On this page
-
Text (2)
-
: ^ — : = • — p : : ^ June i, 188 9 T,he...
-
LEPROUS LITERATURE. NTow that the Americ...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Gonlinenl A I *Qole$ ¦
ann ounces house a new of P . boo A . k Brockhaus by the tal , in ented Leipzi and g ,
royal authoress known by the pseudonym , of | Th sions . von of Travel Bayer . in Her Russia former / work , d ' in Imp 1885 res- . appeare
Her new venture describes a journey through Norway 6 Beyond the Po North lar Circl Cape e / under the title of
criticall * The examined Philosoph / y b of Jacob Thomas Frohschammer of Aquin , y y
is also announced by IT . A . Brockhaus . The , importance of this publication at the present
| August time is undoubted 41879 m . aking The the Papal Philosop Ency hy clical of St of .
I Thomas , the groundwork , of instruction in Catholic schools has produced great literary
activity in favour of this philosophy , and three periodicals have been founded for its
exposition , propagation , and defence . Little , however , has been written against the ' Summa
Theologiae / and even what has appeared deals only in generalities . But Professor
Frohschammer treats tihe subject systematically and exhaustivelyand his work will excite
attention in Catholic , as well as in Protestant literary circles .
On the occasion of the Wittin Festivttl-tocelebrate the fourth , centenary of the
sovereignty of the Wittin dynasty in Saxony , Herr Carl Tittmann , the well-known bookseller at
Dresden , will publish * Pen Pictures of Dresden Past : a souvenir of the Wittin Celebration /
by John A . Butler , son of the eminent Wis-Mars consin ton advocate Searle . & Messrs Rivington . Sampson Limited are ,
entrusted , with the English agency , for this , interesting little work .
publish MM . a F collection uentes y ^ Cap the d best eville Spanish are going authors to
under the title ' Biblioteca de Autores cejebres . Each volume contains about 280 pages and
costs one peseta only , or in handsome binding , two pesetas . The first vol ., which has just
appeared , is entitled c Cartas Americanas / by Don -1 SUA 1 . Juan *\ AtA / ll Valera T WJIVAH / . A -XJL second C 7 i / V / WUL * volume V VZUUll / is JO XJ in . X J , , ,
preparation , ' Mi ultima Brega / by Don Jose Zorrillaa poet who in a short time will be
, ' crowned / in token of hia eminence , at Granada .
Herr Richard Paulussen , 5 Margarethenhof , Viennahas forwarded _ us . some _ _ extremely
artistic examp , les of his skill in _ photogravure - tj . The specimens fl sent are finished and beautiful , and
show once more how readily , in competent handsthis process lends itself to the
reproduction , of photographs , engravings , drawings , etchings & c . Herr Paulussen has just issued
, an English prospectus , with specimens of his work ; and the prices XX quoted for p hotogravure ' — '
plates are certainly moderate , especially when the artistic excellence of the workmanship is
considered .
» o »
: ^ — : = • — P : : ^ June I, 188 9 T,He...
: ^ — : = — p : : ^ June i , 188 9 T , he Publishers * Circular 659
Leprous Literature. Ntow That The Americ...
LEPROUS LITERATURE . NTow that the American critical journals
are to hand we find that the protest whi & h Lord ¦* - « V / J . Vl . Aberdeen JLJLHSV 7 J . VLVVJAX IIK made j IUV in JLJIJL the UAiV last AI * k > V number 1 AUX & 1 KJKJK of VJL
the Publishers' Circular , on the subject of
Leprous Literature. Ntow That The Americ...
