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General Record of British and Foreign Literature

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THE proposal of the French Copyright Commission, under the presidency of M. Walewski, to give to authors a greater interest in their productions than has ever yet been accorded in any country, is a fact of some interest to the literary world. It suggests that, however journalism may be oppressed, literary interests in general are well represented under the Second Empire. Copyright, as most persons know, is a modern invention, and was, until a comparatively recent period, a privilege conferred by Kings or Governments in special cases, and of course dependent upon the good behaviour and courtly discretion of the authors. Can we wonder that the prefaces of old books, in every language, are almost invariably extremely loyal, and orthodox, and humble? It was some gain to liberty of thought and intellectual progress to have substituted for this system one by which the author became dependent for his remuneration (if remuneration was his object) solely upon that public whose interests he professed to serve. It is worth remark, however, that this is almost the only kind of property to which nearly all countries are agreed to accord only an imperfect and limited title.

M. Didot, the French publisher, has brought together the various terms allowed in different countries, which present a singular variety. Almost all allow the Author or his assignees to enjoy his books at least for life. Greece, once the nurse of literature and art, is hard indeed upon her authors-Classical Athens permitting only fifteen years from the date of publication. Thanks to the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, the English Author is at the other end of the scale: he has forty-two years; and if he lives longer, a copyright for his lifetime, with seven years afterwards for his heirs.

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Many will remember that this arrangement was only secured after a sharp struggle and a shower of squibs and petitions from English Authors, among which the petition of Mr. "Thomas Carlyle, of Cheyne Row, Chelsea, Gentleman," was perhaps the most conclusive, and certainly the most eccentric; but the literary representatives in Parliament-one of the most conspicuous of whom was Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton-did not escape the sneer of a member of the Government of the day, who accused them of legislating for the interests of their craft in the spirit of a trades-union meeting of cobblers and buckle-makers.

The reasons why literary property is thus limited are well known to all who have given any attention to the subject. It is argued that a right to property is conferred, not for the benefit of the proprietor, but for the public good-in fact, to furnish a motive for useful labour; and it is therefore contended that if a term of forty-two years furnishes to authors a motive sufficiently powerful to write good books, it is the duty of the State to secure to the public, gratuitously, the reversion of his works. This may be true; but it is also undoubtedly true that the absolute right to any sort of property might be questioned on such principles. English legislators, however, were of opinion that as it would be absurd for a remote descendant of Chaucer or Shakspere to be claiming an absolute monopoly in their great ancestors' productions-including the right to forbid their publication altogether on any whim or piece of fanaticism they would not institute a system of giving copyright in perpetuity.

This, however, is what French statesmen propose to do. But M. Didot's proposition is to give the Author copyright for life, with ten years afterwards for his heirs; after which time, and thenceforth and for ever, his descendants, or the publishers purchasing the work, are to have a right to five per cent. on the selling price from any one who chooses to publish it. The difficulties of such a system will strike most persons. What prying into publishers' ledgers throughout the empire, to ascertain the exact selling price, must result! At present the French copyright is for life, with thirty years additional, after death of the author and his widow, for their children, if any. What changes it may be thought practicable to introduce remains to be seen; but the Government will, no doubt, get rid of the absurd principle which has been recently brought into notice, by which a publisher in France must inquire whether his Author is married or single before he can know whether he will have a short term or a long one.

On this side the Channel we have few prominent topics of interest in the literary world, unless the great Debate on the Education Minute, led by Mr. Robert Lowe, and re-echoed with significant identity of tone and style in The Times of the next morning, can come under this head. For readers of light literature we have the important announcement that Mr. Wilkie Collins's new story will immediately succeed Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's Strange Story in All the Year Round, with the piquant title of "No Name." A new twopenny weekly newspaper, to be conducted on the plan of Smollett's Humphry Clinker-that is, in a succession of letters on the topics of the day, and to be entitled The Correspondent, is hardly, we should think, a promising scheme. The Art World and International Exhibitor, to start on the 1st of March next, under the management of Mr. Henry Ottley, is more hopeful. We have also, we observe, a new penny weekly, entitled the Workman's Friend, edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., which starts with spirit. Illustrated weeklies appear to be difficult to establish. The Illustrated News of the World still lives a pale and sickly life; but The Queen, we observe, is announced to be sold by auction, including copyright and right of continuation, wood blocks and back stock.

