Chapter XXIX: Part II (8)

BAYLY, THOMAS HAYNES,
_Why Don’t the Men Propose?_ 472

_Beating of Thersites, The_ (from _The Iliad_), Homer, 49

_Beer_, Julian, 76

BELLOC, HILAIRE,
_Bison, The_, 556
_Frog, The_, 557
_Microbe, The_, 556
_Python, The_, 555

_Beneficence and Gratitude_, Ivan Turgenieff, 638

BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE, 563
_Dead Alive, The_, 565
_Education of Young Ladies, The_, 564

BERCHEURE, PIERRE, 243

BERGERAC, CYRANO DE,
_Soul of the Cabbage, The_, 390

BERGSON, on playfulness of animals and man, 18

BERNI, FRANCESCO,
_Living in Bed_ (from _Roland Enamored_), 352

_Between the Lines_, Martial, 107

BEZA, THEODORUS, Epigram, 193

BHARTRIHARI, cynical paragraphs, 195, 196

BIDPAI. _See_ Pilpay

_Biglow Papers_ (extract), James Russell Lowell, 674

BILLINGS, JOSH. _See_ Shaw, Henry Wheeler

_Bison, The_, Hilaire Belloc, 556

_Bizarrures_ of Sieur Gaulard, 211

_Board or Lodging_, Lucilius, 78

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI,
_Decameron_, 164, 343
_Of Three Girls and Their Talk_ (a sonnet), 343
_Stolen Pig, The_ (from _The Decameron_), 345

_Bohemian Life Sketches_ (extracts), Henri Murger, 579

BOILEAU-DESPREAUX, NICOLAS,
_On Cotin_, 405
_To Perrault_, 405

BONIFACIUS, BALTHASAR,
_Dangerous Love_, 194

_Book of Laughable Stories, The_ (extracts), 204

_Boston Lullaby, A_, James Jeffrey Roche, 708

BRANDT, 337

BROWNE, CHARLES FARRAR (Artemus Ward), 684
_On Forts_, 685

BROWNING, ROBERT,
_Pope and the Net, The_, 502

BRUYERE, JEAN DE LA,
_Iphis_, 406
_Thoughts_, 406

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN,
_To a Mosquito_, 655

BUCHANANUS, GEORGIUS,
_On Leonora_, 193
_To Zoilus_, 193

Buddha’s _Jatakas_, 34, 214

Buffoons, 26, 87

_Burdensome Wife, A_ (from _Hie! Fie!_), Abraham á Sancta Clara,
413

BURDETTE, ROBERT JONES,
“_Soldier, Rest!_” 701
_What Will We Do?_ 700

BURGESS, FRANK GELETT,
_Invisible Bridge, The_, 748
_Psycholophon_, 749
_Purple Cow, The_, 748
_Villanelle of Things Amusing_, 748

Burlesque, 25, 47

BURNAND, FRANCIS C.,
_True To Poll_, 532

BURNS, ROBERT,
_Address to the Toothache_, 444
_Holy Willie’s Prayer_, 440

BUSCH, WILHELM, 613

BUTLER, SAMUEL,
_Description of Holland_, 377
_Poets_, 377
_Puffing_, 377
_Religion of Hudibras, The_ (from _Hudibras_), 374
_Saintship versus Conscience_, (from _Hudibras_), 375

BUTLER, WILLIAM ALLEN, 681

BYRON, LORD,
_After Swimming the Hellespont_, 462
_Don Juan_ (extracts), 460

_C. Mery Talys_ (_Hundred Merry Tales_) (extracts), 263, 265, 270
_ff_

CALVERLY, CHARLES STUART, 537
_Ballad_, after Rossetti, 506
_Cock and the Bull, The_, 507
_Lovers and a Reflection_, 511
_Ode to Tobacco_, 513

CAMDEN,
_Britannia_ (extracts), 383
_Witticisms_, 274 _ff_

_Candide_ (extract), Voltaire, 560

CANNING, GEORGE, 438
_Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The_, 439

CAREW, THOMAS, 368

Caricature, 25, 27, 47, 226

CARLETON, WILL,
_Eliphalet Chapin’s Wedding_, 723

CARROLL, LEWIS (Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge), 514
_Jabberwocky_ (from _Through the Looking-Glass_), 515
_Some Hallucinations_, 518
_Ways and Means_ (from _Through the Looking-Glass_), 516

CARRYL, CHARLES E.,
_Walloping Window-Blind, The_, 699

CARRYL, GUY WETMORE,
_How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar_, 738

CARY, PHOEBE,
_I Remember_, 676
_Jacob_, 677
_Reuben_, 678
“_There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines_,” 677

_Casey at the Bat_, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, 729

CASTIGLIONE, BALDASSARE,
_Il Cortegiano_ (extracts), 183

CATULLUS,
_Fixed Smile, A_, 98
_On His Own Love_, 191
_Roman Cockney, The_, 97

CELLINI, BENVENUTO,
_Compulsory Marriage at Sword’s Point, A_ (from his Biography),
356
_Criticism of a Statue of Hercules_ (from his Biography), 358

_Certain Young Lady_, A, Washington Irving, 654

_Certaine Conceyts and Jeasts_ (extracts), 268

CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE, 277
_He Secures Sancho Panza as his Squire_ (from _Don Quixote_), 360
_Of the Valorous Don Quixote’s Adventure of the Windmills_ (from
_Don Quixote_), 363

CHAMMISSO, ADELBERT VON,
_The Pigtail_, 605

CHARIVARI, 229, 230

CHAUCER, 253
_Ballad of Women’s Doubleness_, 258
_Cock and the Fox, The_ (from _The Nun’s Priest’s Tale_), 254
_To My Empty Purse_, 257

CHEKOW, ANTON,
Proverbs, 639

CHEMNITZER, IVAN,
_Lion’s Council of State, The_, 632
_Philosopher, The_ (from _The Fables_), 631

CHESTERFIELD, LORD, 428
_Letters to His Son_ (extracts), 429

CHESTERTON, GILBERT K.,
_Ballade of an Anti-Puritan, A_, 558
_Ballade of Suicide, A_, 557

_Child’s Verses_ (extracts), Robert Louis Stevenson, 534

_Chimmie Fadden_ (extract), Edward Waterman Townsend, 716

_Chimpanzee, The_, Oliver Herford, 745

Chinese humor, 156–161, 164, 214

Chinese Proverbs of Confucius, 160

Chinese story, 214

CHOTZNER, PROFESSOR, on Hebrew satire, 30

_Churning of the Ocean of Time_ (extract), Unknown, 122

CHWANG TZE,
_Pleasure of Fishes, The_ (from _Autumn Floods_), 157

CLAUDIUS, MATTHIAS,
_The Hen and the Egg_, 592

CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (Mark Twain), 8
_Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The_ (extract), 681

_Clever Grethel_ (from _Grimm’s Fairy Tales_), 607

_Cock and the Bull, The_, Charles Stuart Calverly, 507

_Cock and the Fox, The_ (from _The Nun’s Priest’s Tale_), Chaucer,
254

_Cock and the Fox, The_, Jean de la Fontaine, 403

_Cocktail, The_ (from _The Sultan of Sulu_), George Ade, 722

_Code of Love, The_, 240

COGIA, NASR EDDIN EFFENDI, 199
_Pleasantries of, The_ (extracts), 213

_Cold Mutton, Pudding, Pancakes_ (from _Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain
Lectures_), Douglas Jerrold, 476

COLERIDGE, on humor, 3, 249

Collections, 162 _ff._, 263, 311

COLMAN, GEORGE, the Younger, 438

_Colubriad, The_, William Cowper, 436

Comedy, 46, 48

Comic, the, 9, 48

Comic literature, 87

_Compulsory Marriage at Sword’s Point A_, (from Biography),
Benvenuto Cellini, 356

CONFUCIUS,
_Analects, The_ (extracts), 156
Proverbs, 160

_Constant Lover, The_, Sir John Suckling, 369

_Convenient Partnership_, Unknown, 78

CORBET, BISHOP, 301
_Epigram on Beaumont’s Early Death_, 305
_Farewell to the Fairies_, 303
_Like to the Thundering Tone_, 302
_Nonsense_, 302

CORDUS, EURICIUS,
_Doctor’s Appearance, The_, 192
_To Philomusus_, 192

_Cosmetic Disguise_ (from _Satires_), Juvenal, 110

COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-,
_De Tea Fabula_, 546

_Council Held by the Rats, The_, Jean de la Fontaine, 402

_Country Parson, The_, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, 650

_Country Squire, The_, Thomas Yriarte, 628

_Court Fool and King’s Jester_, 87, 262

_Court of Love, The_, 240

COWPER, WILLIAM,
_Colubriad, The_, 436
_Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A_, 435

COZZENS, FREDERICK SWARTOUT, 664

CRANE, STEPHEN,
Extracts, 734

_Crane and the Cray-Fish, The_, Pilpay, 167

CRATES,
_Cures for Love_, 76

CRATINUS Extracts, 65

_Creation of Woman, The_ (from _The Churning of the Ocean of
Time_), Unknown, 122

