Read v. Certain Merchandise Imported By O. G. Hempstead & Son

BRADFORD, District Judge.

The only question pressed on this appeal is whether printed sheets of a scientific work devoted to orig*198inal scientific research., known as Politzer on the Ear, not bound nor stitched together, is a “book” within the meaning of paragraph 410 of the tariff act of August 27, 1894 (28 Stat. 509, 538), and as such not dutiable. That section is as follows:

' “410. Books, engravings, photographs, bound, or unbound, etchings, music, maps and charts, which shall have been printed more than twenty years at the date of importation, and all hydrographic charts, and scientific…