CONTENTS
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| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| 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] |
FACTS AND FANCIES
FOR THE CURIOUS
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