That pretensions under Copyright are becoming so formidable as to demand very serious attention on the part of statesmen and of all who desire to maintain the integrity of our national inheritance of a world-wide, heartily-united empire, and imperial freedom from odious, inquisitorial, and impracticable restraints, especially such as might hinder intellectual and moral development, will be evident to any person who takes pains to study and follow out to their necessary consequences the provisions contained in the following transcripts from a Bill lately introduced by an ex-Lord Chancellor, “for Consolidating and Amending the Law of Copyright in Works of Fine Art:” _Fine Arts Copyright Consolidation and Amendment._ [32 Vict.] Design.—An original conception represented by the author thereof in any work of fine art. Drawing or Painting.—Every original drawing or painting, made in any manner and material, and by any process. Photograph shall mean and include every original photograph. Sculpture.—Every original work, either in the round, in relief, or intaglio, made in any material, and by any process. Engraving.—Every original engraving and lithograph made upon a plate, block, or slab, of any material, by any process, whereby impressions may be taken from such plate, block, or slab, and the impressions taken from the same. Work of Fine Art.—Every drawing, painting, photograph, work of sculpture, and engraving as herein-before interpreted. Extending to all parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and _all the colonies_ and possessions of the Crown which now are, or hereafter may be, created or acquired. 3. The author of every original work of fine art, if made, or first sold, after the commencement of this Act, such author being a British subject, or resident within any part of the British dominions at the time such work shall be made or first sold, and the assigns of such author, shall have the Copyright of sole and exclusive right of copying, reproducing, and multiplying such work, and the design thereof, in the British dominions, by any means, and of any size, for the term of the natural life of such author, and thirty years after his death, but subject to the following conditions and restrictions; (that is to say), &c.