This is the Project Gutenberg Newsletter for May 2013 CONTENTS * #25,000 from Distributed Proofreaders * Copyright Threat in Canada * New eBook releases from the past month * #25,000 from Distributed Proofreaders Art and Practice of Silver Printing, by H. P. Robinson and Capt. Abney www.gutenberg.org/etext/42547 Thanks to The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) This is DP-US's 25,000th unique submission to Project Gutenberg. * Copyright Threat in Canada Via Mark Akrigg, of www.gutenberg.ca: The long debate over the Copyright Act revisions in Canada is over, and the changes are now in force. Some of the changes are good, others are not. But from my perspective the main thing is that Life+50 has been preserved. And it has become very clear that the Canadian public is extremely aware of copyright issues, and that, in the absence of outside factors, Life+50 will endure. But there *are* outside factors. Talks are underway for the Trans Pacific Partnership, a "trade agreement" involving a dozen or so countries, including Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. It includes an unsavoury set of proposals, including copyright extensions to Life+70. If these extensions went through, 20 years of the pubic domain would disappear in Canada and New Zealand, and it would become that much harder for Congress to roll back the unfortunate 1998 copyright extensions, because of "international obligations". It is difficult to exaggerate the danger posed by these secret negotiations. Senator Wyden of Oregon has stated that "the majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations ??? like Halliburton, Chevron, PHRMA, Comcast, and the Motion Picture Association of America ??? are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement": http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/iycmi-wyden-statement-introducing... There is awareness in Canada of the risks posed by the TPP. I personally became very active very early, and did everything I could to alert the Canadian public to what was going on. I was surprised and gratified by the strong positive reaction that I received. In New Zealand, there is widespread opposition to the TPP's attack on the public domain: http://fairdeal.net.nz/ http://blog.greens.org.nz/2012/01/24/trans-pacific-partnership-to-impact-kiw... (The author of this blog item is a Member of Parliament in New Zealand) But the attack on the public domain originated in the United States, and strong public opposition within the U.S. would be the most effective way of stopping this attack. The American Library Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have already spoken publicly about the TPP, but my sense is that the American public is not aware of what is going on. I'd be very happy to learn that PG US and its friends are actively working to stop the TPP. Mark Akrigg Project Gutenberg Canada P.S. As part of my activity, in August 2012 I made a formal submission to the U.S. government explaining why the TPP is harmful to the citizens of the United States as well as of other countries: www.gutenberg.ca/documents/tpp-bad-deal-mark-akrigg-120827.html It was not a time to mince words, and my language was direct. I explained why the Trans Pacific Partnership is particularly harmful to Americans, and how it attacks the American Constitution and the principles of American democracy. I also gave the background to the American copyright extensions of recent years. * New eBook releases from the past month ~ ~ ~ ~ Posting Dates for the below eBooks: 1 Apr 2013 to 30 Apr 2013 ~ ~ ~ ~ The Book of Christmas, by Thomas K. Hervey 42622 [Subtitle: descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season] [Illustrator: R. Seymour] Poems, by Robert Lovell and Robert Southey 42621 [Subtitle: containing The Restropect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, &c.] Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances, by Roger Boyle, 42620 Sir George Mackenzie and Nathaniel Ingelo Buckskin Mose, by Buckskin Mose 42619 [Subtitle: or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide] The Lady of Lynn, by Walter Besant 42618 Die Liebesbriefe der Marquise, by Lily Braun 42617 [Language: German] The Medicine-Men of the Apache (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 42616 (pages 443-604)), by John G. Bourke Blanche et Bleue ou les deux couleuvres-fées, roman chinois, 42615 by Anonymous [Language: French] English Monastic Life, by Abbot Gasquet 42614 On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969, 42613 by H. W. Fulbright, et al., and The National Research Council The Mother's Nursery Songs, by Thomas Hastings 42612 In to the Yukon, by William Seymour Edwards 42611 Come l'onda..., by Luigi Capuana 42610 [Subtitle: Novelle] [Language: Italian] Pikku mies, by A. Daudet 42609 [Language: Finnish] Nuove "Paesane", by Luigi Capuana 