The London Spectator says : — The English is the most religious of nations, and its notion of heaven is sitting on a cold cloud singing psalms, and its greatest poet imagined cannon the weapon of the Almighty against the rebels of heaven, and Paradise a garden where orates lu-ow wild. "Three 'or foiu New York publishers," says the Detroit Free P?'css " have done more, through their boy story papers, to provide the next generation with thieves, loafers and convicts, than all other influences combined."
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 279, 6 September 1878, Page 16
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83Untitled New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 279, 6 September 1878, Page 16
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