ALWAYS A CENSOR.
So much stir lias teen occasioned by the recent attempt at a "library censorship" that it would almost appear that many people regard the movement us a startling innovation (says an English writer). But the popular library, which dates back to 1812, has been always distinguished by something of the kind. And there were censors —of a sort—even before. Thomas Moore, in his amusing, if all-but-forgotten comic opera, "M.P., or The Blue-Stocking," which "hits off" many of the manners of tho time, has a. reference to the subject in hand. Here it is. Leatherhead is a bookseller,. and De Rosier his assistant. "Leatherhead: What have you been about? Do you mean to ruin me? Do Rosier: 1 ask pardon, sir. I have been just looking over tho last new publication to see if it be fit for the young ladies of tho_ boardingschool. Leatherhead: Which is as much as to say, sir, that you would sooner ruin me than the young ladies of the' boarding-school. I am ashamed of you." The opera was published in 1811.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 966, 5 November 1910, Page 11
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179ALWAYS A CENSOR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 966, 5 November 1910, Page 11
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