at the finder has a clear title against every one
but the owner. The proprietor of a hotel or a shop has no right to
demand property of others found on his premises. Such proprietors may
make regulations in regard to lost property which will bind their
employes, but they cannot bind the public. The finder has been held to
stand in the place of the owner, so that he was permitted to prevail in
all action against a person who found an article which the plaintiff had
originally found, but subsequently lost. The police have no special
rights in regard to articles lost, unless those rights are conferred by
statute. Receivers of articles found are trustees for the owner or
finder. They have no power in the absence of special statute to keep an
article against the finder, any more than the finder has to retain an
article against the owner.

THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.

The new copyright law, which went into effect July 1, 1909, differs in
many respects from the law previously in force. Its main provisions are
given below, but those desiring to avail themselves of its protection
should write to the Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress,
Washington, D. C., for full instructions and the necessary blanks. etc.
The new law provides that the application for registration of any work
"shall specify to which of the following classes the work in which
copyright is claimed belongs": (a) Books, including composite and
cyclopedic works, directories, gazetteers, and other compilations; (b)
periodicals, including newspapers; (c) lectures, sermons, addresses
prepared for oral delivery: (d) dramatic or dramatico-musical
compositions; (c) musical compositions; (f) maps; (g) works of art;
models or designs for works of art; (h) reproductions of a work of art;
(i) drawings or plastic works of a scientific or technical character:
(j) photographs; (k) prints and pictorial illustrations.

Necessary Steps to Secure Copyright.

For works reproduced in copies for sale: 1. Publish the work with the
copyright notice. The notice may be in the form "Copyright, 19 .....
(year date of publication) by (name of copyright proprietor)." 2.
Promptly after publication, send to the Copyright Office, Library of
Congress, Washington, D. C., two copies of the best edition of the work,
with an application for registration and a money order payable to the
Register of Copyrights for the statutory registration fee of $l.

In the case of books by American author