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Show AN INSULAR POINT OF VIEW. Tli. llrltiab Frc. D.aeuaaaa til. Now Copyright Copy-right Law. London, March 5. Tho St. James Gazette this afternoon advocates retaliation retali-ation against tho United States copyright copy-right bill. ''If Americans will not give copyright to bonks printed here," it says, let us rotaliato by refusing to give copyright to books printed in America." Amer-ica." The bill is no reparation, but is passed in tho interests of tho American printing trades in order to deprive tho liritish of flourishing flour-ishing industry. The i'a'l Mall Gazette says that only a few of the liritish authors will bo benefitted ben-efitted by the bill. "Tho copyright bill'' say's the Gazette, "is a misnomer, The bill means protection for American Ameri-can printers and paper makers." |