There are many sketches in 'Literary Lapses' that are worthy of comparison with the best American humour." _Morning Post._--"The close connection between imagination, humour, and the mathematical faculty has never been so delightfully demonstrated." _Outlook._--"Mr.John Lane must be credited with the desire of associating the Bodley Head with the discovery of new humorists.
Mr.Leacock sets out to make people laugh.

He succeeds and makes them laugh at the right thing.

He has a wide range of new subjects; the world will gain in cheerfulness if Mr.Leacock continues to produce so many excellent jests to the book as there are in the one under notice." _Truth._--"By the publication of Mr.Stephen Leacock's 'Literary Lapses' Mr.John Lane has introduced to the British Public a new American humorist for whom a widespread popularity can be confidently predicted." * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR NONSENSE NOVELS _THIRTEENTH EDITION_ _Crown 8vo.5s.

net_ _Spectator._--"We can assure our readers who delight in mere joyous desipience that they will find a rich harvest of laughter in the purely irresponsible outpourings of Professor Leacock's fancy." _Pall Mall Gazette._--"It is all not only healthy satire, but healthy humour as well, and shows that the author of 'Literary Lapses' is capable of producing a steady flow of high spirits put into a form which is equal to the best traditions of contemporary humour.

Mr.Leacock certainly bids fair to rival the immortal 'Lewis Carroll' in combining the irreconcilable--exact science with perfect humour--and making the amusement better the instruction." _Daily Mail._--"In his 'Literary Lapses' Mr.Stephen Leacock gave the laughter-loving world assurance of a new humorist of irresistible high spirits and rare spontaneity and freshness.