INDEX

About a Woman’s Promise, Unknown, [172]
Abraham á Sancta Clara,
Burdensome Wife, A (from Hie! Fie!), [413]
Donkey’s Voice, The (from Judas, the Arch-Rogue), [412]
St. Anthony’s Sermon to the Fishes, [413]
Abu Ishak,
Parody on Hafiz, [154]
Academy of Syllographs, The, Count Giacomo Leopardi, [616]
Acrostics, Sir John Davies, [309]
Adams, John Quincy,
To Sally, [650]
Addison, Joseph, [421]
Will of a Virtuoso, The (from The Tatler), [422]
Address to Bacchus, An, Marc-Antoine Gerard, [392]
Address to the Toothache, Robert Burns, [444]
Ade, George,
Cocktail, The (from The Sultan of Sulu), [722]
Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking, The, [723]
Adventures of Baron Münchausen, (selections), Rudolph Erich Raspe, [589]
Advice to a Friend on Marriage, Eustache Deschampes, [315]
Advice to an Innkeeper, José Morell, [412]
Advice to Ponticus, Johannes Audœmus, [194]
Æsop’s Fables, [44]
Lion, the Bear, the Monkey and the Fox, The, [44]
Partial Judge, The, [45]
Æsop, G. Washington. See [Lanigan, George Thomas]
Æstivation, Oliver Wendell Holmes, [666]
After a Wedding (from Mrs. Partington), Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, [664]
After Herrick: Song, Oliver Herford, [747]
After Swimming the Hellespont, Lord Byron, [462]
Against Abolishing Christianity, Jonathan Swift, [415]
Agathias,
Grammar and Medicine, [76]
Alarmed Skipper, The, James Thomas Fields, [668]
Alcazar, Baltazar del, Sleep, [359]
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, [683]
Alexis,
Epigrams, [69]
Aly Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour,
To the Vizier Cassim Obid Allah, on the Death of One of His Sons, [191]
American humor, [643–760]
Amicis, Edmondo de,
Tooth for Tooth, [623]
Ammianus,
Epitaph, An, [77]
Analects of Confucius, The (extracts), [156]
Anaxandriades,
Epigrams, [68]
Anstey, F. See [Guthrie, T. A.]
Anthologies, [311]
Antiphanes, [66]
Epigrams, [67]
Apollodorus,
Epigrams, [85]
Apology for Cider, Olivier Basselin, [317]
Apology for Herodotus (Noodle Stories from), Henry Stephens (Henri Estienn), [215]
Apuleius,
Metamorphose, or The Golden Ass (extracts), [112]
Arabian humor, [33], [126–138], [208]
Arabian Nights’ Entertainment, The, [33], [126]
Bakbarah’s Visit to the Harem, [132]
Husband and the Parrot, The, [131]
Ignorant Man Who Set Up for a Schoolmaster, The, [129]
Simpleton and the Sharper, The, [127]
Thief Turned Merchant and the Other Thief, The, [128]
Arabian Riddle, [35]
Arabian tale, the universal, [208]
Arbuthnot, John,
Dissertation on Dumplings, A, (from Bull and Mouth), [427]
Aristophanes,
Birds, The (plot), [64]
Frogs, The (extracts), [55]
Aristophon, Epigram, [69]
Aristotle,
definition of the Ridiculous, [3], [70]
Disappointment Theory, [4] ff.
Arouet. See [Voltaire]
Artist and Public, Friedrich Rückert, [609]
“As with my hat upon my head,” Samuel Johnson, [431]
As You Like It (extract), Shakespeare, [288]
Ass and the Flute, The, Thomas Yriarte, [626]
Ass’s Testament, The, Rutebœuf, [312]
At the Sign of the Cock, Sir Owen Seaman, [541]
Audœmus, Johannes,
Advice to Ponticus, [194]
To a Friend in Distress, [194]
Authors Unknown,
Convenient Partnership, [78]
Creation of Woman, The (from The Churning of the Ocean of Time), [122]
Good Wife and the Bad Husband, The, [37]
Lerneans, The, [79]
Long and Short, [78]
On Late Acquired Wealth, [190]
On the Inconstancy of Woman’s Love, [191]
Perplexity, [79]
Voice from the Grave, A, [190]
Wife’s Ruse, A: A Rabbinical Tale, [32]
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune, [493]
Husband’s Petition, The, [494]
Lay of the Lovelorn, The, [495]

Baby’s Début, The, James Smith, [466]
Bacon, Francis,
Epigrams, [291]
Baharistan, The (extracts), Jami, [196]
Bakbarah’s Visit to the Harem (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [132]
Bakin, Kiokutei,
On Clothes and Comforts (from The Land of Dreams), [161]
Balaam and his Ass, story of, [30]
Ballad, after Rosetti, Charles Stuart Calverly, [506]
Ballad (from Hans Breitmann Ballads), Charles Godfrey Leland, [680]
Ballad literature, [365]
Ballad of the Primitive Jest, Andrew Lang, [526]
Ballad of the Women of Paris, François Villon, [320]
Ballad of Women’s Doubleness, Chaucer, [258]
Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, A, Gilbert K. Chesterton, [558]
Ballade of Dead Ladies, The, François Villon, [318]
Ballade of Literary Fame, Andrew Lang, [527]
Ballade of Old Time Ladies, A, François Villon, [319]
Ballade of Suicide, A, Gilbert K. Chesterton, [557]
Balzac, Honoré de,
Innocence (from Contés Drolatiques), [568]
Slight Misunderstanding, A (from Contés Drolatiques), [567]
Bangs, John Kendrick,
Mona Lisa, [731]
Bards or rhapsodists, [26]
Bar Hebræus, Gregory,
The Book of Laughable Stories (extracts), [204]
Barham, Richard Harris,
Ingoldsby Legends, [455]
Raising the Devil, [456]
“True and Original” Version, A, [455]
Barrie, James Matthew,
Humourist on his Calling, A (from A Window in Thrums), [535]
Barrow, Dr. Isaac,
on facetiousness, [9]
Basselin, Olivier,
Apology for Cider, [317]
To My Nose, [316]
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, The,
Homer, [51]
Version by “Singing Mouse,” [53]
Version by Samuel Wesley, [54]
Battle of the Kegs, The, Francis Hopkinson, [647]
Bayly, Thomas Haynes,
Why Don’t the Men Propose? [472]
Beating of Thersites, The (from The Iliad), Homer, [49]
Beer, Julian, [76]
Belloc, Hilaire,
Bison, The, [556]
Frog, The, [557]
Microbe, The, [556]
Python, The, [555]
Beneficence and Gratitude, Ivan Turgenieff, [638]
Beranger, Pierre Jean de, [563]
Dead Alive, The, [565]
Education of Young Ladies, The, [564]
Bercheure, Pierre, [243]
Bergerac, Cyrano De,
Soul of the Cabbage, The, [390]
Bergson, on playfulness of animals and man, [18]
Berni, Francesco,
Living in Bed (from Roland Enamored), [352]
Between the Lines, Martial, [107]
Beza, Theodorus,
Epigram, [193]
Bhartrihari, cynical paragraphs, [195], [196]
Bidpai. See [Pilpay]
Biglow Papers (extract), James Russell Lowell, [674]
Billings, Josh. See [Shaw, Henry Wheeler]
Bison, The, Hilaire Belloc, [556]
Bizarrures of Sieur Gaulard, [211]
Board or Lodging, Lucilius, [78]
Boccaccio, Giovanni,
Decameron, [164], [343]
Of Three Girls and Their Talk (a sonnet), [343]
Stolen Pig, The (from The Decameron), [345]
Bohemian Life Sketches (extracts), Henri Murger, [579]
Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas,
On Cotin, [405]
To Perrault, [405]
Bonifacius, Balthasar,
Dangerous Love, [194]
Book of Laughable Stories, The (extracts), [204]
Boston Lullaby, A, James Jeffrey Roche, [708]
Brandt, [337]
Browne, Charles Farrar (Artemus Ward), [684]
On Forts, [685]
Browning, Robert,
Pope and the Net, The, [502]
Bruyere, Jean de La,
Iphis, [406]
Thoughts, [406]
Bryant, William Cullen,
To a Mosquito, [655]
Buchananus, Georgius,
On Leonora, [193]
To Zoilus, [193]
Buddha’s Jatakas, [34], [214]
Buffoons, [26], [87]
Burdensome Wife, A (from Hie! Fie!), Abraham á Sancta Clara, [413]
Burdette, Robert Jones,
“Soldier, Rest!” [701]
What Will We Do? [700]
Burgess, Frank Gelett,
Invisible Bridge, The, [748]
Psycholophon, [749]
Purple Cow, The, [748]
Villanelle of Things Amusing, [748]
Burlesque, [25], [47]
Burnand, Francis C.,
True To Poll, [532]
Burns, Robert,
Address to the Toothache, [444]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, [440]
Busch, Wilhelm, [613]
Butler, Samuel,
Description of Holland, [377]
Poets, [377]
Puffing, [377]
Religion of Hudibras, The (from Hudibras), [374]
Saintship versus Conscience, (from Hudibras), [375]
Butler, William Allen, [681]
Byron, Lord,
After Swimming the Hellespont, [462]
Don Juan (extracts), [460]

