An outline of humor / Being a true chronicle from prehistoric ages to the twentieth century - Unknown

Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking, The, George Ade, [723]
Fables,
origin of, [27–28]
use of term, [162], [235]
Fables of Pilpay or Bidpai (selections), [164]
Fabliaux, [164], [235], [236]
Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A, William Cowper, [435]
Faithless Nelly Gray, Thomas Hood, [462]
False Charms, Lucilius, [78]
Farewell to Chloris, Paul Scarron, [398]
Farewell to the Fairies, Bishop Corbet, [303]
Fauvel, [228]
Ferguson, Elizabeth Graeme,
Country Parson, The, [650]
Field, Eugene,
Dinkey-Bird, The, [710]
Good James and Naughty Reginald (from The Tribune Primer), [713]
Little Peach, The, [712]
Fields, James Thomas,
Alarmed Skipper, The, [668]
Filippo, Rustico di, [349]
Making of Master Messerin, The, [350]
Fine Lady, The, Simonides, [65]
Firdausi,
On Sultan Mahmoud, [142]
Fixed Smile, A, Catullus, [98]
Fletcher, John,
Laughing Song, [300]
Fontaine, Jean de la,
Cock and the Fox, The, [403]
Council Held by the Rats, The, [402]
Crow and the Fox, The, [404]
Foss, Sam Walter, [717]
Philosopher, A, [718]
Francis, J. G., [760]
Franklin, Benjamin,
“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend), [643]
Paper, [645]
French humor, [211–213], [235–243], [312–337], [390–409], [560–585]
Friday’s Conflict With the Bear (from Robinson Crusoe), Daniel Defoe, [383]
Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The, George Canning, [439]
Frog, The, Hilaire Belloc, [557]
Frogs, The (extracts), Aristophanes, [55]
Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The, Jonathan Swift, [416]

Gammer Gurton’s Needle (extract), John Still, [308]
Garden Hose, The, Edgar Wilson Nye, [714]
Gargantua and Pantagruel, [323]
(extracts), François Rabelais, [329]
Gargoyles, [48]
Gaulard, Sieur,
Bizarrures, [211]
Contes Facetieux, Les (extract), [74]
Gautier, Théophile,
Lap Dog, The (Fanfreluche), [577]
Gellert, Christian F.,
Patient Cured, The, [586]
Gentle Alice Brown, William Schwenck Gilbert, [529]
Gentleman Cit, The (extract), Molière, [396]
Gerard, Marc-Antoine,
Address to Bacchus, An, [392]
German humor, [337–344], [412–415], [586–615]
German Student Songs,
Credo, [614]
Pope and Sultan, [613]
Gesta Romanorum,
authorship and sources, [163], [243]
Of Sloth, [243]
Of the Deceits of the Devil, [246]
Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven, [244]
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord, [245]
Of Vigilance in Our Calling, [247]
Ghislanzoni, Antonio,
On Musical Instruments, [619]
Gilbert, William Schwenk,
Gentle Alice Brown, [529]
“Lady from the provinces, The,” [210]
Mighty Must, The, [528]
To the Terrestrial Globe, [529]
Giles and Joan, Ben Jonson, [296]
Gleemen, [232]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang,
Reynard the Fox (extract), [596]
Gold, Oliver Herford, [747]
Golden Ass, The (extracts), Apuleius, [112]
Golden Horseshoes, The (from Eulenspiegel’s Pranks), Tyll Eulenspiegel, [339]
Goldoni, Carlo, [616]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [431]
Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An, [432]
Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize, An, [433]
Parson Gray, [434]
Good Flea and the Wicked King, The (from Tales of a Grandfather), Victor Marie Hugo, [580]
Good James and Naughty Reginald (from The Tribune Primer), Eugene Field, [713]
Good Wife and the Bad Husband, The, [37]
Goose, The, Alfred Tennyson, [500]
Gothamites, [208], [214], [216], [341]
Gozzi, Carlo, [616]
Grammar and Medicine, Agathias, [76]
Great Contention, The, Nicarchus, [190]
Greedy and Ambitious Cat, The, Pilpay, [164]
Greek Anthology, [75]
Epigrams, [76] ff.
