" was lifted from French work, "The Pilgrimage of Man." by Guile- vile, who lived three centuries earlier,
 The legend of Washington and the cherry tree, which appeared in Weems' biography of the old boy, is said to have been taken intact from c previous book, "T'he Looking Glass of the Mind" by Samuel Cooper, a Boston clergyman.
 Several decades ago . Cha'onic offender was caught by the Auth ors League of America, but he skipped over the border. There the Mounties got after him and finally nabbed him. They reported that he was & literary kleptomaniac, ob- sessed with fame complex, crazy to see his name in print.
 Disraell was a confirmed plagi- al1st, a trait he may have inherited from his father. He was caught several times when his work was printed alongside the original.
 Anecdotes of Napoleon" book which appeared in England in the middle of the last century, waS talk en intact from the German "Life of Frederick the Great" The author merely substituted Napoleoa1s name for Freddy'S in the translation.
 The charge was once made that Daphne du Maurier'S "Rebecca" was taken from "A SuceSora," a Por- tugues novel written by Carolina Nabuco, who belonged to Q famous Brazilian family. Miss Nabuco thought 1t degrading to bring suit for plagiarism, but the majority oi litterateurs did not believe the claim.
 A curious case of unconscious plagiarism was Helen Keller'S story "The Frost King" which exactly paralleled Q previously published tale, "The Frost Fairies" Miss Kel- lerd admitted tlat the Sinilarities between thebwo were astounding but could not remember where she had heard the other story. Nobody ever appeared who admitted reading '"The Frost Fairies" to Mss Keller. Believe it or not, II. c. Wells was sued for plagiarism over his Out line of History" by . Miss Flor ence Decks of Toronto. She claimed that the Macmillan Company had sent her manuscript to Wells and he had then copied 1t. Although she had many historians backing her claim, the judge threw the case out.
 A lot of people. especially Eddie Cantor, probably remember his prize essay contest on How Can AIner- ica Stay Out of War" which he sponsored on his radio program The winning manuscript by farm boy, Lloyd Lewis, was stolen from an article by Dr. Frank Kingdom The boy didn't know" t had to be original.
 Here's the almost exact opposite of the Winchell- -Cerf war. In June lo06, O. O. Mcintyre was accused of plagiarism by Christopher Mor- ley, who ran @ column called Bowling Green" in the Saturday Review of Literature for which Cerf re-types. When Mcintyre had brought out his columns in book form, Morley wrote: T don't want to seem selfish If Mir. Mcintyre needs to divot the Green now and then for his newspaper syndicate: I've run a daily column myself and know it's a tough job. But when he gets into the bookshops then feel a certain sense of trade honor involved work hard over my stuff, and if people are going to read 1t, I'd prefer them to get 1t