C. Mery Talys (Hundred Merry Tales) (extracts), [263], [265], [270] ff
Calverly, Charles Stuart, [537]
Ballad, after Rossetti, [506]
Cock and the Bull, The, [507]
Lovers and a Reflection, [511]
Ode to Tobacco, [513]
Camden,
Britannia (extracts), [383]
Witticisms, [274] ff
Candide (extract), Voltaire, [560]
Canning, George, [438]
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The, [439]
Carew, Thomas, [368]
Caricature, [25], [27], [47], [226]
Carleton, Will,
Eliphalet Chapin’s Wedding, [723]
Carroll, Lewis (Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge), [514]
Jabberwocky (from Through the Looking-Glass), [515]
Some Hallucinations, [518]
Ways and Means (from Through the Looking-Glass), [516]
Carryl, Charles E.,
Walloping Window-Blind, The, [699]
Carryl, Guy Wetmore,
How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, [738]
Cary, Phoebe,
I Remember, [676]
Jacob, [677]
Reuben, [678]
“There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines,” [677]
Casey at the Bat, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, [729]
Castiglione, Baldassare,
Il Cortegiano (extracts), [183]
Catullus,
Fixed Smile, A, [98]
On His Own Love, [191]
Roman Cockney, The, [97]
Cellini, Benvenuto,
Compulsory Marriage at Sword’s Point, A (from his Biography), [356]
Criticism of a Statue of Hercules (from his Biography), [358]
Certain Young Lady, A, Washington Irving, [654]
Certaine Conceyts and Jeasts (extracts), [268]
Cervantes, Miguel de, [277]
He Secures Sancho Panza as his Squire (from Don Quixote), [360]
Of the Valorous Don Quixote’s Adventure of the Windmills (from Don Quixote), [363]
Chammisso, Adelbert von,
The Pigtail, [605]
Charivari, [229], [230]
Chaucer, [253]
Ballad of Women’s Doubleness, [258]
Cock and the Fox, The (from The Nun’s Priest’s Tale), [254]
To My Empty Purse, [257]
Chekow, Anton,
Proverbs, [639]
Chemnitzer, Ivan,
Lion’s Council of State, The, [632]
Philosopher, The (from The Fables), [631]
Chesterfield, Lord, [428]
Letters to His Son (extracts), [429]
Chesterton, Gilbert K.,
Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, A, [558]
Ballade of Suicide, A, [557]
Child’s Verses (extracts), Robert Louis Stevenson, [534]
Chimmie Fadden (extract), Edward Waterman Townsend, [716]
Chimpanzee, The, Oliver Herford, [745]
Chinese humor, [156–161], [164], [214]
Chinese Proverbs of Confucius, [160]
Chinese story, [214]
Chotzner, Professor, on Hebrew satire, [30]
Churning of the Ocean of Time (extract), Unknown, [122]
Chwang Tze,
Pleasure of Fishes, The (from Autumn Floods), [157]
Claudius, Matthias,
The Hen and the Egg, [592]
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain), [8]
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (extract), [681]
Clever Grethel (from Grimm’s Fairy Tales), [607]
Cock and the Bull, The, Charles Stuart Calverly, [507]
Cock and the Fox, The (from The Nun’s Priest’s Tale), Chaucer, [254]
Cock and the Fox, The, Jean de la Fontaine, [403]
Cocktail, The (from The Sultan of Sulu), George Ade, [722]
Code of Love, The, [240]
Cogia, Nasr Eddin Effendi, [199]
Pleasantries of, The (extracts), [213]
Cold Mutton, Pudding, Pancakes (from Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures), Douglas Jerrold, [476]
Coleridge, on humor, [3], [249]
Collections, [162] ff., [263], [311]
Colman, George, the Younger, [438]
Colubriad, The, William Cowper, [436]
Comedy, [46], [48]
Comic, the, [9], [48]
Comic literature, [87]
Compulsory Marriage at Sword’s Point A, (from Biography), Benvenuto Cellini, [356]
Confucius,
Analects, The (extracts), [156]
Proverbs, [160]
Constant Lover, The, Sir John Suckling, [369]
Convenient Partnership, Unknown, [78]
Corbet, Bishop, [301]
Epigram on Beaumont’s Early Death, [305]
Farewell to the Fairies, [303]
Like to the Thundering Tone, [302]
Nonsense, [302]
Cordus, Euricius,
Doctor’s Appearance, The, [192]
To Philomusus, [192]
Cosmetic Disguise (from Satires), Juvenal, [110]
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-,
De Tea Fabula, [546]
Council Held by the Rats, The, Jean de la Fontaine, [402]
Country Parson, The, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, [650]
Country Squire, The, Thomas Yriarte, [628]
Court Fool and King’s Jester, [87], [262]
Court of Love, The, [240]
Cowper, William,
Colubriad, The, [436]
Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A, [435]
Cozzens, Frederick Swartout, [664]
Crane, Stephen,
Extracts, [734]
Crane and the Cray-Fish, The, Pilpay, [167]
Crates,
Cures for Love, [76]
Cratinus Extracts, [65]
Creation of Woman, The (from The Churning of the Ocean of Time), Unknown, [122]
Crede Experto, Martial, [109]
Credo (German Student Song), [614]
Criticism of a Statue of Hercules (from Biography), Benvenuto Cellini, [358]
Crow and the Fox, The, Jean de la Fontaine, [404]
Cures for Love, Crates, [76]
Curtis, George William, [678]
Cynical paragraphs, Bhartrihari, [195]

Dangerous Love, Balthasar Bonifacius, [194]
Dante, [231]
Darkness, Lucian, [76]
Daudet, Alphonse,
William Tell (from Tartarin in the Alps), [583]
Davies, Sir John,
Acrostics, [309]
Married State, The, [310]
Davison, Francis, [311]
De Tea Fabula, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, [546]
Dead Alive, The, Pierre Jean de Beranger, [565]
Deane, Anthony C.,
Here Is the Tale, [543]
Decameron, The, [164]; (extract), [343], [345], Giovanni Boccaccio
Decorated Bow, The (from Fables), Lessing, [588]
Defoe, Daniel,
Friday’s Conflict with the Bear (from Robinson Crusoe), [383]
Dekker, Thomas,
Horace Concocting an Ode, [300]
Obedient Husbands (from The Bachelor’s Banquet), [298]
De Quincey, Thomas,
Murder as One of the Fine Arts, [458]
Derby, George Horatio (John Phoenix),
Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller, [678]
Derision theory of humor, [5], [6], [9], [12]
Desangiers, Marc Antoine,
Eternal Yawner, The, [562]
Deschampes, Eustache,
Advice to a Friend on Marriage, [315]
Description of Holland, Samuel Butler, [377]
Desolation, Thomas L. Masson, [733]
Dialogue between Shallow and Silence (from Henry IV, Part II), Shakespeare, [279]
Diary of Samuel Pepys (extracts), [378]
Diatribe Against Water, Francesca Redi, [410]
Dickens, Charles, [14]
Mrs. Gamp’s Apartment (from Martin Chuzzlewit), [491]
Dinkey-Bird, The, Eugene Field, [710]
Dionysiac festivals, [46], [55]
Diphilus, Epigrams, [84]
Disappointment Theory of humor, [4] ff.
Discomfort Better Than Drowning (from The Rose Garden [Gulistan]), Sadi, [142]
Dissertation on Dumplings, A (from Bull and Mouth), John Arbuthnot, [427]
Dissertation on Puns, Theodore Hook, [453]
Diving for an Egg, Do-Pyazah, [156]
Dobson, Henry Austin, (Austin Dobson),
On a Fan, [524]
Rondeau, The, [525]
Doctor, The (extract), Robert Southey, [450]
Doctor’s Appearance, The, Euricius Cordus, [192]
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See [Carroll, Lewis]
Don Juan (extracts), Lord Byron, [460]
Don Quixote (extracts), Miguel de Cervantes, [363]
Donkey’s Voice, The (from Judas, the Arch-Rogue), Abraham á Sancta Clara, [412]
Donne, John,
Will, The, [296]
See [Dunne, Finley Peter]
Dooley, Mr., [720]
Do-Pyazah, Definitions, [154]
Diving for an Egg, [156]
Dostoevsky, Fedor, [634]
Karlchen, the Crocodile (extract), [635]
Downing, Major Jack. See [Smith, Seba]
Drake, Joseph Rodman, and Halleck, Fitz-Greene,
Ode to Fortune, [657]
Dream Wife, The, Kajetan Wengierski, [639]
Drummond, William H., M. D.,
Wreck of the “Julie Plante,” The, [726]
Drunkard’s Fancy, The, Wilhelm Müller, [606]
Dryden, John,
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, [382]
On Shadwell, [380]
On the Duke of Buckingham, [381]
Dumas, Alexander, the Elder,
Touching the Olfactory Organ, [574]
Dunne, Finley Peter (Mr. Dooley),
On Expert Testimony, [720]