Greek Comedy, [46], [48], [55], [66]
Greek humor, [43–85], [178–181], [189–190]
Greene, Albert Gorton,
Old Grimes, [658]
Griboyedoff, Alexander, [631]
Grimm, Jakob and Wilhelm,
Clever Grethel (from Fairy Tales), [607]
Guiterman, Arthur,
Elegy, [743]
Mavrone, [742]
Guthrie, T. A. (F. Anstey),
Select Passages from a Coming Poet, [554]

Hale, Edward Everett, [678]
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, and Drake, Joseph Rodman,
Ode to Fortune, [657]
Halpine, Charles Graham, [681]
Hamlet (extract), Shakespeare, [286]
Hans Breitmann Ballads (selection), Charles Godfrey Leland, [680]
Harington, Sir John,
Of a Certain Man, [293]
Of a Precise Tailor, [292]
Harris, Joel Chandler,
Sad End of Brer Wolf, The (from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings), [708]
Harte, Francis Bret,
Society upon the Stanislaus, The, [686]
To the Pliocene Skull, [688]
Hatefulness of Old Husbands (from The Rose Garden [Gulistan]), Sadi, [144]
Hay, John,
Little Breeches (from Pike County Ballads), [690]
Haytian Epigrams, [641]
Hazlitt, William, [18], [277]
on the laughable, [7]
on distinction between wit and humor, [15], [16], [17]
on Falstaff, [278]
“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend), Benjamin Franklin, [643]
He Secures Sancho Panza as His Squire (from Don Quixote), Miguel de Cervantes, [360]
Hebrew humor, [30–33], [124–126]
Height of the Ridiculous, The, Oliver Wendell Holmes, [665]
Heine, Heinrich, [610]
Extracts, [612]
Town of Göttingen, The, [611]
Hen, A (extract), Henry Wheeler Shaw, [673]
Hen, The, Oliver Herford, [745]
Hen and the Egg, The, Matthias Claudius, [592]
Henley, William Ernest,
Villanelle, [533]
Henry IV, Part I (extract), Shakespeare, [281]
Henry IV, Part II (extract), Shakespeare, [279]
Heptameron, The, [164], [321]
Herbert, George, [365]
Here Is the Tale, Anthony C. Deane, [543]
Herford, Oliver,
Chimpanzee, The, [745]
Gold, [747]
Hen, The, [745]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream, [746]
Phyllis Lee, [744]
Prodigal Egg, The, [747]
Some Geese, [744]
Song—After Herrick, [747]
Herrick, Robert,
Kiss, The—A Dialogue, [367]
Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A, [368]
Hierocles,
Jests, [72], [175]
Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The, Charles Algernon Swinburne, [522]
Hindu humor, [36–39], [121–124], [164–175], [195–196], [214–215], [219–225]
Hobbes, Thomas, [365]
Laughter (from Treatise on Human Nature), [11], [12], [366]
Hoffman, Heinrich, [613]
Holley, Marietta,
My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s (extract), [702]
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, [18]
Æstivation, [666]
Height of the Ridiculous, The, [665]
Holy Willie’s Prayer, Robert Burns, [440]
Homer,
identity, [43], [48]
Battle of the Frogs and Mice, The, [51], [53]
Beating of Thersites, The (from The Iliad), [49]
Homer’s Riddle, [35]
Hood, Thomas,
Faithless Nelly Gray, [462]
No!, [465]
Hook, Theodore,
Dissertation on Puns, [453]
Hopkinson, Francis,
Battle of the Kegs, The, [647]
Horace,
Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way (from Satires), [98]
Horace Concocting an Ode, Thomas Dekker, [300]
Horse Tied to a Steeple, A (from Adventures of Baron Münchausen), Rudolph Erich Raspe, [589]
How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar, Guy Wetmore Carryl, [738]
How Jacke by Sophistry Would Make of Two Eggs Three (from The Jests of Scogin), [265]
How Madde Coomes, When His Wife Was Drowned, Sought Her against the Streame (from Mother Bunches Merriments), [267]
How Maister Hobson Said He Was Not at Home (from The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, Richard Johnson), [267]
How Scogin Sold Powder to Kill Fleas (from The Jests of Scogin), [265]
How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington (from Certayne Merye Tales), John Skelton, [264]
How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Ayde Him in Hys Sute to the Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke, John Skelton, [263]
Hudibras (extracts), Samuel Butler, [375]
Hugo, Victor Marie,
The Good Flea and the Wicked King (from Tales of a Grandfather), [580]
Human Nature, Treatise on (extracts), Thomas Hobbes, [11], [12], [366]
Humor,
use of term, [3]
theories and definitions, [4] ff., [23]
Hazlitt on, [7], [15] ff.
