Word: dime
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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HINTS FOR HOME READING. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York, 1880. This book, we imagine, may do good in very illiterate families, that have never attained to higher reading than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that...