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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 526

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lof pleasure. It illustrates a phase of child-life which is always amusing to the grown-up, but it is not a good book-plate for a child.The little Robert Gable plate, though notnecessarily unsatisfying for the boy-owner, nevertheless is distinctly a parents concep-tion. In this case the boy plays… … DESIGNED BY SIDNEY L. SMITH The grown-up attitude among many cul-tured people is that they want to get awayfrom the hackneyed and familiar at any cost—a sort of originality or bust idea. Thatthey do often bust artistically is neitherhere nor there. What is important is thatthe boy or girl rightly…

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