Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor

As the title claims, the book is a real collection of the best examples of the American humorous literature.

The editor gathers valuable pieces by the prominent authors like Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain and many more.

It was compiled at the turn of the 19th and 20th century and its aim was to bring relaxing notes into the craze for moral seriousness in all literature, which was characteristic of that period.

CONTENTS

AGNES REPPLIER - A Plea for Humor

MARIETTA HOLLEY - An Unmarried Female

FITZHUGH LUDLOW - Selections from a Brace of Boys

ROBERT JONES BURDETTE - Rheumatism Movement Cure

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - An Aphorism and a Lecture

JOSHUA S. MORRIS - The Harp of a Thousand Strings

SEBA SMITH - My First Visit to Portland

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT - The Mosquito

JOHN CARVER - Country Burial-places

DANFORTH MARBLE - The Hoosier and the Salt-pile

ANNE BACHE - The Quilting

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK - A Fragment Domestic Happiness

CHARLES F. BROWNE - ("Artemus Ward") One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters On "Forts"

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL - Without and Within

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT - Street Scenes in Washington

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE - Mis' Smith

JAMES JEFFREY ROOHE - A Boston Lullaby

CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE - Irish Astronomy

SAMUEL MINTURN PEOK - Bessie Brown,

M. D. ROBERT C. SANDS - A Monody

CAROLYN WELLS - The Poster Girl

JAMES GARDNER SANDERSON - The Conundrum of the Golf Links

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - The Minister's Wooing

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS - Mrs. Johnson

ANONYMOUS - The Trout, the Cat and the Fox The British Matron