May American 'Perni 1 cious in Bookseller still Literatu more in re tr , e n nchant edit was ori anti a terms l a r ip ticle ated by the ith bn
the above title . We do not intend to advertise any of the disgraceful ^^^ F ; books recently ^ missued in
the United States by quoting that portion of the article in which certain typical novels are
named . At the same time we are in such complete sympathy with the writer that we
make no apology forgiving his scathing remarks on the general subject still wider currency : —
* Surely Rome under Nero was not more besotted r than the social condition - ^— which these " « ^^^ r ^^ " ^^ r - ^ v - ^^ - ^™^ " ^ m ^^^^» ^ t ^ r ^ r ^^^^^ m ^ VH ^**^ ^^^ M ^ ^^ ^^^ T ^^^ fc ^^^^^ B ^^^ ™ —~^^ m — ^— - ^^ - ^— ^> ^^—^^ — - ^^ ^— — - » - — — ¦
books pretend to depict . Fortunately they are literary falsehoods in most instances ; libels
upon human nature , begotten from morbid imaginations by ( Jelvers in the social sewer .
JN " ot content with existing , vice , they exaggerate it and add licentious excrescences to suit the
measure of their own warped fantasies . ' But , even if these pictures were truthful
ones , those who have drawn them have stepped outside of the proper limits of art . The
twi ¦ scul fcwiR sted ptor +. fir ^ . defo reform who rmed would eri and a . n creat rl loathsome ina e fTisrimfi a horror to t , n in the f / h marbl ft sight sic / h e , I
, , could claim no place in the admiration of the public for his workhowever skilfully done as
to details . So with , the novelist . If there are mental and moral diseases whose very
najnes cause a shudder in the most worldly , the writer of fiction commits a crime in re- I
producingjihem to the disgust and nausea of every decent reader . Furthermorea novel is I
exposed for public sale , and may be , purchased I and ™— » ¦ pw — - read - ^_ - »— - _ —r by - - ™ - — young _ — —¦ " ^^ # ^ VB peop V ^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^^^ le ^^ ^^^ and P > ^ ~^^ ^~ children ^^ ' ^^ ' ¦ ' ' , who - — — ^ " ^ ¦
would thus be taught , with all the skill and force resident in the writerthose dire and
blasting secrets which it is , the aim of every careful parentguardian 7 and husbandto
keep from those , minds whose -, purity and inno , - I cence UCUl / C are OilC his JJLJU 3 to \ AJ protect ^ J \ . \ J \ jKj \ J . \) I
c Knowledge ^ cei / sometimes contaminatesuch knowledge as thisat least—and no man
with a grain of manhood , in his heart but will do battle to prevent those he loves from
touching tha . t defilement which cannot be washed out . It does not follow because moral 1
ruin is not necessarily the result of acquaintance with these vices of the sewer , that they
do not do harm . Innocence is two-fold , and consists in purity ^ j of _ act and purity of thougK * J ht ,
and who is to say where such revelations may end ? A pure woman should be innocent and
ignorant ; and it is the duty of all men to protect her against the insidious attacks of
these moral vermin . : * . * It is certainly the very degradation oi
art , so called , that love , God ' s own messenger to menshould have been debased into a vile
pander , for paid animalism ; that pure passion , I love M ^ ^ w ^^* W '¦¦ s ¦ twin ^» » r booh ¦ ^^ m ¦ i ¦ sister * w r ^ r ~^ m ~^^ r ¦ i i , ^ . ¦ should id *^ ^ r ^ ~ " i *~ - * r ^ m m ¦ ^ m ™ ¦ ™ hav i - — ^ i *^> " r e - ^^^ - been ^ gg ^ r ^^^ ¦ ¦ ¦ h debauched ¦ ^^ ^ m ~^^ r - ^ mr - ~ - - ~ - - ^^* ^ . ^ - " ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ iv ¦
and desecrated in the hands of these animalists , until it is fit only for brothels and dens of
infamy . This must cease or it must result in the downfall of our civilisation , which is built upon the res-pect for womenand the
preservation . of virtue . When , a man , can no longer 1 be sure of the purity of his wife , and has "to restrain the licentious outbursts of his I
daughter , there is nothing left for him to do I
but to cut his throat and be rid of the whole 1
-
-
Citation
-
Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), June 1, 1889, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01061889/page/9/
-