1,n,,,,r,ox., CoryaIeHr-A Mr.. Campbell
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IyTFRNArIoyAL CopYRIGHT'--A WI oa.'''o0'
;s distributing circular of his own compilation
;n.nded to prove that it is cheaper for our people
70 stea) the authors labor on books of Foreign
origin than TO pay for it. This would seem 10
he clear case-for Cufce, who only stole the
stuff for his brooms, knocked under to sambo'
who stole his ready-made. But, while 1t IS PROB
able that some of the Ainsworth and Dickens
trash is circulated more widely and cheapiy
among us than if we allowed the author to sell
us his abors in instead of robbing him OF them,
vet Mr.. Campbells statistics do not prove 1hls'
by anv means He takes the prices at which
very costly editions of new works are sold IN
England, compares it with that at which inierlor
reprints are sold here, and infers that the differ
ence is caused by Copyright whereas IN truth
the difference is caused by the fact that the many
read here and tho few there. One single fact
will unset his whole dollhouse: We printed
Farnham's Travels in Oregon, a copyright work.
paid the author considerable sum for his copy
right, and vet sold and still sell, the work for 20
cents a copy or :Sl5 per hundred That some
6ook ,oas reprinted in London 'ohere there 'r"s
NO copyright, and sold for SS5, paying the author
nothing. Comment is needless