Madame Margot: A Grotesque Legend of Old Charleston:

A JUDICIOUS distinction has recently been made between mere reading matter, on the one hand, and literature, on the other: between what you glance through on a train or in bed, to kill time or induce sleep, and what you read with a delighted sense of high quality and enduring appeal. In a day when the former type has almost banished the latter, thanks to the influence of cheap magazines, "best-seller" standards, and ulterior "film" or "screen" considerations, it is a noteworthy and inspirin...