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ONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1882

NOVEL READING.

A PAPFR READ BY WILI BEF} RE THE EDUCATIONAL ON FRIDAY EVENING, FEB. 17.

4M KENNEDY, ESQ , INSTITUTE,

It is an apt Yankee saying, that when a pe: sen has needissly or heedlessly provoked an assembly to criticism and retort, that ‘‘he stirred up a hornet’s nest.” I trust that my paper on

NOVEL READING /mav not prove an illustration of the saw.

My theme is a wide one; and I[ found that I could only teuch upon some of the |saltent points, and keep within the limits of thix paper. | Asastarting point, I emphatically claim ithat when the disease of reading the Dick

Tuspin and Jack Shephard style of litera ,tere breaks out in one or more of the j family, it should be stamped out as + ffec- | tually and mercilessly as is the small-pox (on its a) pearance in a neighborhood. I| | would also heap upon the burning pile the | immense quantity of trash issued as Dime Novels, and in weekly and monthly pericdi- ca's on both sides of the water--the whole class is

And here I draw a strong anid marked line | With the pure and elevated fiction-writ- ‘ing of Sir Walter Scott commenced a new (era in the world of letters. Mallions of the human race have drank pleasure and profit from his pages; and hundreds of other wr ters have followed in his footsteps, not slavishly copying style, but divertifying their writings, as tieir particular genius dictated; and consequen'ly this generation ‘enjoys more healthful, intellectual pleasure than that of any preceding age.

Jndicious novel reading I am convinced, is beneficial. It must not be indulged in ;at the expense of our everyJay duties of ‘life, nor must solid reading matter and

study be nexzlected in consequence. The wearied Professor or teacher, the harassed merchart, or the overworked divin», may ali resort to the pages of our bes: novelists 'for rest, recreation, pleasure and_ profit.

PERNICIOUS AND DEMORALIZING. } ; }

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If we come down to the simply practical we would eschew broadcloth, calf- sin, and glossy hats. an’! dress in coarse homespun. wear cowhide boots, and cover our heads with rab it-skin caps. lL will mention two incidents in sunport of the res’ and recup-ration su erin jucei by novel reading. Mr. Carlyle, after spending two years or more collecting materials, and writing the first volume of his ‘* Frederick the Great” lent the manuscript to his friend John Stuart Mill. The manuscript was jaccidentaily destroyed. The blow was a ' terrible one to Mr. Carlyle, and for a fort- night he buried his grief in novel reading. | Hie over-wroneht brain was thereby re- crnited, and he was enabled to recommence and finish his great work

Again :ashort time since, a gentleman d-serihed an interview with the renowned German general and strategist, Von Moltke. The latter was seated in his library, resting from the cares of military preparation and manoeuvres by reading an English novel. , (I am sorry to say it was one of Miss Brad- | do.’s.—1 think I could recommend to the | old gentleman much better English novel- ists than he seems to have fallen in with )

The Creator evidently intended that the human rece should exercise, for good pur- poses of course, the great and

WONDERFUL FACULTY of imagination with which he has endowed it The poetry of all ages, I am sure, is 4 proof of this pr position, and fiction is the twin sister of poetry, or, at least, the great factor in its make-up. And, furthermore, it cannot be denied that fiction is largely and wisely used to expand the mind in in- fancy, to prompt boyhood to vigorous action, mental and physical ; and later in life, even in old age, the average civilized human being draws on his imagination for many of the pleasures and, realities of life. Why, even in this Canada of ours. there are many middle-aged men, and also old people. who believe that if Sir John A. , Mc Donald is continued in office, the millen- ium is sure to result; while there area large number of others who as firmly be lieve that it Mr. Blake attains the reins of power, beatitude would immediately fol- low.

Returning, however, to the idea that fiction actnates the race from infaney, on ward, I claim that it is a great motive power for the education of the people. Education does not all consist of that

professors or

which is imparted by that

teachers A proper education is which enables a man to best fill the niche

sfances piace him. I wiil endeavor to demonstrate that

FICTION IS A FACTOR IN EDUCATIO? from infaney up. In all well-regulated families the nurse or mamma, as the case

toe of the amazed baby, and tells it that ‘this little pig went to market and that little pig stayed at home,” with much other nformation of a like nature. This you will observe, is true fiction—it is imagina- tion run riot.

After babyhood is passed, the education of the little one is continued by stiniulat- ing its facalties of wonder and astunish- iment by Mother Habbard’s Rhymes, and

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and the Bean-Stalk, &. Here let me quote Washington Irving, who says: ‘* The world is probably not aware of the in- genuity, humor, good sense and _ satire contained in many of the old English }Nursery Tales. They have, evidently, been the sportive productions of able writers, who would not trust their names ‘o productions that might be considered beneath their dignity. The ponderous works on which they relied for i:nmor- tality have, perhaps, sunk into and carri:d their names down with them ; while their unacknowledged «ffs)ring—

Jack-the-Giant Killer, Giles Gingesbsead,

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the reading uratter

| Maine, Que middie-nged man, nanny d Armstrong,

which is derived from text books, nor that |

in the world in which nature and circuu- |

may ba, playfully seizes the chubby great |

the tales of Cinderella, Tom Thumb, Jack-!