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The following is our usual classification of the more important publications of the fortnight :In LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART we have a first volume of Mr. Thomas Hood's complete edition of his father's works, in prose and verse, to be completed in seven volumes. Captain A. W. Drayson publishes a useful popular book of Astronomy, entitled The Common Sights in the Heavens and How to See and Know Them, accompanied by coloured illustrations. We have, besides, Mr. Sharpe's Essay on the Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum, with many woodcuts, some of which are from drawings by Mr. Bonomi; Selections from the Works of Plato, translated from the Greek by Lady Chatterton; another agreeable_contribution to local botany in The Ferns of the Axe and its Tributaries, by the Rev. T. J. Edwards; also Life Amongst the Colliers, by a Lady, who appears to have had extensive personal experience of the habits of the northern pitmen; and Pleasant Spots and Famous Places, by J. A. Langford, which is, on a small scale, something in the manner of Mr. Howitt's Home and Haunts.

GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL include only A Popular History of the Discovery of America from Columbus to Franklin, translated from the German of J. G. Kohl, 2 vols.; and Mr. Henry Brown's Victoria as I Found It during Five Years of Adventure. But in HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY we find one or two interesting works, including a first volume of Mr. Edwin Arnold's History of the Marquis of Dalhousie's Administration of British India, comprising the Acquisition of the Punjaub; Dean Milman's graceful and interesting Memoir of Lord Macaulay, reprinted from the papers of the Royal Society, in the form of a pamphlet ; The Turkish Empire in its Relation with Christianity and Civilisation, 2 vols. ; and a second volume of Mr. Beveridge's Comprehensive History of India.

In THEOLOGY we have Readings on the Prophets, a familiar and popular Exposition for Sunday Reading; The Ecclesiastical Cyclopædia, by J. Eadie; The Typical Testimony to the Messiah, by Micaiah Hill; Brief Memorials of Rev. Alphonse Lacroix, Missionary in Calcutta; Records of the Ministry of the Rev. E. T. March Phillipps, Rector of Hathern, Leicestershire, by the Author of My Life and What Shall I Do With It; and Memorials of My Ministry, by the Rev. James Thompson.

In FICTION we find Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's Strange Story, in 2 vols.; Which Does She Love? in 3 vols.; Red, White, and Blue, Sketches of Military Life, by the Author of Flemish Interiors, 3 vols.; Palgrave of Sycamora, 3 vols; and among 1 vol. works Tales, Illustrating Church History in America and Our Colonies; Walter Chetwynd, a Novel; and Carine Steinburgh, an Autobiography.

Among EDUCATIONAL WORKS Mr. Murray publishes The Student's History of France from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Second Empire, which abounds in admirable woodcuts, chiefly from contemporary pictures, medals, &c.

A few NEW EDITIONS of importance have also appeared, as Mr. Henry Reeves' Translation of De Tocqueville's great work on Democracy in America, with an Introductory Notice by the Translator, 2 vols.; a new edition of the well-known Dictionary of Living Celebrities, entitled Men of the Time, with additions and improvements by Edward Walford. A 2d of Professor Goldwin Smith's Essay on Irish History and Irish Character; and the History of the Eastern Church, by the Rev. A. P. Stanley, D.D.

Messrs. LONGMAN & Co. will publish in a few days Memories of New Zealand Life, by Edwin Hodder, 1 vol.; Ten Days in Athens, and Notes by the Way, by D. J. Corrigan, M.D., Physicianin-Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, with woodcuts, 8vo.; Ellice, a Tale, by L. N. Comyn, 1 vol.; and Mr. Beamish's Life of Sir M. I. Brunel, which will appear on Tuesday next, with portrait and illustrations.

