The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-02-03
READING FOR CHILDREN.
OPINION OF CHAe FRANCIS ADAMS.
A CLERGYMAN's OPINION,
What You Can Get For Fire DoH,1s

Whdt 10u Ian Get FOR FaUe Dollars.
cHAs. FRANCIS ADAMS
Says in letter to the Quincy (Mass. Patriot that
thIee-fourths Of the books in brisk demand at the
public Libraries are "vapid and sensational" He
tnlnks tnet parents ought to guide the children's
The Newark Adrertiser, in
TRKNCHAST EDITORIAL
On this subject says "A worse literature than that
which is spread before the children of this country
1t would hardly be possible for the mind of to
conceive or his hand to execute. 1t is even worse
IMAM an open advocacy Of vice and intemperance,
for that would carry its antidote while what
We have excitcs stimulates aud debass the intellect
units it for healthy food fills the imagination with
gaudy and distorted pictures of life, and develops
the passions a. an age when they should he most
under control. How much of the low moral tone Of
Is due to these satanic issues of the press We
90 not not know; but, as river, can nowhere be 50
eftec tuaiiy poisoned as At its source 80 we have
70 oeleve That the millions Of these papers, de-
vouIeu oy curious and eager children, must influ-
ence 70 alarge extent the toue OF thought and the
drlit OF action Of those whose plastic minds come
un0er their influence.
The writer adds; 1T may be somewhat unneces.
sary to state that have reference in the above to
tnose monthly magazines for children, which are as
neanhful as they are beautiful If all editors were
e able, as truthful and devoted MIS-. Mary Mapes
lodge (who edits 81. NchoiGs), there would BE- moth.
Ing to complain Of" The New York tribune SAYS;
AIN the
AVALANCHE OF IMMORAL LITERATURE
Ih0t threatens the cnldrcn, some strong Vitality
wholesome, and really attractive magazine ia 10.
quired for them, and ST. NICHOLAS has reached a
higher platform, and commands for this service
wider resources In art and letters than any Of It's
predecessors or contemporaries" -
CLERGYMAS's OPINION.
Rev. {: s: Robinson, D. D., in an article IN n.
Mnady Scnoc! Times, on the subject. saws Of 81
N,c"otas, Scribner's illustrated Magazine for Roy,
snd Giris; "A cleaner, purer, more Trustworthy
R0rloqGa! Tor children cannot be named. II ir on
me sl9e OF al that Is true and good from BEGINNING
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