Max Eastman on, [7], [13]
Dr. Isaac Barrows on, [9–11]
Thomas Hobbes on, [11]
George Meredith on, [12]
sense of humor, [13–15]
Brander Matthews on, [13]
distinction between wit and, [15–17]
playfulness of animals, [18] ff.
chronological periods, [20], [43]
origin of, [23], [45], [46]
educational use, [249]
influx into literature, [277]
Humorist on His Calling, A (from A Window in Thrums), James Matthew Barrie, [535]
Hunting with a King (from Sakuntala), Kalidasa, [121]
Husband and the Parrot, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [131]
Husband’s Petition, The, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, [494]
Hymn of the Frogs, The (from the Rig Vedas), [34]

“I am a saint of good repute,” Monk of Montaudon, [238]
Idiot’s Delight, The, Carolyn Wells, [749]
Idler, The (extract), Samuel Johnson, [430]
If I Should Die To-Night, Ben King, [728]
Ignorant Man Who Set Up for a Schoolmaster, The (from The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment), [129]
Il Cortegiano (extracts), Castiglione, [183]
Iliad (extract), Homer, [49]
Iliad in a Nutshell, The, [51]
Ingenious Cook, An (from Trimalchio’s Banquet), Petronius, [102]
Ingoldsby Legends, Richard Harris Barham, [455]
Inheritance of a Library, The (from Novellino), Massuchio di Salerno, [350]
I Remember, Phœbe Cary, [676]
Innocence (from Contes Drolatiques), Honoré de Balzac, [568]
Irish Bulls, prototypes of, [211]
Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The (from Stories in Rime [Masnavi]), Jalal uddin Rumi, [152]
Invisible Bridge, The, Frank Gelett Burgess, [748]
Iphis, Jean de la Bruyère, [406]
Irishman, The, William Maginn, [471]
Irving, Washington,
Certain Young Lady, A, [654]
Italian humor, [182–184], [218], [344–359], [409–411], [616–625]

Jabberwocky (from Through the Looking-Glass), Lewis Carroll, [515]
Jack and Jill (a symposium), Charles Battell Loomis, [735]
Jacob, Phœbe Cary, [677]
Jalal uddin Rumi,
Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The (from Stories in Rime [Masnavi]), [152]
Old Age—Dialogue, [153]
Sick Schoolmaster, The (from Stories in Rime), [149]
Jami,
The Baharistan (extracts), [196]
Japanese humor, [161]
Játakas, or Buddhist stories, [34], [214]
Jerrold, Douglas, [475]
Cold Mutton, Pudding, Pancakes (from Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures), [476]
Witticisms, [478]
Jestbooks (extracts),
English, [262] ff., [274] ff.
