Village books

Then follow five more books by Mrs. Eddy at highwaymen's rates, as
usual, some of them in 'leatherette covers,' some of them in 'pebbled
cloth,' with divinity circuit, compensation balance, twin screw, and
the other modern improvements: and at the same bargain counter can be
had the 'Christian Science Journal.' I wish it were in refined taste
to apply a rudely and ruggedly descriptive epithet to that literary
slush-bucket, so as to give one an accurate idea of what it is like.
I am moved to do it, but I must not: it is better to be refined than
accurate when one is talking about a production like that.
Christian-Science literary oleomargarine is a monopoly of the Mother
Church Headquarters Factory in Boston; none genuine without the
trade-mark of the Trust. You must apply there, and not elsewhere; and
you pay your money before you get your soap-fat.
The Trust has still other sources of income. Mrs. Eddy is president (and
perhaps proprietor?) of the Trust's Metaphysical College in Boston, where
the student who has practised C.


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