<i>&quot;We are quite sure it is not to the interest of the nation that the rising generation should be nourished on the literary fare enclosed within the covers of a ‘Penny Dreadful.’  Yet we do not very well see how the reading of the people is to be supervised by the police.  Reform, we fancy, must be left to that best of all detectives — public opinion.”</i><p>Not an attitude the current government or judiciary would appear to share.