In a certain sense the publisher has no more right to place a book upon the market which does not contain qualities peculiarly its own than has the inventor to put forth a mechanism which is but the copy of another. The difference, of course, in the situation of the two is that the law restrains the inventor from palming off something spurious upon the public, while the publisher is thrown back upon his sense of honor.

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