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Show WRITING FOR THE YOUNG. Hawthorne had a high idea of the value of juvenile ju-venile books, and deemed any author fortunate who was able so to write as to hold a youthful audience. audi-ence. "Even in point of the reputation to be aimed at," he once wrote, "juvenile literature is as well worth cultivating as any other. The writer, if he succeeds in pleasing, has won readers by whom he may hope to be remembered to their own old age a far longer period of literary existence than is generally attained by those who seek immortality from the judgments of full-grown men." It is matter for rejoicing that an increasing number of Catholic writers are now devoting themselves them-selves to books for young readers. Ave Maria. |