The man who makes wholesale denunciation of notion pitches overboard "Pilgrim's Progress" and the parables of our Lord.

But the fact is that some of the publishing houses that once were cautious about the moral tone of their books have become reckless about every thing but the number of copies sold.

It is all the same to them whether the package they send out be corn starch, jujube paste or hellebore.

They wrap up fifty copies and mark them C.O.D.But if the expressman, according to that mark, should collect on delivery all the curses that shall come on the head of the publishing house which printed them, he would break down his wagon and kill his horses with the load.

Let parents and guardians be especially watchful.