Once a Week (magazine)/Series 1/Volume 9/Another literary pirate
ANOTHER LITERARY PIRATE.
Nearly the whole article entitled “Swans on the Thames,” in No. 221 of Once a Week, is taken almost word for word from the “History of British Birds,” by the late William Yarrell, and of which the publisher is Mr. Van Voorst. This article, through the mala fides of its contributor, appeared in our columns without any acknowledgment of the source whence it was derived. For the sake of other editors, therefore, it is desirable to state that the name of the delinquent is Miss Fanny C. Boothby, of 7, Park Villas West, Richmond, Surrey, S.W.—Ed. O. a W.