42608 [Language: Italian] The Shepheard's Calender, by Edmund Spenser 42607 [Subtitle: Twelve Aeglogues Proportional to the Twelve Monethes] [Illustrator: Walter Crane] Mimicry in Butterflies, by Reginald Crundall Punnett 42606 A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Hartford, 42605 January 29th, 1865, by John Williams [Subtitle: In Commemoration of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Third Bishop of Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States by his Assistant and Successor] Stories of the Ships, by Lewis R. Freeman 42604 San Francisco and the Nicaragua Canal, by William Lawrence Merry 42603 The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition), 42602 by Dionysius Lardner [Subtitle: With an Account of its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including also a Memoir of Watt] The Expositor's Bible: The Prophecies of Jeremiah, by C J Ball 42601 [Subtitle: With a Sketch of His Life and Times] Under St Paul's, by Richard Dowling 42600 [Subtitle: A Romance] The Duke's Sweetheart, by Richard Dowling 42599 [Subtitle: A Romance] Plutarch's Parallel lives - Volume 2, by Plutarch 42598 [Subtitle: Solon -- Poplicola -- Themistocles Camillus -- Pericles -- Fabius Maximus] [Language: Greek] The Last Call (Vol. 3 of 3), by Richard Dowling 42597 [Subtitle: A Romance] The Last Call (Vol. 2 of 3), by Richard Dowling 42596 [Subtitle: A Romance] The Last Call (Vol. 1 of 3), by Richard Dowling 42595 [Subtitle: A Romance] Les réprouvés et les élus (t.2), by Émile Souvestre 42594 [Language: French] A History of American Literature Since 1870, by Fred Lewis Pattee 42593 Le Fils de Coralie, by Albert Delpit 42592 [Subtitle: Comédie en quatre actes en prose] [Language: French] In the Open, by Stanton Davis Kirkham 42591 Dans l'extrême Far West, by Richard Byron Johnson 42590 [Subtitle: Aventures d'un émigrant dans la Colombie anglaise] [Illustrator: A. Marie] [Language: French] Homestead, by Arthur G. Burgoyne 42589 [Subtitle: A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers] La Signorina, by Gerolamo Rovetta 42588 [Subtitle: Romanzo] [Language: Italian] The Grey Friars in Oxford, by Andrew G. Little 42587 Thémidore; ou mon histoire et celle de ma maîtresse, 42586 by Claude Godard dAucourt [Language: French] The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire, 42585 by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt [Subtitle: With Illustrative Notes, and Examples of the Original Music, etc.] Extinct Monsters, by H. N. Hutchinson 42584 [Subtitle: A Popular Account of Some of the Larger Forms of Ancient Animal Life] [Illustrator: J. Smit] A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland, 42583 by William Lewins A Little Girl in Old San Francisco, by Amanda Minnie Douglas 42582 The Deacon, by Horace C. Dale 42581 [Subtitle: An Original Comedy Drama in Five Acts] Expository Writing, by Mervin James Curl 42580 Scenic Mount Lowe and Its Wonderful Railway, by George Wharton James 42579 Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2), 42578 by Edward Gibbon Minerva oscura, by Giovanni Pascoli 42577 [Subtitle: Prolegomeni: la costruzione morale del poema di Dante] [Language: Italian] The Common Spiders of the United States, by James Henry Emerton 42576 Washer the Raccoon, by George Ethelbert Walsh 42575 [Illustrator: Edwin John Prittie] Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland, by Howard R. Garis 42574 [Illustrator: Edward Bloomfield] Ingres, by A. J. Finberg 42573 The Adopted Daughter, by Elizabeth Sandham 42572 [Subtitle: A Tale for Young Persons] Travels in South Kensington, by Moncure Daniel Conway 42571 [Subtitle: with Notes on Decorative Art and Architecture in England] Johtavat aatteet ihmiskunnan historiassa, by Yrjö Sakari Yrö-Koskinen 42570 [Language: Finnish] The Radio Detectives Under the Sea, by A. Hyatt Verrill 42569 The Cornish Fishermen's Watch Night and Other Stories, by Annonymous 42568 William Penn, by Rupert S. Holland 42567 The Spook Ballads, by William Theodore Parkes 42566 Yllätys y. m. kertomuksia Alaskasta, by Jack London 42565 [Language: Finnish] Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans, by William H. Holmes 42564 [Subtitle: Second annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, pages 179-306] Yvonne, by Édouard Delpit 42563 [Language: French ] Mason of Bar X Ranch, by Henry Bennett 42562 Rodin à l'hotel de Biron et à Meudon, by Gustave Coquiot 42561 [Language: French] Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume I (of 3), by James Dennistoun 42560 [Subtitle: Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, From 1440 To 1630] The Story of Scotch, by Enos A. Mills 42559 The Art of Illustration, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 42558 Letters of Samuel Rutherford, by Samuel Rutherford 42557 [Subtitle: Third Edition] Girls of the True Blue, by