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