Eastman, Max,
definition of the Disappointment Theory, [7]
on sense of humor, [13]
Education of Young Ladies, The, Pierre Jean de Béranger, [563]
Eggs, The, Thomas Yriarte, [627]
Egyptian humor, [27–29]
Elegy, Arthur Guiterman, [743]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An, Oliver Goldsmith, [432]
Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize, An, Oliver Goldsmith, [433]
Eliphalet Chapin’s Wedding, Will Carleton, [723]
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
Mountain and the Squirrel, The, [660]
Enforced Greatness, San Shroe Bu, [219]
English humor, [253–311], [365–389], [415–559]
Envy, Lucilius, [77]
Epigram on Mrs. Tofts, Alexander Pope, [421]
Epigrams,
English, [291], [295], [296], [377], [382], [421], [478], [479]
French, [335–337]
German, [588–589]
Greek, [67–70], [76–79], [83–85], [189], [190]
Haytian, [641], [642]
Hindu, [195], [196]
Mediæval, [189–207]
Persian, [142], [196–199]
Roman, [107–110], [333]
Turkish, [199–204]
Epitaph, An, Ammianus, [77]
Epitaph, An, Matthew Prior, [387]
Epitaph for an Old University Carrier, Milton, [373]
Erasmus, Desiderius, [178]
Praise of Folly, The (extracts), [337]
Eternal Yawner, The, Marc Antoine Desangier, [562]
Eubulus, Epigrams, [69]
Eulenspiegel, Tyll (Owleglas or Howleglas),
Golden Horsehoes, The (from Eulenspiegel’s Pranks), [339]
Paying with the Sound of a Penny (from Eulenspiegel’s Pranks), [340]
Evening Reception, An (from Bohemian Life Sketches), Henri Murger, [579]
Every Man in His Humor (extract), Ben Jonson, [293]
Eve’s Daughter, Edward Rowland Sill, [698]

Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking, The, George Ade, [723]
Fables,
origin of, [27–28]
use of term, [162], [235]
Fables of Pilpay or Bidpai (selections), [164]
Fabliaux, [164], [235], [236]
Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A, William Cowper, [435]
Faithless Nelly Gray, Thomas Hood, [462]
False Charms, Lucilius, [78]
Farewell to Chloris, Paul Scarron, [398]
Farewell to the Fairies, Bishop Corbet, [303]
Fauvel, [228]
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme,
Country Parson, The, [650]
Field, Eugene,
Dinkey-Bird, The, [710]
Good James and Naughty Reginald (from The Tribune Primer), [713]
Little Peach, The, [712]
Fields, James Thomas,
Alarmed Skipper, The, [668]
Filippo, Rustico di, [349]
Making of Master Messerin, The, [350]
Fine Lady, The, Simonides, [65]
Firdausi,
On Sultan Mahmoud, [142]
Fixed Smile, A, Catullus, [98]
Fletcher, John,
Laughing Song, [300]
Fontaine, Jean de la,
Cock and the Fox, The, [403]
Council Held by the Rats, The, [402]
Crow and the Fox, The, [404]
Foss, Sam Walter, [717]
Philosopher, A, [718]
Francis, J. G., [760]
Franklin, Benjamin,
“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend), [643]
Paper, [645]
French humor, [211–213], [235–243], [312–337], [390–409], [560–585]
Friday’s Conflict With the Bear (from Robinson Crusoe), Daniel Defoe, [383]
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The, George Canning, [439]
Frog, The, Hilaire Belloc, [557]
Frogs, The (extracts), Aristophanes, [55]
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The, Jonathan Swift, [416]

Gammer Gurton’s Needle (extract), John Still, [308]
Garden Hose, The, Edgar Wilson Nye, [714]
Gargantua and Pantagruel, [323]
(extracts), François Rabelais, [329]
Gargoyles, [48]
Gaulard, Sieur,
Bizarrures, [211]
Contes Facetieux, Les (extract), [74]
Gautier, Théophile,
Lap Dog, The (Fanfreluche), [577]
Gellert, Christian F.,
Patient Cured, The, [586]
Gentle Alice Brown, William Schwenck Gilbert, [529]
Gentleman Cit, The (extract), Molière, [396]
Gerard, Marc-Antoine,
Address to Bacchus, An, [392]
German humor, [337–344], [412–415], [586–615]
German Student Songs,
Credo, [614]
Pope and Sultan, [613]
Gesta Romanorum,
authorship and sources, [163], [243]
Of Sloth, [243]
Of the Deceits of the Devil, [246]
Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven, [244]
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord, [245]
Of Vigilance in Our Calling, [247]
Ghislanzoni, Antonio,
On Musical Instruments, [619]
Gilbert, William Schwenk,
Gentle Alice Brown, [529]
“Lady from the provinces, The,” [210]
Mighty Must, The, [528]
To the Terrestrial Globe, [529]
Giles and Joan, Ben Jonson, [296]
Gleemen, [232]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang,
Reynard the Fox (extract), [596]
Gold, Oliver Herford, [747]
Golden Ass, The (extracts), Apuleius, [112]
Golden Horseshoes, The (from Eulenspiegel’s Pranks), Tyll Eulenspiegel, [339]
Goldoni, Carlo, [616]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [431]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An, [432]
Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize, An, [433]
Parson Gray, [434]
Good Flea and the Wicked King, The (from Tales of a Grandfather), Victor Marie Hugo, [580]
Good James and Naughty Reginald (from The Tribune Primer), Eugene Field, [713]
Good Wife and the Bad Husband, The, [37]
Goose, The, Alfred Tennyson, [500]
Gothamites, [208], [214], [216], [341]
Gozzi, Carlo, [616]
Grammar and Medicine, Agathias, [76]
Great Contention, The, Nicarchus, [190]
Greedy and Ambitious Cat, The, Pilpay, [164]
Greek Anthology, [75]
Epigrams, [76] ff.
Greek Comedy, [46], [48], [55], [66]
Greek humor, [43–85], [178–181], [189–190]
Greene, Albert Gorton,
Old Grimes, [658]
Griboyedoff, Alexander, [631]
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm,
Clever Grethel (from Fairy Tales), [607]
Guiterman, Arthur,
Elegy, [743]
Mavrone, [742]
Guthrie, T. A. (F. Anstey),
Select Passages from a Coming Poet, [554]

