An outline of humor / Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century
Being a True Chronicle From Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century
Edited by
Carolyn Wells
Editor of “The Book of Humorous Verse,” “A Nonsense Anthology,” etc.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York & London The Knickerbocker Press 1923
Copyright, 1923 by Carolyn Wells Houghton
Made in the United States of America
Dedicated WITH Highest Regard TO DOCTOR HUBER GRAY BUEHLER
Outlining is a modern art. For centuries we have collected and selected, compiled and compended, but only of late have we outlined.
And an Outline is a result differing in kind from the other work mentioned, and presenting different conditions and contingencies.
An Outline, owing to its sweep of magnificent distances, can touch only the high spots, and can but skim those. Not in its province is criticism or exhaustive commentary. Not in its scope are long effusions or lengthy extracts.
Nor may it include everybody or everything that logically belongs to it.
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FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT HUMOR
MIDDLE DIVISION
FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
PART III
MEDIÆVAL AGES
GREEK
ROMAN
EPIGRAMS
MODERN HUMOR
FRENCH WIT AND HUMOR
GERMAN WIT AND HUMOR
ITALIAN WIT AND HUMOR
SPANISH WIT AND HUMOR
THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
FRENCH HUMOR
GERMAN HUMOR
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
FRENCH HUMOR
GERMAN HUMOR
ITALIAN HUMOR
SPANISH HUMOR
RUSSIAN HUMOR
AMERICAN HUMOR
INDEX
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