The Knickerbocker/Volume 13/Number 5/Piracy and Plagiarism
Piracy and Plagiarism.—We have been as a handsome London edition of Dr. Caleb Ticknor's excellent work on medical quackery, which was noticed at length, a short time since, in this Magazine. A previous work, by the same author, 'The Philosophy of Living,' was not long ago published in London by Dr. Mayo, a man of eminence in own production, and that just one year after the publication, in this country, of the original work, by the Brothers' Harper. Some of the London journalists, who have discovered the fraud, think it rather fortunate for the fame of our correspondent, that his volume was issued so long before the pirated and plagierized copy! This sort of pilfering, as our worthy ex-recoder would say, in 'practised to a great extent in the London community,' for which the guilty parties should be made to smart. And by the by, Mr. Bentley ought to 'suffer some.' The 'Lament of the Cherokee,' original in his last magazine, is so precisely similar to an article, with the same title, published in the 'Editors' Table' of the Knickerbocker for November last, that we are led to doubt whether both poems can be original! The Metropolitan Magazine is more conscientious; for although it copies our articles among its 'original papers,' it indicates their legitimate source elsewhere.