English wits
By: edited by Leonard Russell, with contributions by James Agate, Campbell Dixon, John Gore [and others] ... Wood engravings by Eric Ravilious.
Publisher: Hutchinson
Published: 1941
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: English wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Description: Essays by several authors on Pope, Johnson, Wilde, Whistler, Smith, Hook, Lamb, Sheridan, Wilkes, Labouchere, Beerbohm, Shaw, "Saki", and Mitford.
Notes: Illustrated half-title and head-pieces.
"First published November, 1940. Third impression, January, 1941."
Table of contents: title: Powell, Dilys. Alexander Pope.; title: Knox, R.A. Dr. Johnson.; title: MacCarthy, Desmond. Oscar Wilde.; title: Lewis, D.B.W. Whistler.; title: Newman, Ernest. Sydney Smith.; title: Symons, A.J.A. Theodore Hook.; title: Lynd, Robert. Charles Lamb.; title: Dixon, Campbell. Sheridan.; title: Venn, Olga. John Wilkes.; title: Hadley, W.W. Henry Labouchere.; title: Hopkins, Gerard. Max Beerbohm.; title: Hobson, Harold. George Bernard Shaw.; title: Gore, John. "Saki".; title: Agate, James. Mary Russell Mitford.