American people have never suspected it. No scheme you have ever proposed stops with its nominal purpose.

Avowedly an authors' copyright, it is really an authors' and publishers' copyright that is demanded of us. You may not see the difference; Americans do. They see that while the author has a just claim, the publisher has no claim whatever, while every arrangement that England has hitherto offered is but a kind of legal saddle for the English publisher to ride his author into the American book market. It is well understood with us that your proffered forms of copyright are less in the interest of authors than in the interest of the English book manufacturer, and it is these forms that the Americans have rejected. Any treaty which makes the English author and the English publisher joint parties to supply us with books, if negotiated by the two governments, would be repudiated by our people in a year. They believe earnestly in their policy of cheap books, and will not expose it to the peril threatened by an English publishers' copyright. The superior advantages of our system are felt even in Canada. The Canadians will have our cheap reprints instead of your honest editions, and to this the English government consents, suspends the laws of the empire in the case of a single province, colludes with "Yankee pirates," and robs its own authors that Canadians may have our cheap books. I say robs its authors, for, although a ten per cent. tax is levied by the Canadian government on reprints from the United States, for the benefit of the author, I am informed by London publishers that money from this source would be a curiosity.

The United States now contain nearly forty million inhabitants, and they are eminently a book-buying people. The American market for English books is already great, and is destined to become immense.

I believe that our people would rejoice to open this vast opportunity to your intellectual laborers. They are not ungrateful; they know the extent of their obligations to your thinkers, and they will be glad to do them justice when the way is shown. But they hold themselves perfectly competent to manufacture the books that shall embody your authors' thoughts in accordance with their own needs, habits, and tastes, and in this they will not be interfered with.

I am of opinion that an international copyright law, rigorously in the author's interest, requiring him to make contracts for American republication directly with American publishers, and taking effect only upon books entirely manufactured in the United States, would be acceptable to our people.

I have been unexpectedly called upon to make this communication in vindication of my house and the American people, and the occasion has compelled me to speak more from a personal point of view than would be otherwise agreeable; but I feel sure that my brother publishers in America will substantially agree in what I have said, and would have taken a similar course in like circumstances. As to the English publishers, many of whom are my cordial friends, I trust they will not be offended that I have presented the case plainly and directly. Nothing at present is more desirable than to divest the question of the false aspects lent to it by passion, prejudice, ignorance, and class interest, and to deal with it candidly, broadly, and searchingly. Having recently adjusted one of the most embarrassing international differences that could arise between two nations, it is surely not impossible to settle this on the basis of equity and mutual satisfaction......

WILLIAM H. APPLETON,

of the firm of D. Appleton & Co. 16 LITTLE BRITAIN, LONDON, October, 1871.

"The editor shows a wide acquaintance with the most precious treasures of English verse, and has gathered the most admirable specimens of their ample wealth. Many pieces which have been passed by in previous collections hold a place of honor in the present volume, and will be heartily welcomed by the lovers of poetry as a delightful addition to their sources of enjoyment. It is a volume rich in solace, in entertainment, in inspiration, of which the possession may well be coveted by every lover of poetry. The pictorial illustrations of the work are in keeping with its poetical contents, and the beauty of the typographical execution entitles it to a place among the choicest ornaments of the library."-New York Tribune.

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