English wits
By: edited by Leonard Russell ; with contributions by James Agate ... [et al.] ; wood engravings by Eric Ravilious
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: English wit and humor; History and criticism
Notes: Library's Special Collection copy 2 signed by Nat Schmulowitz.
Table of contents: title: Alexander Pope  -- Dilys Powell; title: Dr. Johnson  -- Ronald A. Knox; title: Oscar Wilde  -- Desmond MacCarthy; title: Whistler  -- D.B. Wyndham Lewis; title: Sydney Smith  -- Ernest Newman; title: Theodore Hook  -- A.J.A. Symons; title: Charles Lamb  -- Robert Lynd; title: Sheridan  -- Campbell Dixon; title: John Wilkes  -- Olga Venn; title: Henry Labouchere  -- W.W. Hadley; title: Max Beerbohm  -- Gerard Hopkins; title: George Bernard Shaw  -- Harold Hobson; title: "Saki"  -- John Gore; title: Mary Russell Mitford -- James Agate.