_Section 13._--In this section typesetting and the lithographic process are singled out from all other processes connected with the manufacture of printed books, and given distinct protection from foreign competition over all other processes in making books that are copyrightable in the United States. Any such discrimination is unjust, and if this section is retained, the protection should be broadened to include any other processes besides lithography. I would therefore suggest that section 13 be amended as follows: After the words "lithographic process," in the seventh line, and after the same words on page 6, first line, nineteenth line, and thirtieth line, there be inserted the words "or any other process or method," and after the words "a process," in the same line, the words "or method." That the word "lithographs" in the second and third lines of the same page be erased, and the word "illustrations" be inserted in place of it; and on the same page, in the third line of that portion of section 13 on that page that the words "where" and "either" be erased. My preference would be to see the whole section dropped out, but failing in this no undue preference should be shown any one or two methods connected with the manufacture of books. _Section 39._--In its present form could be made clearer if it is intended to secure to an author of an original work of the fine arts any copyright which he may have obtained under the statutes on his work. On the other hand, if the section is intended to secure to an author or artist any potential copyright in a work on which he had not duly secured statutory copyright, then such provision, it would seem, would be unreasonable and unjust to the purchaser of the work; and I would therefore suggest the following wording for this section: "The author of any original work of the fine arts being the owner of such a work and having copyrighted it according to the provisions of this act or any previous United States copyright act, and who has marked upon such original work such notice of copyright as may be required by the act under which the work was copyrighted, shall not be deemed to sell or transfer said copyright upon selling or transferring the original work of art unless an agreement in writing covering the transfer of said copyright be signed by the author." _Section 37._--Is open to the same criticism as section 39. It might be corrected by the following changes, viz: That in the third and fourth lines the words "which is the subject of copyright" be struck out and the word "copyrighted" substituted for them.