French, [335–337]
Jester Condemned to Death, The, Horace Smith, [469]
Jests
Greek, [178–181]
Mediæval German, [188–189]
Old jokes, [72–75]
Roman, [181–182]
Jests of Hierocles, [72], [175], [176–178]
Jests of Scogin, The, 263, (extracts), [265]
Jobsiad, The (extract), Carl Arnold Kortum, [599]
Johannes Secundus,
On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife, [193]
Johnson, Richard,
The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson (extract), [267]
Johnson, Samuel,
“As with my hat upon my head,” [431]
On Lying News-Writers (from The Idler), [430]
Jokes,
popular idea of, [4]
what makes, [5]
practical, [6]
and bards, [26]
Jolly Good Ale and Old (from Gammer Gurton’s Needle), John Still, [308]
Jongleurs of Middle Ages, [233]
Jonson, Ben,
Epigrams, [295]
Every Man in His Humor (extract), [293]
Giles and Joan, [296]
To the Ghost of Martial, [295]
Vintner, A, [295]
Volpone (extract), [294]
Jotham, story of, [31]
Judas, the Arch-Rogue (extract), Abraham á Sancta Clara, [412]
Jugglers, [233]
Julian,
Beer, [76]
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The (extract), Samuel Langhorne Clemens, [681]
Juvenal,
Cosmetic Disguise (from Satires), [110]
On Domineering Wives (from Satires), [111]

Kalidasa,
Hunting with a King (from Sakuntala), [121]
Kant,
definition of laughter, [13]
Karlchen, the Crocodile (extract), Fedor Dostoevsky, [635]
Kathá Manjari (extract), [75]
Kathá Sarit Ságara, Somadeva, [214]
Kerr, Orpheus C. See [Newell, Robert Henry]
Khoja Nasru’d Dín. See [Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi]
Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The, George Thomas Lanigan, [706]
King, Ben,
If I Should Die To-Night, [728]
Pessimist, The, [727]
Kingsley, Charles,
Professor’s Malady, The (from Water Babies), [498]
Kiss, The, Thomas L. Masson, [732]
Kiss, The—A Dialogue, Robert Herrick, [367]
Kock, Charles Paul de,
Theophile’s Mother-in-Law (from A Much Worried Gentleman), [572]
Kortum, Carl Arnold,
The Jobsiad (extract), [599]
Krishna,
caricatures of, [36]
Kryloff (v), Ivan, [631]
Musicians, The, [634]
Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The, [633]

Lady from the Provinces, The, W. S. Gilbert, [210]
“La Gallisse, now I wish to touch,” Gilles Ménage, [407]
L’Allegro, Milton, [371]
Lamb, Charles (extracts), [449]
Landon, Melville D., [698]
Lang, Andrew,
Ballad of the Primitive Jest, [526]
Ballade of Literary Fame, [527]
Lanigan, George Thomas (G. Washington Æsop), [705]
Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The, [706]
Ostrich and the Hen, The, [706]
Threnody, A, [704]
Lanty Leary, Samuel Lover, [482]
Lap Dog, The, Théophile Gautier, [577]
La Rochefoucauld, François de,
Maxims, [399]
Laughable, the, ideas on, [4], [7]
Laughing Song, John Fletcher, [300]
Laughter,
what makes us laugh, [5]
Hobbes’s definition, [11], [12], [366]
Kant’s definition, [13]
Lay of the Lovelorn, The, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, [495]
Lear, Edward,
Limericks, [519]
Two Old Bachelors, The, [520]
Learned Women, The (extract), Molière, [394]
Leland, Charles Godfrey,
Ballad (from Hans Breitmann Ballads), [680]
Leopardi, Giacomo,
Academy of Syllographs, The, [616]
Lerneans, The, Unknown, [79]
Le Sage, Alan René, [406]
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
