TRASHY NOVELS.
GOOD ADVIGis TO GIRLS. Sydney, Dee. 11). Lady King-Hall, speaking at the annual distribution cf prizes at the ; Church of England Girls’ Grammar | Bchccl. Lavender Bay, warned the pupils against reading trashy novels, I by which she meant works by second- ! rale authors. The ehniaciers dc- ■ picked in those books were quiteunlike people to-day, Lady Kingrl'/iil remarked, while the situations' I were mostly impossible, and the inly.' Id' nis impro l >ablc. Tll e all nosiphere cf meh works was decidedly iimvbcksome, and, therefore, harmful. They lacked literary merit. Tim youthful mind was generally mime deeply impressed by reading than was generally supposed. She urged girls to be very fastidious in /■i-m-rd io (he c!:i«s cf fiction which tlm-y tcc'k up. Those cf distinct ihcmry merit, were alum' safe. She spmia’ly mgrd trail to read werk/i w’.'R'li. were of cilucatii.-nal value, i’y doing that it, diil not necessarily ;ii-"in thoir reading would he dull, ■imsi depended upon the selected bock.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 11, 24 December 1912, Page 2
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