. The literary digest. simile is imperfect except in this meteorological sense.— The Jour-nal, Providence, R. I. If the lives of two German missionaries are worth Kiao-Chou bay for aperiod of ninety-nine years, what are the lives of four German sailorsworth? At this rate William will soon have more square miles in Chinathan in Europe. The arrival of Prince Henry and the fist at Kiao-Chouis now anxiously awaited at all the European and Oriental chancellories.—The Republican, Springfield. From a Personal Standpoint.—Im free to admit, remarked FarmerCorntossel, that I wont never get through deman
. The literary digest. simile is imperfect except in this meteorological sense.— The Jour-nal, Providence, R. I. If the lives of two German missionaries are worth Kiao-Chou bay for aperiod of ninety-nine years, what are the lives of four German sailorsworth? At this rate William will soon have more square miles in Chinathan in Europe. The arrival of Prince Henry and the fist at Kiao-Chouis now anxiously awaited at all the European and Oriental chancellories.—The Republican, Springfield. From a Personal Standpoint.—Im free to admit, remarked FarmerCorntossel, that I wont never get through demandin more you are in comfortable circumstances. What do you mean by pros-perity? Theres jes the difficulty. It means somethin different fureverybody. Ef youve got a mortgage, prosperitys gettin it paid youve got it paid off, prosperitys ownin a cabinet organ. Ef youvegot a cabinet organ, prosperitys havin enough to be able to trade it infur a grand pie-anno—an so on.—The Star, BETWEEN THE UPPER AND — The World, New York. Yol. XVI., No. 6] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 159 LETTERS AND ART. IS LITERARY ORIGINALITY FOSTEREDINTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT? BY RUSSIAN writers are just now warmly debating the questionof accepting the invitation of the international Berne con-vention and recognizing the copyright regulations established byit. Thus far the literary circles of Russia have insisted on theright of free translation of foreign books, but now a minority hastaken strong ground in favor of property in literary form andideas. Strangely enough, the conservatives appear as the cham-pions of strict copyright, while the liberal and radical writersdeny that either from the moral or literary standpoint can re-striction of the right of free translation be successfully resolve this apparent paradox, it should be explained thatcopyright is regarded by the conservatives as a form of protec-tion, as a measure agamst the exces
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