Word: chap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lane has recently edited a catalogue of the Bibliographical Contributions in the College Library including the American and English Chap-books and Broadside Ballads. This is the first catalogue of these pamphlets, amounting to about 3,000 including duplicates, which has ever been published. These Chap-books are interesting because they cover a wide range of subjects; they preserve a record of many details of manners and customs, superstitions and prejudices; they reflect the popular point of view in ways that might otherwise disappear; and they transmit to us a host of romances, songs, jests, and anecdotes in the form...
...literary contributions in the number, a poem, "Poor Little Chap," and a parody on "Fables in Slang," entitled "The Fable of the Crimson Candidate and the Frying Pan," deserves commendation...