I’ve all his philosophy at my tongue’s end.
Of Freudian conclusions I haven’t a doubt.
I’ve got human complexes all straightened out.
But on this deep problem I muse in my bed--
Why _do_ people marry the people they wed?
I’ve studied up ancient religions and cults,
I’ve tried spiritism with curious results;
I know the Piltdown and Neanderthal man,
How big is Betelgeuse and how old is Ann;
But this I shall wonder about till I’m dead--
Why _do_ people marry the people they wed?
_WOMAN_
Women are dear and women are queer
Men call them, with a laugh,
The female of the species,
Or a husband’s better half.
They sing their praise in many ways,
They flatter them--but, oh,
How little they know of Woman
Who only women know!
Now women are pert and women will flirt,
And they’re catty and rude and vain;
And sometimes they’re witty and sometimes they’re pretty--
And sometimes they’re awfully plain.
But Woman is rare beyond compare,
The poets tell us so;
How little they know of Woman
Who only women know!
Women are petty and women are fretty,
They try to hide their years;
They steadily nag and nervously rag,
And frequently burst into tears.
But Woman is gracious, serene and calm,
Above all tricks or arts,
Her sympathy’s like a soothing balm
To sad and sorrowing hearts.
Women are very perverse and contrary,
They will contradict you flat;
Oh, women I’ll call the devil and all,
There’s no denying that!
But Woman, oh, men, is beyond our ken,
Too angelic for mortals below;
How little they know of Woman
Who only women know!
_A SYMPOSIUM OF POETS_
Once upon a time a few of the greatest Poets of all ages gathered
together for the purpose of discussing the merits of the Classic Poem:
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her,
Put her in a Pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
In many ways this historic narrative called forth admiration. One must
admit Peter’s great strength of character, his power of quick decision,
and immediate achievement. Some hold that his inability to retain the
lady’s affection in the first place, argues a defect in his nature;
but remembering the lady’s youth and beauty (implied by the spirit of
the whole poem), we can only reiterate our appreciation of the way
he conquered circumstances, and proved himself master of his fate,
and captain of his soul! Truly, the Pumpkin-Eaters must have been a
forceful race, able to defend their rights and rule their people.
The Poets at their symposium unanimously felt that the style of the
poem, though hardly to be called crude, was a little bare, and they
took up with pleasure the somewhat arduous task of rewriting it.
Mr. Ed. Poe opined that there was lack of atmosphere, and that the
facts of the narrative called for a more impressive setting. He
therefore offered:
The skies, they were ashen and sober,
The lady was shivering with fear;
Her shoulders were shud’ring with fear.
On a dark night in dismal October,
Of his most Matrimonial Year.
It was hard by the cornfield of Auber,
In the musty Mud Meadows of Weir,
Down by the dank frog-pond of Auber,
In the ghoul-haunted cornfield of Weir.
Now, his wife had a temper Satanic,
And when Peter roamed here with his Soul,
Through the corn with his conjugal Soul,
He spied a huge pumpkin Titanic,
And he popped her right in through a hole.
Then solemnly sealed up the hole.
And thus Peter Peter has kept her
Immured in Mausoleum gloom,
A moist, humid, damp sort of gloom.
And though there’s no doubt he bewept her,
She is still in her yellow hued tomb,
Her unhallowed, Hallowe’en tomb
And ever since Peter side-stepped her,
He calls her his lost Lulalume,
His Pumpkin-entombed Lulalume.
This was received with acclaim, but many objected to the mortuary
theory.
* * * * *
Mrs. Robert Browning was sure that Peter’s love for his wife, though
perhaps that of a primitive man, was of the true Portuguese stamp, and
with this view composed the following pleasing Sonnet:
How do I keep thee? Let me count the ways.
I bar up every breadth and depth and height
My hands can reach, while feeling out of sight
For bolts that stick and hasps that will not raise.
I keep thee from the public’s idle gaze,
I keep thee in, by sun or candle light.
I keep thee, rude, as women strive for Right.
I keep thee boldly, as they seek for praise,
I keep thee with more effort than I’d use
To keep a dry-goods shop or big hotel.
I keep thee with a power I seemed to lose
With that last cook. I’ll keep thee down the well,
Or up the chimney-place! Or if I choose,
I shall but keep thee in a Pumpkin shell.
This was of course meritorious, though somewhat suggestive of the
cave-men, who, we have never been told, were Pumpkin Eaters.
