27 JANUARY 1906, Page 41

The Law of International Copyright. By William Briggs, LL.D. (Stevens

and Haynes. 16s.)—Dr. Briggs gives a comprehensive view of the subject, dwelling in especial detail on the law as it stands in the United States and in the Colonies. It is, of course, the English-speaking countries with which the English author is chiefly concerned, and it is unfortunately here that he meets with the worst treatment. lathe United States he is handicapped by the provision that the book must be manufactured in the States if it is to acquire copyright. The market in the Colonies is, as a matter of fact, insignificant; but Colonial legislation, as a whole, has not been of a kind to secure the rights of authors.