Title: The New Zealand Evangelist, Vol. 1, no. 12 (1 June 1849)

Editors:

• Rev. Samuel Ironside
• Rev John Inglis

In: The New Zealand Evangelist

Publication details: Wellington

Part of: William Golder Electronic Edition

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Childishness, in boys, even of good abilities, seems to me to be a growing fault, and I do not know to what to ascribe it except to the great number of exciting books of amusement like Pickwick and Nickleby, Bentley's Magazine. &c., &c. These completely satisfy all the intellectual appetite of a boy, which is rarely very voracious, and leave him totally palled, not only for his regular work, which I could readily excuse in comparison, but for good literature of all sorts, even for History and for Poetry.

Arnold.