CONTENTS

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Americana[9]
Our National Airs[39]
Our Historic Characters[47]
Our Wonderlands[78]
Our Language[90]
First Things[125]
Prototypes[168]
Forecasts[187]
Miscellanea Curiosa[197]
Facetiæ[223]
Flashes of Repartee[247]
The Word-twisting of the Punsters[263]
Clever Hits of the Humorists[276]
The Hits of the Satirists[298]
Evasions of Ambiguity[322]
Comical Blunders[331]
Missing the Point of the Jokes[356]
Even Homer sometimes Nods[362]
The Stretches of Poetic License[375]
Misquotation[380]
Falsities and Fallacies[383]
Legendary Lore[417]
Parallel Passages[462]
The Wit of the Epigrammatists[496]
Enigmas[514]
Voices from God’s Acre[523]
The Honeyed Phrase of Compliment[550]
The Mazes of Obscurity[554]
Ideal Physical Proportions[560]
Famous Beauties[567]
Female Poisoners[583]
Brevities[593]
Toasts and Mottoes[596]
Finis Coronat Opus[604]

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