_Crede Experto_, Martial, 109

_Credo_ (German Student Song), 614

_Criticism of a Statue of Hercules_ (from Biography), Benvenuto
Cellini, 358

_Crow and the Fox, The_, Jean de la Fontaine, 404

_Cures for Love_, Crates, 76

CURTIS, GEORGE WILLIAM, 678

Cynical paragraphs, Bhartrihari, 195

_Dangerous Love_, Balthasar Bonifacius, 194

DANTE, 231

_Darkness_, Lucian, 76

DAUDET, ALPHONSE,
_William Tell_ (from _Tartarin in the Alps_), 583

DAVIES, SIR JOHN,
_Acrostics_, 309
_Married State, The_, 310

DAVISON, FRANCIS, 311

_De Tea Fabula_, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 546

_Dead Alive, The_, Pierre Jean de Beranger, 565

DEANE, ANTHONY C.,
_Here Is the Tale_, 543

_Decameron, The_, 164; (extract), 343, 345, Giovanni Boccaccio

_Decorated Bow, The_ (from _Fables_), Lessing, 588

DEFOE, DANIEL,
_Friday’s Conflict with the Bear_ (from _Robinson Crusoe_), 383

DEKKER, THOMAS,
_Horace Concocting an Ode_, 300
_Obedient Husbands_ (from _The Bachelor’s Banquet_), 298

DE QUINCEY, THOMAS,
_Murder as One of the Fine Arts_, 458

DERBY, GEORGE HORATIO (John Phoenix),
_Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller_, 678

Derision theory of humor, 5, 6, 9, 12

DESANGIERS, MARC ANTOINE,
_Eternal Yawner, The_, 562

DESCHAMPES, EUSTACHE,
_Advice to a Friend on Marriage_, 315

_Description of Holland_, Samuel Butler, 377

_Desolation_, Thomas L. Masson, 733

_Dialogue between Shallow and Silence_ (from _Henry IV, Part II_),
Shakespeare, 279

_Diary of Samuel Pepys_ (extracts), 378

_Diatribe Against Water_, Francesca Redi, 410

DICKENS, CHARLES, 14
_Mrs. Gamp’s Apartment_ (from _Martin Chuzzlewit_), 491

_Dinkey-Bird, The_, Eugene Field, 710

Dionysiac festivals, 46, 55

DIPHILUS, Epigrams, 84

Disappointment Theory of humor, 4 _ff._

_Discomfort Better Than Drowning_ (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), Sadi, 142

_Dissertation on Dumplings, A_ (from _Bull and Mouth_), John
Arbuthnot, 427

_Dissertation on Puns_, Theodore Hook, 453

_Diving for an Egg_, Do-Pyazah, 156

DOBSON, HENRY AUSTIN, (Austin Dobson),
_On a Fan_, 524
_Rondeau, The_, 525

_Doctor, The_ (extract), Robert Southey, 450

_Doctor’s Appearance, The_, Euricius Cordus, 192

DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE. _See_ Carroll, Lewis

_Don Juan_ (extracts), Lord Byron, 460

_Don Quixote_ (extracts), Miguel de Cervantes, 363

_Donkey’s Voice, The_ (from _Judas, the Arch-Rogue_), Abraham á
Sancta Clara, 412

DONNE, JOHN,
_Will, The_, 296
_See_ Dunne, Finley Peter

DOOLEY, MR., 720

DO-PYAZAH, Definitions, 154
_Diving for an Egg_, 156

DOSTOEVSKY, FEDOR, 634
_Karlchen, the Crocodile_ (extract), 635

DOWNING, MAJOR JACK. _See_ Smith, Seba

DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN, and HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE,
_Ode to Fortune_, 657

_Dream Wife, The_, Kajetan Wengierski, 639

DRUMMOND, WILLIAM H., M. D.,
_Wreck of the “Julie Plante,” The_, 726

_Drunkard’s Fancy, The_, Wilhelm Müller, 606

DRYDEN, JOHN,
_Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil_, 382
_On Shadwell_, 380
_On the Duke of Buckingham_, 381

DUMAS, ALEXANDER, the Elder,
_Touching the Olfactory Organ_, 574

DUNNE, FINLEY PETER (Mr. Dooley),
_On Expert Testimony_, 720

EASTMAN, MAX, definition of the Disappointment Theory, 7
on sense of humor, 13

_Education of Young Ladies, The_, Pierre Jean de Béranger, 563

_Eggs, The_, Thomas Yriarte, 627

Egyptian humor, 27–29

_Elegy_, Arthur Guiterman, 743

_Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An_, Oliver Goldsmith, 432

_Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize, An_, Oliver
Goldsmith, 433

_Eliphalet Chapin’s Wedding_, Will Carleton, 723

EMERSON, RALPH WALDO,
_Mountain and the Squirrel, The_, 660

_Enforced Greatness_, San Shroe Bu, 219

English humor, 253–311, 365–389, 415–559

_Envy_, Lucilius, 77

_Epigram on Mrs. Tofts_, Alexander Pope, 421

Epigrams,
English, 291, 295, 296, 377, 382, 421, 478, 479
French, 335–337
German, 588–589
Greek, 67–70, 76–79, 83–85, 189, 190
Haytian, 641, 642
Hindu, 195, 196
Mediæval, 189–207
Persian, 142, 196–199
Roman, 107–110, 333
Turkish, 199–204

_Epitaph, An_, Ammianus, 77

_Epitaph, An_, Matthew Prior, 387

_Epitaph for an Old University Carrier_, Milton, 373

ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS, 178
_Praise of Folly, The_ (extracts), 337

_Eternal Yawner, The_, Marc Antoine Desangier, 562

EUBULUS, Epigrams, 69

EULENSPIEGEL, TYLL (Owleglas or Howleglas),
_Golden Horsehoes, The_ (from _Eulenspiegel’s Pranks_), 339
_Paying with the Sound of a Penny_ (from _Eulenspiegel’s
Pranks_), 340

_Evening Reception, An_ (from _Bohemian Life Sketches_), Henri
Murger, 579

_Every Man in His Humor_ (extract), Ben Jonson, 293

_Eve’s Daughter_, Edward Rowland Sill, 698

_Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking, The_, George
Ade, 723

Fables,
origin of, 27–28
use of term, 162, 235

_Fables of Pilpay or Bidpai_ (selections), 164

_Fabliaux_, 164, 235, 236

_Faithful Picture of Ordinary Society, A_, William Cowper, 435

_Faithless Nelly Gray_, Thomas Hood, 462

_False Charms_, Lucilius, 78

_Farewell to Chloris_, Paul Scarron, 398

_Farewell to the Fairies_, Bishop Corbet, 303

FAUVEL, 228

FERGUSON, ELIZABETH GRAEME,
_Country Parson, The_, 650

FIELD, EUGENE,
_Dinkey-Bird, The_, 710
_Good James and Naughty Reginald_ (from _The Tribune Primer_),
713
_Little Peach, The_, 712

FIELDS, JAMES THOMAS,
_Alarmed Skipper, The_, 668

FILIPPO, RUSTICO DI, 349
_Making of Master Messerin, The_, 350

_Fine Lady, The_, Simonides, 65

FIRDAUSI,
_On Sultan Mahmoud_, 142

_Fixed Smile, A_, Catullus, 98

FLETCHER, JOHN,
_Laughing Song_, 300

FONTAINE, JEAN DE LA,
_Cock and the Fox, The_, 403
_Council Held by the Rats, The_, 402
_Crow and the Fox, The_, 404

FOSS, SAM WALTER, 717
_Philosopher, A_, 718

FRANCIS, J. G., 760

FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN,
“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend), 643
_Paper_, 645

French humor, 211–213, 235–243, 312–337, 390–409, 560–585

_Friday’s Conflict With the Bear_ (from _Robinson Crusoe_), Daniel
Defoe, 383

_Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder, The_, George Canning,
439

_Frog, The_, Hilaire Belloc, 557

_Frogs, The_ (extracts), Aristophanes, 55

_Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The_, Jonathan Swift, 416

_Gammer Gurton’s Needle_ (extract), John Still, 308

_Garden Hose, The_, Edgar Wilson Nye, 714

_Gargantua and Pantagruel_, 323
(extracts), François Rabelais, 329

Gargoyles, 48

GAULARD, SIEUR,
_Bizarrures_, 211
_Contes Facetieux, Les_ (extract), 74

GAUTIER, THÉOPHILE,
_Lap Dog, The_ (_Fanfreluche_), 577

GELLERT, CHRISTIAN F.,
_Patient Cured, The_, 586

_Gentle Alice Brown_, William Schwenck Gilbert, 529

_Gentleman Cit, The_ (extract), Molière, 396

GERARD, MARC-ANTOINE,
_Address to Bacchus, An_, 392

German humor, 337–344, 412–415, 586–615

German Student Songs,
_Credo_, 614
_Pope and Sultan_, 613

_Gesta Romanorum_,
authorship and sources, 163, 243
_Of Sloth_, 243
_Of the Deceits of the Devil_, 246
_Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven_, 244
_Of the Incarnation of Our Lord_, 245
_Of Vigilance in Our Calling_, 247