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and Tom Thumb, flourish in wide-spread and never ceasing popularity.

But to return to my subject. Simul- taneously with their tales, Santa Claus and his reindeer are introduced to the children, and they are taught that he is a veritable personage, Afier a few years, however, the girl dis- covers that her flaxen-haired, rosy-cheeked doll is stuffed with saw-dust, the boy that the rein-deer are figments, and, saddest of all, that Santa Claus is a myth. Life for ‘them is hardly worth living, more especi- ally as they beyin to feel the pressure of the detestable lessons of + pe lling and read- At least that was my experience: —all but the saw-dust discovery, that I kft to my sisters.

Permit me to give a little more of MY EXPERIENCE.

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After my tumble from the ideal, I was much troubled by my school tasks, especi-+ ally by frequent repetitions of my reading lessons, which I now thinx were compiled by aman who was never young, or who had forgotten the circumstance. These lessons usual!y begun in the middle of some choice essay (incomprehensible to the small mind), or tragedy, or poem, and ended without finishing. In response to my boy- ish complaints, my mother, to encourage me, ofren told me that I would soon beeome found of reading. IL thought it the most prepos'erons idea ever uttered. Be fond of reiding? Never! But one day my

father brought me a copy of Robinsen Crusoe. And now my troubles ended To

say that I read the book is a mild state- roent; IT almost devoured it. My tasks be- eame easy, avd 1 studied diligently that I tuight return to gloat over the master-piece of De Fos. Then followed Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickelby, ete.,and I was now started by fiction on the highway of delight in reading. My mother was vindicated; [ was svon deep in history, biography, travels, ete. Judging from my own exper- ience, I am satisfied that

THE AVERAGE BOY CAN BE TRAINED TO A LOVE

OF READING

and study, by a proper attention to the suidance of his better inclinations, viz., by providing a liberal supply of resding matter, Which will at first envage his atten- tion, then interest, and finally lead him to that which is substantial and usefol.

Too many yourg people are repelled by which .arests think it is their duty to provide. They, therefore, never acquire a taste for reading, and the result often is that they fly for something to interest them, to questionable Cony 7. and the bar-rooms, of the land are filled with those who might have been led in better paths.

If | had fifty boys, I would provide them just such reading matter as my father gave me.

Aud now Iet me ask: Who amengst us would d-prive the” boys of this erefuture eg nerations of the pleesure of read'ng, and re-reating, end revelling in, the ; aves of Re inson Crosoe ? or the pernsal of Oliver Twist ? or deny him the gratification and information to be derived from the works of Sir Walter Scott ?

I know that there are those who

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CONSCIENTIOUSLY OPPOSE all novel reading. I would simply illue- trate the exp city of one class of these to unders'anud the question, by relating an incident which happened at Calais, where I once kept a bookstore

several times ordered thiouch me some nice little doctrinal books, which edvocated a pl niiful suply «f water (he «as a Beptist.) Aud here let me remark that I wish @ majority of the citizens of Charlottetown were of his persuasion, at least so far as a 11 ntiful supply of water is concerned, Friend Armstrong had a fine family of bovs growing up around hith, and one even- ing Ladvisd him to purehase for them sine historical works, ( Macaulay's first four volumes were then newly issve?), I shall never forget the innocent and earnest wanner in which he shock his head and said ‘I don't ay prove of history ; I once read a book calud the history of Simbad the Sailor, and L didn’t beli-ve a word in it.” Swall deses of reading goa good way with such men. I did propose to show somewhat fully that many of our nev bests jhave, through their works, accomplished

i GREAT AND LASTING REFORMS.

Almost all of D’cken’s writings were aimed ‘ cs, and in some cases he cansed these wrongs to be laughed ont

others an awakened ind indignant public swept them away. through her Unele Tom’s Cabin, did more to render emancipation the Amr can jpeople the hideousvess and bartarism of negro slavery in the South, thas any other aveney.

I should Jike to have shown, so far asT that novelists are the |test accurate historians, in depicting the lives, manners and customs of peoples and inations ; and | venture to say that had sume lof our present novelists lived and written in ‘early English dave, that Professor Green would not have f und it so hard a task to iwiie his History of the Eaglish People, il wished also to prove that, however para- idexical it may tictionists in itheir writings must deal in facts. But to leuter fully on these wouid ure yuur pa- | tieMce.

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FINALLY,

I have heard much of the terrible evils of ‘novel reacting, and of the young people destroyed morally and physically by the jinduigeuce ; but of the hundreds, | may say thousands. of young people with whom I have b.eo intimately or slightly acquainted, the only ones whom I have known to be- ‘eome drunkards, or wee noted for an limoral life, were thoee who scirerly read henvihing, and on where hands the huurs of ’ hung heavy. IJ, for one, have never met these novel reading wrecks.

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