  Cloth Elegant, Large 12mo, Price $1.25 per vol. VOLUMES ALREADY ISSUED. The Humour of France. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Elizabeth Lee. With numerous Illustrations by Paul FrÉnzeny. "From Villon to Paul Verlaine, from dateless fabliaux to newspapers fresh from the kiosk, we have a tremendous range of selections."—Birmingham Daily Gazette. "French wit is excellently represented. We have here examples of Villon, Rabelais, and MoliÈre, but we have specimens also of La Rochefoucauld, Regnard, Voltaire, Beaumarchais, Chamfort, Dumas, Gautier, Labiche, De Banville, Pailleron, and many others.... The book sparkles from beginning to end."—Globe. The Humour of Germany. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Hans MÜller-Casenov. With numerous Illustrations by C.E. Brock. "An excellently representative volume."—Daily Telegraph. "Whether it is Saxon kinship or the fine qualities of the collection, we have found this volume the most entertaining of the three. Its riotous absurdities well overbalance its examples of the oppressively heavy.... The national impulse to make fun of the war correspondent has a capital example in the skit from Julius Stettenheim."—New York Independent. The Humour of Italy. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by A. Werner. With 50 Illustrations and a Frontispiece by Arturo Faldi. "Will reveal to English readers a whole new world of literature."—AthenÆum. "Apart from selections of writers of classical reputation, the book contains some delightful modern short stories and sketches. We may particularly mention those by Verga, Capuana, De Amicis.... Excellent also are one or two of the jokes and 'bulls' which figure under the heading of newspaper humour."—Literary World. The Humour of America. Selected, with a copious Biographical Index of American Humorists, by James Barr. "There is not a dull page in the volume; it fairly sparkles and ripples with good things."—Manchester Examiner. The Humour of Holland. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by A. Werner. With numerous Illustrations by Dudley Hardy. "Apart from the quality of humour, one is much struck by the evidence that in Holland during the present day there is a genial literature, of which we have known nothing at all. The pictures, just on the verge of caricature mostly, are very well drawn."—The Bookman. The Humour of Ireland. Selected by D.J. O'Donoghue. With numerous Illustrations by Oliver Paque. "A most conscientiously, exhaustively, excellently compiled book; the editor could not have done his work better."—The Speaker. "Does all that such a volume possibly could do for the magnificent genius with which it grapples."—Chronicle. The Humour of Spain. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Susette M. Taylor. With numerous Illustrations by H.R. Millar. "Mirth and entertainment are in the book entitled the Humour of Spain, as well as many quaint and unexpected side-lights on the social characteristics of an impressionable race. Miss Taylor displays a wide acquaintance with Spanish literature and contemporary life, and as her judgment as well as her knowledge is considerable, the result is a charming book."—The Speaker. "The impression of the whole book is a good one, and it is admirably got up, and illustrated with great spirit. It should be very largely read."—Daily Chronicle. The Humour of Russia. Translated, with Notes, by E.L. Boole, and an Introduction by Stepniak. With 50 Illustrations by Paul FrÉnzeny. "This is one of the most entertaining of the 'International Humour' Series, since it comprises some really exquisite examples of humour, such as Gogol's diverting little comedy, 'Marriage,' and Ostrovsky's delightful sketch, 'Incompatibility of Temper.'"—Saturday Review. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. |
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