GHISLANZONI, ANTONIO,
_On Musical Instruments_, 619

GILBERT, WILLIAM SCHWENK,
_Gentle Alice Brown_, 529
“Lady from the provinces, The,” 210
_Mighty Must, The_, 528
_To the Terrestrial Globe_, 529

_Giles and Joan_, Ben Jonson, 296

Gleemen, 232

GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG,
_Reynard the Fox_ (extract), 596

_Gold_, Oliver Herford, 747

_Golden Ass, The_ (extracts), Apuleius, 112

_Golden Horseshoes, The_ (from _Eulenspiegel’s Pranks_), Tyll
Eulenspiegel, 339

GOLDONI, CARLO, 616

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, 431
_Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog, An_, 432
_Elegy on the Glory of Her Sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize, An_, 433
_Parson Gray_, 434

_Good Flea and the Wicked King, The_ (from _Tales of a
Grandfather_), Victor Marie Hugo, 580

_Good James and Naughty Reginald_ (from _The Tribune Primer_),
Eugene Field, 713

_Good Wife and the Bad Husband, The_, 37

_Goose, The_, Alfred Tennyson, 500

Gothamites, 208, 214, 216, 341

GOZZI, CARLO, 616

_Grammar and Medicine_, Agathias, 76

_Great Contention, The_, Nicarchus, 190

_Greedy and Ambitious Cat, The_, Pilpay, 164

_Greek Anthology_, 75
Epigrams, 76 _ff._

Greek Comedy, 46, 48, 55, 66

Greek humor, 43–85, 178–181, 189–190

GREENE, ALBERT GORTON,
_Old Grimes_, 658

GRIBOYEDOFF, ALEXANDER, 631

GRIMM, JAKOB and WILHELM,
_Clever Grethel_ (from _Fairy Tales_), 607

GUITERMAN, ARTHUR,
_Elegy_, 743
_Mavrone_, 742

GUTHRIE, T. A. (F. Anstey),
_Select Passages from a Coming Poet_, 554

HALE, EDWARD EVERETT, 678

HALLECK, FITZ-GREENE, and DRAKE, JOSEPH RODMAN,
_Ode to Fortune_, 657

HALPINE, CHARLES GRAHAM, 681

_Hamlet_ (extract), Shakespeare, 286

_Hans Breitmann Ballads_ (selection), Charles Godfrey Leland, 680

HARINGTON, SIR JOHN,
_Of a Certain Man_, 293
_Of a Precise Tailor_, 292

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER,
_Sad End of Brer Wolf_, _The_ (from _Uncle Remus, His Songs and
His Sayings_), 708

HARTE, FRANCIS BRET,
_Society upon the Stanislaus, The_, 686
_To the Pliocene Skull_, 688

_Hatefulness of Old Husbands_ (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), Sadi, 144

HAY, JOHN,
_Little Breeches_ (from _Pike County Ballads_), 690

Haytian Epigrams, 641

HAZLITT, WILLIAM, 18, 277
on the laughable, 7
on distinction between wit and humor, 15, 16, 17
on Falstaff, 278

“He Paid Too Much for His Whistle” (from Letter to a Friend),
Benjamin Franklin, 643

_He Secures Sancho Panza as His Squire_ (from _Don Quixote_),
Miguel de Cervantes, 360

Hebrew humor, 30–33, 124–126

_Height of the Ridiculous, The_, Oliver Wendell Holmes, 665

HEINE, HEINRICH, 610
Extracts, 612
_Town of Göttingen, The_, 611

_Hen, A_ (extract), Henry Wheeler Shaw, 673

_Hen, The_, Oliver Herford, 745

_Hen and the Egg, The_, Matthias Claudius, 592

HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST,
_Villanelle_, 533

_Henry IV, Part I_ (extract), Shakespeare, 281

_Henry IV, Part II_ (extract), Shakespeare, 279

_Heptameron, The_, 164, 321

HERBERT, GEORGE, 365

_Here Is the Tale_, Anthony C. Deane, 543

HERFORD, OLIVER,
_Chimpanzee, The_, 745
_Gold_, 747
_Hen, The_, 745
_Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream_, 746
_Phyllis Lee_, 744
_Prodigal Egg, The_, 747
_Some Geese_, 744
_Song--After Herrick_, 747

HERRICK, ROBERT,
_Kiss, The--A Dialogue_, 367
_Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly Sent to a Lady, A_,
368

HIEROCLES,
Jests, 72, 175

_Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The_, Charles Algernon Swinburne,
522

Hindu humor, 36–39, 121–124, 164–175, 195–196, 214–215, 219–225

HOBBES, THOMAS, 365
_Laughter_ (from _Treatise on Human Nature_), 11, 12, 366

HOFFMAN, HEINRICH, 613

HOLLEY, MARIETTA,
_My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s_ (extract), 702

HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, 18
_Æstivation_, 666
_Height of the Ridiculous, The_, 665

_Holy Willie’s Prayer_, Robert Burns, 440

HOMER,
identity, 43, 48
_Battle of the Frogs and Mice, The_, 51, 53
_Beating of Thersites, The_ (from _The Iliad_), 49

Homer’s Riddle, 35

HOOD, THOMAS,
_Faithless Nelly Gray_, 462
_No!_, 465

HOOK, THEODORE,
_Dissertation on Puns_, 453

HOPKINSON, FRANCIS,
_Battle of the Kegs, The_, 647

HORACE,
_Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way_ (from _Satires_), 98

_Horace Concocting an Ode_, Thomas Dekker, 300

_Horse Tied to a Steeple, A_ (from _Adventures of Baron
Münchausen_), Rudolph Erich Raspe, 589

_How a Girl Was Too Reckless of Grammar_, Guy Wetmore Carryl, 738

_How Jacke by Sophistry Would Make of Two Eggs Three_ (from _The
Jests of Scogin_), 265

_How Madde Coomes, When His Wife Was Drowned, Sought Her against
the Streame_ (from _Mother Bunches Merriments_), 267

_How Maister Hobson Said He Was Not at Home_ (from _The Pleasant
Conceits of Old Hobson_, Richard Johnson), 267

_How Scogin Sold Powder to Kill Fleas_ (from _The Jests of
Scogin_), 265

_How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington_ (from
_Certayne Merye Tales_), John Skelton, 264

_How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Ayde Him in Hys Sute to the
Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke_, John Skelton, 263

_Hudibras_ (extracts), Samuel Butler, 375

HUGO, VICTOR MARIE,
_The Good Flea and the Wicked King_ (from _Tales of a
Grandfather_), 580

_Human Nature, Treatise on_ (extracts), Thomas Hobbes, 11, 12, 366

Humor,
use of term, 3
theories and definitions, 4 _ff._, 23
Hazlitt on, 7, 15 _ff._
Max Eastman on, 7, 13
Dr. Isaac Barrows on, 9–11
Thomas Hobbes on, 11
George Meredith on, 12
sense of humor, 13–15
Brander Matthews on, 13
distinction between wit and, 15–17
playfulness of animals, 18 _ff._
chronological periods, 20, 43
origin of, 23, 45, 46
educational use, 249
influx into literature, 277

_Humorist on His Calling, A_ (from _A Window in Thrums_), James
Matthew Barrie, 535

_Hunting with a King_ (from _Sakuntala_), Kalidasa, 121

_Husband and the Parrot, The_ (from _The Arabian Nights’
Entertainment_), 131

_Husband’s Petition, The_, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, 494

_Hymn of the Frogs, The_ (from the Rig Vedas), 34

“I am a saint of good repute,” Monk of Montaudon, 238

_Idiot’s Delight, The_, Carolyn Wells, 749

_Idler, The_ (extract), Samuel Johnson, 430

_If I Should Die To-Night_, Ben King, 728

_Ignorant Man Who Set Up for a Schoolmaster, The_ (from _The
Arabian Nights’ Entertainment_), 129

_Il Cortegiano_ (extracts), Castiglione, 183

_Iliad_ (extract), Homer, 49

_Iliad in a Nutshell, The_, 51

_Ingenious Cook, An_ (from _Trimalchio’s Banquet_), Petronius, 102

_Ingoldsby Legends_, Richard Harris Barham, 455

_Inheritance of a Library, The_ (from _Novellino_), Massuchio di
Salerno, 350

_I Remember_, Phœbe Cary, 676

_Innocence_ (from _Contes Drolatiques_), Honoré de Balzac, 568

Irish Bulls, prototypes of, 211

_Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The_ (from _Stories in Rime_
[_Masnavi_]), Jalal uddin Rumi, 152

