THE GOLDEN HUMOROUS RECITER
RECITATIONS AND READINGS IN PROSE AND VERSE SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF
F. ANSTEY, J. M. BARRIE, MAJOR DRURY, JEROME K. JEROME, BARRY PAIN, A. W. PINERO, OWEN SEAMAN, G. B. SHAW, &c. &c.
WITH A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION
By PROF. CAIRNS JAMES
Extra crown 8vo, over 700 pages, cloth, nett, 6s.; also a thin paper pocket edition, with coloured edges, nett, 6s. 6d.
“Unquestionably the best collection of modern humorous pieces for recitations which has yet been issued.”—The Dundee Advertiser.
“Packed with things that are fresh and unhackneyed.”—Bookman.
“An excellent selection, three-fifths of them being taken from the work of the best modern writers.”—The World.
“A most comprehensive and well-chosen collection of some hundreds of pieces—a most catholic array of all that is good in English literature, and a small encyclopædia of English humour.”—The Spectator.