Hale, Edward Everett, [678]
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, and Drake, Joseph Rodman,
Ode to Fortune, [657]
Halpine, Charles Graham, [681]
Hamlet (extract), Shakespeare, [286]
Hans Breitmann Ballads (selection), Charles Godfrey Leland, [680]
Harington, Sir John,
Of a Certain Man, [293]
Of a Precise Tailor, [292]
Harris, Joel Chandler,
Sad End of Brer Wolf, The (from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings), [708]
Harte, Francis Bret,
Society upon the Stanislaus, The, [686]
To the Pliocene Skull, [688]
Hatefulness of Old Husbands (from The Rose Garden [Gulistan]), Sadi, [144]
Hay, John,
Little Breeches (from Pike County Ballads), [690]
Haytian Epigrams, [641]
Hazlitt, William, [18], [277]
on the laughable, [7]
on distinction between wit and humor, [15], [16], [17]
on Falstaff, [278]
“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend), Benjamin Franklin, [643]
He Secures Sancho Panza as His Squire (from Don Quixote), Miguel de Cervantes, [360]
Hebrew humor, [30–33], [124–126]
Height of the Ridiculous, The, Oliver Wendell Holmes, [665]
Heine, Heinrich, [610]
Extracts, [612]
Town of Göttingen, The, [611]
Hen, A (extract), Henry Wheeler Shaw, [673]
Hen, The, Oliver Herford, [745]
Hen and the Egg, The, Matthias Claudius, [592]
Henley, William Ernest,
Villanelle, [533]
Henry IV, Part I (extract), Shakespeare, [281]
Henry IV, Part II (extract), Shakespeare, [279]
Heptameron, The, [164], [321]
Herbert, George, [365]
Here Is the Tale, Anthony C. Deane, [543]
Herford, Oliver,
Chimpanzee, The, [745]
Gold, [747]
Hen, The, [745]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream, [746]
Phyllis Lee, [744]
Prodigal Egg, The, [747]
Some Geese, [744]
Song—After Herrick, [747]
Herrick, Robert,
Kiss, The—A Dialogue, [367]
Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A, [368]
Hierocles,
Jests, [72], [175]
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The, Charles Algernon Swinburne, [522]
Hindu humor, [36–39], [121–124], [164–175], [195–196], [214–215], [219–225]
Hobbes, Thomas, [365]
Laughter (from Treatise on Human Nature), [11], [12], [366]
Hoffman, Heinrich, [613]
Holley, Marietta,
My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s (extract), [702]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [18]
Æstivation, [666]
Height of the Ridiculous, The, [665]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, Robert Burns, [440]
Homer,
identity, [43], [48]
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, The, [51], [53]
Beating of Thersites, The (from The Iliad), [49]
Homer’s Riddle, [35]
Hood, Thomas,
Faithless Nelly Gray, [462]
No!, [465]
Hook, Theodore,
Dissertation on Puns, [453]
Hopkinson, Francis,
Battle of the Kegs, The, [647]
Horace,
Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way (from Satires), [98]
Horace Concocting an Ode, Thomas Dekker, [300]
Horse Tied to a Steeple, A (from Adventures of Baron Münchausen), Rudolph Erich Raspe, [589]
How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, Guy Wetmore Carryl, [738]
How Jacke by Sophistry Would Make of Two Eggs Three (from The Jests of Scogin), [265]
How Madde Coomes, When His Wife Was Drowned, Sought Her against the Streame (from Mother Bunches Merriments), [267]
How Maister Hobson Said He Was Not at Home (from The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, Richard Johnson), [267]
How Scogin Sold Powder to Kill Fleas (from The Jests of Scogin), [265]
How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington (from Certayne Merye Tales), John Skelton, [264]
How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Ayde Him in Hys Sute to the Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke, John Skelton, [263]
Hudibras (extracts), Samuel Butler, [375]
Hugo, Victor Marie,
The Good Flea and the Wicked King (from Tales of a Grandfather), [580]
Human Nature, Treatise on (extracts), Thomas Hobbes, [11], [12], [366]
Humor,
use of term, [3]
theories and definitions, [4] ff., [23]
Hazlitt on, [7], [15] ff.
Max Eastman on, [7], [13]
Dr. Isaac Barrows on, [9–11]
Thomas Hobbes on, [11]
George Meredith on, [12]
sense of humor, [13–15]
Brander Matthews on, [13]
distinction between wit and, [15–17]
playfulness of animals, [18] ff.
chronological periods, [20], [43]
origin of, [23], [45], [46]
educational use, [249]
influx into literature, [277]
Humorist on His Calling, A (from A Window in Thrums), James Matthew Barrie, [535]
Hunting with a King (from Sakuntala), Kalidasa, [121]
Husband and the Parrot, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [131]
Husband’s Petition, The, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, [494]
Hymn of the Frogs, The (from the Rig Vedas), [34]

“I am a saint of good repute,” Monk of Montaudon, [238]
Idiot’s Delight, The, Carolyn Wells, [749]
Idler, The (extract), Samuel Johnson, [430]
If I Should Die To-Night, Ben King, [728]
Ignorant Man Who Set Up for a Schoolmaster, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [129]
Il Cortegiano (extracts), Castiglione, [183]
Iliad (extract), Homer, [49]
Iliad in a Nutshell, The, [51]
Ingenious Cook, An (from Trimalchio’s Banquet), Petronius, [102]
Ingoldsby Legends, Richard Harris Barham, [455]
Inheritance of a Library, The (from Novellino), Massuchio di Salerno, [350]
I Remember, Phœbe Cary, [676]
Innocence (from Contes Drolatiques), Honoré de Balzac, [568]
Irish Bulls, prototypes of, [211]
Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The (from Stories in Rime [Masnavi]), Jalal uddin Rumi, [152]
Invisible Bridge, The, Frank Gelett Burgess, [748]
Iphis, Jean de la Bruyère, [406]
Irishman, The, William Maginn, [471]
Irving, Washington,
Certain Young Lady, A, [654]
Italian humor, [182–184], [218], [344–359], [409–411], [616–625]

Jabberwocky (from Through the Looking-Glass), Lewis Carroll, [515]
Jack and Jill (a symposium), Charles Battell Loomis, [735]
Jacob, Phœbe Cary, [677]
Jalal uddin Rumi,
Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The (from Stories in Rime [Masnavi]), [152]
Old Age—Dialogue, [153]
Sick Schoolmaster, The (from Stories in Rime), [149]
Jami,
The Baharistan (extracts), [196]
Japanese humor, [161]
Játakas, or Buddhist stories, [34], [214]
Jerrold, Douglas, [475]
Cold Mutton, Pudding, Pancakes (from Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures), [476]
Witticisms, [478]
Jestbooks (extracts),
English, [262] ff., [274] ff.
French, [335–337]
Jester Condemned to Death, The, Horace Smith, [469]
Jests
Greek, [178–181]
Mediæval German, [188–189]
Old jokes, [72–75]
Roman, [181–182]
Jests of Hierocles, [72], [175], [176–178]
Jests of Scogin, The, 263, (extracts), [265]
Jobsiad, The (extract), Carl Arnold Kortum, [599]
Johannes Secundus,
On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife, [193]
Johnson, Richard,
The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson (extract), [267]
Johnson, Samuel,
“As with my hat upon my head,” [431]
On Lying News-Writers (from The Idler), [430]
Jokes,
popular idea of, [4]
what makes, [5]
practical, [6]
and bards, [26]
Jolly Good Ale and Old (from Gammer Gurton’s Needle), John Still, [308]
Jongleurs of Middle Ages, [233]
Jonson, Ben,
Epigrams, [295]
Every Man in His Humor (extract), [293]
Giles and Joan, [296]
To the Ghost of Martial, [295]
Vintner, A, [295]
Volpone (extract), [294]
Jotham, story of, [31]
Judas, the Arch-Rogue (extract), Abraham á Sancta Clara, [412]
Jugglers, [233]
Julian,
Beer, [76]
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (extract), Samuel Langhorne Clemens, [681]
Juvenal,
Cosmetic Disguise (from Satires), [110]
On Domineering Wives (from Satires), [111]

Kalidasa,
Hunting with a King (from Sakuntala), [121]
Kant,
definition of laughter, [13]
Karlchen, the Crocodile (extract), Fedor Dostoevsky, [635]
Kathá Manjari (extract), [75]
Kathá Sarit Ságara, Somadeva, [214]
Kerr, Orpheus C. See [Newell, Robert Henry]
Khoja Nasru’d Dín. See [Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi]
Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The, George Thomas Lanigan, [706]
King, Ben,
If I Should Die To-Night, [728]
Pessimist, The, [727]
Kingsley, Charles,
Professor’s Malady, The (from Water Babies), [498]
Kiss, The, Thomas L. Masson, [732]
Kiss, The—A Dialogue, Robert Herrick, [367]
Kock, Charles Paul de,
Theophile’s Mother-in-Law (from A Much Worried Gentleman), [572]
Kortum, Carl Arnold,
The Jobsiad (extract), [599]
Krishna,
caricatures of, [36]
Kryloff (v), Ivan, [631]
Musicians, The, [634]
Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The, [633]

