Bram Stoker, long known as one of the most conservative critics of books and plays, and whose life of Sir Henry Irving will probably come to be considered the most authoritative has begun a London campaign against the prurient novel. His “declaration of animosity” to this particular specie was delivered at a meeting of the Whitefriars’s club, last Saturday evening, and caused no small ripple of discussion by men who believe differently about the subject. “This abomination, the foully conceived novel, has great vogue both in Britain and America, and belongs to the category of pestilence that must be stamped out,” said Mr. Stoker. “We journalist authors have the deepest responsibility in the matter. Every decent newspaper should exclude from its reviews mention of unclean books, and within our craft we should denounce these insidious persons in season and out.