CHAP. XXXIX.] INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT. 339 



twenty volumes, was equal in amount to the whole 

 profits of that publication. The cost of advertise 

 ments, in America, is also small. One of my Ame 

 rican friends sent over to a London publisher 250 

 copies of his work, charging him 4s. 6d. each. After 

 paying entrance duties, and necessary outlay for ad 

 vertisements in London, and the agency, it was found 

 that the price must be as high as 16s. 



The party who are in favour of an international 

 copyright between England and the United States, 

 seems to be steadily gaining strength among the 

 booksellers, publishers, and authors, although the 

 editors of newspapers and their readers may perhaps 

 oppose the measure for some time. The number of 

 reprisals now made by English speculators are very 

 numerous. According to a statement lately presented 

 to Congress by Mr. Jay, of New York, there are 

 about 600 original American works &quot; pirated &quot; in 

 Great Britain; or, to speak more correctly, while the 

 law remains in its present state, reprinted without 

 leave of their American authors, or any pecuniary 

 acknowledgment to them. 



Many are of opinion that the small print of cheap 

 editions in the United States, will seriously injure 

 the eyesight of the rising generation, especially as 

 they often read in railway cars, devouring whole 

 novels, printed in newspapers, in very inferior type. 

 Mr. Everett, speaking of this literature, in an address 

 to the students of Harvard College, said, &quot; If cheap 

 it can be called, which begins by costing a man his 

 eyes, and ends by perverting his taste and morals.&quot; 



As an illustration of the mischievous tendency of 

 Q 2 



