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Title: On the Vice of Novel Reading.
Being a brief in appeal, pointing out errors of the lower tribunal.
Author: Young E. Allison
Release Date: February 27, 2008 [EBook #24704]
Language: English
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On the Vice of Novel-Reading.
BEING A BRIEF IN APPEAL, POINTING OUT
ERRORS OF THE LOWER TRIBUNAL.
Paper Read Before the Western Association of Writers at Winona
Park, Indiana, June 29, 1897.
By YOUNG E. ALLISON.
LOUISVILLE. KY.:
COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING COMPANY.
1897.
YOUNG E. ALLISON
ON THE VICE OF NOVEL READING.
Ever since the Novel reached the stage of development where it was demonstrated to be the most ingenious vehicle yet designed for conveying the protean thought and fancy of man, there has stood in the judgment book of Public Opinion the decree that novel-reading was a vice. Of course, that judgment did not apply exclusively to the reading of novels. It was a sort of supplementary decree in which the name of this new invention was specifically added to the list of moral beguilements against which that judgment had anciently stood. Poetry, the Drama, even the virtuous History, had had their noses disjointed by this tribunal. But their great age and the familiarity of their presence had softened the decree in its enforcement. The Novel was a young offender in aspect (though he had the nature and inheritance of the other three), and was, besides, strong in masculinity and virility. A certain sympathy thus sprung up for the three quaint old ladies, as for old offenders whose persistence had won the wink of toleration. They actually achieved a certain factitious respectability in comparison with the fresher and more active dangers afforded by the Novel. But the Novel was simply a combination of all three, more flexible and adaptable. It, therefore, merely shares in the old judgment directed against everything in literature—and in all the arts—that displays the seductiveness of fancy or taste. The judgments of public opinion have been consistently in the line of