 For many years a remarkable fact has been before my notice, and continually confirmed by long experience in the Manchester Free Libraries, that schoolboys or students who took to novel reading to any extent never made much progress in after life.  Biennial Report - Page 1261882Full view - About this book
 | Library Association - Libraries - 1880 - 224 pages
...excitement—clerks and warehousemen, the school-girl whose education has been neglected, and such like. For many years a remarkable fact has been before my...Libraries, that school-boys or students who took to novel-reading to any extent never made much progress in after life. They neglected real practical life... | |
 | f. leypoldt - 1881 - 370 pages
..." For many years a THE LIBRARY JOURNAL. remarkable fact has been before my notice, and continual]}' confirmed by a long experience in the Manchester free...libraries, that school-boys or students who took to novel-reading to any great extent never made much progress in after-life. They neglected real practical... | |
 | Margaret Markwick - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 238 pages
...for owing to the all-absorbed novel-reading wife.'* He recalls a librarian telling a meeting in 1879 that: Schoolboys or students who took to novel reading to any great extent never made much progress in after life. They neglected real practical life for a sensually imaginative one, and suffered accordingly... | |
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