Lady from the Provinces, The, W. S. Gilbert, [210]
“La Gallisse, now I wish to touch,” Gilles Ménage, [407]
L’Allegro, Milton, [371]
Lamb, Charles (extracts), [449]
Landon, Melville D., [698]
Lang, Andrew,
Ballad of the Primitive Jest, [526]
Ballade of Literary Fame, [527]
Lanigan, George Thomas (G. Washington Æsop), [705]
Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The, [706]
Ostrich and the Hen, The, [706]
Threnody, A, [704]
Lanty Leary, Samuel Lover, [482]
Lap Dog, The, Théophile Gautier, [577]
La Rochefoucauld, François de,
Maxims, [399]
Laughable, the, ideas on, [4], [7]
Laughing Song, John Fletcher, [300]
Laughter,
what makes us laugh, [5]
Hobbes’s definition, [11], [12], [366]
Kant’s definition, [13]
Lay of the Lovelorn, The, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, [495]
Lear, Edward,
Limericks, [519]
Two Old Bachelors, The, [520]
Learned Women, The (extract), Molière, [394]
Leland, Charles Godfrey,
Ballad (from Hans Breitmann Ballads), [680]
Leopardi, Giacomo,
Academy of Syllographs, The, [616]
Lerneans, The, Unknown, [79]
Le Sage, Alan René, [406]
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
Decorated Bow, The (from Fables), [588]
Epigrams, [588]
Fables (extracts), [588]
Raven, The (from Fables), [588]
Let the Toast Pass (from The School for Scandal), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [437]
Letters to His Son (extracts), Lord Chesterfield, [429]
Lever, Charles, [481]
Widow Malone, [483]
Lie, The, Sir Walter Raleigh, [305]
Like to the Thundering Tone, Bishop Corbet, [302]
Limericks, Edward Lear, [519]
Lines by a Person of Quality, Alexander Pope, [419]
Lines on Milton, Cowper, [382]
Lion, the Bear, the Monkey and the Fox, The (from Æsop’s Fables), [44]
Lions Council of State, The, Ivan Chemnitzer, [632]
Little Billee, William Makepeace Thackeray, [487]
Little Breeches (from Pike County Ballads), John Hay, [690]
Little Peach, The, Eugene Field, [712]
Living in Bed (from Roland Enamored), Francesco Berni, [352]
Locke, David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby), [684]
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, [484], [503]
My Mistress’s Boots, [503]
On a Sense of Humor, [505]
Some Ladies, [505]
Terrible Infant, A, [505]
Long and Short, Unknown, [78]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [666]
Mr. Finney’s Turnip, [667]
There Was a Little Girl, [667]
Loomis, Charles Battell,
Jack and Jill (a symposium), [735]
Lord Erskine’s Simile, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [438]
Lost Hatchet, The (from Gargantua and Pantagruel), François Rabelais, [329]
Love in a Cottage, Nathaniel Parker Willis, [661]
Love Lesson, A, Clement Marot, [321]
Lovelace, Richard, [368]
Song, [369]
Lover, Samuel,
Lanty Leary, [482]
Rory O’More, [481]
Lovers and a Reflection, Charles Stuart Calverly, [511]
Love’s Labour’s Lost (extract), Shakespeare, [15]
Lowell, James Russell,
What Mr. Robinson Thinks (from Biglow Papers), [674]
Lucian,
Darkness, [76]
Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus (from Dialogues of the Sea Gods), [80]
Question of Precedence, A (from Dialogues of the Gods), [79]
Lucilius,
Board or Lodging, [78]
Envy, [77]
False Charms, [78]
Professor with a Small Class, A, [77]
Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A, [78]
Lucillius,
A Miser’s Dream, [190]
Lying, Thomas Moore, [479]

Madame d’Albret’s Laugh, Clement Marot, [321]
Maginn, William,
Irishman, The, [471]
Maid, the Monkey, and the Mendicant, The, Unknown, [170]
Making of Master Messerin, The, Rustico di Filippo, [350]
Man and Superman, Martial, [109]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream, Oliver Herford, [746]
Marot, Clement,
Love Lesson, A, [321]
Madame d’Albret’s Laugh, [321]
Married Life, Stephanus Paschasius, [194]
Married State, The, Sir John Davies, [310]
Marryat, Frederick (Captain Marryat),
Nautical Terms (from Peter Simple), [474]
Marston, John,
Scholar and His Dog, The, [310]
Martial, Father of Epigrams, [106], [333]
Between the Lines, [107]
Crede Experto, [109]
Man and Superman, [109]
Mere Suggestion, A, [108]
Millions in It, [109]
Mute Miltons, [108]
Numbers Sweet, [109]
Play’s the Thing, [107]
Rounded with a Sleep, [108]
To Aulus, [107]
To Catullus, [107]
To Linus, [109]
To Mamercus, [110]
To Postumus, [107]
To Sabidins, [107]
Total Abstainer, A, [108]
Vendetta, [108]
What Might Have Been, [108]
Martin, Theodore, [493]
Marvel, Ik. See [Mitchell, Donald G.]
Masks, [87]
Masson, Thomas L.,
Desolation, [733]
Kiss, The, [732]
Matthews Brander, on sense of humor, [13]
Mavrone, Arthur Guiterman, [742]
Maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld, [399]
Meeting, The, “Singing Mouse,” [53]
Melchior de Santa Cruz,
Spanish Apothegms, [184–189]
Ménage, Gilles,
“La Galisse, now I wish to touch,” [407]
Menander, fragments, [82]
Mendoza, Hurtado de, [359]
Merchant and His Friend, The, Pilpay, [169]
Merchant of Venice, The (extract), Shakespeare, [286]
Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in Hys Dethe Bedde (from C. Mery Talys), [270]
Mere Suggestion, A, Martial, [108]
Meredith, George, on modification of Derision Theory, [12]
Merie Tayles of Skelton (extracts), [263]
Mery Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham (extracts), [266]
Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass (extracts), Apuleius, [112]
Microbe, The, Hilaire Belloc, [556]
Mighty Must, The, William Schwenck Gilbert, [528]
Military Swagger (from The Braggart Captain), Plautus, [88]
Milkmaid and the Banker, The, Horace Smith, [468]
Millennium, The, James Kenneth Stephen, [549]
Miller, Joaquin, [690]
That Gentle Man from Boston Town, [692]
Millions in It, Martial, [109]
Milton,
Epitaph for an Old University Carrier, [373]
L’Allegro (extract), [371]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, William Cowper, [382]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, John Dryden, [382]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, Selvaggi, [382]
Mimi Pinson (extract), Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, [569]
Mimicry, [23], [28]
Miniver Cheevy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, [740]
Minstrels, [233], [234]
Miser and the Mouse, The, Plato, [190]
Misers Dream, A, Lucillius, [190]
Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, Douglas Jerrold, [476]
Mrs. Gamp’s Apartment (from Martin Chuzzlewit), Charles Dickens, [491]
Mrs. Partington (extract), Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, [664]
Mrs. Partington (from Speech), Sydney Smith, [448]
Mr. Finney’s Turnip, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [667]
Mitchell, Donald G. (Ik Marvel), [678]
Molière, [277]
Gentleman Cit, The (extract), [396]
Learned Women, The (extract), [394]
Mona Lisa, John Kendrick Bangs, [731]
Money, Jehan du Pontalais, [322]
Montaudon, Monk of, [238]
“I am a saint of good repute,” [239]
Montfaucon’s alphabet of men and animals, [227]
Moore, Clement C.,
Visit from St. Nicholas, A, [652]
Moore, Thomas,
Lying, [479]
Nonsense, [479]
Of All the Men, [480]
On Taking a Wife, [481]
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party, [481]
What’s My Thought Like? [480]
Moral Man, A, Nikolai Nekrasov, [637]
More, Thomas, [277]
Morell, José, [411]
Advice to an Innkeeper, [412]
To a Poet, [412]
Mother Bunches Merriments (extract), [267]
Mountain and the Squirrel, The, Ralph Waldo Emerson, [660]
Much Ado About Nothing (extract), Shakespeare, [283]
Much Married Gentleman, A (extract), Charles Paul de Kock, [572]
Müller, Wilhelm,
The Drunkard’s Fancy, [606]
Munkittrick, Richard Kendall,
What’s in a Name?, [715]
Murder as One of the Fine Arts, Thomas De Quincey, [458]
Murger, Henri,
An Evening Reception (from Bohemian Life Sketches), [579]
Musicians, The, Ivan Kryloff, [634]
Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de,
The Supper Party of the Three Cavaliers (from Mimi Pinson), [569]
Mute Miltons, Martial, [108]
“My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” Rambaud d’Orange, [237]
My Familiar, John Godfrey Saxe, [669]
My First Visit to Portland, Seba Smith, [662]
My Mistress’s Boots, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [503]
My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s (extracts), Marietta Holley, [702]
Mystery, The, Carolyn Wells, [751]

Nasby, Petroleum V. See [Locke, David Ross]
Nathan, story of, [31]
Nautical Terms (from Peter Simple), Frederick Marryat, [474]
Nearchus,
Singer, A, [77]
Nekrasov, Nikolai,
Moral Man, A, [637]
Nephelidia, Swinburne, [523]
Newell, Peter, [760]
Newell, Robert Henry (Orpheus C. Kerr)
Rejected “National Hymns,” [695]
Newspaper humor, [663], [678], [698]
Nicarchus,
Great Contention, The, [190]
No!, Thomas Hood, [465]
Nocturne at Danieli’s, A, Sir Owen Seaman, [537]
Nonsense, Bishop Corbet, [302]
Nonsense, Thomas Moore, [479]
Noodle stories,
origin, [72]
selections, [199–225], [341]
principle of humor in, [210]
Novellino, Massuchio di Salerno, [350]
Numbers Sweet, Martial, [109]
Nye, Edgar Wilson (Bill Nye),
Garden Hose, The, [714]

