Satan's Attorneys

New Zealand Tablet, 15 October 1908, Page 9

Satan's Attorneys

It is said that the devil seldom appears by his proper attorney. If he did, his representative would be the sordid caitiff" who, for a paltry gain, blights the fair' blossom of youthful purity and innocence by the sale of books that might have been produced in Satan's own private prirttery. An Auckland bookseller has been confiding .some uneasy, though not by any ntfeans new, information to , a Herald reporter in connection with' the black work which this evil- class are doing in * God.'s Own Country.' 'Some of, the books,' said he, 'kept in some- of these low-class places (fortunately there are not many of such), would make your hair stand on end, and fill any decent man with disgust. Yet there is a secret traffic going on in books, the authors and sellers of which ought to be boiled in oil ; and it is that sort of filth the police ought to search out, and they should bring the purveyors to justice.'