_Invisible Bridge, The_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 748

_Iphis_, Jean de la Bruyère, 406

_Irishman, The_, William Maginn, 471

IRVING, WASHINGTON,
_Certain Young Lady, A_, 654

Italian humor, 182–184, 218, 344–359, 409–411, 616–625

_Jabberwocky_ (from _Through the Looking-Glass_), Lewis Carroll,
515

_Jack and Jill_ (a symposium), Charles Battell Loomis, 735

_Jacob_, Phœbe Cary, 677

JALAL UDDIN RUMI,
_Invalid and His Deaf Visitor, The_ (from _Stories in Rime_
[_Masnavi_]), 152
_Old Age--Dialogue_, 153
_Sick Schoolmaster, The_ (from _Stories in Rime_), 149

JAMI,
_The Baharistan_ (extracts), 196

Japanese humor, 161

_Játakas_, or Buddhist stories, 34, 214

JERROLD, DOUGLAS, 475
_Cold Mutton, Pudding, Pancakes_ (from _Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain
Lectures_), 476
Witticisms, 478

Jestbooks (extracts),
English, 262 _ff._, 274 _ff._
French, 335–337

_Jester Condemned to Death, The_, Horace Smith, 469

Jests
Greek, 178–181
Mediæval German, 188–189
Old jokes, 72–75
Roman, 181–182

_Jests of Hierocles_, 72, 175, 176–178

_Jests of Scogin, The_, 263, (extracts), 265

_Jobsiad, The_ (extract), Carl Arnold Kortum, 599

JOHANNES SECUNDUS,
_On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife_, 193

JOHNSON, RICHARD,
_The Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson_ (extract), 267

JOHNSON, SAMUEL,
“As with my hat upon my head,” 431
_On Lying News-Writers_ (from _The Idler_), 430

Jokes,
popular idea of, 4
what makes, 5
practical, 6
and bards, 26

_Jolly Good Ale and Old_ (from _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_), John
Still, 308

_Jongleurs_ of Middle Ages, 233

JONSON, BEN,
Epigrams, 295
_Every Man in His Humor_ (extract), 293
_Giles and Joan_, 296
_To the Ghost of Martial_, 295
_Vintner, A_, 295
_Volpone_ (extract), 294

Jotham, story of, 31

_Judas, the Arch-Rogue_ (extract), Abraham á Sancta Clara, 412

Jugglers, 233

JULIAN,
_Beer_, 76

_Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, The_ (extract), Samuel Langhorne
Clemens, 681

JUVENAL,
_Cosmetic Disguise_ (from _Satires_), 110
_On Domineering Wives_ (from _Satires_), 111

KALIDASA,
_Hunting with a King_ (from _Sakuntala_), 121

KANT,
definition of laughter, 13

_Karlchen, the Crocodile_ (extract), Fedor Dostoevsky, 635

_Kathá Manjari_ (extract), 75

_Kathá Sarit Ságara_, Somadeva, 214

KERR, ORPHEUS C. _See_ Newell, Robert Henry

KHOJA NASRU’D DÍN. _See_ Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi

_Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The_, George Thomas Lanigan, 706

KING, BEN,
_If I Should Die To-Night_, 728
_Pessimist, The_, 727

KINGSLEY, CHARLES,
_Professor’s Malady, The_ (from _Water Babies_), 498

_Kiss, The_, Thomas L. Masson, 732

_Kiss, The--A Dialogue_, Robert Herrick, 367

KOCK, CHARLES PAUL DE,
_Theophile’s Mother-in-Law_ (from _A Much Worried Gentleman_),
572

KORTUM, CARL ARNOLD,
_The Jobsiad_ (extract), 599

Krishna,
caricatures of, 36

KRYLOFF (V), IVAN, 631
_Musicians, The_, 634
_Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The_, 633

_Lady from the Provinces, The_, W. S. Gilbert, 210

“La Gallisse, now I wish to touch,” Gilles Ménage, 407

_L’Allegro_, Milton, 371

LAMB, CHARLES (extracts), 449

LANDON, MELVILLE D., 698

LANG, ANDREW,
_Ballad of the Primitive Jest_, 526
_Ballade of Literary Fame_, 527

LANIGAN, GEORGE THOMAS (G. Washington Æsop), 705
_Kind-Hearted She-Elephant, The_, 706
_Ostrich and the Hen, The_, 706
_Threnody, A_, 704

_Lanty Leary_, Samuel Lover, 482

_Lap Dog, The_, Théophile Gautier, 577

LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS DE,
_Maxims_, 399

Laughable, the, ideas on, 4, 7

_Laughing Song_, John Fletcher, 300

Laughter,
what makes us laugh, 5
Hobbes’s definition, 11, 12, 366
Kant’s definition, 13

_Lay of the Lovelorn, The_, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, 495

LEAR, EDWARD,
Limericks, 519
_Two Old Bachelors, The_, 520

_Learned Women, The_ (extract), Molière, 394

LELAND, CHARLES GODFREY,
_Ballad_ (from _Hans Breitmann Ballads_), 680

LEOPARDI, GIACOMO,
_Academy of Syllographs, The_, 616

_Lerneans, The_, Unknown, 79

LE SAGE, ALAN RENÉ, 406

LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM,
_Decorated Bow, The_ (from _Fables_), 588
Epigrams, 588
_Fables_ (extracts), 588
_Raven, The_ (from _Fables_), 588

_Let the Toast Pass_ (from _The School for Scandal_), Richard
Brinsley Sheridan, 437

_Letters to His Son_ (extracts), Lord Chesterfield, 429

LEVER, CHARLES, 481
_Widow Malone_, 483

_Lie, The_, Sir Walter Raleigh, 305

_Like to the Thundering Tone_, Bishop Corbet, 302

Limericks, Edward Lear, 519

_Lines by a Person of Quality_, Alexander Pope, 419

_Lines on Milton_, Cowper, 382

_Lion, the Bear, the Monkey and the Fox, The_ (from _Æsop’s
Fables_), 44

_Lions Council of State, The_, Ivan Chemnitzer, 632

_Little Billee_, William Makepeace Thackeray, 487

_Little Breeches_ (from _Pike County Ballads_), John Hay, 690

_Little Peach, The_, Eugene Field, 712

_Living in Bed_ (from _Roland Enamored_), Francesco Berni, 352

LOCKE, DAVID ROSS (Petroleum V. Nasby), 684

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK, 484, 503
_My Mistress’s Boots_, 503
_On a Sense of Humor_, 505
_Some Ladies_, 505
_Terrible Infant, A_, 505

_Long and Short_, Unknown, 78

LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH, 666
_Mr. Finney’s Turnip_, 667
_There Was a Little Girl_, 667

LOOMIS, CHARLES BATTELL,
_Jack and Jill_ (a symposium), 735

_Lord Erskine’s Simile_, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 438

_Lost Hatchet, The_ (from _Gargantua and Pantagruel_), François
Rabelais, 329

_Love in a Cottage_, Nathaniel Parker Willis, 661

_Love Lesson, A_, Clement Marot, 321

LOVELACE, RICHARD, 368
_Song_, 369

LOVER, SAMUEL,
_Lanty Leary_, 482
_Rory O’More_, 481

_Lovers and a Reflection_, Charles Stuart Calverly, 511

_Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (extract), Shakespeare, 15

LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL,
_What Mr. Robinson Thinks_ (from _Biglow Papers_), 674

LUCIAN,
_Darkness_, 76
_Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus_ (from _Dialogues of the Sea
Gods_), 80
_Question of Precedence, A_ (from _Dialogues of the Gods_), 79

LUCILIUS,
_Board or Lodging_, 78
_Envy_, 77
_False Charms_, 78
_Professor with a Small Class, A_, 77
_Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A_, 78

LUCILLIUS,
_A Miser’s Dream_, 190

_Lying_, Thomas Moore, 479

_Madame d’Albret’s Laugh_, Clement Marot, 321

MAGINN, WILLIAM,
_Irishman, The_, 471

_Maid, the Monkey, and the Mendicant, The_, Unknown, 170

_Making of Master Messerin, The_, Rustico di Filippo, 350

_Man and Superman_, Martial, 109

_Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream_, Oliver Herford, 746

MAROT, CLEMENT,
_Love Lesson, A_, 321
_Madame d’Albret’s Laugh_, 321

_Married Life_, Stephanus Paschasius, 194

_Married State, The_, Sir John Davies, 310

MARRYAT, FREDERICK (Captain Marryat),
_Nautical Terms_ (from _Peter Simple_), 474

MARSTON, JOHN,
_Scholar and His Dog, The_, 310

MARTIAL, Father of Epigrams, 106, 333
_Between the Lines_, 107
_Crede Experto_, 109
_Man and Superman_, 109
_Mere Suggestion, A_, 108
_Millions in It_, 109
_Mute Miltons_, 108
_Numbers Sweet_, 109
_Play’s the Thing_, 107
_Rounded with a Sleep_, 108
_To Aulus_, 107
_To Catullus_, 107
_To Linus_, 109
_To Mamercus_, 110
_To Postumus_, 107
_To Sabidins_, 107
_Total Abstainer, A_, 108
_Vendetta_, 108
_What Might Have Been_, 108

MARTIN, THEODORE, 493

MARVEL, IK. _See_ Mitchell, Donald G.

