| Description |
ix, 307 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Contains brief biographical sketches of the authors. |
| Bibliography |
"For further reading": pages 306-307. |
| Contents |
A dog in the house / Burges Johnson -- The happiest half-hours of life / A. A. Milne -- The tortures of weekk-end visiting / Robert C. Benchley -- Real people / Simeon Strunsky -- On the difference between wit and humor / Charles S. Brooks -- Humor as I see it / Stephen Butler Leacock -- Hits and errors / John B. Kennedy -- On the screen / Richard Watts Jr. -- Who should go to college / Max McConn -- Dying for "dear old___" Heywood Broun -- Britain's young man of destiny / Sir Philip Gibbs -- The babe / Paul Gallico -- Hard Boiled / Albert Payson Terhune -- The nature of Hokum / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Our times: A book review / Robert Cantwell -- Theme writing / Dorothy Canfield Fisher -- The golden drugget / Max Beerbohm -- Jungle night / William Beebe -- What a young girl should know / Margaret Culkin Banning -- We are not amused / Barbara Savage -- Alice and the Aguitania / Christopher Morley -- Seen in India / Will Burant -- The once open road / Charles Merz -- Prelude, May, 1919 / Frederick Lewis Allen -- America's lost opportunity / James Truslow Adams -- The dogma of business first / Stuart Chase -- The unknown soldier / Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| Subject |
American essays.
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American essays. |
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English essays.
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English essays. |
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