we dare say that those who truly recognized and benefited from their truths felt chiefly sorrow and regret that such things could have a part in what had proved so helpful to them.

We have had some well-meant advice offered us regarding our handling and advertising such books, and because of our wish to bring out some important phases of this question, mentioned in a letter recently received, we will quote from it.

“When you speak of certain books and which good, including no one good to accept good ethical teachings when he swallows a lot of falsehood with it. The first rule of progress is devotion to Truth as far as it can be established. Given that, the ethical teachings are likely to tell. But build your house on the sand, ever so finely, the time will come when the foundation will give way and the truth will perish with it.

“I have not forgotten how, as a youth, the stories of Noah and Jonah caused me to reject the whole Bible. Sooner or later these people will discover that they have been imposed upon, and away goes the whole thing. As the Germans say, they throw the child away with the bath.

“It is only people of discrimination who should venture to read such books. The average person, more in search of the wonderful than anything else, will get a lopsided viewpoint which is not favorable to continued progress. And, when they have reached discrimination, the hocus pocus will be of no use to them against the whole.

“I’d be mighty careful, if I were in your place, of commending anything because despite its falsity it has in it a grain of truth. It is just by this means that imposters succeed.

THIS letter is quoted because it gives opportunity to stress certain truths that we wish our readers particularly to note.

In passing we will state that the letter lays itself open to easy answering because of likening these books to the Bible which contains in it such stories as those of Noah and Jonah, that cause ignorant boys—and we can add, many grown ups—to throw away the whole Bible as having no value.

According to this, no one, who has not attained discrimination should be permitted to read it, and we therefore should not commend