SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, ss.
Be it remembered, that on the 25th day of April, A. D. 1829, in
the fifty-third year of the Independence of the United States of
America, G. & C. & H. Carvill, of the said district, have deposited
in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as
proprietors, in the words following, to wit:
“Tales of the Good Woman. By a Doubtful Gentleman.”
“Pietro.—What news, Tharsalio?
“Tharsalio.—O great. It has been settled in a conclave of authors,
“that from this time forward, there shall be no true history but
“romance, and no true romance but history. The venders have
“sworn to print, and the readers to buy nothing but rhodomontade;
“your travellers have pledged their honours to write so that none
“can tell whether they are dealing in fact or fiction; and the poets
“have made affirmation on Doomsday-book, never to speak truth
“but when they have nothing else to say. For my part, I'll not be
“out of fashion—I'll lie like an almanac-maker.
—The New Re
“public of Letters.
In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled,
“An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the
copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the time therein mentioned;” and also, to an
Act, entitled, “An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act
for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps,
charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies,
during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof
to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other
prints.”
FRED. I. BETTS,
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York:
Sleight & George, Printers, Jamaica, L. I.