Messrs. BLACKWOOD and SoNs publish this day a cheap edition of Adam Bede in one volume. Messrs. SMITH, ELDER, & Co.'s announcements include (besides works already announced) The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt, edited by his eldest Son (published this day), in 2 vols. with portrait; The Defence of Dr. Rowland Williams, being a Report of the Speech as delivered in the Court of Arches, by James Fitzjames Stephen; Reminiscences of an Indian Civilian's Life, from 1837 to 1861, including the Rebellion, by William Edwards, Esq., Bengal Civil Service, &c. Messrs. MACMILLAN & Co.'s list of forthcoming works comprises a Life of Robert Story of Rosneath, by his Son, R. H. Story, Minister of Rosneath, Dumbartonshire, with Portrait; a New Edition of Alton Locke, by Charles Kingsley, M.A., the author having re-written all that relates to Cambridge; Religio Chemici, by George Wilson, M.D.; a Sketch of American History since the Union, by J. Malcolm Ludlow; and Garibaldi at Caprera, by Colonel Vecchj, translated from the Italian, with Preface by Mrs. Gaskell, and a View of the House at Caprera.

Messrs. SAMPSON Low, SON, & Co. have in preparation The Pearl of Orr's Island, Part the Second, by Mrs. Beecher Stowe; The Charities of London in 1861, by Sampson Low, jun. ; A History of New South Wales, from the Discovery of New Holland in 1616 to the Present Time, by Roderick Flanagan, 2 vols. ; &c.

Mr. BENTLEY has in the press, Ten Years' Sporting Adventures in South Africa, by C. W. Baldwin Esq., 8vo. with numerous illustrations by Wolff; The Millennial Rest, or the World as it Will Be, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming; the Third and Fourth (concluding) Volumes of the Correspondence of Lord Auckland; and Roughing it in Australia, by Arthur Polehampton, Esq. Messrs. HURST and BLACKETT announce for appearance during the present month Down South, or An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of War in America, by S. Phillips Day, Esq., Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald, in 2 vols. with portraits. The new volume for March of Hurst and Blackett's Standard Library of Cheap Editions will comprise Miss Kavanagh's Adele.

Mr. William Sharp, who has for so many years taken a prominent position in the distribution of the funds of the Booksellers' Provident Institution-who has so successfully devoted time and attention to every applicant, and thus secured the respect and good feeling of all with whom he has been connected in this undertaking, finding that the state of his health precluded him from close attendance, has sent in his resignation. His brother Directors, in consequence, determined to invite him to a farewell entertainment. Accordingly between thirty and forty gentlemen connected with the Institution assembled on Saturday last, Edmund Hodgson, Esq. in the chair. Many sincere good wishes and sentiments of respect were addressed to the guest of the evening, who could not have felt other than gratified at the high position he occupies amidst his fellow labourers.

The Exchange, a Monthly Review of Commerce, Manufactures, and General Politics, is the title of a new shilling magazine, to be published by Messrs Low and Co., the first number to appear on the 25th of March. It will aim at taking in England the place which is occupied in the United States by the well-known Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, and in France by the Journal des Economistes, which has numbered among its contributors the most eminent of French economists and financiers for many years, and enjoys a European celebrity. The Exchange will not be devoted exclusively to topics purely mercantile, but will discuss all matters of the day— Industrial, Social, and Political having relation to the material prosperity of the country. Among the contributors announced are Mr. Thomas Bazley, M.P., Mr. Thomas Ellison (author of Slavery and Secession, &c.), Mr. G. Dodd, Mr. Chadwick, Dr. Leone Levi, Mr. Thomas Hare, Mr. Olmsted (author of the well-known work on the Slave States), Professor Rogers, Professor Newmarch, Mr. Moy Thomas, Mr. Peter Simmonds, and others.

Among books claiming our notice we find a copy of Carine Steinburgh, an Autobiography, published by Mr. Tweedie, which is a story of modern life, designed to depict the miseries