a subject to be despised by really virile men.” Literature, in fact, seems to be classed by a large number of thinking working men with antimacassars, fish knives and other unintelligible and futile trivialities of “middle-class culture” and, as a subject of instruction, is suspect as an attempt “to side-track the working class movement.” We regard the prevelence of such opinions as a serious matter … because it points to a morbid condition of the body politic which if not taken in hand may be followed