A book of American prose humor
Subtitle: being a collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches, etc.
By: composed by the best known American writers.
Contributors: Herbert S. Stone & Company.
Publisher: Herbert S. Stone & Co.
Published: 1904
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: American wit and humor.; Comedy sketches.
Table of contents: value: The Shakers ; A business letter / Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne); value: Oats ; Our oldest inhabitants; value: two of them / Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw); value: The interviewer ; Scotty Briggs and the clergyman / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens); value: Milling in Pompeii ; All about oratory ; My mine / Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye); value: Samantha at Saratoga / Josiah Allen's wife (Marietta Holley); value: Chimmie meets the Duchess ; Chimmie enters polite society / E.W. Townsend; value: The genial idiot on the four hundred / John Kendrick Bangs; value: "Checker's" letter / Henry M. Blossom, Jr.; value: The fable of the two mandolin players and the willing performer ; Claudie / George Ade; value: On the French character ; On the Victorian era ; On golf / Mr. Dooley (F.P. Dunne); value: In the country / Hayden Caruth; value: John Henry on butting-in ; Mr. and Mrs. Dinkelspiel discuss literary matters ; Dinkelspiel explains the Dreyfus case / George V. Hobart; value: At the opera ; In love / Billie Baxter (W.J. Kountz, Jr.).