L. T. Meade 42556 [Illustrator: Percy Tarrant] By the Barrow River, by Edmund Leamy 42555 [Subtitle: and Other Stories] Monsieur de Talleyrand, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 42554 [Language: French] Excursions and Poems, by Henry David Thoreau 42553 [Subtitle: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 7, by Various 42552 [Subtitle: "Mars" to "Matteawan"] The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China, Volume II, 42551 by Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza [Subtitle: and the Situation Thereof] [Translator: R. Parke] Magic and Witchcraft, by Anonymous 42550 Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls,Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard 42549 The Camp Fire Girls on a Yacht, by Margaret Love Sanderson 42548 [Illustrator: Maude Martin Evers] Art and Practice of Silver Printing, by H. P. Robinson and Capt. Abney 42547 Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, August 11, 1894, by Various 42546 The Radio Detectives in the Jungle, by A. Hyatt Verrill 42545 Soyer's Culinary Campaign, by Alexis Soyer 42544 [Subtitle: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War, with The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions] Sappho, by Sappho and Henry de Vere Stacpoole 42543 [Subtitle: A New Rendering] Lost Diaries, by Maurice Baring 42542 Ricordi del 1870-71, by Edmondo De Amicis 42541 [Language: Italian] The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia, by Voltaire 42540 [Translator: Tobias Smollett] A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia, by Walter White 42539 The Round Towers of Ireland, by Henry O'Brien 42538 [Subtitle: or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans] The Avifauna of Micronesia, Volume 3, by Rollin H. Baker 42537 [Subtitle: Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution] Yonder, by E. H. Young 42536 The Tiger-Slayer, by Gustave Aimard 42535 [Subtitle: A Tale of the Indian Desert] [Translator: Lascelles Wraxall] The Narrow House, by Evelyn Scott 42534 Narcissus, by Evelyn Scott 42533 The Gold-Seekers, by Gustave Aimard and Lascelles Wraxall 42532 [Subtitle: A Tale of California] The Honey-Pot, by Countess Barcynska 42531 Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 15th, 1895, by Various 42530 Dariel, by R. D. Blackmore 42529 [Subtitle: A Romance of Surrey] [Illustrator: Chris Hammond] Tintoretto, by Samuel Levy Bensusan 42528 Trails Through Western Woods, by Helen Fitzgerald Sanders 42527 Abraham Lincoln, by William Eleroy Curtis 42526 Anciennes loix des François, conservées dans les coutumes 42525 angloises, recueillies par Littleton -- Vol I, by David Houard and Thomas Littleton [Language: French] L'ingénieux chevalier Don Quichotte de la Manche, by Michel Cervantes 42524 [Illustrator: G. Roux] [Language: French] Box and Cox, by John Maddison Morton 42523 [Subtitle: A Romance of Real Life in One Act] Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late 42522 Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents Of his life, by Amos Lawrence God and the King, by Marjorie Bowen 42521 A Marriage Under the Terror, by Patricia Wentworth 42520 Blackthorn Farm, by Arthur Applin 42519 Talks To Farmers, by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 42518 Historic Inventions, by Rupert S. Holland 42517 Hymn to Athena, by Kostis Palamas 42516 [Language: Greek] The book of the ladies, by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme 42515 [Subtitle: Illustrious Dames: The Reign and Amours of the Bourbon Régime] Lectures on Bible Revision, by Samuel Newth 42514 Le vergini delle rocce, by Gabriele D'Annunzio 42513 [Language: Italian] Death of a Youth, by Kostis Palamas 42512 [Language: Greek] The Greetings of the Sun-born, by Kostis Palamas 42511 [Language: Greek] History of the conquest of Byzantium by the Franks and their 42510 exercise of power there 1204-1261, by Epaminondas Stamatiadis [Language: Greek] Bélisaire, by Jean François Marmontel 42509 [Language: Greek] Curious Creatures in Zoology, by John Ashton 42508 A Tenderfoot Bride, by Clarice E. Richards 42507 [Subtitle: Tales from an Old Ranch] Chronicles, Vol. 1 (of 6): The Description of Britaine, 42506 by Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison and John Hooker Fausto Bragia, by Luigi Capuana 42505 [Subtitle: e altre novelle] [Language: Italian] The Campers Out, by Edward S. Ellis 42504 [Subtitle: The Right Path and the Wrong] Paolo Pelliccioni, Volume II (of 2), by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi 42503 [Language: Italian ] Paolo Pelliccioni, Volume I (of 2), by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi 42502 [Language: Italian ] New York Sketches, by Jesse Lynch Williams 42501 The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau 42500 [Subtitle: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)] Miracle