Austin Dobson’s version was really more ladylike:
_BALLADE OF A PUMPKIN_
Golden-skinned, delicate, bright,
Wondrous of texture and hue,
Bathed in a soft, sunny light,
Pearled with a silvery dew.
Fair as a flower to the view,
Ripened by summer’s soft heat,
Basking beneath Heaven’s blue,--
This is the Pumpkin of Pete.
Peter consumed day and night,
Pumpkin in pie or in stew;
Hinted to Cook that she might
Can it for winter use, too.
Pumpkin croquettes, not a few,
Peter would happily eat;
Knowing content would ensue,--
This is the Pumpkin of Pete.
Everything went along right,
Just as all things ought to do;
Till Peter,--unfortunate wight,--
Married a girl that he knew,
Each day he had to pursue,
His runaway Bride down the street,--
So her into prison he threw,--
This is the Pumpkin of Pete.
_L’envoi_
Lady, a sad lot, ’tis true,
Staying your wandering feet;
But ’tis the best place for you,--
This is the Pumpkin of Pete.
Like the other women present Dinah Craik felt the pathos of the
situation, and gave vent to her feelings in this tender burst of song:
Could I come back to you Peter, Peter,
From this old pumpkin that I hate;
I would be so tender, so loving, Peter,--
Peter, Peter, gracious and great.
You were not half worthy of me, Peter,
Not half worthy the like of I;
Now all men beside are not in it, Peter,--
Peter, Peter, I feel like a pie.
Stretch out your hand to me, Peter, Peter,
Let me out of this Pumpkin, do;
Peter, my beautiful Pumpkin Eater,
Peter, Peter, tender and true.
Mr. Hogg took his own graceful view of the matter, thus:
Lady of wandering,
Blithesome, meandering,
Sweet was thy flitting o’er moorland and lea;
Emblem of restlessness,
Blest be thy dwelling place,
Oh, to abide in the Pumpkin with thee.
Peter, though bland and good,
Never thee understood,
Or he had known how thy nature was free;
Goddess of fickleness,
Blest be thy dwelling place,
Oh, to abide in the Pumpkin with thee.
Mr. Kipling grasped at the occasion for a ballad in his best vein. The
plot of the story aroused his old time enthusiasm, and he transplanted
the pumpkin eater and his wife to the scenes of his earlier powers:
In a great big Mammoth pumpkin
Lookin’ eastward to the sea,
There’s a wife of mine a-settin’
And I know she’s mad at me.
For I hear her calling, “Peter!”
With a wild hysteric shout;
“Come you back, you Punkin Eater,--
Come you back and let me out!”
For she’s in a punkin shell,
I have locked her in her cell;
But it really is a comfy, well-constructed punkin shell;
And there she’ll have to dwell,
For she didn’t treat me well,
So I put her in the punkin and I’ve kept her very well.
Algernon Swinburne was also in one of his early moods, and as a result
he wove the story into this exquisite fabric of words:
_IN THE PUMPKIN_
Leave go my hands. Let me catch breath and see,
What is this confine either side of me?
Green pumpkin vines about me coil and crawl,
Seen sidelong, like a ’possum in a tree,--
Ah me, ah me, that pumpkins are so small!
Oh, my fair love, I charge thee, let me out;
From this gold lush encircling me about;
I turn and only meet a pumpkin wall.
The crescent moon shines slim,--but I am stout,--
Ah me, ah me, that pumpkins are so small!
Pumpkin seeds like cold sea blooms bring me dreams;
Ah, Pete,--too sweet to me,--my Pete, it seems
Love like a Pumpkin holds me in its thrall;
And overhead a writhen shadow gleams,--
Ah me, ah me, that pumpkins are so small!
This intense poesy thrilled the heavens, and it was with a sense of
relief to their throbbing souls that they listened to Mr. Bret Harte’s
contribution:
Which I wish to remark,
That the lady was plain;
And for ways that are dark
And for tricks that are vain,
She had predilections peculiar,
And drove Peter nearly insane.
Far off, anywhere,
She wandered each day;
And though Peter would swear,
The lady would stray;
And whenever he thought he had got her,
She was sure to be rambling away.
Said Peter, “My Wife,
Hereafter you dwell
For the rest of your life
In a big Pumpkin Shell.”
He popped her in one that was handy,
And since then he’s kept her quite well.
Which is why I remark,
Though the lady was plain,
For ways that are dark
And tricks that are vain,
A husband is very peculiar,
And the same I am free to maintain.
