Peter Newell and J. G. Francis have drawn some of the most delicately witty pictures and have written quatrains or Limericks to accompany them, but picture and text must be shown together, if at all.
For the same reason our cartoonists may not be touched upon.
Nor can we include any writers whose work did not appear before 1900.
The scope of this book is bounded by the twentieth century, and much as we should like to present the Columnists and the more recent versifiers, they must be left for a later chronicler.
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]