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Excerpt from Youth's Golden Cycle, or Round the Globe in Sixty Chapters: Showing How to Get on in the World, With Hints on Success in Life; Examples of Successful Men; The Blessings of Loving Mothers, Careful Housewives, Clean, Cozy Homes; What and How to Eat and Drink: What to Read and How to Write; The Structure and Uses Of The rapid increase of the evils that result from the reading of pernicious literature has suggested the composition and publication of this book. Every hour, the havoc wrought by the perusal of immoral fiction by our school-boys is assuming graver aspects. Almost daily we read of bands of youthful desperadoes, just entering their teens, being broken up by the police, and nearly always it is found that the organizations so broken up were directly suggested by dime novels, and founded with the express object of robbery and terrorism, - in some cases, even murder. Listen to the words on this subject of the author of "Silver Skates," A Wise and Charming Lady, and, as most English-reading boys and girls well know, editor of one of the best juvenile magazines in the world. Here are her words, earnest and true: "The mayor of Philadelphia says he could rid the jails of two thirds of the boy criminals in the next year, if he could banish bad plays from the boards of the variety theatres, and put bad books out of print. Now, it will not do to take fascinating bad literature out of boys' bands, and give them in its place Mrs. Barbauld and Peter Parley, or, worse still, the sentimental dribblings of those writers who think that any 'goody' talk will do for children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.