Oscar Wilde in a poetic fervour and a lily-like kimono, recited with
tremulous intensity this masterpiece of his own:
Oh, Peter! Pumpkin-fed and proud,
Ah me! ah me!
(Sweet squashes, mother!)
Thy woe knells like a stricken cloud;
(Ah me; ah me!
Hurroo, Hurree!)
Lo! vanisht like an anguisht wraith;
Ah me! ah me!
(Sweet squashes, mother!)
Wan hope a dolorous Musing saith;
(Ah me; ah me!
Dum diddle dee!)
Hist! dare we soar? The Pumpkin shell
Ah me! ah me!
(Sweet squashes, mother!)
(Fast and forever! Sooth, ’tis well.
(Ah me; ah me!
Faloodle dee!)
There was little to be said after this, so the meeting was closed with
a solo by Lady Arthur Hill, using with a truly touching touch:
In the pumpkin, oh, my darling,
Think not bitterly of me;
Though I went away in silence,
Though I couldn’t set you free.
For my heart was filled with longing,
For another piece of pie;
It was best to leave you there, dear,
Best for you and best for I.
Two of our most gentle and kindly humorists may not be quoted, because
it would be a crime to separate their text and pictures.
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
_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
PAIN, BARRY,
_Poets at Tea, The_, 551
_Palabras Grandiosas_ (from _Echo Club_), James Bayard Taylor, 683
Palæolithic humor, 24, 25
PANNONIUS, JANUS,
_On Aurispa_, 192
_Paper_, Benjamin Franklin, 645
_Parasites and Gnathonites_ (from _Eunuchus_), Terence, 96
_Paris_, Paul Scarron, 398
Parodies
_Select Passages from a Coming Poet_, T. A. Guthrie, 554
After T. B. Aldrich
_Palabras Grandiosas_, James Bayard Taylor, 683
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Browning
_Cock and the Bull, The_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 507
_Nocturne at Danieli’s, A_, Owen Seaman, 537
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After Mrs. Browning
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 754
After Bryant
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Burns
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 554
After Cowper
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After Dinah Craik
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 750
After Austin Dobson
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 735
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 755
After Emerson
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Hafiz, Abu Ishak, 154
After Bret Harte
_De Tea Fabula_, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 546
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 758
After Herrick
_Song_, O. Herford, 747
_To Julia under Lock and Key_, Owen Seaman, 540
After Lady Arthur Hill
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 759
After Hogg
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 756
After Oliver Wendell Holmes
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Hood
_I Remember_, Phœbe Cary, 676
After Jean Ingelow
_Lovers and a Reflection_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 511
After Kipling
_Here Is the Tale_, Anthony C. Deane, 543
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn, Wells, 757
After Longfellow
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 695
After Macaulay
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
After George Meredith
_At the Sign of the Cock_, Owen Seaman, 541
After Milton
_The Splendid Shilling_, John Philips, 423
After Thomas Moore
“There’s a bower of bean vines,” Phœbe Cary, 677
After E. A. Poe
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 553
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 753
After Rossetti
_Ballad_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 506
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 553
After Southey
_The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_, George Canning,
439
After Swinburne
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 736
_Nephilidia_, Algernon Charles Swinburne, 523
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 757
After Tennyson
_Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The_, Algernon Charles
Swinburne, 522
_The Lay of the Lovelorn_, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, 495
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
After Walt Whitman
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 7
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 554
After Whittier
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Oscar Wilde
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 759
After Nathaniel P. Willis
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Charles Wolfe
_“True and Original” Version, A_, Richard Harris Barham, 455
After Wordsworth
_Baby’s Début, The_, James Smith, 466
_Jacob_, Phœbe Cary, 677
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After a Popular Song
_If I Should Die To-night_, Ben King, 728
Parody, 30
_Parson Gray_, Oliver Goldsmith, 434
_Partial Judge, The_ (from _Æsop’s Fables_), 45
PASCAL, BLAISE,
_On Mental Reservations_ (from _Les Provinciates_), 400
PASCHASIUS, STEPHANUS,
_Married Life_, 194
_Patient Cured, The_, Christian F. Gellert, 586
_Paying with the Sound of a Penny_ (from _Eulenspiegel’s Pranks_),
Tyll Eulenspiegel, 340
_Peasant of Larcarà, The_, Pitrá, 218
_Pegasus in the Yoke_, Friedrich von Schiller, 593
PEPYS, SAMUEL,
_Diary_ (extracts), 378
_Perplexity_, Unknown, 79
Persian humor, 73, 138–156, 196–199
Persian Jest-Book, 73
PERSIUS,
_Poetic Fame_ (from _Satires_), 104
_Pessimist, The_, Ben King, 727
_Peter Simple_ (extracts), Frederick Marryat, 474
PETRONIUS, 101
_Ingenious Cook, An_ (from _Trimalchio’s Banquet_), 102
PHILIPPIDES, Epigrams, 84
PHILIPS, JOHN,
_Splendid Shilling, The_, 423
_Phillis’ Age_, Matthew Prior, 389
_Philosopher, A_, Sam Walter Foss, 718
_Philosopher, The_ (from _The Fables_), Ivan Chemnitzer, 631
PHOENIX, JOHN. _See_ Derby, George Horatio
_Phoenixiana_ (extract), George Horatio Derby, 678
_Phyllis Lee_, Oliver Herford, 744
Pictorial humor, 27, 46, 47, 48
_Pigtail, The_, Adelbert von Chamisso, 605
_Pike County Ballads_ (extract), John Hay, 690
Pilpay (or Bidpai), _Fables_, 120;
(Selections), 164–170
PITRÁ,
_The Peasant of Larcarà_, 218
PLATO,
idea of humor, 4
_Miser and the Mouse, The_, 190
_Thief and the Suicide, The_, 189
PLATO COMICUS, fragments, 66
PLAUTUS, 87
_Military Swagger_ (from _The Braggart Captain_), 88
_Suspicious Miser, The_ (from _The Pot of Gold_), 91
Playfulness of animals, 18
_Play’s the Thing_, Martial, 107
_Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, The_ (extract), Richard Johnson,
265, 267
_Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi, The_ (extracts), 199
_Pleasure of Fishes, The_ (from _Autumn Floods_), Chwang Tze, 157
_Poems in Prose_, Ivan Turgenieff, 638
_Poetic Fame_ (from _Satires_), Persius, 104
_Poets_, Samuel Butler, 377
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
POGGIO, Italian stories, 182
Polish humor, 639–641
PONTALAIS, JEHAN DU,
_Money_, 322
POPE, ALEXANDER, 17
_Epigram on Mrs. Tofts_, 421
_Lines by a Person of Quality_, 419
_Worms_, 420
_Pope and Sultan_ (German Student Song), 613
_Pope and the Net, The_, Robert Browning, 502
_Popularity_, Sung Yu, 158
PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH,
_Song of Impossibilities, A_, 484
_Praise of Folly, The_ (extracts), Desiderius Erasmus, 337
_Prayer_, Ivan Turgenieff, 638
PRIOR, MATTHEW, 386
_Epitaph, An_, 387
_Phillis’ Age_, 389
_Reasonable Affliction, A_, 389
_Simile, A_, 388
_Prodigal Egg, The_, Oliver Herford, 747
Professional entertainers of the Middle Ages, 231–236
_Professor with a Small Class, A_, Lucilius, 77
_Professor’s Malady, The_ (from _Water Babies_), Charles Kingsley,
498
_Proverbial Wisdom_, Anton Chekov, 639
_Provinciales, Les_ (extract), Blaise Pascal, 400
_Psycholophon_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 749
_Puffing_, Samuel Butler, 377
“Punning” (from Speeches), Sydney Smith, 446
_Purple Cow, The_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 748
_Python, The_, Hilaire Belloc, 555
