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Mémoires de Casanova. De Foe’s Moll Flanders. Balzac’s Droll stories. Rabelais. The Heptameron. The Decameron. Arabian Nights. Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter. in fact i'll discover a bargain extra of this kind of literature in my library and yours, yet this batch is adequate for my objective. subsequent, I became my consciousness to new undesirable books. in the intervening time, i used to be in a position to name merely 3 to mind—Swinburne’s and Oscar Wilde’s Poems, and Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass. ” Did I lay out those with the others? No—for I didn’t have them. have you ever? Are they convenient for the common younger guy or pass over to get at? probably no longer. Are these others? certain, a lot of them. Now i believe i will be able to convey, by way of a number of extracts, that during the concerns of coarseness, obscenity, and tool to excite salacious ardour, Walt Whitman’s publication is sophisticated and colorless and impotent, contrasted with that different and extra largely learn batch of literature. In “Leaves of Grass,” the subsequent passage has horrified Mr. Oliver Stevens by way of its coarseness: ************* ************* [We are obliged to fail to remember it. —ED. publish. ] It does appear unnecessarily huge, it really is actual; yet discover how light and mild it really is for those who positioned it along this passage from Rabelais—thirteenth bankruptcy. (Hotten’s London version is illustrated through Doré, and the images have carried all of it over the world): “‘How is that? ’ stated Grangousier. ‘I have,’ replied Gargantua, ‘by a protracted and curious adventure, discovered a method to—’” ************* ************* [We imagine it top to forget the remainder of it. —ED. submit. ] Or this, from Gulliver’s Travels, (chapter V, Brobdignag,) a ebook that's in everybody’s residence and is day-by-day learn by way of young and old alike: “Neither did they [the bare younger maids of honor,] in any respect scruple, whereas i used to be by,—” ************* ************* [We can't enterprise to accomplish the above extract. —ED. publish. ] Now what do you actually reflect on these? —especially the only from the preferred Doré Rabelais. but you recognize that that isn’t the nastiest factor in American libraries, in anyway. No, for there's a tale informed within the Heptameron, and retold in different different books, which simply surpasses it in filthiness. less than the name of “Merrie Jests of King Louis the Eleventh,” apparently in Balzac’s “Droll Tales,” (illustrated by means of Doré,) and will be came across and consulted in nearly anybody’s house—for the Droll stories are within the cabinets of a mess of chic those who wouldn’t dare to be stuck sheltering a replica of Leaves of Grass in those fastidious days. yet adequate of obscenity; you understand, your self, that Whitman understands not anything in regards to the real article. allow us to now think of erotic concerns. Whitman’s offenses during this line are inside the following passages: ************* ************* [All issues thought of, it sort of feels top to disregard them. —ED. publish. ] In our families, one younger individual in 150 thousand has the chance to learn these passages; yet each creature in each family in the USA has the chance to learn the subsequent strains from Shakspeare (Venus and Adonis),—and it won’t stir him up, both, since it was once now not written with the reason to stir humans up: “The boar!