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Show It certainly 1b not a favorable comment com-ment on our intellectual status that the taste for fiction prevail to such an extent ex-tent as is indicated by the reports of our public libraries. Librarians and trustees find thore is a strong demand for fiction, and apparently they deem it their duty to comply with that demand. de-mand. Thysiology has demonstrated that the food necessary for perfect physical growth is not always thai which, according to the tables, has the highest per cent of nutrition. A cerW.n distention of the stomach is required, re-quired, for which tho less nutritious forms of food are well adapted. Possibly the same holds good in intellectual in-tellectual growth, but from 60 to 73 per cent of fiction seems an extraordinarily extraor-dinarily liberal allowance of light diet. |