| Show books for fop all ages age tho the publisher who advert advertise isep books for al all I 1 ages tacito tacitly y recognizes that the seven ages of man calk cah tor for different intellectual food the pc tures and fairy tales talea for children and the pallo philosophy ophy and criticism for serene 01 old d age are accepted as a mat ter of cour course be but the debatable laud land is that b between e tween 16 and 25 and this f e specially pec lally ally for girls it la is highly unde for mary that she should read everything at hand it la is equally nn desirable jestrab I 1 for the man of letters that he should be restricted in his product to the book suitable tor for the sweet girt girl graduate As life opens before her she sh should have books which will mill in it for her Mein meantime time for the men and women who are in the midst of life a actual ati buggle there should be other books no less lesa delicate through covering a larger held field ahe 1 I be demand of mature men bad women ol liell who iely icly lilun ill on the imaginative wilter wilier to help them in thir th ir relations with aith other folk Is not tor for wicked books nothing could be less to their pur pose A clever novelist has recently said that our time asks not brutal books not indecent ludee broils bogits but truth ful books american mothers may learn from french mothers what girls should and should notreab not read aney ancy must also learn how to make a pro hibi tion effective without its being either irksome or suggestive of diso beolence bed lence when a girl once discovers that her mothers mother s book fits her no bet ter than her mother a bonnet it wll will be a gain for girlhood and for literature |
