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The Freeman's Journal carries a report of the address delivered by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool on a visit to the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Everton. The Bishop put his case on the 'evils of dancing' and his ambivalence about the benefits of universal education. He then turned his thoughts to 'sensational novels and the drama', arguing against the trend of writers 'describing life as it is' in their novels.
The Bishop concluded with a salutary warning to parents that they should watch what their children read and said that 'books of a sensational class as a rule encouraged vice and discouraged virtue, and the reading of them should therefore be discountenanced and forbidden'.
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The Bishop of Liverpool on the Vices and Follies of the Age, Sensational Novels, Dancing, the Drama, &c.
The Freeman's Journal
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