Section 4 is absurdly broad and indefinite and covers pastry or other works of a cook. It should be amended by inserting the word "literary" before the word "works," or by substituting the word "writings," which is used in the Constitution and is the preferable word to employ, or by inserting after the word "works" the words "mentioned in section 5 hereof." In section 5 paragraph (h) should be eliminated. This paragraph was intended to cover perforated music sheets or talking-machine records which are to be otherwise provided for. As to other matters it may be said that if the reproductions referred to are copies of things already copyrighted, they are infringements; if not copies, they are works of art in themselves under paragraph (g) of section 5. On page 4 "The above specifications shall," in line 8 and line 9 and line 10, to and including the words "nor shall," should be canceled, and in line 11, after "classification," insert the words "shall not." It is obvious that an unlimited subject-matter of copyright is highly undesirable from the standpoint of the public. In section 6, line 15, after "compilations," insert "or," and in the same line strike out "or other versions." These words are plainly unnecessary and are intended to have a capability of elastic interpretation unduly favorable to the author and prejudicial to the public. In section 7, paragraph (b), the words "of a work" and the rest of line 6 and lines 7, 8, and 9, to and including the word "text," should be canceled. If a work has fallen into the public domain, even though subsequent to 1891, it would be retroactive to now bring it within the copyright law and deprive the public of its use. Section 8, paragraph (a), in the interest of clearness should be amended by striking out the words "or cotemporaneously" in line 21, and by inserting after line 22 "shall publish his work within the limits of the United States cotemporaneously with its first publication elsewhere; or." Section 9 should be amended by inserting after the word "Act," line 14, the words "and by the performance of the other conditions precedent mentioned in the act, and by entry of the title of the work as hereinafter provided." It is plain that a person does not "secure" copyright by the publication with notice, which is all that is mentioned in this section. Section 10, line 24, the words "and such registration shall be prima facie evidence to ownership" should be struck out. There does not appear to be sufficient reason for giving a mere assertion of claim the prima facie standing of absolute ownership.