Obedient Husbands (from The Bachelor’s Banquet), Thomas Dekker, [298]
Obstinate Family, The, tale of, [208]
Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way (from Satires), Horace, [98]
Ode to Fortune, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake, [657]
Ode to Tobacco, Charles Stuart Calverly, [513]
Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus (from Dialogues of the Sea-Gods), Lucian, [80]
Of a Certain Man, Sir John Harington, [293]
Of a Precise Tailor, Sir John Harington, [292]
Of a Queer Relationship, Unknown, [174]
Of All the Men, Thomas Moore, [480]
Of Hym That Sought His Wyfe Agaynst the Streme (from C. Mery Talys), [272]
Of Loquacity (from The Characters), Theophrastus, [71]
Of Sloth (from Gesta Romanorum), [243]
Of Slovenliness (from The Characters), Theophrastus, [70]
Of the Courtear That Ete the Hot Custarde (from C. Mery Talys), [272]
Of the Deceits of the Devil (from Gesta Romanorum), [246]
Of the Diseases This Year, François Rabelais, [324]
Of the Eclipses This Year, François Rabelais, [323]
Of the Foole That Thought Hym Selfe Deed (from C. Mery Talys), [273]
Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year, François Rabelais, [325]
Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven (from Gesta Romanorum), [244]
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord (from Gesta Romanorum), [245]
Of the Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in Hys Dethe Bedde (from C. Mery Talys), [270]
Of the Scoler of Oxforde That Proved by Sovestry II Chickens III (from C. Mery Talys), [271]
Of the Valorous Don Quixote’s ... Adventure of the Windmills (from Don Quixote), Cervantes, [363]
Of the Woman that Followed her Fourth Husband’s Bere and Wept (from Wit and Mirth), [270]
Of Three Girls and Their Talk: A Sonnet, Giovanni Boccaccio, [344]
Of Vigilance in Our Calling (from Gesta Romanorum), [247]
Old Age—Dialogue, Jalal uddin Rumi, [153]
Old Grimes, Albert Gorton Greene, [658]
Omar Khayyam,
Rubaiyat (extract), [138]
On a Fan, Henry Austin Dobson, [524]
On a Sense of Humor, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [505]
On a Wet Day, Francho Sacchetti, [355]
On Aufidius, Actius Sannazarius, [192]
On Aurispa, Janus Pannonius, [192]
On Celsus, Paulus Thomas, [194]
On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife, Johannes Secundus, [193]
On Clothes and Comforts (from The Land of Dreams), Kiokutei Bakin, [161]
On Cotin, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, [405]
On Domineering Wives (from Satires), Juvenal, [111]
On Expert Testimony, Finley Peter Dunne, [720]
On “Forts,” Charles Farrar Browne, [685]
On His Own Deafness, Jonathan Swift, [418]
On His Own Love, Catullus, [191]
On Late-Acquired Wealth, Unknown, [190]
On Leonora, Georgius Buchananus, [193]
On Lying News-Writers (from The Idler), Samuel Johnson, [430]
On Mental Reservations (from Les Provinciales), Blaise Pascal, [400]
On Musical Instruments, Antonio Ghislanzoni, [619]
On Shadwell, John Dryden, [380]
On Sultan Mahmoud, Firdausi, [142]
On Taking a Wife, Thomas Moore, [481]
On the Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, [381]
On the Inconstancy of Woman’s Love, Unknown, [191]
Orange, Rambaud d’,
Song: “My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” [237]
Ostrich and the Hen, The, George Thomas Lanigan, [706]

Pain, Barry,
Poets at Tea, The, [551]
Palabras Grandiosas (from Echo Club), James Bayard Taylor, [683]
Palæolithic humor, [24], [25]
Pannonius, Janus,
On Aurispa, [192]
Paper, Benjamin Franklin, [645]
Parasites and Gnathonites (from Eunuchus), Terence, [96]
Paris, Paul Scarron, [398]
Parodies
Select Passages from a Coming Poet, T. A. Guthrie, [554]
After T. B. Aldrich
Palabras Grandiosas, James Bayard Taylor, [683]
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [697]
After Browning
Cock and the Bull, The, Charles Stuart Calverley, [507]
Nocturne at Danieli’s, A, Owen Seaman, [537]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [552]
After Mrs. Browning
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [754]
After Bryant
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [697]
After Burns
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [554]
After Cowper
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [552]
After Dinah Craik
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [750]
After Austin Dobson
Jack and Jill, Charles Battell Loomis, [735]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [755]
After Emerson
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [696]
After Hafiz, Abu Ishak, [154]
After Bret Harte
De Tea Fabula, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, [546]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [758]
After Herrick
Song, O. Herford, [747]
To Julia under Lock and Key, Owen Seaman, [540]
After Lady Arthur Hill
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [759]
After Hogg
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [756]
After Oliver Wendell Holmes
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [696]
After Hood
I Remember, Phœbe Cary, [676]
After Jean Ingelow
Lovers and a Reflection, Charles Stuart Calverley, [511]
After Kipling
Here Is the Tale, Anthony C. Deane, [543]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn, Wells, [757]
After Longfellow
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [695]
After Macaulay
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [551]
After George Meredith
At the Sign of the Cock, Owen Seaman, [541]
After Milton
The Splendid Shilling, John Philips, [423]
After Thomas Moore
“There’s a bower of bean vines,” Phœbe Cary, [677]
After E. A. Poe
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [553]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [753]
After Rossetti
Ballad, Charles Stuart Calverley, [506]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [553]
After Southey
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, George Canning, [439]
After Swinburne
Jack and Jill, Charles Battell Loomis, [736]
Nephilidia, Algernon Charles Swinburne, [523]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [551]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [757]
After Tennyson
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The, Algernon Charles Swinburne, [522]
The Lay of the Lovelorn, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, [495]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [551]
After Walt Whitman
Jack and Jill, Charles Battell Loomis, [7]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [554]
After Whittier
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [696]
After Oscar Wilde
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [759]
After Nathaniel P. Willis
Rejected “National Hymns,” Robert Henry Newell, [697]
After Charles Wolfe
“True and Original” Version, A, Richard Harris Barham, [455]
After Wordsworth
Baby’s Début, The, James Smith, [466]
Jacob, Phœbe Cary, [677]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [552]
After a Popular Song
If I Should Die To-night, Ben King, [728]
Parody, [30]
Parson Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, [434]
Partial Judge, The (from Æsop’s Fables), [45]
Pascal, Blaise,
On Mental Reservations (from Les Provinciates), [400]
Paschasius, Stephanus,
Married Life, [194]
Patient Cured, The, Christian F. Gellert, [586]
Paying with the Sound of a Penny (from Eulenspiegel’s Pranks), Tyll Eulenspiegel, [340]
Peasant of Larcarà, The, Pitrá, [218]
Pegasus in the Yoke, Friedrich von Schiller, [593]
Pepys, Samuel,
Diary (extracts), [378]
Perplexity, Unknown, [79]
Persian humor, [73], [138–156], [196–199]
Persian Jest-Book, [73]
Persius,
Poetic Fame (from Satires), [104]
Pessimist, The, Ben King, [727]
Peter Simple (extracts), Frederick Marryat, [474]
Petronius, [101]
Ingenious Cook, An (from Trimalchio’s Banquet), [102]
Philippides, Epigrams, [84]
Philips, John,
Splendid Shilling, The, [423]
Phillis’ Age, Matthew Prior, [389]
Philosopher, A, Sam Walter Foss, [718]
Philosopher, The (from The Fables), Ivan Chemnitzer, [631]
Phoenix, John. See [Derby, George Horatio]
Phoenixiana (extract), George Horatio Derby, [678]
Phyllis Lee, Oliver Herford, [744]
Pictorial humor, [27], [46], [47], [48]
Pigtail, The, Adelbert von Chamisso, [605]
Pike County Ballads (extract), John Hay, [690]
Pilpay (or Bidpai), Fables, [120];
(Selections), [164–170]
Pitrá,
The Peasant of Larcarà, [218]
Plato,
idea of humor, [4]
Miser and the Mouse, The, [190]
Thief and the Suicide, The, [189]
Plato Comicus, fragments, [66]
Plautus, [87]
Military Swagger (from The Braggart Captain), [88]
Suspicious Miser, The (from The Pot of Gold), [91]
Playfulness of animals, [18]
Play’s the Thing, Martial, [107]
Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, The (extract), Richard Johnson, [265], [267]
Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi, The (extracts), [199]
Pleasure of Fishes, The (from Autumn Floods), Chwang Tze, [157]
Poems in Prose, Ivan Turgenieff, [638]
Poetic Fame (from Satires), Persius, [104]
Poets, Samuel Butler, [377]
Poets at Tea, The, Barry Pain, [551]
Poggio, Italian stories, [182]
Polish humor, [639–641]
Pontalais, Jehan du,
Money, [322]
Pope, Alexander, [17]
Epigram on Mrs. Tofts, [421]
Lines by a Person of Quality, [419]
Worms, [420]
Pope and Sultan (German Student Song), [613]
Pope and the Net, The, Robert Browning, [502]
Popularity, Sung Yu, [158]
Praed, Winthrop Mackworth,
Song of Impossibilities, A, [484]
Praise of Folly, The (extracts), Desiderius Erasmus, [337]
Prayer, Ivan Turgenieff, [638]
Prior, Matthew, [386]
Epitaph, An, [387]
Phillis’ Age, [389]
Reasonable Affliction, A, [389]
Simile, A, [388]
Prodigal Egg, The, Oliver Herford, [747]
Professional entertainers of the Middle Ages, [231–236]
Professor with a Small Class, A, Lucilius, [77]
Professor’s Malady, The (from Water Babies), Charles Kingsley, [498]
Proverbial Wisdom, Anton Chekov, [639]
Provinciales, Les (extract), Blaise Pascal, [400]
Psycholophon, Frank Gelett Burgess, [749]
Puffing, Samuel Butler, [377]
“Punning” (from Speeches), Sydney Smith, [446]
Purple Cow, The, Frank Gelett Burgess, [748]
Python, The, Hilaire Belloc, [555]

