Humor Books

Wit, Humor, and Shakspeare - Twelve Essays

John Weiss

When a great freshet takes possession of a country, and evicts the tenants of every hole, thicket, and burrow, there is an indiscriminate stampede of the animals for the driest and safest places: hare..

Pictures by Gavarni

Paul Gavarni

The following pictures are selected from the two volumes of Gavarni’s “Œuvres Choisies” published by Hetzel, Paris, 1846-8. In choosing them the publishers have been careful to exclude any illustratio..

A Gentleman of Leisure

P. G. Wodehouse

Jimmy Pitt had now definitely ousted Love, the Cracksman, as a topic of conversation. Everybody present knew him. Most of them had known him in his newspaper days; and though every man there would hav..

Hashimura Togo, Domestic Scientist

Wallace Irvin

What are purpose of this Book? To teach Ladies be more kind while abusing their help. With very apologetic thumbs I acknowledge that Hired Girls is not perfected like other modern machinery. Too many ..

What the Judge Saw

Edward Abbott Parry

What the Judge Saw: Being Twenty-Five Years in Manchester by One Who Has Done It.It is a hard thing to say “Farewell!” in the right key. Many, many kindly letters I received when I went away, and all ..

And Five Were Foolish

Dornford Yates

The news of the old fellow’s death had sent hopes soaring. It was generally assumed that his nephew and ward would each receive half of his fortune. For a few days, therefore, the two enjoyed undreame..

The Sunny Side of the Street

Marshall P. Wilder

In this little volume are offered recollections of the sunny side of many people. I have plucked blossoms from the gardens of humor and pathos, which lie side by side, and in weaving them into a garla..

One Hundred Cartoons

Oscar Edward Cesare

Brilliant and powerful interpretations of our times, by the man whose recent change from the New York Sun to the New York Evening Post gave the latter newspaper opportunity to congratulate itself on t..