In regard to the publication of books under two titles, it seems to me that some provision should be made in the law to protect a man who publishes a book that is printed abroad under one title and is printed in this country under another, provided the foreign edition does not contain notice of copyright. As it is to-day, and as it will be under this law, one can import a book printed in England; it may have been written on the same subject as that which you intended to produce a book on; you have carefully warned your editors to abstain from making extracts from a book that is printed in this country or that contains a notice of copyright. You proceed. Your editor finds a book in a library that does not contain notice of United States copyright. It is published abroad by a publisher different from the one who issues it here. There is nothing to warn him. He makes copious extracts, and the owner of the copyright may be perfectly well aware of the fact that he has made those extracts. Under this law as it is proposed, he may permit that infringement to continue for three years and then claim damages, not less than one dollar a copy, although the book may have been sold for 10 cents per copy, and practically put the apparently infringing publisher, who acted in perfect good faith, out of business. It is unjust; and I submit, gentlemen, that those matters are proper subjects for consideration, and that they should not be enacted into a law in their present form. Now, to refer to some of the remarks made by my predecessor, Mr. Olin. He said that the American Publishers' Copyright League and the American Publishers' Association represented practically all of the publishers of the United States. I differ distinctly and materially with him. They do not. They represent a few and only a few of the publishers of the United States. I doubt very much if a single publisher west of the Alleghenies (with very few exceptions) is a member of either of those associations. There may be a few exceptions--I know now that there are--but very few, and he is not qualified to speak for the others who are not members of those associations, and they do not represent a majority. In regard to importation, he said that Scribner would be very glad to import a book if he were requested to do so. Now, I am a publisher, and if it were my book I do not think I should be very glad. I think I should tell the intending purchaser that I had a copy of the book that was at his disposal for the fixed price that I had placed upon it, and I think Scribner would do likewise.