announced, at full length, through the columns of the press, his entire approval of the measure.*

The outcry that has been made about the supposititious ruin it would inflict upon the paper-mills, type-foundries, printing-offices, "binderies," &c., which so plentifully contribute to the manufacture of books there, as here, was a case of unadulterated fudge-a true specimen of that venerable proverb, "great cry and little wool;" for any dog in office, however obtuse the lining of his skull may be, can frame a clause whereby protection may be extended to every man, woman, and child engaged in such operations. The treaty, slightly modified perhaps, will very probably pass during the next session of Congress; but, as it too frequently happens that while the grass is growing the steed is starving, we have taken the liberty of procuring the animal some provender, for consumption during the interregnum.

Being a resident, for some time, in the southern district of New York city, we were enabled to avail ourselves of an Act of Congress, which secures to such resident (only !) the copyright, in the United States, of any work he may there publish or sell;

* See chap. v., page 148, vol. II.

and we beg to subjoin a true and faithful transcript thereof, for the benefit of all "land-rats and waterrats, water-thieves and land-thieves-we pirates," and of ourselves in particular :

"Southern District of New York, S.S.

"Be it Remembered, That, on the thirtieth day of May, Anno Domini 1853, Alfred Bunn, of the said district, hath deposited in this Office the title of a book,

UNITED

STATES DISTRICT

SEAL.

"the title of which is in the words following, To wit:

666 'OLD ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND, in a series of Views taken on the Spot.' By Alfred Bunn, Author of 'The Stage, Before and Behind the Curtain;' and other works, the right whereof he

claims, as Author and Proprietor, in conformity with an Act of Congress, entitled 'An Act to amend the several

acts respecting Copyrights.'

(Signed)

"GEO. W. MORTON,

"Clerk of the Southern District of

"New York.

"N.B. A copy of the above work must be deposited in this office, within three months from the publication hereof, to secure the Copyright."

There, transatlantic gentlemen booksellers and publishers, the murder is out! Read us, and approve us according as the milk of human kindness may flow in your veins; if you have none, why cut us up root and branch. Print us, if you will; do anything but publish what you print; or, as Billy Lackaday says of falling between two stools, "you may" between those of printing and publishing, "happen to break the small of your back!"

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