Question of Precedence, A (from Dialogues of the Gods), Lucian, [79]
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas. See [Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-]

Rabelais, François,
Of the Diseases This Year, [324]
Of the Eclipses This Year, [323]
Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year, [325]
Lost Hatchet, The (from Gargantua and Pantagruel), [329]
“Rabelais Imitates Diogenes” (from Gargantua and Pantagruel), [325]
Radhi Billah, the Kaliph,
To a Lady upon Seeing Her Blush, [191]
Raising the Devil, Richard Harris Barham, [456]
Raleigh, Sir Walter,
Lie, The, [305]
Raspe, Rudolph Erich,
Horse Tied to a Steeple, A (from Adventures of Baron Münchausen), [589]
Rather Large Whale, A (from Adventures of Baron Münchausen), [590]
Raven, The (from Fables), Lessing, [588]
Raven, a Fox and a Serpent, A, Pilpay, [166]
Reasonable Affliction, A, Matthew Prior, [389]
Redi, Francesca,
Diatribe Against Water, [410]
Rejected Addresses (extract), James and Horace Smith, [465]
Rejected “National Hymns” (burlesque), Robert Henry Newell, [695]
Religion of Hudibras, The (from Hudibras), Samuel Butler, [374]
Remonstrance, The, Sir John Suckling, [370]
Reuben, Phœbe Cary, [678]
Reynard the Fox,
forms and origin, [226]
Goethe’s version (extracts), [596]
Riddles,
Arabian, [35]
Homer’s, [35]
Samson’s, [35]
Sphinx’s, [35]
Rig Vedas (extract), [34]
Robinson, Edwin Arlington,
Miniver Cheevy, [740]
Two Men, [741]
Roche, James Jeffrey,
Boston Lullaby, A, [708]
V-a-s-e, The, [706]
Roland Enamored (extract), Francesco Berni, [352]
Roman Cockney, The, Catullus, [97]
Roman humor, [86–119], [181–182]
Rondeau, The, Henry Austin Dobson, [525]
Rory O’More, Samuel Lover, [481]
Rose Garden, The (Gulistan) (extracts), Sadi, [142]
Rounded with a Sleep, Martial, [108]
Rubaiyat (extract), Omar Khayyam, [138]
Rückert, Friedrich,
Artist and Public, [609]
Russian humor, [217], [631–639]
Rutebœuf, the Trouvère,
Ass’s Testament, The, [312]

Sacchetti, Francho, [354]
On a Wet Day, [355]
Sad End of Brer Wolf, The (from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings), Joel Chandler Harris, [708]
Sadi,
Discomfort Better Than Drowning, (from The Rose Garden [Gulistan]), [142]
Hatefulness of Old Husbands (from The Rose Garden), [144]
Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The (from The Rose Garden), [143]
Wise Sayings, [145]
Saintship versus Conscience (from Hudibras), Samuel Butler, [375]
Sakuntala (extract), Kaildasa, [121]
Salad, Sydney Smith, [448]
Salerno, Massuchio di,
Inheritance of a Library, The (from Novellino), [350]
Samson’s Riddle, [35]
San Shroe Bu,
Enforced Greatness, [219]
Sannazarius, Actius,
On Aufidius, [192]
Satires (extract), Horace, [98]
Satires (extract), Juvenal, [110]
Satires (extract), Persius, [104]
Satires on dress, [230]
Saxe, John Godfrey,
My Familiar, [669]
Scarron, Paul,
Farewell to Chloris, [398]
Paris, [398]
Schildburgers, the, tales of, [341–344]
Schiller, Friedrich von,
Pegasus in the Yoke, [593]
Scholar and His Dog, The, John Marston, [310]
School, James Kenneth Stephen, [550]
School for Scandal, The (extract), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [437]
Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A, Lucilius, [78]
Scogin,
Jests, [263], [265]
Seaman, Sir Owen,
At the Sign of the Cock, [541]
Nocturne at Danieli’s, A, [537]
To Julia under Lock and Key, [540]
Select Passages from a Coming Poet, T. A. Guthrie, [554]
Sense of humor, [13], [14]
Shakespeare,
on sense of humor, [15]
as humorist, [277], [278], [280]
As You Like It (extract), [288]
Hamlet (extract), [286]
Henry IV, Part I (extract), [281]
Henry IV, Part II (extract), [279]
Love’s Labour’s Lost (extract), [15]
Merchant of Venice, The (extract), [286]
Shaw, Henry Wheeler (Josh Billings), [671]
Hen, A (extract), [673]
Tight Boots (extract), [671]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley,
Calendar, [438]
Let the Toast Pass (from The School for Scandal), [437]
Lord Erskine’s Simile, [438]
Sheridan’s Calendar, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [438]
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow,
After a Wedding (from Mrs. Partington), [664]
Sick Schoolmaster, The (from Stories in Rime [Masnavi]), Jalal uddin Rumi, [149]
Sill, Edward Rowland, [690]
Eves Daughter, [698]
Simile, A, Matthew Prior, [388]
Simonides,
Fine Lady, The, [65]
Simpleton and the Sharper, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [127]
Singer, A, Nearchus, [77]
“Singing Mouse, The,” [52]
Meeting, The, [53]
Skelton, John,
How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington (from Certayne Merye Tales), [264]
How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Hyde Him in Hys Sute to the Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke, [263]
To Maistres Margaret Hussey, [261]
Sleep, Baltazar del Alcazar, [359]
Slight Misunderstanding, A (from Contés Drolatiques), Honoré de Balzac, [567]
Smith, Horace,
Jester Condemned to Death, The, [469]
Milkmaid and the Banker, The, [468]
Smith, James,
Baby’s Debut, The, [466]
Smith, Seba (Major Jack Downing),
My First Visit to Portland, [662]
Smith, Sydney,
Mrs. Partington (from Speech), [448]
“Punning” (from Speeches), [446]
Salad, [448]
Smollett, [429]
Society upon the Stanislaus, The, Francis Bret Harte, [686]
“Soldier, Rest!” Robert Jones Burdette, [701]
Somadeva,
Kathá Sarit Ságara, [214]
Some Geese, Oliver Herford, [744]
Some Hallucinations, Lewis Carroll, [518]
Some Ladies, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [505]
Song, Richard Lovelace, [369]
Song—After Herrick, Oliver Herford, [747]
Song of Impossibilities, A, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, [484]
Sonnet: “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth Stephen, [548]
Sorrows of Werther, William Makepeace Thackeray, [490]
Soul of the Cabbage, The, Cyrano de Bergerac, [390]
Southey, Robert,
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The, (from The Doctor), [450]
Well of St. Keyne, The, [451]
Spanish Apothegms of Melchior de Santa Cruz, [84]
Spanish humor, [184–189], [359–364], [411–412], [626–630]
Sphinx’s Riddle, [35]
Splendid Shilling, The, John Philips, [423]
Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A, Yuan Mei, [158]
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, [683]
Stephen, James Kenneth,
Millennium, The, [549]
School, [550]
Sonnet, “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” [548]
Thought, A, [549]
Stephens, Henry (Henri Estienne),
Noodle Stories from Introduction to Apology for Herodotus, [215]
Sterne, [429]
Stevenson, Robert Louis,
Child’s Verses (extracts), [534]
Still, John,
Jolly Good Ale and Old (from Gammer Gurton’s Needle), [308]
Stockton, Frank R.,
Lady and the Tiger, The, [686]
Stolen Pig, The (from the Decameron), Giovanni Boccaccio, [345]
Stories in Rime (extracts), Jalal uddin Rumi, [149]
Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The (from The Rose Garden [Gulistan]), Sadi, [143]
Stupid Man (from The Characters), Theophrastus, [72]
Suckling, Sir John, [368]
Constant Lover, The, [369]
Remonstrance, The, [370]
Sung Yu,
Popularity, [158]
Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt, Jonathan Swift, [418]
Supper-Party of the Three Cavaliers, The (from Mimi Pinson), Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, [569]
Suspicious Miser, The (from The Pot of Gold), Plautus, [91]
Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The, Ivan Krylov, [633]
Swift, Jonathan,
Against Abolishing Christianity, [415]
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The, [416]
On His Own Deafness, [418]
Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt, [418]
“To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr. Swift,” [419]
Swinburne, Charles Algernon, [521]
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The, [522]
Nephelidia, [523]
Symposium of Poets, A, Carolyn Wells, [752]

