Humor Books

Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Palmer Cox

I have been sitting by my window most of the day, watching gentlemen—who were not so fortunate as myself. And I notice with considerable pain—for as reader and writer cannot understand each other too ..

Phil May - Sketches from "Punch."

Phil May

Among his colleagues at the Table he inspired a personal affection not less frank and sincere than their admiration, never even faintly tinged with envy, for the genius from which they caught a reflec..

The Humour of Holland

W. H. Dircks

The humour of the Netherlands has, in common with that of Scotland, a certain canniness and practical shrewdness, characteristic of men and nations who have bought their experience at first hand and a..

Some 'Frightful' War Pictures

W. Heath Robinson

Some 'Frightful' War Pictures by W. Heath Robinson is a humorous work...

Josiah Allen's Wife as a P. A. and P. I.

Marietta Holley

Josiah is a great case to tell stories. He takes all the most high-toned and popular almanacs of the day, and reads ’em clear through. He says he “will read ’em, every one of ’em, from beginnin’ to Fi..

The Gibson Book - Vol. II

Charles Dana Gibson

The Gibson Book: A Collection of Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson. Vol. IICONTENTS:A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDSTHE SOCIAL LADDERTHE WEAKER SEXEVERYDAY PEOPLEOUR NEIGHBORS(In certain versions of this ..

Augustus Carp, Esq., by Himself - Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man

Henry Howarth Bashford

A glance at the frontispiece will show me as I appeared at the age of twenty-one. But I propose in the first instance to deal with my earliest surroundings and the influence exerted upon me by my fath..

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..