Show THE DIME NOVEL AND ITS 1 VICTIMS one of the great eastern railway companies Is said to have issued an order forbidding the sale upon its trains of any books of such a nature as to incite to crime or io represent crime in an attractive light the evil Is of course a very real one but if it Is to be handled at all it must be upon a far larger scale than thia and by a wider authority there can be no question whatever that there are many impressionable minds upon which criminal literature can act as a direct incentive and many crimes owe their origin to the suggestive influence of the dime novel but if we once begin repressive work of this kind where are we to stop and above all where shall we find those who are wise enough to act as literary censors this yellow newspaper Is perhaps a greater offender than the dime novel inasmuch as its recitals are popularly supposed to be true it is the yellow newspaper that provides the chief food tor morbid minds painting as it does the crime of the day in lurid colors and omitting ab no detail however unwholesome or nauseating the remedy of course is not by legislation which would do no more than give to an undesirable book the beat advertisement that its publishers could desire the cure for this undoubted evil lies in the creation of t healthy public sentiment it is n slow cure but it is a sure one tho criminal novel and the sensational or horrible newspaper report will pear before the frown of the community and not because a placid community has instructed someone elso to do its frowning for it and as for the literary censor abea we have evolved sufficient wisdom to make such an official possible we shall no longer need him venice july 9 rhe engagement is announced of paul nash the american consul here and baroness Ina mayner of piedmont the baroness who moves in the highest society is at present residing in venice |