The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1876-02-04

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Says, in a letter TO the Quincy, (Mnss.) PATRIOT
That three tourths of the books in brisk demand
at the public libraries are "vapid and sensation
al" He thinks that parents ought TO guide The
chlldrcn's taste in the choice of reading more
than they do. The Newark Adrcrtiser, In
A TRENCHANT EDITORIAL
On 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 OF man to conceive or his hand to execute.
1t Is even worse than an open advocacy of
vice ana lntemperance, for that would carry its
own antidote, while what we have excites, stim.
ulates and debases the intellect, units it for
healthy food, fills the Imagination with gaudv
and distorted pictures of life, and develops the
passions at an are when they should he most
under control. How much of the low moral
tone of society is due 10 these satanic issues of
the press we do not know but, as q river can
nowhere be so effectually poisoned as at its
source, so we have right to believe that the
millions Of these papers, dcvoured by curious
and eager children, must influence TO large
extent the tone of thought and the drift of ac-
ton of those whose plastic minds come under
their influence"
The writer adds at may be somewhat IN
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 Mapcs Dodge (who
edits ST. NICH0LAs), there would he nothing
to complain off, The New York T,'jJunc says
THE AVALANCHE OF IMMORAL LITERA-
TURE
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ly wholesome, and really attractive magazine
Is required for them, and ST.. NICHOLAS has
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than any of its predecessors or contempora.
rcS.H
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