Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1901 — Mudies of the Gutter. [ARTICLE]

Mudies of the Gutter.

A particularly satisfactory feature of tfiTe growth of free libraries in London is the gradual suppression of soiqe curious circulating libraries, which for many years have been doing great harm. These circulating libraries Were carried on—and some are stiil from stalls in the East-end. The books were all of the blood-and-thuuder variety, in which ihe Hooligan and criminal are |»otlieosized, and the police are the hrfftral enemies of the hero. The stall chargii^ u 4 out these noxious volumes, reading aikpence for the privilege of the free libraPNiee for deposit. Now, ed the trade— practically ruin-