_Question of Precedence, A_ (from _Dialogues of the Gods_), Lucian,
79
QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS. _See_ Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-
RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS,
_Of the Diseases This Year_, 324
_Of the Eclipses This Year_, 323
_Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year_, 325
_Lost Hatchet, The_ (from _Gargantua and Pantagruel_), 329
“_Rabelais Imitates Diogenes_” (from _Gargantua and Pantagruel_),
325
RADHI BILLAH, the Kaliph,
_To a Lady upon Seeing Her Blush_, 191
_Raising the Devil_, Richard Harris Barham, 456
RALEIGH, SIR WALTER,
_Lie, The_, 305
RASPE, RUDOLPH ERICH,
_Horse Tied to a Steeple, A_ (from _Adventures of Baron
Münchausen_), 589
_Rather Large Whale, A_ (from _Adventures of Baron Münchausen_),
590
_Raven, The_ (from Fables), Lessing, 588
_Raven, a Fox and a Serpent, A_, Pilpay, 166
_Reasonable Affliction, A_, Matthew Prior, 389
REDI, FRANCESCA,
_Diatribe Against Water_, 410
_Rejected Addresses_ (extract), James and Horace Smith, 465
_Rejected “National Hymns”_ (burlesque), Robert Henry Newell, 695
_Religion of Hudibras, The_ (from _Hudibras_), Samuel Butler, 374
_Remonstrance, The_, Sir John Suckling, 370
_Reuben_, Phœbe Cary, 678
_Reynard the Fox_,
forms and origin, 226
Goethe’s version (extracts), 596
Riddles,
Arabian, 35
Homer’s, 35
Samson’s, 35
Sphinx’s, 35
_Rig Vedas_ (extract), 34
ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON,
_Miniver Cheevy_, 740
_Two Men_, 741
ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY,
_Boston Lullaby, A_, 708
_V-a-s-e, The_, 706
_Roland Enamored_ (extract), Francesco Berni, 352
_Roman Cockney, The_, Catullus, 97
Roman humor, 86–119, 181–182
_Rondeau, The_, Henry Austin Dobson, 525
_Rory O’More_, Samuel Lover, 481
_Rose Garden, The_ (_Gulistan_) (extracts), Sadi, 142
_Rounded with a Sleep_, Martial, 108
_Rubaiyat_ (extract), Omar Khayyam, 138
RÜCKERT, FRIEDRICH,
_Artist and Public_, 609
Russian humor, 217, 631–639
RUTEBŒUF, the Trouvère,
_Ass’s Testament, The_, 312
SACCHETTI, FRANCHO, 354
_On a Wet Day_, 355
_Sad End of Brer Wolf, The_ (from _Uncle Remus, His Songs and His
Sayings_), Joel Chandler Harris, 708
SADI,
_Discomfort Better Than Drowning_, (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), 142
_Hatefulness of Old Husbands_ (from _The Rose Garden_), 144
_Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The_ (from _The Rose Garden_),
143
_Wise Sayings_, 145
_Saintship versus Conscience_ (from _Hudibras_), Samuel Butler, 375
_Sakuntala_ (extract), Kaildasa, 121
_Salad_, Sydney Smith, 448
SALERNO, MASSUCHIO DI,
_Inheritance of a Library, The_ (from _Novellino_), 350
Samson’s Riddle, 35
SAN SHROE BU,
_Enforced Greatness_, 219
SANNAZARIUS, ACTIUS,
_On Aufidius_, 192
_Satires_ (extract), Horace, 98
_Satires_ (extract), Juvenal, 110
_Satires_ (extract), Persius, 104
Satires on dress, 230
SAXE, JOHN GODFREY,
_My Familiar_, 669
SCARRON, PAUL,
_Farewell to Chloris_, 398
_Paris_, 398
Schildburgers, the, tales of, 341–344
SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON,
_Pegasus in the Yoke_, 593
_Scholar and His Dog, The_, John Marston, 310
_School_, James Kenneth Stephen, 550
_School for Scandal, The_ (extract), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 437
_Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A_, Lucilius, 78
SCOGIN,
_Jests_, 263, 265
SEAMAN, SIR OWEN,
_At the Sign of the Cock_, 541
_Nocturne at Danieli’s, A_, 537
_To Julia under Lock and Key_, 540
_Select Passages from a Coming Poet_, T. A. Guthrie, 554
Sense of humor, 13, 14
SHAKESPEARE,
on sense of humor, 15
as humorist, 277, 278, 280
_As You Like It_ (extract), 288
_Hamlet_ (extract), 286
_Henry IV, Part I_ (extract), 281
_Henry IV, Part II_ (extract), 279
_Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (extract), 15
_Merchant of Venice, The_ (extract), 286
SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (Josh Billings), 671
_Hen, A_ (extract), 673
_Tight Boots_ (extract), 671
SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY,
_Calendar_, 438
_Let the Toast Pass_ (from _The School for Scandal_), 437
_Lord Erskine’s Simile_, 438
_Sheridan’s Calendar_, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 438
SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHALLOW,
_After a Wedding_ (from _Mrs. Partington_), 664
_Sick Schoolmaster, The_ (from _Stories in Rime [Masnavi]_),
Jalal uddin Rumi, 149
SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND, 690
_Eves Daughter_, 698
_Simile, A_, Matthew Prior, 388
SIMONIDES,
_Fine Lady, The_, 65
_Simpleton and the Sharper, The_ (from _The Arabian Nights’
Entertainment_), 127
_Singer, A_, Nearchus, 77
“Singing Mouse, The,” 52
_Meeting, The_, 53
SKELTON, JOHN,
_How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington_ (from
_Certayne Merye Tales_), 264
_How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Hyde Him in Hys Sute to
the Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke_, 263
_To Maistres Margaret Hussey_, 261
_Sleep_, Baltazar del Alcazar, 359
_Slight Misunderstanding, A_ (from _Contés Drolatiques_), Honoré de
Balzac, 567
SMITH, HORACE,
_Jester Condemned to Death, The_, 469
_Milkmaid and the Banker, The_, 468
SMITH, JAMES,
_Baby’s Debut, The_, 466
SMITH, SEBA (Major Jack Downing),
_My First Visit to Portland_, 662
SMITH, SYDNEY,
_Mrs. Partington_ (from Speech), 448
“Punning” (from Speeches), 446
_Salad_, 448
SMOLLETT, 429
_Society upon the Stanislaus, The_, Francis Bret Harte, 686
“_Soldier, Rest!_” Robert Jones Burdette, 701
SOMADEVA,
_Kathá Sarit Ságara_, 214
_Some Geese_, Oliver Herford, 744
_Some Hallucinations_, Lewis Carroll, 518
_Some Ladies_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 505
_Song_, Richard Lovelace, 369
_Song--After Herrick_, Oliver Herford, 747
_Song of Impossibilities, A_, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 484
_Sonnet_: “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth
Stephen, 548
_Sorrows of Werther_, William Makepeace Thackeray, 490
_Soul of the Cabbage, The_, Cyrano de Bergerac, 390
SOUTHEY, ROBERT,
_Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The_, (from _The Doctor_), 450
_Well of St. Keyne, The_, 451
Spanish Apothegms of Melchior de Santa Cruz, 84
Spanish humor, 184–189, 359–364, 411–412, 626–630
Sphinx’s Riddle, 35
_Splendid Shilling, The_, John Philips, 423
_Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A_, Yuan Mei, 158
STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE, 683
STEPHEN, JAMES KENNETH,
_Millennium, The_, 549
_School_, 550
_Sonnet_, “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” 548
_Thought, A_, 549
STEPHENS, HENRY (Henri Estienne),
_Noodle Stories_ from Introduction to _Apology for Herodotus_,
215
STERNE, 429
STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS,
_Child’s Verses_ (extracts), 534
STILL, JOHN,
_Jolly Good Ale and Old_ (from _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_), 308
STOCKTON, FRANK R.,
_Lady and the Tiger, The_, 686
_Stolen Pig, The_ (from the _Decameron_), Giovanni Boccaccio, 345
_Stories in Rime_ (extracts), Jalal uddin Rumi, 149
_Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The_ (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), Sadi, 143
_Stupid Man_ (from _The Characters_), Theophrastus, 72
SUCKLING, SIR JOHN, 368
_Constant Lover, The_, 369
_Remonstrance, The_, 370
SUNG YU,
_Popularity_, 158
_Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt_, Jonathan Swift, 418
_Supper-Party of the Three Cavaliers, The_ (from _Mimi Pinson_),
Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, 569
_Suspicious Miser, The_ (from _The Pot of Gold_), Plautus, 91
_Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The_, Ivan Krylov, 633
SWIFT, JONATHAN,
_Against Abolishing Christianity_, 415
_Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The_, 416
_On His Own Deafness_, 418
_Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt_, 418
_“To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr.
