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...Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie's Golden Moment" is almost as bad as a story can be. It is to a good dime novel as a melodrama of the movies to a real tragedy. As for Mr. Burk's fragmentary "Delay," a Senior editor should know better than to set such an example of halfdone work...
...Dime Museum," by Hallowell Abbott, is remarkably sympathetic, and, as it does not pretend to be anything more than a sketch, this quality, together with its simplicity of style, makes it very readable...
Some of the Yale students are writing novels. The first one was a dime novel, recently published in New York, and the scene of it is laid in New Haven...
...lands. The same may be said of the spies that are sent out by two colleges to note the proficiency and faults of the rival crew; it springs from boyishness more than anything else; it is the act of half-men who a few years earlier were reading dime novels, daubing their cheeks with red clay, and lassoing their elders and betters in the semblance of buffalo, or shooting each other with arrows, in the semblance of red men. The precautions taken by each crew, not to allow the other side to see them at their best, may be confidently...
...dime novel has just been published in New York, the scene of which is laid in New Haven, and whose principals are Yale students...