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photography and scenic effect he presaged a possibility to-day realized
in the moving picture.

Dress up some good actors as Apollyon, Greatheart, etc., & the other
Bunyan characters, take them to a wild gorge and photograph them--Valley
of the Shadow of Death; to other effective places & photo them along
with the scenery; to Paris, in their curious costumes, place them near
the Arc de l'Etoile & photo them with the crowd-Vanity Fair; to Cairo,
Venice, Jerusalem, & other places (twenty interesting cities) & always
make them conspicuous in the curious foreign crowds by their costume.
Take them to Zululand. It would take two or three years to do the
photographing & cost $10,000; but this stereopticon panorama of Bunyan's
Pilgrim's Progress could be exhibited in all countries at the same time
& would clear a fortune in a year. By & by I will do this.

If in 1891 I find myself not rich enough to carry out my scheme of
buying Christopher Columbus's bones & burying them under the Statue
of Liberty Enlightening the World I will give the idea to somebody
who is rich enough.

Incidentally he did an occasional piece of literary work. Early in the
year, with Brander Matthews, he instructed and entertained the public
with a copyright controversy in the Princeton Review. Matthews would
appear to have criticized the English copyright protection, or rather
the lack of it, comparing it unfavorably with American conditions.
Clemens, who had been amply protected in Great Britain, replied that
America was in no position to criticize England; that if American
authors suffered in England they had themselves to blame for not taking
the proper trouble and precautions required by the English law, that is
to say, "previous publication" on English soil. He declared that his own
books had been as safe in England as at home since he had undertaken
to comply with English requirements, and that Professor Matthews was
altogether mistaken, both as to premise and conclusion.

"You are the very wrong-headedest person in America," he said; "and you
are injudicious." And of the article: "I read it to the cat--well, I
never saw a cat carry on so before.... The American author can go
to Canada, spend three days there and come home with an English and
American copyright as strong as if it had been built out of railroad
iron."

Matthews replied that not every one could go to Canada, any more than to
Corinth. He said:

"It is not easy