Masks, 87

MASSON, THOMAS L.,
_Desolation_, 733
_Kiss, The_, 732

MATTHEWS BRANDER, on sense of humor, 13

_Mavrone_, Arthur Guiterman, 742

Maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld, 399

_Meeting, The_, “Singing Mouse,” 53

MELCHIOR DE SANTA CRUZ,
Spanish Apothegms, 184–189

MÉNAGE, GILLES,
“La Galisse, now I wish to touch,” 407

MENANDER, fragments, 82

MENDOZA, HURTADO DE, 359

_Merchant and His Friend, The_, Pilpay, 169

_Merchant of Venice, The_ (extract), Shakespeare, 286

_Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in Hys
Dethe Bedde_ (from _C. Mery Talys_), 270

_Mere Suggestion, A_, Martial, 108

MEREDITH, GEORGE, on modification of Derision Theory, 12

_Merie Tayles of Skelton_ (extracts), 263

_Mery Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham_ (extracts), 266

_Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass_ (extracts), Apuleius, 112

_Microbe, The_, Hilaire Belloc, 556

_Mighty Must, The_, William Schwenck Gilbert, 528

_Military Swagger_ (from _The Braggart Captain_), Plautus, 88

_Milkmaid and the Banker, The_, Horace Smith, 468

_Millennium, The_, James Kenneth Stephen, 549

MILLER, JOAQUIN, 690
_That Gentle Man from Boston Town_, 692

_Millions in It_, Martial, 109

MILTON,
_Epitaph for an Old University Carrier_, 373
_L’Allegro_ (extract), 371

_Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil_, William Cowper, 382

_Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil_, John Dryden, 382

_Milton Compared with Homer and Virgil_, Selvaggi, 382

_Mimi Pinson_ (extract), Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, 569

Mimicry, 23, 28

_Miniver Cheevy_, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 740

Minstrels, 233, 234

_Miser and the Mouse, The_, Plato, 190

_Misers Dream, A_, Lucillius, 190

_Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures_, Douglas Jerrold, 476

_Mrs. Gamp’s Apartment_ (from _Martin Chuzzlewit_), Charles
Dickens, 491

_Mrs. Partington_ (extract), Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, 664

_Mrs. Partington_ (from Speech), Sydney Smith, 448

_Mr. Finney’s Turnip_, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 667

MITCHELL, DONALD G. (Ik Marvel), 678

MOLIÈRE, 277
_Gentleman Cit, The_ (extract), 396
_Learned Women, The_ (extract), 394

_Mona Lisa_, John Kendrick Bangs, 731

_Money_, Jehan du Pontalais, 322

MONTAUDON, MONK OF, 238
“I am a saint of good repute,” 239

Montfaucon’s alphabet of men and animals, 227

MOORE, CLEMENT C.,
_Visit from St. Nicholas, A_, 652

MOORE, THOMAS,
_Lying_, 479
_Nonsense_, 479
_Of All the Men_, 480
_On Taking a Wife_, 481
_Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party_, 481
_What’s My Thought Like?_ 480

_Moral Man, A_, Nikolai Nekrasov, 637

MORE, THOMAS, 277

MORELL, JOSÉ, 411
_Advice to an Innkeeper_, 412
_To a Poet_, 412

_Mother Bunches Merriments_ (extract), 267

_Mountain and the Squirrel, The_, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 660

_Much Ado About Nothing_ (extract), Shakespeare, 283

_Much Married Gentleman, A_ (extract), Charles Paul de Kock, 572

MÜLLER, WILHELM,
_The Drunkard’s Fancy_, 606

MUNKITTRICK, RICHARD KENDALL,
_What’s in a Name?_, 715

_Murder as One of the Fine Arts_, Thomas De Quincey, 458

MURGER, HENRI,
_An Evening Reception_ (from _Bohemian Life Sketches_), 579

_Musicians, The_, Ivan Kryloff, 634

MUSSET, LOUIS CHARLES ALFRED DE,
_The Supper Party of the Three Cavaliers_ (from _Mimi Pinson_),
569

_Mute Miltons_, Martial, 108

“My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” Rambaud
d’Orange, 237

_My Familiar_, John Godfrey Saxe, 669

_My First Visit to Portland_, Seba Smith, 662

_My Mistress’s Boots_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 503

_My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s_ (extracts), Marietta Holley, 702

_Mystery, The_, Carolyn Wells, 751

NASBY, PETROLEUM V. _See_ Locke, David Ross

Nathan, story of, 31

_Nautical Terms_ (from _Peter Simple_), Frederick Marryat, 474

NEARCHUS,
_Singer, A_, 77

NEKRASOV, NIKOLAI,
_Moral Man, A_, 637

_Nephelidia_, Swinburne, 523

NEWELL, PETER, 760

NEWELL, ROBERT HENRY (Orpheus C. Kerr)
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ 695

Newspaper humor, 663, 678, 698

NICARCHUS,
_Great Contention, The_, 190

_No!_, Thomas Hood, 465

_Nocturne at Danieli’s, A_, Sir Owen Seaman, 537

_Nonsense_, Bishop Corbet, 302

_Nonsense_, Thomas Moore, 479

Noodle stories,
origin, 72
selections, 199–225, 341
principle of humor in, 210

_Novellino_, Massuchio di Salerno, 350

_Numbers Sweet_, Martial, 109

NYE, EDGAR WILSON (Bill Nye),
_Garden Hose, The_, 714

_Obedient Husbands_ (from _The Bachelor’s Banquet_), Thomas Dekker,
298

Obstinate Family, The, tale of, 208

_Obtrusive Company on the Sacred Way_ (from _Satires_), Horace, 98

_Ode to Fortune_, Fitz-Greene Halleck and Joseph Rodman Drake, 657

_Ode to Tobacco_, Charles Stuart Calverly, 513

_Odysseus’s Trick on Polyphemus_ (from _Dialogues of the
Sea-Gods_), Lucian, 80

_Of a Certain Man_, Sir John Harington, 293

_Of a Precise Tailor_, Sir John Harington, 292

_Of a Queer Relationship_, Unknown, 174

_Of All the Men_, Thomas Moore, 480

_Of Hym That Sought His Wyfe Agaynst the Streme_ (from _C. Mery
Talys_), 272

_Of Loquacity_ (from _The Characters_), Theophrastus, 71

_Of Sloth_ (from _Gesta Romanorum_), 243

_Of Slovenliness_ (from _The Characters_), Theophrastus, 70

_Of the Courtear That Ete the Hot Custarde_ (from _C. Mery Talys_),
272

_Of the Deceits of the Devil_ (from _Gesta Romanorum_), 246

_Of the Diseases This Year_, François Rabelais, 324

_Of the Eclipses This Year_, François Rabelais, 323

_Of the Foole That Thought Hym Selfe Deed_ (from _C. Mery Talys_),
273

_Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year_, François Rabelais, 325

_Of the Good, Who Alone Will Enter the Kingdom of Heaven_ (from
_Gesta Romanorum_), 244

_Of the Incarnation of Our Lord_ (from _Gesta Romanorum_), 245

_Of the Merchaunte of London That Dyd Put Nobles in His Mouthe in
Hys Dethe Bedde_ (from _C. Mery Talys_), 270

_Of the Scoler of Oxforde That Proved by Sovestry II Chickens III_
(from _C. Mery Talys_), 271

_Of the Valorous Don Quixote’s ... Adventure of the Windmills_
(from _Don Quixote_), Cervantes, 363

_Of the Woman that Followed her Fourth Husband’s Bere and Wept_
(from _Wit and Mirth_), 270

_Of Three Girls and Their Talk_: A Sonnet, Giovanni Boccaccio, 344

_Of Vigilance in Our Calling_ (from _Gesta Romanorum_), 247

_Old Age--Dialogue_, Jalal uddin Rumi, 153

_Old Grimes_, Albert Gorton Greene, 658

OMAR KHAYYAM,
_Rubaiyat_ (extract), 138

_On a Fan_, Henry Austin Dobson, 524

_On a Sense of Humor_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 505

_On a Wet Day_, Francho Sacchetti, 355

_On Aufidius_, Actius Sannazarius, 192

_On Aurispa_, Janus Pannonius, 192

_On Celsus_, Paulus Thomas, 194

_On Charinus, the Husband of an Ugly Wife_, Johannes Secundus, 193

_On Clothes and Comforts_ (from _The Land of Dreams_), Kiokutei
Bakin, 161

_On Cotin_, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 405

_On Domineering Wives_ (from _Satires_), Juvenal, 111

_On Expert Testimony_, Finley Peter Dunne, 720

_On “Forts,”_ Charles Farrar Browne, 685

_On His Own Deafness_, Jonathan Swift, 418

_On His Own Love_, Catullus, 191

_On Late-Acquired Wealth_, Unknown, 190

_On Leonora_, Georgius Buchananus, 193

_On Lying News-Writers_ (from _The Idler_), Samuel Johnson, 430

_On Mental Reservations_ (from _Les Provinciales_), Blaise Pascal,
400

_On Musical Instruments_, Antonio Ghislanzoni, 619

_On Shadwell_, John Dryden, 380

_On Sultan Mahmoud_, Firdausi, 142

_On Taking a Wife_, Thomas Moore, 481

_On the Duke of Buckingham_, John Dryden, 381

_On the Inconstancy of Woman’s Love_, Unknown, 191

ORANGE, RAMBAUD D’,
_Song_: “My boy, if you’d wish to make constant your Venus,” 237

