CLEVER HITS OF THE HUMORISTS, 276
According to Agreement, 284
Botanical Misnomer, 288
Business Economy, 289
Caderousse’s Wager, 283
Christmas Chimes, 295
Completing a Stanza, 289
Democritus at Belfast, 293
Double X, 282
Frankness, 282
His Station, 281
Identified, 277
Killarney Echo, 280
Love of Specie-s, 281
Mark Twain convinced, 285
Met the Emergency, 282
Mistaken Vanity, 276
Motto for a Tavern Sign, 286
Nestling Shuttlecock, 296
New Light, A, 286
Not interchangeable, 288
Not Rousseau, 281
Preferred Beverage, 277
Pulpit Wager, 285
Remedy, The, 288
Rhus Toxicodendron, 285
Schweininger’s Thrust, 287
Seeing is Believing, 280
Significant Change, 287
Similar Privilege, 283
Toast, A, 276
Uncivil Retort, 278
Very Long Bill, 279
Whittier’s Impromptu, 279
Xanthippe vindicated, 290
COMICAL BLUNDERS, 331
Aaron and Hur, 347
Alleged Danger of Rapid Movement, 346
“Beats,” not Turnips, 342
Before Railroads, 354
Betting on the Lord’s Prayer, 339
Both Sides, 335
Contradictory Phraseology, 339
Couldn’t fool him, 333
Desirable Uniformity, 351
Direct Information, 351
Disinfecting a Telegram, 331
Economy of Nature, 349
Exchanging Errors, 339
False Doctrine, 350
Faux Pas, 341
German Pickwick, 344
Gibson’s Venus, 334
Great Mind, A, 338
Half-Truths, 337
Happening of the Unexpected, 337
Happy Thought, A, 332
Help from Above, 350
Highgate, 334
Hopeless Case, 335
Individuals, 340
Infelicities, 340
John the Baptist, 344
Minding One’s Business, 351
Misplaced Zeal, 353
Mistranslation, 352
Not a Chiropodist, 345
One Form of Vanity, 342
Poor Children, 350
Psoriasis, 338
Quakerese, 343
Question of Capacity, 336
Reasonable Excuse, 343
Sending a Postscript, 343
Stiefel, 332
“Sufficient” Guide-post, 341
Twenty Dunkards, 347
Unexpected Reception, 336
Unfamiliar Familiarity, 346
Wrong Man made a Count, 331
Wrong Word, 355
ENIGMAS, 514
Archbishop Whately’s, 514
Arithmetical Puzzle, 517
Charades, 518
Fox’s, 514
Fugitive Sigh, 516
Genealogical Puzzle, 520
Hallam’s, 514
Macaulay’s, 515
Marigold, 520
Mitchell’s, 515
Palindromic, 516
Richard Porson’s, 516
Seward’s, 515
Sir Hilary’s Prayer, 521
What becomes of the Pins, 517
EVASIONS OF AMBIGUITY, 322
Acknowledgment, 323
Artful Dodger, 323
Butchers, The, 327
Deceiver, A, 324
Difference, A, 324
Divine Service, 325
Doubtful Compliment, 325
Erskine’s Pleasantry, 329
Greek Lexicographers, 322
Judge like Solomon, 326
King or Pretender, 325
Legal Question, 326
Meeting the Difficulty, 327
Mortuary Word-Play, 330
Religion of Wise Men, 322
Rouge, 324
Shifting Responsibility, 329
Tough Witness, 328
Which?, 324
EVEN HOMER SOMETIMES NODS, 362
Balboa, 370
Bishop Ken’s Doxology, 371
Bret Harte’s Astronomy, 364
Byron’s Greek, 372
Cassio or Iago?, 367
Cenotaph, 370
Chinese Cycle, 363
Collins _vs._ Prior, 369
Dante as a Naturalist, 367
Gladstone’s Heber, 369
In Time of Peace, 368
Johnson’s Error, 366
Jugurtha, 362
Milton as a Botanist, 366
Milton’s Italian, 366
Mistakes of our Best Writers, 373
Racine _vs._ Voltaire, 363
St. Paul to the Ephesians, 371
Triple Error, 372
Watts _vs._ Cowper, 364
Wolseley’s Mistake, 365
FACETIÆ, 223
Admissible Explanation, 228
Already had One, 223
Ask Papa, 224
Berners Street Hoax, 242
Canard, 226
Cardinal’s Curse, 241
Coldblooded Criticism, 234
Companion Pictures, 236
Compliant Courts, 237
Eye of the Fly, 225
Graduate, The, 233
High Art Advertising, 227
High Diddle Diddle, 245
Jack and Jill, 244
Juxtaposition, 236
Legal Dilemma, 238
Mary’s Little Lamb, 245
Meeting, The, 246
Mr. Evarts’s Jocularity, 230
Mock Heroics, 234
Modern Judge on Portia, 237
Niagara, 236
Old Cock, The, 223
Poet-Farmer in a Fix, 231
Point of View, 244
Relative Size, 240
Second- or Third-Rate, 229
Sothern’s Practical Joke, 227
Too mild, 224
Unwilling Willingness, 235
Venerable Joke, 232
Vicissim, 244
Virgil’s Æneid dissected, 239
Worse than Worst, 231
Wounded Amazon, 239
Yale’s Way, 226
FALSITIES AND FALLACIES, 383
Anglo-Saxon as a Race Term, 413
Bacon Humbug, 398
Burning of Rome, 411
Don’t give up the Ship, 388
False Ascription, 383
Finding of Moses, 386
Good Old Times, 393
Guillotin, 416
Historic Phrase Disputed, 387
L. E. L. assumes a Virtue, 410
Lentulus Letter, 384
Maelstrom, 388
Mummy Wheat, 413
Penn Treaty, 391
Pocahontas, 390
Scott’s Fabrications, 385
Shakespeare’s Defiance of Historical Fact, 394
Specific Gravity, 389
Stratford-on-Avon, 406
William Tell, 386
FAMOUS BEAUTIES, 567
Cleopatra, 567
Diana of Poitiers, 572
Eugénie, 579
Isabella, 571
Mary Stuart, 574
Ninon de l’Enclos, 573
Phryne, 568
Pompadour, 576