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Show be any better off, as regards muni, than they were before, anU would los their compliment besides. I think we are not in a good position to throw bricks at the English pirate. We haren'& any to spare. We need them to throw at tho American congress, con-gress, and at tho American author whr neglects bis great privileges, mid then tries to mint up some way to throw tho blame upon the only nation in th world that is magnanimous enough tc say to him: "W Ii tie you are the guest of our laws ami our flag, you shall not be robbed." All the books which I have published pub-lished in tho last 13 years are protected by English copyright. In that tims 1 have suffered pretty heavily in terupci 1 nud pocket from imperfect eopyrigh' laws; but they were American. n Enirlish. I have no quarrel over therv Murk Twain in Actu Princeton i viett,. American and British Pirates. Come now, what your cause needs if that somo apparent sufferer shall say a fair word for tbe other side. Tba complaint which cannot hunt up a dis scnting voice anywhere is out of luck. A thing which is all good or all bad if properly an object of suspicion in this world; we gel a sort of impression that it is off its beat; that it belongs in the next world, above or below climate not suited to it here. English pirates have hurt me somewhat; some-what; how much I do not know. But, on the other hand, English law has helped me vastly. Can any foreign author of books say that about American Ameri-can lawP You know he can't. Look at the matter calmly, reasonably. reasona-bly. As I infer from what you say about your article, your complaint i? that American authors are pirated iu England. Well, whose fault is that! .It is nobody's but the author's. England Eng-land furnishes him a perfect remedy if he does not choose to take advantage advant-age of it, let him have self-respec' enough to retire to the privacy of hi cradle, not sit out on the public curb stone and cry. To-day the Amcricar author cau go to Canada, spend tlire days there and come home with ar English aud Canadian copyright. which is as strong as if it had been built out of railroad iron. If he doe not make this trip and do this thing, it is a confession that he does not think his foreign market valuabb enough to justify the expense of secur iug it by the above process. Now, it may turn out that the book is presently present-ly pirated in Londou. What then! Why, simply this the pirate has paid that man a compliment; he has though! more of the book than the man though) of it himself. And doubtless the mar is not pecuniarily injured, since th pirate would probably not hare offered off-ered anything for the book if it had been copyrighted, but would merely have left it in oblivion and unpublished. unpub-lished. 1 believe, and it stands to reason, that all the American books that are pirated in these latter days of England aro of the complimentary sort, and that the piracies work no computable injury to the author's pocket; nnd ' also believe that if this class of book should be copyrighted henceforth, their publication over there would coase, and then all tho loss would fal' upon the author, siuce they would in |