PROCEEDINGS FOR 1901 XCD 
. 9, INJURIOUS CIRCULATION OF YELLOW JOURNALS. 
One thing is certain, that the establishment of the judiciously 
selected free public library may have the effect of more or less diminish- 
ing the rapidly increasing circulation of the yellow journals of the United 
States throughout the Dominion. It is only necessary to go any day 
into the news stores of our principal cities and towns to see to what a 
remarkable extent the Sunday papers and low class periodicals of New 
York and other places in the United States are being read by the youth 
of both sexes. It may be stated emphatically that crime is fostered, 
moral sentiment is weakened, all desire for rational amusement is 
impaired, and a taste for the better class of reading is gradually destroyed 
by the continuous perusal of voluminous sheets filled with a most 
atrocious example of sensationalism run riot. Papers of socialistic and 
even atheistic principles are also finding their way now into the country, 
and are already read with avidity in all the large cities of activity and 
population. Through these papers, imported from our neighbours, our 
young people are permeated by false ideas of social and religious life, 
and are taught to look askance even on our own political institutions 
compared with those of a country which has given birth to a Croker 
and a political machine which is doing its best to drag political and civic 
life to the lowest possible depths, that “bosses” may become rich and 
powerful. It is a fact that for every copy of the weekly London Times 
or Spectator, or the Quarterly Review, Fortnightly Review, or Black- 
wood, or the Atlantic Monthly, or the New York Nation, all of which 
represent the best conditions of journalism and literature in Europe and 
America, a hundred copies of the Sunday yellow journals and of the 
low price periodicals, full of catchy illustrations and trashy stories, are 
circulated in the cities and towns of Canada! Here assuredly we have 
one most insidious enemy which culture has to fight against in this 
young nation still in the infancy of its intellectual development. 
10. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZOOLOGY. 
The Royal Society of Canada has received invitations to attend 
the fifth International Congress of Zoology, which opens at Berlin, 
Germany, on August 12th, 1901, under the presidency of Dr. K. Mobius. 
Every zoologist and every friend of zoology may become a member of 
the congress on paying twenty marks to the treasurer before or during 
the session. The following additional information will be useful to 
those Fellows of the Royal Society who are interested in these zoological 
