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BOOKS BY STEPHEN LEACOCK


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.Crown 8vo.5s. net.

"An excellent antidote to war worry."—Morning Post.

"You will acknowledge, if you have not done so before, the satirical keenness of Mr. Leacock."—Evening Standard.

"The book is a joy all through, laughter on every page." Daily Graphic.

"Further examples of the diverting humour of Professor Leacock."—Times.

"'Further Foolishness,' in a word, is the most admirable tonic which I can prescribe to-day . . . the jolliest possible medley." Bystander.

"Mr. Leacock's fun is fine and delicate, full of quaint surprises; guaranteed to provoke cheerfulness in the dullest. He is a master-humorist and this book is one of the cleverest examples of honest humour and witty satire ever produced."—Daily Chronicle.

"In this new budget of absurdities we are more than ever reminded of Mr. Leacock's essential affinity with Artemus Ward, in whose wildest extravagances there was nearly always a core of wholesome sanity, who was always on the side of the angels, and who was a true patriot as well as a great humorist."—Spectator.

"A humorist of high excellence."—Pall Mall Gazette.

Really clever and admirably good fun."—Daily Express.

"Some day there will be a Leacock Club. Its members will all possess a sense of humour."—Star.


JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD, VIGO STREET, W. 1.