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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have been prized from early times, but to attempt cheap imitations by cloth covers emblazoned with all the colors of the rainbow, as is done especially in some recent editions of the poets, is enough to blackball them against admittance into the libraries of persons of taste. Better the old-fashioned, sober, hog-skin cover than the flash and flimsy bindings of some of our modern books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...stick by her to the bitter end. We can wish the gentleman nothing better than to live to witness the calamities and retributions he prophesies (fire and brimstone being among the least of these), because in that case he would be likely to attain to an exceedingly verdant old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...Yale Courant comes out in new form, which, as regards typography, is far inferior to its old one. A change has been made, too, in the management of the paper, which places it more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...dreamy days of old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PORTRAIT. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...old and noble race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PORTRAIT. | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

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