To the Editor of the "Nomm-Curwa Dany News"
Sim—Miss Virginia Cowper has touched upon one or two points in her leiier in fo-day's issue which have already appeared in the columns of your paper many years ago. but her statements are not quite correct.
Te may interest her and your readfers to know that more than half of the publications of The Macmillan Company of New York bound in China by "a certain Chinese house" have also been pirated, causing that house a considerable loss; for the pirated editions are sold at far less than even the cost of the special China Editions.
Miss Cowper's familiarity with England would appear fo be limited, as Macmillan & Ca, Ltd, of London, are the parent house of The Mie-milan Company of New York.
Her recollection of the dictionary case is not at all correct, for the dictionary case was tried in the: Shanghai Court; and as the dictionary was not produced photographically age by page, but was a new dictionary with Chinese notes and much editorial work, only certain cuts and definitions being borrowed from the original Merriam: "Webster's New International Dictionary." the court id not uphold the American publish-
The metic of the largest publishing claim of prac: house in China is "Do unto others Sm—As a listener-in, who greatly appreciates the recitals'given by Mi Henry Francis Parks each Mond: evening on the Community Church's organ, broadcast over station XMIHA, may T enquire whether it would be possible for Mr. Parks to extend th [period of his recital to one hour's The writer always looks forward to hearing the classical and semiclassical pieces rendered by Mr. Parks on the organ, but alas, the alf-hour he gives us once a week is far too short, and I am sure if this could be extended by another half-hour he would add still more to the pleasure of his listeners.
Tuxe In.
/Shanghal, Apr. 9. as you would wish that they would do unto you" and we must admire this firm for discontinuing the prac tee of piracy and "suffering as a consequence thereof.
"At no distant date it is to be hoped. that the Government of China will find it desirable fo take her place amongst the nations mentioned in Miss Cowper's letter who have signed the Berne Convention, or that China will afford similar laws to that of the United States. Mer own authors are now registering their books both in London and New York and are securing rights equal to those of Western authors Surely the time is tipe now for the Government of China to put the question of copyright and the protection of thor's property on a sound footing, Shanghai, Apr. 11.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.