BOOKS BY STEPHEN LEACOCK
Essays and Literary Studies
Fifth Edition.Crown 8vo.5s. net.
Truth.—"Full of practical wisdom, as sober as it is sound."
Morning Post.—"He is the subtlest of all transatlantic humorists, and, as we have pointed out before, might almost be defined as the discoverer of a method combining English and American humour. But he never takes either his subject or himself too seriously, and the result is a book which is as readable as any of its mirthful predecessors."
World.—"Those readers who fail to find pleasure in this new volume of Essays will be difficult to please. Here are discourses in the author's happiest vein."
Daily News.—"All are delightful."
Bystander.—"No sane person will object to Professor Leacock professing, so long as he periodically issues such good entertainment as Essays and Literary Studies.'"
Daily Telegraph.—"The engaging talent of this Canadian author has hitherto been exercised in the lighter realm of wit and fancy. In his latest volume there is the same irresistible humour, the same delicate satire, the same joyous freshness; but the wisdom he distils is concerned more with realities of our changing age."
Outlook.—"Mr. Leacock's humour is his own, whimsical with the ease of a self-confident personality, far-sighted, quick-witted, and invariably humane."
Times.—"Professor Leacock's paper on American humour is quite the best that we know upon the subject."
Spectator.—"Those of us who are grateful to Mr. Leacock as an intrepid purveyor of wholesome food for laughter have not failed to recognise that he mingles shrewdness with levity—that he is, in short, wise as well as merry."
LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD
