RUSSIAN COPYRIGHT.
[To THE EDITOR or THE .SPECTATOS.'1• Sin,—Will you allow me to enlighten Mr. Curtis Brown as to Low this country stands towards Russia in the matter of literary copyright? The Publishers Association of Great Britain and Ireland took steps to bring about a Russo-British Convention as far back as 1911, and ever since that data has been in correspondence with the Foreign Office with this end in view. It is unnecessary here to go into the details of the many difficulties that have arisen and that have now, it is believed, been surmounted. The last letter received from the Foreign Office informed us that "RM. Government are now in communication with the Russian Government with a view to the conclusion of a Copyright Convention." Mr. Curtis Brown may rest assured that it is not necessary to wait for a lead by America in matters that are of the first importance to literary interests in this country.—I am, Sir, &c., JAMES H. BLACKWOOD
(President of the Publishers Association of Great Britniu and Ireland).
87 Paternoster Row, E.C.
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