Decorated Bow, The (from Fables), [588]
Epigrams, [588]
Fables (extracts), [588]
Raven, The (from Fables), [588]
Let the Toast Pass (from The School for Scandal), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [437]
Letters to His Son (extracts), Lord Chesterfield, [429]
Lever, Charles, [481]
Widow Malone, [483]
Lie, The, Sir Walter Raleigh, [305]
Like to the Thundering Tone, Bishop Corbet, [302]
Limericks, Edward Lear, [519]
Lines by a Person of Quality, Alexander Pope, [419]
Lines on Milton, Cowper, [382]
Lion, the Bear, the Monkey and the Fox, The (from Æsop’s Fables), [44]
Lions Council of State, The, Ivan Chemnitzer, [632]
Little Billee, William Makepeace Thackeray, [487]
Little Breeches (from Pike County Ballads), John Hay, [690]
Little Peach, The, Eugene Field, [712]
Living in Bed (from Roland Enamored), Francesco Berni, [352]
Locke, David Ross (Petroleum V. Nasby), [684]
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, [484], [503]
My Mistress’s Boots, [503]
On a Sense of Humor, [505]
Some Ladies, [505]
Terrible Infant, A, [505]
Long and Short, Unknown, [78]
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [666]
Mr. Finney’s Turnip, [667]
There Was a Little Girl, [667]
Loomis, Charles Battell,
Jack and Jill (a symposium), [735]
Lord Erskine’s Simile, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, [438]
Lost Hatchet, The (from Gargantua and Pantagruel), François Rabelais, [329]
Love in a Cottage, Nathaniel Parker Willis, [661]
Love Lesson, A, Clement Marot, [321]
Lovelace, Richard, [368]
Song, [369]
Lover, Samuel,
Lanty Leary, [482]
Rory O’More, [481]
Lovers and a Reflection, Charles Stuart Calverly, [511]
Love’s Labour’s Lost (extract), Shakespeare, [15]
Lowell, James Russell,
What Mr. Robinson Thinks (from Biglow Papers), [674]
Lucian,
Darkness, [76]
Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus (from Dialogues of the Sea Gods), [80]
Question of Precedence, A (from Dialogues of the Gods), [79]
Lucilius,
Board or Lodging, [78]
Envy, [77]
False Charms, [78]
Professor with a Small Class, A, [77]
Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A, [78]
Lucillius,
A Miser’s Dream, [190]
Lying, Thomas Moore, [479]

Madame d’Albret’s Laugh, Clement Marot, [321]
Maginn, William,
Irishman, The, [471]
Maid, the Monkey, and the Mendicant, The, Unknown, [170]
Making of Master Messerin, The, Rustico di Filippo, [350]
Man and Superman, Martial, [109]
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream, Oliver Herford, [746]
Marot, Clement,
Love Lesson, A, [321]
Madame d’Albret’s Laugh, [321]
Married Life, Stephanus Paschasius, [194]
Married State, The, Sir John Davies, [310]
Marryat, Frederick (Captain Marryat),
Nautical Terms (from Peter Simple), [474]
Marston, John,
Scholar and His Dog, The, [310]
Martial, Father of Epigrams, [106], [333]
Between the Lines, [107]
Crede Experto, [109]
Man and Superman, [109]
Mere Suggestion, A, [108]
Millions in It, [109]
Mute Miltons, [108]
Numbers Sweet, [109]
Play’s the Thing, [107]
Rounded with a Sleep, [108]
To Aulus, [107]
To Catullus, [107]
To Linus, [109]
To Mamercus, [110]
To Postumus, [107]
To Sabidins, [107]
Total Abstainer, A, [108]
Vendetta, [108]
What Might Have Been, [108]
Martin, Theodore, [493]
Marvel, Ik. See [Mitchell, Donald G.]
