Newspapers printed for them, such as the _Youth's Companion_ and the National Society's _Temperance Banner_, were then utterly unknown.
The sacred writer of the ecclesiastics needs not to tell the people of this generation: "That of making many books there is no end." It is not, however, a matter for congratulation that so large a portion of the volumes that are most read are works of fiction.

In most of our public libraries the novels called for are far in excess of all the other books.

Let any one scrutinize the advertising columns of literary journals, and he will see that the only startling figures are those which announce the enormous sale of popular works of fiction.

I am not uttering a tirade against any book simply because it is fictitious.

Our Divine Master spoke often in parables; Bunyan's matchless allegories have guided multitudes of pilgrims towards the Celestial City.