FASHIONABLE LITERATURE OF THE DAY.-

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 12, 1871

FASHIONABLE LITERATURE OF THE DAY.—

The quality of our current literature is infinitely below the quantity. Vice swarms like wasps on every book-seller’s shelf. Sensational and disgusting pictures are presented by pen and pencil to seduce the young into the evil way, and turn our people into a nation of Parisians.

Bad books struck the most fatal blows that have recently fallen on Paris. Fictitious literature deluged their city with the sensual broodings that produced the Commune. A nation growing into manhood cannot thrive on such literary food any more than a body’s stomach can thrive on alcohol.—Good Health.