A. HYATT VERRILL’S The Real Story of the Pirate. A fascinating book about those fellows whose colouring is perhaps a little faded in spite of their being scoundrels of the deepest dye; although (as you may not know) Kidd was by no means so black as he was hanged for being.
A. HYATT VERRILL’S The Real Story of the Whaler. More thrills for all of us who had ’em as we watched the film, “Down to the Sea in Ships.”
Almost Anything by HAROLD MACGRATH.
His The World Outside, or, if you haven’t read them:
The Ragged Edge
The Pagan Madonna
The Man With Three Names
The Drums of Jeopardy
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Let us approach the subject of humour circumspectly. In addition to the Works of DON MARQUIS, passim, as the reference books say, and the Works of P. G. WODEHOUSE, both before-mentioned, and the Works of DONALD OGDEN STEWART (see Chapter 13, “A Parody Outline of Stewart”), and the Works of IRVIN S. COBB in many places, the reader may be well advised to consult at the outset Tom Masson’s Annual for 1923, a humorous anthology; KATHARINE DAYTON’S Loose Leaves, IRVIN COBB’S collection of the best humorous stories he has ever met, A Laugh a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, and—oh, yes!—the Works of OLIVER HERFORD, including Neither Here Nor There and This Giddy Globe. A word of warning in regard to a couple of others:
FRANCIS B. KEENE’S Lyrics of the Links. This is not a humorous book on days when you are off your game. Still, you can’t afford to miss Grantland Rice’s foreword to the lyrics.
THOMAS L. MASON’S That Silver Lining, although written largely in a humorous vein, is an honest-to-goodness book about new thought, mental healing, psycho-analysis and so forth, by a survivor of twenty-eight years of Life.