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In his latest volume there is the same irresistible humour, the same delicate satire, the same joyous freshness; but the wisdom he distils is concerned more with realities of our changing age." _Outlook._--"Mr.Leacock's humour is his own, whimsical with the ease of a self-confident personality, far-sighted, quick-witted, and invariably humane." _Times._--"Professor Leacock's paper on American humour is quite the best that we know upon the subject." _Spectator._--"Those of us who are grateful to Mr.Leacock as an intrepid purveyor of wholesome food for laughter have not failed to recognize that he mingles shrewdness with levity--that he is, in short, wise as well as merry." * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR Further Foolishness SKETCHES AND SATIRES ON THE FOLLIES OF THE DAY With Coloured Frontispiece by "Fish," and five other Plates by M.Blood _Fourth Edition.

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