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COMPENDIOUS "BLOOD or DIME NOVELS OF THE 80 s and 90 s By Floyd L. ... It wasn t necessary to read pages of tiresome description before coming to the action. They usually started with a "bang" and interest never lagged until the end. ... give an older boy 35c for an old 22-cal. revolver whose trigger did not work and ... www.archive.org/stream/.../bloodthunders00beagrich_djvu.txt

Then, in the summer of 1860, came the first of the original "Dime Novels" in their ... amid which the 6 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY pioneers did their work. ... a result of the parental discovery that they were reading such "impossible trash. .... A typical item of this class is Harbaugh's "Snow Shoe Tom, or New York Boys ... www.archive.org/stream/.../beadlecollection00newyrich_djvu.txt

The Children's Reading -y Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2007 with funding ..... They are ex- posed in a truer sense of the word than are the children whom the ... There are two classes of bad books : one the thrilling tale of impossible ... are at work as in the dime and nickel novel — the suggestions entering the mind ... www.archive.org/.../

Contents 1 A stranger in town 1 2 The dime-novel boyhood 9 3 The heart of .... and respect that Rickard seemed able to draw from all classes of the human animal. ..... I lived the life most boys imagine they want to live when they read a dime novel. ... Aside from the danger, a fellow sometimes had to work in the saddle forty- ... www.archive.org/stream/.../magnificentrube006541mbp_djvu.txt

The reader will need no spur to his interest, nor the work require either apology ... In the main, they deal not with the great heroes, the Carsons, the Custers* and the .... I had read everything obtainable in the line of dime novels, and my head was so ... The next day I obtained a position as bell boy in the Weldon Hotel, at the ... www.archive.org/stream/.../hardknockslifest00younrich_djvu.txt

He walked from table to table to see what they were reading but finding himself ... Writing of present international aspects of library work with children, .... VALUES 7 In 1909 a training class for children's librarians was begun in the ..... period were the paper-covered dime novels first published in 1859, written first for adults , ... www.archive.org/stream/.../libraryservicefo014984mbp_djvu.txt

Sep 15, 2007 ... Another class of books closely allied to biography and history, is the ... Written for the most part with unstudied ease and unreserve, they entertain the reader .... It is a wise plan to neglect the novels of the year, and to read (or to re-read ... For Spanish Literature in its full extent, there is no work at all equal to ... www.gutenberg.org/files/22608/22608-8.txt

May 20, 2008 ... They abide in a realm of their own, in blessed isolation from that ..... In discussing the early training of children in literature with large classes of young people preparing .... In the work of the reading course the pupil should take the lead, ..... attractive adventure features of the "dime novel," and which have in ... www.gutenberg.org/files/25545/25545-8.txt

I bow to the authors for the quality of their work and to the publishers and the public for .... The main thread of the novel now emerges as the history of the rivalry of these ..... They read the heavens and they saw a certain strange star by which they ..... boys of his own age and was graduated at eighteen, president of his class. www.gutenberg.org/files/27116/27116-8.txt

Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. ... 21 III "Sahib, there is always work for real soldiers!" . .... When they put another patient in the spare bed in his room we copied Monty, ... Will prefers dime novels, if he must sit still, and there was none. www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/zeito10.txt