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Updated: June 13, 2025
The "article," as Tom Moore called it, was in active request. Poetry was recited in the camp of Alexander, in the Roman baths, in the castles on the Rhine, and English hostelries. Now it is replaced by novel-reading, and there are few who know how much pleasure can be derived on a winter's evening by impromptu poetic recitations.
Macaulay goes to the University His love for Trinity College His contemporaries at Cambridge Charles Austin The Union Debating Society University studies, successes, and failures The Mathematical Tripos The Trinity Fellowship William the Third Letters Prize poems Peterloo Novel-reading The Queen's Trial Macaulay's feeling towards his mother A Reading-party Hoaxing an editor Macaulay takes pupils.
"If all those big, strapping women, Suss and Finshriber and the whole gang of them, were anything but vegetables, they'd get out and hustle with keeping house, to work some of their flabbiness off and give us a chance to get somebody in besides a chocolate-eating, novel-reading crowd of useless women who think, mommy, you're a dumbwaiter, chambermaid, lady's maid, and French chef rolled in one!
She might even deny that it had any illumination at all.... He could not prevent a sneer from his retort to her statement that she seldom read novels. "I suppose," he said, "you think that novels are not sufficiently serious?" "Oh, no," she answered quickly. "I just haven't time for novel-reading!" That seemed to him to be worse than if she had said that she preferred to read solid books.
I want the good of Sunday from beginning to end. I want nothing but Sunday between Saturday and Monday. Week-days filtering in spoil the whole. What is the use of having a Sabbath-day, a rest-day, if Mondays and Tuesdays are to be making continual raids upon it? What good do dinner-party Sundays and travelling Sundays and novel-reading Sundays do?
So much novel-reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched; and doubtless it gives some ideal dignity to the day.
Its popularity, we are informed, exceeds that of any of his former works, excepting the first two published by him, "Peg Woffington," and "Christie Johnstone," which a few years ago startled the novel-reading world by their eccentricity of style, their ingenious novelty of construction, and also by their freshness of sentiment, comet-books, pursuing one another in erratic orbits of thought, now close upon the central light of Truth, now distantly remote from it, but always brilliant, and generally leaving a sparkling train of recollection behind.
Worthington realized her daughter's danger, she sought an opportunity to instruct her on the dangers of novel-reading. "Some effects of novel-reading," said she, "are worse even than those produced by dancing. Many novels are hurtful because of the many false ideas interwoven in the stories.
I am sorry that I am unable to enlighten the novel-reading reader further concerning the 'prima donna; but that is a delicate subject under existing circumstances. So presenting, herewith, the bright and sulphurous end of the Lucifer Match under the nose of a discerning public, I will watch the upcurling and dilating of nostrils.
The development of variety of fiction since the days of Scott and Cooper is prodigious. The prejudice against novel-reading is quite broken down, since fiction has taken all fields for its province; everybody reads novels. Three-quarters of the books taken from the circulating library are stories; they make up half the library of the Sunday-schools.
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