12 AUGUST 1922, Page 26

Copyright Condensed and Explained. By Lewis 0. Russell. (Jerrold. 3s.

6d. net.)—Mr. Russell has attempted too much in trying to explain the law of copyright in sixty pages of large type. The Act of 1911, like most consolidating measures, has left the law rather more obscure than it was before, notably the provision in regard to the last twenty-five years of a dead author's copyright, which the courts will have to elucidate hereafter. Mr. Russell's little book indicates some of the difficulties and gives an outline of the subject.