Word: drivel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Walter Blackburn Harte, of Boston, has recently brought out a new magazine which he calls the Fly Leaf. It is in minature, on the order of the Chap Book and has about as little provocation. These little publications of indecent drivel are cropping up in such numbers that they have become a positive plague. The great danger is that, in time, people may come to take them seriously. So long as they are regarded as comic papers, however, they will be harmless if not amusing...