Excerpt from A Primer of Criticism American orator and the leader of the Senate, was so ignorant of literature that he once broke down in trying to quote two lines of verse that are familiar to every American schoolgirl. When the last attempt to pass an international Cpright law was before Congress, a distinguished senator could not understand how an author, who was incited to mental labor by the laws of his country, could find that such a law would act as a further incitement. He could not or would not see that it would ...
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Excerpt from A Primer of Criticism American orator and the leader of the Senate, was so ignorant of literature that he once broke down in trying to quote two lines of verse that are familiar to every American schoolgirl. When the last attempt to pass an international Cpright law was before Congress, a distinguished senator could not understand how an author, who was incited to mental labor by the laws of his country, could find that such a law would act as a further incitement. He could not or would not see that it would act as a further incitement by stopping the wholesale piracy of foreign books, and thus Open a market for American literary talent. Years ago Thomas Hood said: America, in the absence of an international copyright, can never have a national literature. When such a book as A Fool's Errand reaches a sale of copies, and is pronounced a great American work by leading journals, it ceases to be a wonder that thoughtful Americans should deplore the present degenerate condition of our literary criticism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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