Swift,”_ 419
SWINBURNE, CHARLES ALGERNON, 521
_Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The_, 522
_Nephelidia_, 523
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 752
_Tales of a Grandfather_ (extract), Victor Marie Hugo, 580
_Talmud, The_ (extracts), 124
_Tatler, The_ (extract), Joseph Addison, 422
TAYLOR, JAMES BAYARD,
_Palabras Grandiosas_ (from Echo Club), 683
TAYLOR, JOHN,
_Wit and Mirth_ (extracts), 74, 268, 270
_Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The_ (from _The Doctor_), Robert
Southey, 450
TENNYSON, ALFRED,
_The Goose_, 500
TERENCE,
_Parasites and Gnathonites_ (from _Eunuchus_), 96
_Ternary of Littles upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady, A_,
Robert Herrick, 365
_Terrible Infant, A_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 505
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, 486
_Little Billee_, 487
_Sorrows of Werther_, 490
_When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas_, 490
_Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The_, 488
_That Gentle Man from Boston Town_, Joaquin Miller, 692
THAYER, ERNEST LAWRENCE,
_Casey at the Bat_, 729
_Theophile’s Mother-in-Law_ (from _A Much Worried Gentleman_),
Charles Paul de Kock, 572
THEOPHRASTUS,
_Of Loquacity_ (from _The Characters_), 71
_Of Slovenliness_ (from _The Characters_), 70
_Stupid Man, The_ (from _The Characters_), 72
_There Was a Little Girl_, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 667
“There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines,” Phœbe Cary, 677
_Thief and the Suicide, The_, Plato, 189
_Thief Turned Merchant and the Other Thief, The_ (from _The Arabian
Nights’ Entertainment_), 128
THOMAS, PAULUS,
_On Celsus_, 194
_Thought, A_, James Kenneth Stephen, 549
_Thoughts_, Jean de la Bruyère, 406
_Threnody, A_, George Thomas Lanigan, 704
_Through the Looking-Glass_ (extract), Lewis Carroll, 515
_Tight Boots_, Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings), 671
_Tithes_, a Hebrew Satire, 31
_To a Friend in Distress_, Johannes Audœmus, 194
_To a Lady Upon Seeing Her Blush_, The Kaliph Radhi Billah, 191
_To a Mosquito_, William Cullen Bryant, 655
_To a Poet_, José Morell, 412
_To Aulus_, Martial, 107
_To Catullus_, Martial, 107
_To Julia under Lock and Key_, Sir Owen Seaman, 540
_To Linus_, Martial, 109
_To Maistres Margaret Hussey_, John Skelton, 261
_To Mamercus_, Martial, 110
_To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr.
Swift_, Jonathan Swift, 419
_To My Empty Purse_, Chaucer, 257
_To My Nose_, Olivier Basselin, 316
_To Perrault_, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 405
_To Philomusus_, Euricius Cordus, 192
_To Postumus_, Martial, 107
_To Sabidius_, Martial, 107
_To Sally_, John Quincy Adams, 650
_To the Ghost of Martial_, Ben Jonson, 295
_To the Pliocene Skull_, Francis Bret Harte, 688
_To the Terrestrial Globe_, William Schwenck Gilbert, 529
_To the Vizier Cassim Obid Allah, On the Death of One of His Sons_,
Aly Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour, 191
_To Zoilus_, Georgius Buchananus, 193
_Tooth for Tooth_, Edmondo de Amicis, 623
_Total Abstainer, A_, Martial, 108
_Touching the Olfactory Organ_, Alexander Dumas, the Elder, 574
_Town of Göttingen, The_, Heinrich Heine, 611
TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATERMAN,
_Chimmie Fadden_ (extract), 716
_Trimalchio’s Banquet_ (extract), Petronius, 101
Troubadours, 236
Troubadours’ Songs, 236–240
Trouvères, 236, 253
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN T., 681
_“True and Original” Version, A_, Richard Harris Barham, 455
_True to Poll_, Francis C. Burnand, 532
TURGENIEFF, IVAN,
_Beneficence and Gratitude_, 638
Prayer, 638
Turkish humor, 33, 199–204, 213
_Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller_, George Horatio Derby, 678
TWAIN, MARK. _See_ Clemens, Samuel Langhorne
_Two Men_, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 741
_Two Old Bachelors, The_, Edward Lear, 520
“Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth Stephen,
548
UDALL, NICHOLAS, 277
Ulysses, stories of, 46
_Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings_ (extract), 708
_Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party_, Thomas Moore, 481
_V-a-s-e, The_, James Jeffrey Roche, 706
Vega, Lope de, 359
_Vendetta_, Martial, 108
VENTADOUR, BERNARD DE,
“You say the moon is all aglow,” 237
_Vers de Société_, 503, 524, 706
_Vicissitudes of a Donkey_ (from _The Golden Ass_), Apuleius, 116
_Villanelle_, William Ernest Henley, 533