Masks, [87]
Masson, Thomas L.,
Desolation, [733]
Kiss, The, [732]
Matthews Brander, on sense of humor, [13]
Mavrone, Arthur Guiterman, [742]
Maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld, [399]
Meeting, The, “Singing Mouse,” [53]
Melchior de Santa Cruz,
Spanish Apothegms, [184–189]
Ménage, Gilles,
“La Galisse, now I wish to touch,” [407]
Menander, fragments, [82]
Mendoza, Hurtado de, [359]
Merchant and His Friend, The, Pilpay, [169]
Merchant of Venice, The (extract), Shakespeare, [286]
Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in Hys Dethe Bedde (from C. Mery Talys), [270]
Mere Suggestion, A, Martial, [108]
Meredith, George, on modification of Derision Theory, [12]
Merie Tayles of Skelton (extracts), [263]
Mery Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham (extracts), [266]
Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass (extracts), Apuleius, [112]
Microbe, The, Hilaire Belloc, [556]
Mighty Must, The, William Schwenck Gilbert, [528]
Military Swagger (from The Braggart Captain), Plautus, [88]
Milkmaid and the Banker, The, Horace Smith, [468]
Millennium, The, James Kenneth Stephen, [549]
Miller, Joaquin, [690]
That Gentle Man from Boston Town, [692]
Millions in It, Martial, [109]
Milton,
Epitaph for an Old University Carrier, [373]
L’Allegro (extract), [371]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, William Cowper, [382]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, John Dryden, [382]
Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil, Selvaggi, [382]
Mimi Pinson (extract), Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, [569]
Mimicry, [23], [28]
Miniver Cheevy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, [740]
Minstrels, [233], [234]
Miser and the Mouse, The, Plato, [190]
Misers Dream, A, Lucillius, [190]
Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures, Douglas Jerrold, [476]
Mrs. Gamp’s Apartment (from Martin Chuzzlewit), Charles Dickens, [491]
Mrs. Partington (extract), Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, [664]
Mrs. Partington (from Speech), Sydney Smith, [448]
Mr. Finney’s Turnip, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [667]
Mitchell, Donald G. (Ik Marvel), [678]
Molière, [277]
Gentleman Cit, The (extract), [396]
Learned Women, The (extract), [394]
Mona Lisa, John Kendrick Bangs, [731]
Money, Jehan du Pontalais, [322]
Montaudon, Monk of, [238]
“I am a saint of good repute,” [239]
Montfaucon’s alphabet of men and animals, [227]
Moore, Clement C.,
Visit from St. Nicholas, A, [652]
Moore, Thomas,
Lying, [479]
Nonsense, [479]
Of All the Men, [480]
On Taking a Wife, [481]
Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party, [481]
What’s My Thought Like? [480]
Moral Man, A, Nikolai Nekrasov, [637]
More, Thomas, [277]
Morell, José, [411]
Advice to an Innkeeper, [412]
To a Poet, [412]
Mother Bunches Merriments (extract), [267]
Mountain and the Squirrel, The, Ralph Waldo Emerson, [660]
Much Ado About Nothing (extract), Shakespeare, [283]
Much Married Gentleman, A (extract), Charles Paul de Kock, [572]
Müller, Wilhelm,
The Drunkard’s Fancy, [606]
Munkittrick, Richard Kendall,
What’s in a Name?, [715]
Murder as One of the Fine Arts, Thomas De Quincey, [458]
Murger, Henri,
An Evening Reception (from Bohemian Life Sketches), [579]
Musicians, The, Ivan Kryloff, [634]
Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de,
The Supper Party of the Three Cavaliers (from Mimi Pinson), [569]
Mute Miltons, Martial, [108]
“My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” Rambaud d’Orange, [237]
My Familiar, John Godfrey Saxe, [669]
My First Visit to Portland, Seba Smith, [662]
My Mistress’s Boots, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [503]
My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s (extracts), Marietta Holley, [702]
Mystery, The, Carolyn Wells, [751]

Nasby, Petroleum V. See [Locke, David Ross]
Nathan, story of, [31]
