THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS.
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A case was tried tn Boston, . few days since, Involving important issues as regards the rights of authors. The plOinIiff, the Rev. John Pierpout, iS the author of the popular school books, the First Glass Book and ihe National Reader, assigned ,o the defendant the copy-TishI of these books. Al the expiration of fourteen years the copywright was renewed, and the defendant has ever since coNtinued to publish the books as his own. The Court decided that the plaintiff sold only the tight existing ,hen, and that the renewed copywright be- longs to the author. The defendant, in the sales he has made, (which it is said amount to $lO,OOO0 is to be regarded as the agent or trustee of the author, and acquired to ac- count for the same, and the court directed that he make disclosures of the amount of sales,