Gold, Vol. 3 (of 3), by Richard Dowling 42499 [Subtitle: A Novel] Miracle Gold, Vol. 1 (of 3), by Richard Dowling 42498 [Subtitle: A Novel] Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, Tome quatrième, by Various 42497 [Subtitle: Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècle] [Editors: Louis Monmerqué, Hippolyte de Chateaugiron and Jules-Antoine Taschereau] [Language: French] Miracle Gold, Vol. 2 (of 3), by Richard Dowling 42496 [Subtitle: A Novel] The Channel Islands, by Joseph Morris 42495 The Paston Letters, Volume VI (of 6), Part 2 (Index), by James Gairdner 42494 [Subtitle: New Complete Library Edition] Lady Eureka, v. 3 (of 3), by Robert Folkestone Williams 42493 [Subtitle: or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future] Lady Eureka, v. 2 (of 3), by Robert Folkestone Williams 42492 [Subtitle: or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future] Lady Eureka, v. 1 (of 3), by Robert Folkestone Williams 42491 [Subtitle: or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future] Outwitting the Hun, by Pat O'Brien 42490 [Subtitle: My Escape from a German Prison Camp] Die Luftschiffahrt der Gegenwart, by Hermann Hoernes 42489 [Language: German] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, June 1, 1895, by Various 42485 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] The Popham Colony, by William Frederick Poole 42484 Rev. Edward Ballard, D.D. and Frederick Kidder [Subtitle: a discussion of its historical claims, with a bibliography of the subject] At Home with the Patagonians, by George Chaworth Musters 42483 [Subtitle: A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro] A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, by George Thomas Love 42482 [Subtitle: During the years 1820 to 1825] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 26, 1895, by Various 42481 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, January 19, 1895, by Various 42480 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] La Ronge Journal, 1823, by George Nelson 42479 Punch, or the London Charivari, January 12th, 1895, by Various 42478 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Punch, or the London Charivari, January 5th, 1895, by Various 42477 [Editor: Sir Francis Burnand] Literary Celebrities of the English Lake-District, by Frederick Sessions 42476 History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus, 42475 By George Jones [Subtitle: Proving the Identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the Introduction of Christianity Into the Western Hemisphere By The Apostle St. Thomas] 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described, by Edward S. Ellis 42474 [Subtitle: Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 8, by Various 42473 [Subtitle: "Matter" to "Mecklenburg"] Madame Sans-Gêne, Tome I, by Edmond Lepelletier 42472 [Subtitle: Roman tiré de la Pièce de Mm. Victorien Sardou et Émile Moreau] [Language: French ] A peleskei notaries, by József Gaal 42471 [Subtitle: Bohózat három szakaszban négy felvonással] [Language: Hungarian] Kuun tarinoita, by Julius Krohn 42470 [Language: Finnish] Convenient Houses, by Louis Henry Gibson 42469 [Subtitle: With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper, Architect and Housewife] Catalogue of Messrs Blackwood and Sons' Publications, by Various 42468 [Subtitle: Published in 1868 as a Part of The Handy Horse-Book by Maurice Hartland Mahon] The College Freshman's Don't Book, by George Fullerton Evans 42467 [Subtitle: in the interests of freshmen at large, especially Those whose remaining at large uninstructed & unguided Appears a worry and a menace to college & university society these remarks and hints are set forth by G. F. E. (A. B.) a sympathizer] [Illustrators: Frank Ingerson and Raymond Carter] Facts and fancies in modern science, by John William Dawson 42466 [Subtitle: Studies of the relations of science to Prevalent speculations and religious belief] Vidéki hirek és más elbeszélések, by Zsigmond Móricz 42465 [Illustrator: Jeno Haranghy] [Language: Hungarian] Variétés Historiques et Littéraires, Tome 1 (of 10), by Various 42464 [Subtitle: Recueil de pi?ces volantes rares et curieuses en prose et en vers] [Language: French] La Vie de Madame Élisabeth, soeur de Louis XVI, Tome 2 (of 2), 42463 by Alcide de Beauchesne [Illustrator: Morse et Emile Rousseau] [Language: French] Barbara Rebell, by Marie Belloc Lowndes 42462 [Illustrator: Gilbert White] The Motor Boys, by Clarence Young 42461 [Subtitle: or, Chums Through Thick and Thin] The Truth of Christianity, by William Harry Turton 42460 [Subtitle: Being an Examination of the More Important Arguments For and Against Believing in that Religion] Bernard Treves's Boots, by Laurence Clarke 42459 [Subtitle: A Novel of the Secret Service] The Mystery of the Sea, by Bram Stoker 42455