7 DECEMBER 1878, Page 16

A PLAGIARISM.

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The " Annual Register " devotes a chapter to the review of current literature. Happening to pause to-day at the chapter on that subject in the "Annual Register" for last year, I found that a review of Freeman's " Ottoman Power in Europe," which I contributed to the Spectator, is transferred to the columns of the " Annual Register," without one word of acknowledgment, and without the least indication that the article is not an original production. Of course, I am glad that this additional circulation should be given to my just eulogium of a good book, but can the Editor of the "Annual Register" be aware of this unacknowledged appropriation of another man's labours ?—I am, Sir, &e.,