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Show WILL BURN NOVELS Government. Places Ban 'on French Books That "Are Not Moral. . NEW YORK, Nov. 19. No more highly high-ly spiced French novels will get Into this country if the second clerk In the liquidation department of the customhouse custom-house can prevent It. The official named Is busily engaged In going over all sorts of contributions from Ftench writers, and his office is rapidly taking on the appearance of a book store. Hundreds Hun-dreds of volumes will soon go up In smoke and fire. , There Is only one way In which a work which falls below the ethical ptandard of the liquidation department can es-. cape oblivion, and that lr by being as old ae it Is bad. Works known as ancient an-cient and modern classics will not be held up. However, if one book which does not meet the approval of the censors cen-sors Is discovered In a package, all the others, no matter what their antecedents, antece-dents, will be dertroyed. It has been found that the number Of French books confing under the disapproval disap-proval of the Treasury department has greatly increased since last May. Mort of this claes of literature was consigned to email dealers in the French quarter. |