_Pall Mall Gazette._--"A humorist of high excellence."
_Daily Express._--"Really clever and admirably good fun."
_Star._--"Some day there will be a Leacock Club. Its members will all possess a sense of humour."
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
FRENZIED FICTION
_FOURTH EDITION_
_Crown 8vo. 5s. net_
"Everything in 'Frenzied Fiction' is exhilarating. Full of good things."--_Morning Post._
"More delightful samples of Leacock humour. These delightful chapters show Mr. Leacock at his best."
_Daily Graphic._
"Stephen Leacock has firmly established himself in public favour as one of our greatest humorists. His readers will be more than pleased with 'Frenzied Fiction.'"--_Evening Standard._
"It is enough to say that Mr. Leacock retains an unimpaired command of his happy gift of disguising sanity in the garb of the ludicrous. There is always an ultimate core of shrewd common-sense in his burlesques."--_Spectator._
"Full of mellow humour."--_Daily Mail._
"From beginning to end the book is one long gurgle of delight."--_World._
"If it is your first venture into the Leacockian world read that delicious parody 'My Revelations as a Spy,' and we will be sworn that before you've turned half a dozen pages you will have become a life-member of the Leacock Lodge."--_Town Topics._
"When humour is such as you get in 'Frenzied Fiction' it is a very good thing indeed."--_Sketch._
"There is always sufficient sense under Stephen Leacock's nonsense to enable one to read him at least twice."--_Land and Water._
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA
AND OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES
_Crown 8vo. 5s. net_
"Equal in gay humour and deft satire to any of its predecessors, and no holiday will be so gay but this volume will make it gayer.... It is a book of rollicking good humour that will keep you chuckling long past summer-time."--_Daily Chronicle._
"At his best, full of whims and oddities ... the most cheerful of humorists and the wisest of wayside philosophers."--_Daily Telegraph._
"He has never provided finer food for quiet enjoyment ... his precious quality of Rabelaisian humanism has matured and broadened in its sympathy."--_Globe._
"In the author's merriest mood. All of it is distilled wit and wisdom of the best brand, full of honest laughter, fun and frolic, comedy and criticism."--_Daily Graphic._
"The book is inspired by that spirit of broad farce which runs glorious riot through nearly all that Stephen Leacock has written."--_Bookman._
"He has all the energy and exuberance of the born humorist.... All admirers will recognize it as typical of Mr. Leacock's best work."--_Manchester Guardian._
"An entertaining volume."--_Scotsman._
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
_Crown 8vo. 5s. net_
A discussion of the new social unrest, the transformation of society which it portends and the social catastrophe which it might precipitate.
The point of view taken by the author leads towards the conclusion that the safety of the future lies in a progressive movement of social control alleviating at least the misery it cannot obliterate, and based upon the broad general principle of equality of opportunity, and a fair start. The chief immediate opportunities for social betterment, as the writer sees them, lie in the attempt to give every human being in childhood, education and opportunity.
"His book is short, lucid, always to the point, and sometimes witty."--_Times._
"A book for the times, suggestive, critical and highly stimulating. Mr. Leacock surveys the troubled hour and discusses the popular palliatives with a keen, unbiassed intelligence and splendid sympathy. I hope it will have as large a circulation as any of his humorous books, for it has much wisdom in it."--_Daily Chronicle._
"The charm of Mr. Leacock's book is ... that it deals tersely and clearly with the problem of Social Justice without technical jargon or any abuse of generalities."--_Morning Post._
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THE HUMOROUS NOVELS OF HARRY LEON WILSON
BUNKER BEANMA PETTENGILLSOMEWHERE IN RED GAPRUGGLES OF RED GAP
_Crown 8vo. 7s. net_
Harry Leon Wilson is one of the first of American humorists, and in popularity he is a close rival of O. Henry. His "Ruggles of Red Gap," published at the beginning of the war, achieved a distinct success in England, while the raciness and vivacity of "Ma Pettengill" have furthered the author's reputation as an inimitable delineator of Western comedy. An English edition of this author's works is in course of preparation, of which the above are the first volumes.
"The author has the rare and precious gift of original humour."--_Daily Graphic._
"Thackeray would have enjoyed Mr. Wilson's merry tale of 'Ruggles of Red Gap.' A very triumph of farce."--_Sunday Times._
"Mr. Wilson is an American humorist of the first water. We have not for a long time seen anything so clever in its way and so outrageously funny."--_Literary World._
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
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