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CANADA'S OPEN SPACES. ["Army Without Banners" by John Beames; Ernest Benn, Ltil., London; 7/6.] . .
know and understand their every she realised, more of an asset than yearning. You are so placed in liability for her. It is so evident tune with them that you cannot that she is, frankly questioned help sympathising, in their sorrows about it. She, however, repudlates. and disappointments, and rejoicing any such suggestion warmly, much when they make merry.
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Romance and tragedy are woven into the story together with trifle of light humour to leaven it, also very able descriptive writing and skilful character studies.
U.S. BAN ON ENGLISH an authority on American copyright law, has expressed the opinion that "FIRST EDITIONS.”
the Customs are quite, justified in their action. The position appears to be that if a book has been copy- righted in the States, the importa- tion of any copy of such book is an
Infringement of their law. For, many years the sale of English first editions has been a source of much profit to English booksellers.
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COPPYRIGHT PROBLEM.
Something like a bombshell has been thrown into the ranks of Eng-
The question of copyright be- tween the United States and Britain. has never been properly settled, in
A live novel of struggle in the great open spaces of Western Canada, where people live hard and close to Nature and where survival
As the title suggests, the theme le not so much of the fittest (physically) as of those endowed A well written story of ais, of course, whether a little learn-ish booksellers by the new action spite of negotiations extending over with grit to carry on in the face of "bright" girl's
It of the United States Customs. Ser- many years. There is no distinc struggle, anding isn't e dangerous thing. great disappointment, and who fallure, to get out of the rut of proves so to be in the case of vice in prohibiting the importation tion made between books sent to a have vision. It is a fascinating narrow, conservative, rural life. Olivia Flowerdew. and dramatic romance of hard Olive Flowerdew, about whom the not help feeling terribly sorry that into the United States of English living in an untamed land, and, story works itself out, is the it should be so with her, and that copyright books which are already withal, realistic.
daughter of a prosperous small-through suffering, she should attain copyrighted there. holder. By means of her brains only to second-rate happiness. she wins scholarships, one of which
In this novel the story is told of two pioneering families who set out to wrestle with the wilderness for takes her to Oxford and into a
But one can-
private collector. Unless the res
trictions are relaxed the American collector will lose his pleasure and the English bookseller his profit, An English bookseller recently and nobody will be better off for it. The only way, out at present la for sent some first English editions of the owner of the American cogy.
a home. The one is content strange atmosphere. She is now Mr.. Ernest Newman has got a Shaw and Galsworthy to a private right to give his sanction, but that simply to seek a Hving, the other to known as Olivia Flowerdew, and is subject after his own heart in a collector in the States, but the Cushe is not likely to do. It may be live and civiliae. They are neigh-described by her fellow-under- book called "Fact and Fiction toms Service have opened the para pirated edition of "Fors Clavi- recalled that many years ago, upon bours, and the story of their ups graduates as "quite keen in the about Wagner," which Cassell is and downs makes fascinating read-brain but incredibly limited." to publish. He solves be cels and returned the books to the gera" being published in the States,
upbringing ing. The several types of pioneer- Her
Al) en-yond
question many of sender, on the ground that thefr Ruskin wrote a furiona letter of pro ing characters one meets, and there vironment of her pre-college the vexed probleme relating to admission into the States Infringed test, but the only notice the pub- Habere took of the letter was to pub- are skilfully drawn.life her greatest handi- Wagner and some of his master- They not only stand out, but live; caps. She has about her aplece, and also the redoubtable the American Copyright Act. Mr blish it as an advertisement for the and one is made to feel that you strain of Gypsy blood which fa, if Cosima.
are many,
THIS IS A FINE FIX I'M INI MAGGIE
15 GOIN TO GIVE A MUSICALE: TO NIGHT, AN' SHE'S GONE OUT- PAN, SHE HID ALL ME CLOTHES-
are
and the
BRINGING UP FATHER.
"SAY-WAVE BEIN KÈRE THREE TIMES"
THIS MONTH ANT NO ONE WUZ HOME -- 1 YOU DON'T PAY THE INSTALLMENT ON THE PIANO, WE'VE GOT TO TAKEIT: THEM'S ME ORDERS-
AHEAD
ANO
G. H. Grubb (of Messrs. Putnam's), issue.
AN' SAY! WIkk YOUSE GIVE ME À RIDE DOWN, TOWN?
AN THE PIANO WUZ 29 TAKEN AWAY SO THIRA WON'T BE ANY MUSIC”
“IN THE HOUSE-
TO-NIGHT AN THE GUYS WUZ GOOD ENOUGH TO GIVE
ME A RIDE A DOWN HERE.
THAT'S
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