"DOUBTFUL" BOOKS.
LIBRARY CENSORSHIP. PROTEST FROM AUTHORS. By Telegraph.—Pre as Association.—Copyright. (Received December 6, 11 p.m.) London, December 6. Recently the Circulating Libraries' Association determined not to circulate scandalous, libellous, or immoral books, or those likely to prove offensive to any considerable section of subscribers, this action being the outcome of customers' complaints about the recent increase in the output of doubtful books. This has created considerable discussion among novelists and others, and many well-known writers, including H. G. Wells, Jerome K. Jerome, William John Locke, Eden Phillpotts, John Galsworthy, W. F. De Morgan, and Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Harrison), are vigorously resenting the censorship of libraries on the ground that it will hamper the discussion of urgent social problems.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14237, 7 December 1909, Page 5
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121"DOUBTFUL" BOOKS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14237, 7 December 1909, Page 5
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