Moore, Bartholomew F.:

$200 · Offered by William Reese Company

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE TWO LITERARY SOCIETIES, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. Includes a lengthy attack on books that "deprave the taste and corrupt the affections." Moore writes: "This species of reading, quickly becomes a passion, creates a dreamy existence, from which the victim awakes with the same restless feelings, as does the confirmed eater of opium; both alike, find life intolerable, without the poison, which first imparted, and now, at once, continues the disease and furnishes a momentary comfort." He follows these remarks with similarly stern observations on public service and the dangers of infidelity. Contemporary inscription on titlepage reads: "With the respects of H. Norwood."

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