| Penguin Persons & Peppermints | Eaton, Walter Prichard, 1878-1957 | en | | Penguin persons -- Spring comes to Thumping Dick -- The passing of the stage sundial -- On singing songs with one finger -- The immorality of shop-windows -- A forgotten American poet -- New poetry and the lingering line -- The lies we learn in our youth -- The bad manners of polite people -- On giving up golf forever -- "Grape-vine" erudition -- Business before grammar -- Wood ashes and progress -- The vacant room in drama -- On giving an author a plot -- The twilight veil -- Spring in the garden -- The bubble, reputation -- The old house on the bend -- Concerning hat-trees -- The shrinking of Kingman's Field -- Mumblety-peg and middle age -- Barber shops of yesterday -- The button box -- Peppermints. | | | 2008-08-23 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) | Various | en | | A Ballade of Ping-Pong, by Noble -- The Boat that Ain't, by Irwin -- Budge and Toddie, by Habberton -- A Cavalier's Valentine, by Scollard -- Conscientious Curate and the Beauteous Ballet Girl, by Rose -- The Country School, by Anonymous -- Evan Anderson's Poker Party, by Stevenson -- The Experiences of Gentle Jane, by Wells -- A Few Reflections, by Arp -- A Great Celebrator, by Nye -- The Gusher, by Loomis -- He Wanted to Know, by Foss -- The Hoss, by Riley -- How I Spoke the Word, by Stanton -- How Jimaboy Found Himself, by Lynde -- How the Money Goes, by Saxe -- "Hullo!", by Foss -- The Lugubrious Whing-Whang, by Riley -- The Millionaires, by Adeler -- The Mystery of Gilgal, by Hay -- Natural Philosophy, by Drummond -- The Nine Little Goblins, by Riley -- The Old-Fashioned Choir, by Taylor -- Our Polite Parents, by Wells -- Our Very Wishes, by Spofford -- A Reflective Retrospect, by Saxe -- A Rule of Three, byRice -- The Runaway Toys, by Stanton -- Soldier, Rest!, by Burdette -- The Tale of the Tangled Telegram, by Nesbit -- A Threnody, by Lanigan -- Tim Flannigan's Mistake, by Amsbary -- The University Intelligence Office, by Bangs -- The Warrior, by Field -- When Doctors Disagree, by Kiser -- When the Little Boy Ran Away, by Stanton -- The Widow Bedott's Visitor, by Whicher. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2008-01-26 |
| Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Volume I | Various | en | | IRVING -- Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE Old Grimes -- HOLMES My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful -- "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") -- Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- SILL Five Lives -- FIELDS The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS Living in the Country -- LELAND Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County. | Masson, Thomas L., 1866-1934 [Editor] | | 2007-04-21 |