Mr. OLIN. The practical working would be this: Scribner & Co. would publish here a book which was also published in England. An individual would wish to get a copy of it in the English edition, and he would either go to the Scribners' store, or write to him, or he would go to his bookseller, who would send word to the Scribners, asking that a copy should be imported for that individual through Mr. Scribner, and Scribner would import it for him. That is to say, the individual would have far less difficulty, wherever he was situated throughout the country, in getting the English edition of the book than he has at present, when he himself writes to an English bookseller in London and imports it himself. Mr. CURRIER. I am not expressing any opinion at all as to the correctness of that proposition, whether the individual should not be prohibited from importing. Mr. OLIN. My point is that the facility with which the individual would obtain an English edition of an American copyrighted book would be greatly increased by the passage of this bill, because it would put it in the regular course of business, just as it used to be before 1891, for the owner of the American copyright to see to those importations. The law would not allow the proprietor himself to make the importations, but he would be exceedingly glad to import that book for A, B, C, D, and E, all over the country, and to make it just as easy as it was possible to do for them to get that English edition. Mr. CURRIER. I am not at all sure that that is not so, but I think you agree with me that the individual himself, under that provision, would never directly import a book. Mr. OLIN. I think he would not. Mr. CURRIER. The proprietor would always do it for him. Mr. OLIN. It would be so much easier for him to make the proprietor his agent, and the proprietor would be so glad to act as his agent, and it would be so much to the interest of both parties that that should be so that that would be naturally the course that it would take. Mr. HINSHAW. Under existing law is the proprietor of the American copyright seriously injured by these importations? Mr. OLIN. In ordinary cases, as I said, he is not seriously injured--that is, in the case of popular books he is not substantially injured at all. He does not know how much he is injured, because there is no means of estimating the precise amount. It is an injury, but how great he does not know. Mr. HINSHAW. It is a sufficient injury, so that you think it ought to be restricted? Mr. OLIN. It is a sufficient injury, especially in the cases that I have spoken of, where valuable books that cost very much to produce and that have a limited field of sale are in question, and there it does repeatedly prevent such books from being published in America.