_Villanelle of Things Amusing_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 748
VILLON, FRANÇOIS,
_Ballad of the Women of Paris_, 320
_Ballade of Dead Ladies, The_, 318
_Ballade of Old Time Ladies, A_, 319
_Vintner, A_, Ben Johnson, 295
_Visit from St. Nicholas, A_, Clement C. Moore, 652
_Voice from the Grave, A_, Unknown, 190
_Volpone_ (extract), Ben Jonson, 294
VOLTAIRE (Francis Marie Arouet),
_Candide_ (extract), 560
WALLER, EDMUND, 368
_Walloping Window-Blind, The_, Charles E. Carryl, 699
WARD, ARTEMUS. _See_ Browne, Charles Farrar
WARD, WILLIAM HAYES,
on Greek humor, 44
WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY, 681
_Water Babies_ (extract), Charles Kingsley, 498
_Ways and Means_, Lewis Carroll, 516
_Well of St. Keyne, The_, Robert Southey, 451
WELLS, CAROLYN,
_Idiot’s Delight, The_, 749
_Mystery, The_, 751
_Symposium of Poets, A_, 752
_Woman_, 751
WENGIERSKI, KAJETAN,
_Dream Wife, The_, 639
WESLEY, SAMUEL, 51
Homer’s _The Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, 54
_What’s In a Name?_ Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 715
_What Might Have Been_, Martial, 108
_What Mr. Robinson Thinks_ (from _Biglow Papers_), James Russell
Lowell, 674
_What Will We Do?_ Robert Jones Burdette, 700
_What’s My Thought Like?_ Thomas Moore, 480
_When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas_, William Makepeace Thackeray,
490
WHITCHER, MRS. FRANCES MIRIAM, 664
WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, 678
_Why Don’t the Men Propose?_ Thomas Haynes Bayly, 472
_Widow Malone_, Charles Lever, 483
_Wife’s Ruse, A_: A Rabbinical Tale, 32
_Will, The_, John Donne, 296
_Will of a Virtuoso, The_ (from _The Tatler_), Joseph Addison, 422
_William Tell_ (from _Tartarin in the Alps_), Alphonse Daudet, 583
WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER,
_Love in a Cottage_, 661
Wit and humor,
Hazlitt on the distinction between, 15–17
_Wit and Mirth_ (extracts), John Taylor, 74, 268–270
_Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The_, William
Makepeace Thackeray, 488
_Woman_, Carolyn Wells, 751
_Worms_, Alexander Pope, 420
_Wreck of the “Julie Plante,” The_, William H. Drummond, M.D., 726
WRIGHT, THOMAS, on caricature by prehistoric man, 25
“You say the moon is all aglow,” Bernard de Ventadour, 237
YRIARTE, THOMAS,
_Ass and the Flute, The_, 626
_Country Squire, The_, 628
_Eggs, The_, 627
YUAN MEI,
_Recipes_ (from _Cookery Book_), 159
_Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A_, (from _Letters_), 158
FOOTNOTES:
[1] For putting out the fire in a brasier or cooking-stove.
[2] A Shrawn is a pure Gaelic noise, something like a groan, more like
a shriek, and most like a sigh of longing.
[3] Eire was daughter of Carne, King of Connaught. Her lover, Murdh of
the Open Hand, was captured by Greatcoat Mackintosh, King of Ulster, on
the plain of Carrisbool and made into soup. Eire’s grief on this sad
occasion has become proverbial.
[4] Garnim was second cousin to Manannan MacLir. His sons were always
sad about something. There were twenty-two of them, and they were all
unfortunate in love at the same time, just like a chorus at the opera.
“Blitherin’ their drool” is about the same as “dreeing their weird.”
[5] The Shee (or “Sidhe,” as I should properly spell it if you were
not so ignorant) were, as everybody knows, the regular, stand-pat,
organization fairies of Erin. The Crowdie was their annual convention,
at which they made melancholy sounds. The Itt and Himm were the
irregular, or insurgent, fairies. They _never_ got any offices or
patronage. See MacAlester, _Polity of the Sidhe of West Meath_,
page 985.
[6] The Barryhoo is an ancient Celtic bird about the size of a
Mavis, with lavender eyes and a black-crape tail. It continually
mourns its mate (Barrywhich, feminine form), which has an hereditary
predisposition to an early and tragic demise and invariably dies first.
[7] Magraw, a Gaelic term of endearment, often heard on the baseball
fields of Donnybrook.
[8] These last six words are all that tradition has preserved of the
original incantation by means of which Irish rats were rhymed to death.
Thereby hangs a good Celtic tale, which I should be glad to tell you in
this note; but the publishers say that being prosed to death is as bad
as being rhymed to death, and that the readers won’t stand for any more.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.
2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
3. Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r.
or X^{xx}.
4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.