The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-25

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Says, in letter 10 the Quincy, (Mass.) Patriot,
that three fourths of the books in brisk demand
at the public libraries are "vapid and sensation.
all He thinks that parents ought to guide the
childrcn's taste in the choice of reading more
than they do. The Newark 4dycrtiSer, in
A TRENEIIANT EDITORIAL
Ga this subject, says: GA worse literature than
that which is spread before the children of this
country it would hardly be possible for the
mind ofn'an TO conceive or his hand to execute
1t is even worse than an open advocacy OF
vice and intcmperancc, for that would carry its
own antidotc, while what we have eXctes, slim.
uates and debases the intellect, units it for
healthy food, fills the Imagination with gaudy
and distorted pictures of life, and develops the
passions at an aye when they should be most
under control. How much of the low moral
tone of society is due to these satanic issues of
the press VIC do not know; but, as Il river can
nowhere be SO eifectually poisoned rs at its
source, SO we have right to believe that the
millions of these papers, devoured by curious
and eager children, must influence TO large
extent the tone of thought and the DRIFT of ac-
tion of those whose plastic minds come under
| their influence
| The writer adds at may be somewhat I'M
| necessary to state that we have no reference in
the above to those monthly magazines for chill
| dren, which are as healthful as they are beau
tiful. If all the editors were as able, truthful
and devoted as Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge (who
| edits ST. NICHoLAs), there would be nothing
to complain Of" The New York Tribune says
| sin
THE AVALANCHE OF IMMORAL LITERA-
That threatens the children, some strong, vital.
| ly wholesome, and really attractive magazine
is required for them, and ST. NICHOLAS has
reached higher platform, and commands for
this service wider resources in arts and letters,
than any of its predecessors or contempora-
| RIGS"
A CLERGYMAN's OPINION.
Rev. C. s. Robinson, D. D., in an article in
the Sunday School Times, on the subject, says
of ST. NICHOLAS, SCIBNER's 1LLUsrRATEp
MAGAZINE for Girls and Boys "a cleaner,
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cannot be named. 1t is on the side of all that
is true and good from beginning to end"
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they are by all odds not only the best, but the
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have five splendid serial stories, besides shorter
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poems, sketches, rhymes, jingles, riddles, ETC.
more than equal in contents to twenty volumes
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jan2S-4t
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, 28 South Ereter Street,
lees BALTIMORE, MD.