[Rarebooks] FS: 1882 Quakers Against Popular Art, Theater & Books

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

An Address on Some Growing Evils of the Day, especially Demoralizing  
Literature and Art, from The Representatives of the Religious Society  
of Friends, for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Second month,  
10, 1882.

Published in Philadelphia by the Society of Friends in 1882.

An unsigned, heartfelt diatribe against the lax morals of today’s  
society, as seen in 1882, by at least several members of the Society  
of Friends, aka, the Quakers. After the requisite complaint about art  
(undraped figures [occupying] conspicuous places”), and a jab at the  
performing arts, (“emboldened by this laxity of public sentiment, the  
theatre, the opera, and the circus, too ready to pander to the lower  
appetites of the community, have of late thrown off much of the  
restraint which at one time they assumed”), the Friends take on the  
big target- books. “A large proportion of the publishing arrangements  
of this country is employed upon novels, either in books, magazines,  
or family newspapers; and there are public libraries, designed for the  
improvement of the people, whose volumes count by the tens of  
thousands, devoted in large measure to works of fiction, because there  
is so much more demand for them than for any other kind of reading.  
Such works, whatever may be their literary merit, often present false  
views of life, or aims that are far from elevating; and by stimulating  
the fancy with dreams which they cannot realize, the young of either  
sex are frequently led into most unwise courses or improper  
connections”. Heavens to betsy.

Paper covers. 4.5”x6.5”, 16 pages. Some soil and wear, stain on the  
corner of the front cover, rear cover and last several pages with  
corner creases. $35

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