Tales of a Grandfather (extract), Victor Marie Hugo, [580]
Talmud, The (extracts), [124]
Tatler, The (extract), Joseph Addison, [422]
Taylor, James Bayard,
Palabras Grandiosas (from Echo Club), [683]
Taylor, John,
Wit and Mirth (extracts), [74], [268], [270]
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The (from The Doctor), Robert Southey, [450]
Tennyson, Alfred,
The Goose, [500]
Terence,
Parasites and Gnathonites (from Eunuchus), [96]
Ternary of Littles upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady, A, Robert Herrick, [365]
Terrible Infant, A, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [505]
Thackeray, William Makepeace, [486]
Little Billee, [487]
Sorrows of Werther, [490]
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas, [490]
Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The, [488]
That Gentle Man from Boston Town, Joaquin Miller, [692]
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence,
Casey at the Bat, [729]
Theophile’s Mother-in-Law (from A Much Worried Gentleman), Charles Paul de Kock, [572]
Theophrastus,
Of Loquacity (from The Characters), [71]
Of Slovenliness (from The Characters), [70]
Stupid Man, The (from The Characters), [72]
There Was a Little Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [667]
“There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines,” Phœbe Cary, [677]
Thief and the Suicide, The, Plato, [189]
Thief Turned Merchant and the Other Thief, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [128]
Thomas, Paulus,
On Celsus, [194]
Thought, A, James Kenneth Stephen, [549]
Thoughts, Jean de la Bruyère, [406]
Threnody, A, George Thomas Lanigan, [704]
Through the Looking-Glass (extract), Lewis Carroll, [515]
Tight Boots, Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings), [671]
Tithes, a Hebrew Satire, [31]
To a Friend in Distress, Johannes Audœmus, [194]
To a Lady Upon Seeing Her Blush, The Kaliph Radhi Billah, [191]
To a Mosquito, William Cullen Bryant, [655]
To a Poet, José Morell, [412]
To Aulus, Martial, [107]
To Catullus, Martial, [107]
To Julia under Lock and Key, Sir Owen Seaman, [540]
To Linus, Martial, [109]
To Maistres Margaret Hussey, John Skelton, [261]
To Mamercus, Martial, [110]
To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr. Swift, Jonathan Swift, [419]
To My Empty Purse, Chaucer, [257]
To My Nose, Olivier Basselin, [316]
To Perrault, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, [405]
To Philomusus, Euricius Cordus, [192]
To Postumus, Martial, [107]
To Sabidius, Martial, [107]
To Sally, John Quincy Adams, [650]
To the Ghost of Martial, Ben Jonson, [295]
To the Pliocene Skull, Francis Bret Harte, [688]
To the Terrestrial Globe, William Schwenck Gilbert, [529]
To the Vizier Cassim Obid Allah, On the Death of One of His Sons, Aly Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour, [191]
To Zoilus, Georgius Buchananus, [193]
Tooth for Tooth, Edmondo de Amicis, [623]
Total Abstainer, A, Martial, [108]
Touching the Olfactory Organ, Alexander Dumas, the Elder, [574]
Town of Göttingen, The, Heinrich Heine, [611]
Townsend, Edward Waterman,
Chimmie Fadden (extract), [716]
Trimalchio’s Banquet (extract), Petronius, [101]
Troubadours, [236]
Troubadours’ Songs, [236–240]
Trouvères, [236], [253]
Trowbridge, John T., [681]
“True and Original” Version, A, Richard Harris Barham, [455]
True to Poll, Francis C. Burnand, [532]
Turgenieff, Ivan,
Beneficence and Gratitude, [638]
Prayer, [638]
Turkish humor, [33], [199–204], [213]
Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller, George Horatio Derby, [678]
Twain, Mark. See [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne]
Two Men, Edwin Arlington Robinson, [741]
Two Old Bachelors, The, Edward Lear, [520]
“Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth Stephen, [548]

Udall, Nicholas, [277]
Ulysses, stories of, [46]
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (extract), [708]
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party, Thomas Moore, [481]

V-a-s-e, The, James Jeffrey Roche, [706]
Vega, Lope de, [359]
Vendetta, Martial, [108]
Ventadour, Bernard de,
“You say the moon is all aglow,” [237]
Vers de Société, [503], [524], [706]
Vicissitudes of a Donkey (from The Golden Ass), Apuleius, [116]
Villanelle, William Ernest Henley, [533]
Villanelle of Things Amusing, Frank Gelett Burgess, [748]
Villon, François,
Ballad of the Women of Paris, [320]
Ballade of Dead Ladies, The, [318]
Ballade of Old Time Ladies, A, [319]
Vintner, A, Ben Johnson, [295]
Visit from St. Nicholas, A, Clement C. Moore, [652]
Voice from the Grave, A, Unknown, [190]
Volpone (extract), Ben Jonson, [294]
Voltaire (Francis Marie Arouet),
Candide (extract), [560]

Waller, Edmund, [368]
Walloping Window-Blind, The, Charles E. Carryl, [699]
Ward, Artemus. See [Browne, Charles Farrar]
Ward, William Hayes,
on Greek humor, [44]
Warner, Charles Dudley, [681]
Water Babies (extract), Charles Kingsley, [498]
Ways and Means, Lewis Carroll, [516]
Well of St. Keyne, The, Robert Southey, [451]
Wells, Carolyn,
Idiot’s Delight, The, [749]
Mystery, The, [751]
Symposium of Poets, A, [752]
Woman, [751]
Wengierski, Kajetan,
Dream Wife, The, [639]
Wesley, Samuel, [51]
Homer’s The Battle of the Frogs and Mice, [54]
What’s In a Name? Richard Kendall Munkittrick, [715]
What Might Have Been, Martial, [108]
What Mr. Robinson Thinks (from Biglow Papers), James Russell Lowell, [674]
What Will We Do? Robert Jones Burdette, [700]
What’s My Thought Like? Thomas Moore, [480]
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas, William Makepeace Thackeray, [490]
Whitcher, Mrs. Frances Miriam, [664]
White, Richard Grant, [678]
Why Don’t the Men Propose? Thomas Haynes Bayly, [472]
Widow Malone, Charles Lever, [483]
Wife’s Ruse, A: A Rabbinical Tale, [32]
Will, The, John Donne, [296]
Will of a Virtuoso, The (from The Tatler), Joseph Addison, [422]
William Tell (from Tartarin in the Alps), Alphonse Daudet, [583]
Willis, Nathaniel Parker,
Love in a Cottage, [661]
Wit and humor,
Hazlitt on the distinction between, [15–17]
Wit and Mirth (extracts), John Taylor, [74], [268–270]
Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The, William Makepeace Thackeray, [488]
Woman, Carolyn Wells, [751]
Worms, Alexander Pope, [420]
Wreck of the “Julie Plante,” The, William H. Drummond, M.D., [726]
Wright, Thomas, on caricature by prehistoric man, [25]

“You say the moon is all aglow,” Bernard de Ventadour, [237]
Yriarte, Thomas,
Ass and the Flute, The, [626]
Country Squire, The, [628]
Eggs, The, [627]
Yuan Mei,
Recipes (from Cookery Book), [159]
Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A, (from Letters), [158]