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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 517, 8 May 1880, Page 3

ABE NOVELS HEALTHY? I sec somebody is chattering about n modern novelist, and. insists that papa should excludethe writings of George Eliot from his table because they contain no religions rei'renccs. At that rate some of the ablest writers living .would have to bo prohibited. What 'a goose' a man would be who would expect an author to combine the skill of the novelist with the aims of a Sunday-school teacher. So long as a novel contains nothing objcctinablc we ought to feel thankful in these days, 1 when much of this kind of literature—thanks to the low moral tone of the age—is such as should consign the writers to one of her Majesty’s gaols. Prurient, beastly stuff—and, mark ; me !—quite fashionable. But Middlemarch—the 'first living writer of ‘English, a genius whose works 'arc a keen delight, and worthy the closest attention of the student! Caff Ouida, and and a hundred more, into outer darkness: they-poison the youthful mind. But; let us cherish our Eliots, with their vigorous' understandings and their healthy minds. It is o- pjty there are not more of them. J’m inclined to flunk that people who arc very nice are often very nasty.— Toby Twinkle.

CARLYLE TOWN JDOARD. NOTICE is hereby given, that under the provisions of; the Rating Act, 1876,” a meeting of the above Roard w|ll ho..held on FRIDAY, the 28th May, 1880, at 7 p,m., to make a Rate of 9d in the £ on the value of all rateable property within the Town of Car’lylc,' for the period commencing Ist April, 1880, .and ending; 3lst. March, 1881 ; and that the same shall be due and payable in oho instalment at the ..Office of the Board on Thursday) Ist July, 1880; and that the Rate-book is now open for inspection at .the Office of the Board, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between the hoqrs of IQ.a.m, and -1 p.m., until tl\e 28th day pf Mav, 1880. P, M, HARRIS, i ' Town Clerk.

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