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The principal alterations in the English law of copyright, foreshadowed in the new Copyright Bill, are:

1. A term of thirty years from the date of publication is, in the case of posthumous works, substituted for the term of forty-two years under the existing law.

2. Contributors of articles to periodicals may republish them in a separate form after two years from the time of their appearance in the periodical, ininstead of after twenty-eight years, as under the present law.

3. Any newspaper receiving special and independent news of any fact or event from beyond the limits of the British Islands will enjoy copyright in that news for the space of eighteen hours.

The London Academy has started a symposium upon the question whether copyright ought to be materially extended, or even made perpetual. The authors whose opinion it has asked are by no means unanimous in favoring a longer copyright. Witness Mr. G. B. Shaw, who writes with emphasis:

Considering that an inventor who enriches the world is granted patent rights for fourteen years only, it is not clear why an author, who possibly debauches it, should get from thirty to over one hundred years copyright. The present term is too long, except in a very few special cases, for which extension should be granted on application to the courts. If the descendants of authors want copyrights, they can earn them by writing books.

There are comparatively few easily. accessible volumes that cover the period of History dealt with in Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer's new book, “Judea, from Cyrus to Titus." This volume is one of unusual interest, not only to the

Early editions of Mr. Kipling's writings continue to bring high prices at London auction sales. Among other material recently, disposed of in this way was a file of the Week's News, published at Alahabad, including the numbers from January 7 to September 16, 1888. Each of these papers contained a short story by Mr. Kipling. Some of these have never been reprinted, and there seems reason to apprehend that the purchaser of them may contemplate putting them into a volume, against which Mr. Kipling has no copyright protection, and the reading public no redress.

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Two facts hard to reconcile are prominent in American cities to-daythe continuance of corruption and the trend towards municipal ownership of monopolies.

Of the corruption there is overwhelming evidence, though it is less flagrant than formerly. In April, 1899, the Republican party, under "Boss" Platt, which is in power in the State Legislature of New York, appointed the Mazet Committee to investigate the Democratic government of Greater New York City under "Boss" Croker. Mr. Croker volunteered to go on the witness-stand, and gloried in making an exposition of his political philosophy.

He showed, with engaging naïveté, that it rests on the morality of the street-corner boy, the highest injunction of whose code is: "Always stand by your pals." To the victors belong the spoils; all appointments must be subject to the approval of the city leader; judges should pay heavy subsidies to the election funds and appoint referees and arbitrators agreeable to the leader; all employees, from scavenger to city treasurer, should belong to the reigning party. "Working for my own profit? Of course. Day and night, and every day." These are the chief articles in the political creed of the ruler of the second greatest city in the world. But he denies that the

leaders rob the City Treasury. With righteous indignation he repels the accusation. "If you can prove that I took a dollar of the city's money you can cut off this arm," he declared, with dramatic emphasis. But he was coy about explaining how he had accumulated the fortune which enables him to keep a racing-stable in England, and to engage the best suite of rooms on Atlantic liners when he crosses. That, he angrily asserted, was his "private business," and he would not willingly allow the appointee of a prying rival "Boss" to examine it. When it was revealed that the fireproof system of the Roebling Company had been made compulsory for all city buildings, to the exclusion of equally good competitors, immediately after Mr. Croker's son was received into the company, the paternal feelings were at once aroused, and the outraged father bitterly complained that "they want to prevent my boys going into business." But when his chief subordinate acknowledged that he paid Mr. Croker several thousands a year from the Assurance Company, in which all the city officials find it convenient to take out their guarantee bonds at double rates; when it was elicited that the "boss" also draws large sums as partner in a firm of auctioneers and valuers, to which the judges indirectly