By Stephen Leacock
LITERARY LAPSES
My Financial Career
Lord Oxhead's Secret A ROMANCE IN ONE CHAPTER
Boarding-House Geometry DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS
The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones
A Christmas Letter
How to Make a Million Dollars
How to Live to be 200
How to Avoid Getting Married
How to be a Doctor
The New Food
A New Pathology
The Poet Answered Dear sir:
The Force of Statistics
Men Who have Shaved Me
Getting the Thread of It
Telling His Faults
Winter Pastimes
Number Fifty-Six
Aristocratic Education
The Conjurer's Revenge
Hints to Travellers
A Manual of Education
Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas
The Life of John Smith
On Collecting Things
Society Chat-Chat AS IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN
Insurance up to Date
Borrowing a Match
A Lesson in Fiction
Helping the Armenians
A Study in Still Life. The Country Hotel
An Experiment With Policeman Hogan
The Passing of the Poet
Self-made Men
A Model Dialogue
Back to the Bush
Reflections on Riding
Saloonio A STUDY IN SHAKESPEAREAN CRITICISM
Half-hours with the Poets I. MR. WORDSWORTH AND THE LITTLE
PART I
PART II Six months had passed.
PART III Time moved on and spring came.
A, B, and C THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN MATHEMATICS
Acknowledgments