_Ostrich and the Hen, The_, George Thomas Lanigan, 706

PAIN, BARRY,
_Poets at Tea, The_, 551

_Palabras Grandiosas_ (from _Echo Club_), James Bayard Taylor, 683

Palæolithic humor, 24, 25

PANNONIUS, JANUS,
_On Aurispa_, 192

_Paper_, Benjamin Franklin, 645

_Parasites and Gnathonites_ (from _Eunuchus_), Terence, 96

_Paris_, Paul Scarron, 398

Parodies
_Select Passages from a Coming Poet_, T. A. Guthrie, 554
After T. B. Aldrich
_Palabras Grandiosas_, James Bayard Taylor, 683
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Browning
_Cock and the Bull, The_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 507
_Nocturne at Danieli’s, A_, Owen Seaman, 537
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After Mrs. Browning
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 754
After Bryant
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Burns
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 554
After Cowper
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After Dinah Craik
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 750
After Austin Dobson
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 735
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 755
After Emerson
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Hafiz, Abu Ishak, 154
After Bret Harte
_De Tea Fabula_, Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 546
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 758
After Herrick
_Song_, O. Herford, 747
_To Julia under Lock and Key_, Owen Seaman, 540
After Lady Arthur Hill
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 759
After Hogg
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 756
After Oliver Wendell Holmes
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Hood
_I Remember_, Phœbe Cary, 676
After Jean Ingelow
_Lovers and a Reflection_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 511
After Kipling
_Here Is the Tale_, Anthony C. Deane, 543
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn, Wells, 757
After Longfellow
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 695
After Macaulay
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
After George Meredith
_At the Sign of the Cock_, Owen Seaman, 541
After Milton
_The Splendid Shilling_, John Philips, 423
After Thomas Moore
“There’s a bower of bean vines,” Phœbe Cary, 677
After E. A. Poe
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 553
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 753
After Rossetti
_Ballad_, Charles Stuart Calverley, 506
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 553
After Southey
_The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_, George Canning,
439
After Swinburne
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 736
_Nephilidia_, Algernon Charles Swinburne, 523
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 757
After Tennyson
_Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The_, Algernon Charles
Swinburne, 522
_The Lay of the Lovelorn_, William Edmonstoune Aytoun, 495
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551
After Walt Whitman
_Jack and Jill_, Charles Battell Loomis, 7
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 554
After Whittier
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 696
After Oscar Wilde
_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 759
After Nathaniel P. Willis
_Rejected “National Hymns,”_ Robert Henry Newell, 697
After Charles Wolfe
_“True and Original” Version, A_, Richard Harris Barham, 455
After Wordsworth
_Baby’s Début, The_, James Smith, 466
_Jacob_, Phœbe Cary, 677
_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 552
After a Popular Song
_If I Should Die To-night_, Ben King, 728

Parody, 30

_Parson Gray_, Oliver Goldsmith, 434

_Partial Judge, The_ (from _Æsop’s Fables_), 45

PASCAL, BLAISE,
_On Mental Reservations_ (from _Les Provinciates_), 400

PASCHASIUS, STEPHANUS,
_Married Life_, 194

_Patient Cured, The_, Christian F. Gellert, 586

_Paying with the Sound of a Penny_ (from _Eulenspiegel’s Pranks_),
Tyll Eulenspiegel, 340

_Peasant of Larcarà, The_, Pitrá, 218

_Pegasus in the Yoke_, Friedrich von Schiller, 593

PEPYS, SAMUEL,
_Diary_ (extracts), 378

_Perplexity_, Unknown, 79

Persian humor, 73, 138–156, 196–199

Persian Jest-Book, 73

PERSIUS,
_Poetic Fame_ (from _Satires_), 104

_Pessimist, The_, Ben King, 727

_Peter Simple_ (extracts), Frederick Marryat, 474

PETRONIUS, 101
_Ingenious Cook, An_ (from _Trimalchio’s Banquet_), 102

PHILIPPIDES, Epigrams, 84

PHILIPS, JOHN,
_Splendid Shilling, The_, 423

_Phillis’ Age_, Matthew Prior, 389

_Philosopher, A_, Sam Walter Foss, 718

_Philosopher, The_ (from _The Fables_), Ivan Chemnitzer, 631

PHOENIX, JOHN. _See_ Derby, George Horatio

_Phoenixiana_ (extract), George Horatio Derby, 678

_Phyllis Lee_, Oliver Herford, 744

Pictorial humor, 27, 46, 47, 48

_Pigtail, The_, Adelbert von Chamisso, 605

_Pike County Ballads_ (extract), John Hay, 690

Pilpay (or Bidpai), _Fables_, 120;
(Selections), 164–170

PITRÁ,
_The Peasant of Larcarà_, 218

PLATO,
idea of humor, 4
_Miser and the Mouse, The_, 190
_Thief and the Suicide, The_, 189

PLATO COMICUS, fragments, 66

PLAUTUS, 87
_Military Swagger_ (from _The Braggart Captain_), 88
_Suspicious Miser, The_ (from _The Pot of Gold_), 91

Playfulness of animals, 18

_Play’s the Thing_, Martial, 107

_Pleasant Conceits of Old Hobson, The_ (extract), Richard Johnson,
265, 267

_Pleasantries of Cogia Nasr Eddin Effendi, The_ (extracts), 199

_Pleasure of Fishes, The_ (from _Autumn Floods_), Chwang Tze, 157

_Poems in Prose_, Ivan Turgenieff, 638

_Poetic Fame_ (from _Satires_), Persius, 104

_Poets_, Samuel Butler, 377

_Poets at Tea, The_, Barry Pain, 551

POGGIO, Italian stories, 182

Polish humor, 639–641

PONTALAIS, JEHAN DU,
_Money_, 322

POPE, ALEXANDER, 17
_Epigram on Mrs. Tofts_, 421
_Lines by a Person of Quality_, 419
_Worms_, 420

_Pope and Sultan_ (German Student Song), 613

_Pope and the Net, The_, Robert Browning, 502

_Popularity_, Sung Yu, 158

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH,
_Song of Impossibilities, A_, 484

_Praise of Folly, The_ (extracts), Desiderius Erasmus, 337

_Prayer_, Ivan Turgenieff, 638

PRIOR, MATTHEW, 386
_Epitaph, An_, 387
_Phillis’ Age_, 389
_Reasonable Affliction, A_, 389
_Simile, A_, 388

_Prodigal Egg, The_, Oliver Herford, 747

Professional entertainers of the Middle Ages, 231–236

_Professor with a Small Class, A_, Lucilius, 77

_Professor’s Malady, The_ (from _Water Babies_), Charles Kingsley,
498

_Proverbial Wisdom_, Anton Chekov, 639

_Provinciales, Les_ (extract), Blaise Pascal, 400

_Psycholophon_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 749

_Puffing_, Samuel Butler, 377

“Punning” (from Speeches), Sydney Smith, 446

_Purple Cow, The_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 748

_Python, The_, Hilaire Belloc, 555

_Question of Precedence, A_ (from _Dialogues of the Gods_), Lucian,
79

QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR THOMAS. _See_ Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller-

RABELAIS, FRANÇOIS,
_Of the Diseases This Year_, 324
_Of the Eclipses This Year_, 323
_Of the Fruits of the Earth This Year_, 325
_Lost Hatchet, The_ (from _Gargantua and Pantagruel_), 329
“_Rabelais Imitates Diogenes_” (from _Gargantua and Pantagruel_),
325

RADHI BILLAH, the Kaliph,
_To a Lady upon Seeing Her Blush_, 191

_Raising the Devil_, Richard Harris Barham, 456

RALEIGH, SIR WALTER,
_Lie, The_, 305

RASPE, RUDOLPH ERICH,
_Horse Tied to a Steeple, A_ (from _Adventures of Baron
Münchausen_), 589
_Rather Large Whale, A_ (from _Adventures of Baron Münchausen_),
590

_Raven, The_ (from Fables), Lessing, 588

_Raven, a Fox and a Serpent, A_, Pilpay, 166

_Reasonable Affliction, A_, Matthew Prior, 389

REDI, FRANCESCA,
_Diatribe Against Water_, 410

_Rejected Addresses_ (extract), James and Horace Smith, 465

_Rejected “National Hymns”_ (burlesque), Robert Henry Newell, 695

_Religion of Hudibras, The_ (from _Hudibras_), Samuel Butler, 374

_Remonstrance, The_, Sir John Suckling, 370

_Reuben_, Phœbe Cary, 678

_Reynard the Fox_,
forms and origin, 226
Goethe’s version (extracts), 596

Riddles,
Arabian, 35
Homer’s, 35
Samson’s, 35
Sphinx’s, 35

_Rig Vedas_ (extract), 34

ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON,
_Miniver Cheevy_, 740
_Two Men_, 741