Nautical Terms (from Peter Simple), Frederick Marryat, [474]
Nearchus,
Singer, A, [77]
Nekrasov, Nikolai,
Moral Man, A, [637]
Nephelidia, Swinburne, [523]
Newell, Peter, [760]
Newell, Robert Henry (Orpheus C. Kerr)
Rejected “National Hymns,” [695]
Newspaper humor, [663], [678], [698]
Nicarchus,
Great Contention, The, [190]
No!, Thomas Hood, [465]
Nocturne at Danieli’s, A, Sir Owen Seaman, [537]
Nonsense, Bishop Corbet, [302]
Nonsense, Thomas Moore, [479]
Noodle stories,
origin, [72]
selections, [199–225], [341]
principle of humor in, [210]
Novellino, Massuchio di Salerno, [350]
Numbers Sweet, Martial, [109]
Nye, Edgar Wilson (Bill Nye),
Garden Hose, The, [714]

Obedient Husbands (from The Bachelor’s Banquet), Thomas Dekker, [298]
Obstinate Family, The, tale of, [208]
Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way (from Satires), Horace, [98]
Ode to Fortune, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake, [657]
Ode to Tobacco, Charles Stuart Calverly, [513]
Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus (from Dialogues of the Sea-Gods), Lucian, [80]
Of a Certain Man, Sir John Harington, [293]
Of a Precise Tailor, Sir John Harington, [292]
Of a Queer Relationship, Unknown, [174]
Of All the Men, Thomas Moore, [480]
Of Hym That Sought His Wyfe Agaynst the Streme (from C. Mery Talys), [272]
Of Loquacity (from The Characters), Theophrastus, [71]
Of Sloth (from Gesta Romanorum), [243]
Of Slovenliness (from The Characters), Theophrastus, [70]
Of the Courtear That Ete the Hot Custarde (from C. Mery Talys), [272]
Of the Deceits of the Devil (from Gesta Romanorum), [246]
Of the Diseases This Year, François Rabelais, [324]
Of the Eclipses This Year, François Rabelais, [323]
Of the Foole That Thought Hym Selfe Deed (from C. Mery Talys), [273]
Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year, François Rabelais, [325]
Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven (from Gesta Romanorum), [244]
Of the Incarnation of Our Lord (from Gesta Romanorum), [245]
Of the Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in Hys Dethe Bedde (from C. Mery Talys), [270]
Of the Scoler of Oxforde That Proved by Sovestry II Chickens III (from C. Mery Talys), [271]
Of the Valorous Don Quixote’s ... Adventure of the Windmills (from Don Quixote), Cervantes, [363]
Of the Woman that Followed her Fourth Husband’s Bere and Wept (from Wit and Mirth), [270]
Of Three Girls and Their Talk: A Sonnet, Giovanni Boccaccio, [344]
Of Vigilance in Our Calling (from Gesta Romanorum), [247]
Old Age—Dialogue, Jalal uddin Rumi, [153]
Old Grimes, Albert Gorton Greene, [658]
Omar Khayyam,
Rubaiyat (extract), [138]
On a Fan, Henry Austin Dobson, [524]
On a Sense of Humor, Frederick Locker-Lampson, [505]
On a Wet Day, Francho Sacchetti, [355]
On Aufidius, Actius Sannazarius, [192]
On Aurispa, Janus Pannonius, [192]
On Celsus, Paulus Thomas, [194]
On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife, Johannes Secundus, [193]
On Clothes and Comforts (from The Land of Dreams), Kiokutei Bakin, [161]
On Cotin, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, [405]
On Domineering Wives (from Satires), Juvenal, [111]
On Expert Testimony, Finley Peter Dunne, [720]
On “Forts,” Charles Farrar Browne, [685]
On His Own Deafness, Jonathan Swift, [418]
On His Own Love, Catullus, [191]
On Late-Acquired Wealth, Unknown, [190]
On Leonora, Georgius Buchananus, [193]
On Lying News-Writers (from The Idler), Samuel Johnson, [430]
On Mental Reservations (from Les Provinciales), Blaise Pascal, [400]
On Musical Instruments, Antonio Ghislanzoni, [619]
On Shadwell, John Dryden, [380]
On Sultan Mahmoud, Firdausi, [142]
On Taking a Wife, Thomas Moore, [481]
On the Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, [381]
On the Inconstancy of Woman’s Love, Unknown, [191]
Orange, Rambaud d’,
Song: “My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” [237]
Ostrich and the Hen, The, George Thomas Lanigan, [706]