| Show I I A PERNICIOUS I l THE TIE HERALD has received for or r rI I vIew H a book called It Is IsI I I a or of the e plO ot Van Dine and the other ear car I barn bandits Be Beginning with the first murderous holdup d by these e i moal perverts the book det details lIs t length all o oC th W li It would J be to say OJ that the theauthor theauthor author of the boOk o lt hold the bandit up as heroes ne He do that but buthe buthe I he does manage to th a gl am or of I romance about their of crime that hilt cannot fail to an allure r able young readers The purpose of o the book Is ie undoubtedly edl edly to m money ney for its writer r It t will doubtless find a 8 read ready Sale among of a low loy order of intelligence and among bo boys 1 who do not know bet bettt better tt ter 1 than to that sort of thing And knowing knowin this we Are are sorry surry there is hi no method b by which the circulation of the book can onit he be stopped Lopped no method methodI b by which the plates from which It Is I can b bit destrOyed and AU all the I 1 copies no now In the book stores and nd nes news I II I burned Nothing hut but h harm rm can be done by Guilt Its auth author r may m say that all of the e essential facts In the story hoe have already d been told In the newspapers That is quite true and The Herald for forone forone one takes no glory glon from the fact But I the newspaper stor story Is soon forgotten n the printed book is P red and lives This printed book will lIve JIve to do harm to thousands of boyS perhaps through throughout I out the country E if thy they have naturally a crimInal bent bont thy will devour the pages the they will see flee where the car ar barn bandith made fatal mistakes and they will endeavor to profit by them |