ROCHE, JAMES JEFFREY,
_Boston Lullaby, A_, 708
_V-a-s-e, The_, 706

_Roland Enamored_ (extract), Francesco Berni, 352

_Roman Cockney, The_, Catullus, 97

Roman humor, 86–119, 181–182

_Rondeau, The_, Henry Austin Dobson, 525

_Rory O’More_, Samuel Lover, 481

_Rose Garden, The_ (_Gulistan_) (extracts), Sadi, 142

_Rounded with a Sleep_, Martial, 108

_Rubaiyat_ (extract), Omar Khayyam, 138

RÜCKERT, FRIEDRICH,
_Artist and Public_, 609

Russian humor, 217, 631–639

RUTEBŒUF, the Trouvère,
_Ass’s Testament, The_, 312

SACCHETTI, FRANCHO, 354
_On a Wet Day_, 355

_Sad End of Brer Wolf, The_ (from _Uncle Remus, His Songs and His
Sayings_), Joel Chandler Harris, 708

SADI,
_Discomfort Better Than Drowning_, (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), 142
_Hatefulness of Old Husbands_ (from _The Rose Garden_), 144
_Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The_ (from _The Rose Garden_),
143
_Wise Sayings_, 145

_Saintship versus Conscience_ (from _Hudibras_), Samuel Butler, 375

_Sakuntala_ (extract), Kaildasa, 121

_Salad_, Sydney Smith, 448

SALERNO, MASSUCHIO DI,
_Inheritance of a Library, The_ (from _Novellino_), 350

Samson’s Riddle, 35

SAN SHROE BU,
_Enforced Greatness_, 219

SANNAZARIUS, ACTIUS,
_On Aufidius_, 192

_Satires_ (extract), Horace, 98

_Satires_ (extract), Juvenal, 110

_Satires_ (extract), Persius, 104

Satires on dress, 230

SAXE, JOHN GODFREY,
_My Familiar_, 669

SCARRON, PAUL,
_Farewell to Chloris_, 398
_Paris_, 398

Schildburgers, the, tales of, 341–344

SCHILLER, FRIEDRICH VON,
_Pegasus in the Yoke_, 593

_Scholar and His Dog, The_, John Marston, 310

_School_, James Kenneth Stephen, 550

_School for Scandal, The_ (extract), Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 437

_Schoolmaster with a Gay Wife, A_, Lucilius, 78

SCOGIN,
_Jests_, 263, 265

SEAMAN, SIR OWEN,
_At the Sign of the Cock_, 541
_Nocturne at Danieli’s, A_, 537
_To Julia under Lock and Key_, 540

_Select Passages from a Coming Poet_, T. A. Guthrie, 554

Sense of humor, 13, 14

SHAKESPEARE,
on sense of humor, 15
as humorist, 277, 278, 280
_As You Like It_ (extract), 288
_Hamlet_ (extract), 286
_Henry IV, Part I_ (extract), 281
_Henry IV, Part II_ (extract), 279
_Love’s Labour’s Lost_ (extract), 15
_Merchant of Venice, The_ (extract), 286

SHAW, HENRY WHEELER (Josh Billings), 671
_Hen, A_ (extract), 673
_Tight Boots_ (extract), 671

SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY,
_Calendar_, 438
_Let the Toast Pass_ (from _The School for Scandal_), 437
_Lord Erskine’s Simile_, 438

_Sheridan’s Calendar_, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 438

SHILLABER, BENJAMIN PENHALLOW,
_After a Wedding_ (from _Mrs. Partington_), 664
_Sick Schoolmaster, The_ (from _Stories in Rime [Masnavi]_),
Jalal uddin Rumi, 149

SILL, EDWARD ROWLAND, 690
_Eves Daughter_, 698

_Simile, A_, Matthew Prior, 388

SIMONIDES,
_Fine Lady, The_, 65

_Simpleton and the Sharper, The_ (from _The Arabian Nights’
Entertainment_), 127

_Singer, A_, Nearchus, 77

“Singing Mouse, The,” 52
_Meeting, The_, 53

SKELTON, JOHN,
_How Skelton Came Late Home to Oxford from Abington_ (from
_Certayne Merye Tales_), 264
_How the Welshman Dyd Desyre Skelton to Hyde Him in Hys Sute to
the Kynge for a Patent to Sell Drynke_, 263
_To Maistres Margaret Hussey_, 261

_Sleep_, Baltazar del Alcazar, 359

_Slight Misunderstanding, A_ (from _Contés Drolatiques_), Honoré de
Balzac, 567

SMITH, HORACE,
_Jester Condemned to Death, The_, 469
_Milkmaid and the Banker, The_, 468

SMITH, JAMES,
_Baby’s Debut, The_, 466

SMITH, SEBA (Major Jack Downing),
_My First Visit to Portland_, 662

SMITH, SYDNEY,
_Mrs. Partington_ (from Speech), 448
“Punning” (from Speeches), 446
_Salad_, 448

SMOLLETT, 429

_Society upon the Stanislaus, The_, Francis Bret Harte, 686

“_Soldier, Rest!_” Robert Jones Burdette, 701

SOMADEVA,
_Kathá Sarit Ságara_, 214

_Some Geese_, Oliver Herford, 744

_Some Hallucinations_, Lewis Carroll, 518

_Some Ladies_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 505

_Song_, Richard Lovelace, 369

_Song--After Herrick_, Oliver Herford, 747

_Song of Impossibilities, A_, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, 484

_Sonnet_: “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth
Stephen, 548

_Sorrows of Werther_, William Makepeace Thackeray, 490

_Soul of the Cabbage, The_, Cyrano de Bergerac, 390

SOUTHEY, ROBERT,
_Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The_, (from _The Doctor_), 450
_Well of St. Keyne, The_, 451

Spanish Apothegms of Melchior de Santa Cruz, 84

Spanish humor, 184–189, 359–364, 411–412, 626–630

Sphinx’s Riddle, 35

_Splendid Shilling, The_, John Philips, 423

_Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A_, Yuan Mei, 158

STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE, 683

STEPHEN, JAMES KENNETH,
_Millennium, The_, 549
_School_, 550
_Sonnet_, “Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” 548
_Thought, A_, 549

STEPHENS, HENRY (Henri Estienne),
_Noodle Stories_ from Introduction to _Apology for Herodotus_,
215

STERNE, 429

STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS,
_Child’s Verses_ (extracts), 534

STILL, JOHN,
_Jolly Good Ale and Old_ (from _Gammer Gurton’s Needle_), 308

STOCKTON, FRANK R.,
_Lady and the Tiger, The_, 686

_Stolen Pig, The_ (from the _Decameron_), Giovanni Boccaccio, 345

_Stories in Rime_ (extracts), Jalal uddin Rumi, 149

_Strict Schoolmaster and the Mild, The_ (from _The Rose Garden_
[_Gulistan_]), Sadi, 143

_Stupid Man_ (from _The Characters_), Theophrastus, 72

SUCKLING, SIR JOHN, 368
_Constant Lover, The_, 369
_Remonstrance, The_, 370

SUNG YU,
_Popularity_, 158

_Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt_, Jonathan Swift, 418

_Supper-Party of the Three Cavaliers, The_ (from _Mimi Pinson_),
Louis Charles Alfred de Musset, 569

_Suspicious Miser, The_ (from _The Pot of Gold_), Plautus, 91

_Swan, the Pike and the Crab, The_, Ivan Krylov, 633

SWIFT, JONATHAN,
_Against Abolishing Christianity_, 415
_Furniture of a Woman’s Mind, The_, 416
_On His Own Deafness_, 418
_Sunt Qui Servari Nolunt_, 418
_“To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr.
Swift,”_ 419

SWINBURNE, CHARLES ALGERNON, 521
_Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell, The_, 522
_Nephelidia_, 523

_Symposium of Poets, A_, Carolyn Wells, 752

_Tales of a Grandfather_ (extract), Victor Marie Hugo, 580

_Talmud, The_ (extracts), 124

_Tatler, The_ (extract), Joseph Addison, 422

TAYLOR, JAMES BAYARD,
_Palabras Grandiosas_ (from Echo Club), 683

TAYLOR, JOHN,
_Wit and Mirth_ (extracts), 74, 268, 270

_Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, The_ (from _The Doctor_), Robert
Southey, 450

TENNYSON, ALFRED,
_The Goose_, 500

TERENCE,
_Parasites and Gnathonites_ (from _Eunuchus_), 96

_Ternary of Littles upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady, A_,
Robert Herrick, 365

_Terrible Infant, A_, Frederick Locker-Lampson, 505

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, 486
_Little Billee_, 487
_Sorrows of Werther_, 490
_When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas_, 490
_Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The_, 488

_That Gentle Man from Boston Town_, Joaquin Miller, 692

THAYER, ERNEST LAWRENCE,
_Casey at the Bat_, 729

_Theophile’s Mother-in-Law_ (from _A Much Worried Gentleman_),
Charles Paul de Kock, 572

