Show readers of rubbish if the works of high class writers are upon the shelves of those who make a practice of reading rubbish those works work remain unlooked unlocked at while the low novel Is sought with keen anxiety and time Is occupied in its perusal always at the expense of the intellect and often to the neglect of duties of vast importance people pay visits to libraries procure books and spend hours daily in reading and often speak of it with apparent pride buts but as a rule they only read what may be called pastimes such readers are consequently never in any way improved by their reading though well up in the details of imagined murders and acts of immorality which authors have put before them to amuse and gratify their shallow minds demoralizing literature does not find its patrons in any one class of society on the contrary such is read by the lady in t the te he drawing room as well as by the domestic servant in the kitchen by the man of gool position down to the office boy who has often been induced to become a thief or a forger in consequence of examples set before him in works of fiction westminster review |