would not follow suit until "1000 years hence". In fact, negotiations began with a British publisher within a week of the decision, and the first British edition came out in 1936. Appeal The U. S. Attorney appealed Judge Woolsey's decision to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1934. A three-judge panel of the court heard the appeal and affirmed Woolsey's ruling by a two-to-one vote in United States v. One Book Entitled Ulysses by James Joyce. The panel majority consisted of Judges Learned Hand and Augustus N. Hand, with Chief Judge Martin Manton dissenting. Judges Learned Hand and Augustus Hand, believing that the case was receiving undue publicity and attention, "agreed that the opinion affirming Woolsey's ruling should, if at all possible, contain 'not a single quotable line.'" The decision was therefore drafted by Augustus Hand rather than his cousin Learned Hand, whose writing was far more memorable. Augustus Hand nevertheless rose to the occasion and transcended the prosaic in his opinion. He acknowledged the critical acclaim given to the book, and found Joyce's depiction of his characters "sincere, truthful, relevant to the subject, and executed with real art". But as that depiction contained passages "obscene under any fair definition", the court had to decide whether the work should be banned. The court discussed a number of other works, from classic works of literature to "physiology, medicine, science, and sex instruction" which contain sections which would be characterized as "obscene", yet nevertheless are not banned as they do not promote lust. The majority opinion forthrightly confronted and disagreed with precedents which allowed courts to decide the question of obscenity on the basis of isolated passages. Such a standard would "exclude much of the great works of literature" and be impracticable, and the court therefore held that the "proper test of whether a given book is obscene is its dominant effect". Judge Hand concluded the majority opinion with a historical perspective of the harms of overzealous censorship: Art certainly cannot advance under compulsion to traditional forms, and nothing in such a field is more stifling to progress than limitation of the right to experiment with a new technique. The foolish judgments of Lord Eldon about one hundred years ago, proscribing the works of Byron and Southey, and the finding by the jury under a charge by Lord Denman that the publication of Shelley's Queen Mab was