THEOPHRASTUS,
_Of Loquacity_ (from _The Characters_), 71
_Of Slovenliness_ (from _The Characters_), 70
_Stupid Man, The_ (from _The Characters_), 72

_There Was a Little Girl_, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 667

“There’s a Bower of Bean-Vines,” Phœbe Cary, 677

_Thief and the Suicide, The_, Plato, 189

_Thief Turned Merchant and the Other Thief, The_ (from _The Arabian
Nights’ Entertainment_), 128

THOMAS, PAULUS,
_On Celsus_, 194

_Thought, A_, James Kenneth Stephen, 549

_Thoughts_, Jean de la Bruyère, 406

_Threnody, A_, George Thomas Lanigan, 704

_Through the Looking-Glass_ (extract), Lewis Carroll, 515

_Tight Boots_, Henry Wheeler Shaw (Josh Billings), 671

_Tithes_, a Hebrew Satire, 31

_To a Friend in Distress_, Johannes Audœmus, 194

_To a Lady Upon Seeing Her Blush_, The Kaliph Radhi Billah, 191

_To a Mosquito_, William Cullen Bryant, 655

_To a Poet_, José Morell, 412

_To Aulus_, Martial, 107

_To Catullus_, Martial, 107

_To Julia under Lock and Key_, Sir Owen Seaman, 540

_To Linus_, Martial, 109

_To Maistres Margaret Hussey_, John Skelton, 261

_To Mamercus_, Martial, 110

_To Mrs. Houghton of Bormount, upon praising her husband to Dr.
Swift_, Jonathan Swift, 419

_To My Empty Purse_, Chaucer, 257

_To My Nose_, Olivier Basselin, 316

_To Perrault_, Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 405

_To Philomusus_, Euricius Cordus, 192

_To Postumus_, Martial, 107

_To Sabidius_, Martial, 107

_To Sally_, John Quincy Adams, 650

_To the Ghost of Martial_, Ben Jonson, 295

_To the Pliocene Skull_, Francis Bret Harte, 688

_To the Terrestrial Globe_, William Schwenck Gilbert, 529

_To the Vizier Cassim Obid Allah, On the Death of One of His Sons_,
Aly Ben Ahmed Ben Mansour, 191

_To Zoilus_, Georgius Buchananus, 193

_Tooth for Tooth_, Edmondo de Amicis, 623

_Total Abstainer, A_, Martial, 108

_Touching the Olfactory Organ_, Alexander Dumas, the Elder, 574

_Town of Göttingen, The_, Heinrich Heine, 611

TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATERMAN,
_Chimmie Fadden_ (extract), 716

_Trimalchio’s Banquet_ (extract), Petronius, 101

Troubadours, 236

Troubadours’ Songs, 236–240

Trouvères, 236, 253

TROWBRIDGE, JOHN T., 681

_“True and Original” Version, A_, Richard Harris Barham, 455

_True to Poll_, Francis C. Burnand, 532

TURGENIEFF, IVAN,
_Beneficence and Gratitude_, 638
Prayer, 638

Turkish humor, 33, 199–204, 213

_Tushmaker’s Tooth-Puller_, George Horatio Derby, 678

TWAIN, MARK. _See_ Clemens, Samuel Langhorne

_Two Men_, Edwin Arlington Robinson, 741

_Two Old Bachelors, The_, Edward Lear, 520

“Two voices are there: one is of the deep,” James Kenneth Stephen,
548

UDALL, NICHOLAS, 277

Ulysses, stories of, 46

_Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings_ (extract), 708

_Upon Being Obliged to Leave a Pleasant Party_, Thomas Moore, 481

_V-a-s-e, The_, James Jeffrey Roche, 706

Vega, Lope de, 359

_Vendetta_, Martial, 108

VENTADOUR, BERNARD DE,
“You say the moon is all aglow,” 237

_Vers de Société_, 503, 524, 706

_Vicissitudes of a Donkey_ (from _The Golden Ass_), Apuleius, 116

_Villanelle_, William Ernest Henley, 533

_Villanelle of Things Amusing_, Frank Gelett Burgess, 748

VILLON, FRANÇOIS,
_Ballad of the Women of Paris_, 320
_Ballade of Dead Ladies, The_, 318
_Ballade of Old Time Ladies, A_, 319

_Vintner, A_, Ben Johnson, 295

_Visit from St. Nicholas, A_, Clement C. Moore, 652

_Voice from the Grave, A_, Unknown, 190

_Volpone_ (extract), Ben Jonson, 294

VOLTAIRE (Francis Marie Arouet),
_Candide_ (extract), 560

WALLER, EDMUND, 368

_Walloping Window-Blind, The_, Charles E. Carryl, 699

WARD, ARTEMUS. _See_ Browne, Charles Farrar

WARD, WILLIAM HAYES,
on Greek humor, 44

WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY, 681

_Water Babies_ (extract), Charles Kingsley, 498

_Ways and Means_, Lewis Carroll, 516

_Well of St. Keyne, The_, Robert Southey, 451

WELLS, CAROLYN,
_Idiot’s Delight, The_, 749
_Mystery, The_, 751
_Symposium of Poets, A_, 752
_Woman_, 751

WENGIERSKI, KAJETAN,
_Dream Wife, The_, 639

WESLEY, SAMUEL, 51
Homer’s _The Battle of the Frogs and Mice_, 54

_What’s In a Name?_ Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 715

_What Might Have Been_, Martial, 108

_What Mr. Robinson Thinks_ (from _Biglow Papers_), James Russell
Lowell, 674

_What Will We Do?_ Robert Jones Burdette, 700

_What’s My Thought Like?_ Thomas Moore, 480

_When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas_, William Makepeace Thackeray,
490

WHITCHER, MRS. FRANCES MIRIAM, 664

WHITE, RICHARD GRANT, 678

_Why Don’t the Men Propose?_ Thomas Haynes Bayly, 472

_Widow Malone_, Charles Lever, 483

_Wife’s Ruse, A_: A Rabbinical Tale, 32

_Will, The_, John Donne, 296

_Will of a Virtuoso, The_ (from _The Tatler_), Joseph Addison, 422

_William Tell_ (from _Tartarin in the Alps_), Alphonse Daudet, 583

WILLIS, NATHANIEL PARKER,
_Love in a Cottage_, 661

Wit and humor,
Hazlitt on the distinction between, 15–17

_Wit and Mirth_ (extracts), John Taylor, 74, 268–270

_Wolfe New Ballad of Jane Roney and Mary Brown, The_, William
Makepeace Thackeray, 488

_Woman_, Carolyn Wells, 751

_Worms_, Alexander Pope, 420

_Wreck of the “Julie Plante,” The_, William H. Drummond, M.D., 726

WRIGHT, THOMAS, on caricature by prehistoric man, 25

“You say the moon is all aglow,” Bernard de Ventadour, 237

YRIARTE, THOMAS,
_Ass and the Flute, The_, 626
_Country Squire, The_, 628
_Eggs, The_, 627

YUAN MEI,
_Recipes_ (from _Cookery Book_), 159
_Stanza for a Tobacco-Pouch, A_, (from _Letters_), 158

FOOTNOTES:

[1] For putting out the fire in a brasier or cooking-stove.

[2] A Shrawn is a pure Gaelic noise, something like a groan, more like a shriek, and most like a sigh of longing.

[3] Eire was daughter of Carne, King of Connaught. Her lover, Murdh of the Open Hand, was captured by Greatcoat Mackintosh, King of Ulster, on the plain of Carrisbool and made into soup. Eire’s grief on this sad occasion has become proverbial.

[4] Garnim was second cousin to Manannan MacLir. His sons were always sad about something. There were twenty-two of them, and they were all unfortunate in love at the same time, just like a chorus at the opera. “Blitherin’ their drool” is about the same as “dreeing their weird.”

[5] The Shee (or “Sidhe,” as I should properly spell it if you were not so ignorant) were, as everybody knows, the regular, stand-pat, organization fairies of Erin. The Crowdie was their annual convention, at which they made melancholy sounds. The Itt and Himm were the irregular, or insurgent, fairies. They _never_ got any offices or patronage. See MacAlester, _Polity of the Sidhe of West Meath_, page 985.

[6] The Barryhoo is an ancient Celtic bird about the size of a Mavis, with lavender eyes and a black-crape tail. It continually mourns its mate (Barrywhich, feminine form), which has an hereditary predisposition to an early and tragic demise and invariably dies first.

[7] Magraw, a Gaelic term of endearment, often heard on the baseball fields of Donnybrook.

[8] These last six words are all that tradition has preserved of the original incantation by means of which Irish rats were rhymed to death. Thereby hangs a good Celtic tale, which I should be glad to tell you in this note; but the publishers say that being prosed to death is as bad as being rhymed to death, and that the readers won’t stand for any more.

Transcriber’s Notes:

1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.

2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.

3. Superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. D^r. or X^{xx}.

4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.