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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 493, 28 April 1909, Page 8

"It is pnthotic/ sometimes, to seo how pcoplo chooso novels," remarked the Rev. Dr. Waddell in the course of-an address on novcl-roading given to iho a St. Andrew's Debating Society, Dunedin, oil Saturday night. "Go down to the Athenaeum," ho continued, "and watch people coming to select a novel. They have no conception at - all—seveneighths of thorn—of who is a good writer and who is a bad writer. They tako up a book, turn over tho pages, and glanco at it. If there's an illustration in it that attracts them, then they think they will tako that book, and they go homo with a book about which they blow nothing whatever." The doctor went on to compare this to the action of a" person who should go into a chemist's shop and mix himself a physic out of all tho bottlos that attracted him or the shelves. "It is bad enough," he said, "to poison your body, but rt' is an irretrievable disaster to poison tho mind and tho soul; and tho novels which tend to do that crowd our book shops and fill the shelves of our public librarios, and find 1 their way into tho homes of us all."—"Otago Daily Times." For Children's Hacking Coujh at niehl, Woods' Great Peppermint Cue, Iβ. 6d.,25.Gd.