| Thalia--the muse of Comedy general humor, satire, parody, spoofs, jests and just plain funny stuff.
useful as moralists, philosophers, and teachers, than whole legions of the gravest preachers. They speak more effectually to the general ear and heart, even though they who hear are not aware of the fact that they are imbibing wisdom."
Exhibits (Torey's Favorite:) A Poe-em of Passion by C. F. Lummis The Rheumatism Movement-Cure by Robert J. Burdette Ballad by Charles Godfrey Leland Belphagor by Niccolo Machiavelli By Frederic S. Cozzens: The Sparrowgrass Papers & Sayings, Wise and Otherwise which incorporates The Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker and other Learned Men containing: A Talk about Tea, Journey Around a Tapioca Pudding, The Radiant Dinner-Castor, Chocolate and Cocoa, Notables and Potables, A Peep into a Salad Bowl, Madame Follet, Old Phrases, Art, Accidental Resemblances, Sitka: Our New Acquisition, Phrases and Filberts, "Does Queen Victoria Speak English?", The Noses of Eminent Men, Bunkum Museum, Up the Rhine, The First Oyster-Eater, A Literary Curiosity, by Col. Peter A. Porter The Race of the Hare and the Hedgehog, on the Little Heath by Buxtehude, by Walcott Gibbs What is the Cause of Thunder?, A French Breakfast, by Paul Dinet Dainty Hints for Epicurean Smokers, by Charles G. Leland Was Champagne Known to the Ancients? by Julian Verplanck German Wines, and a Wine Cellar, by Henry Leland A Christmas Piece, Oxyporian Wines, by Julian Verplanck My First Drama, Wives and Weathercocks, Indian Summer -- When? La Creche, Gypsies, Private Theatricals, Trinity Church-yard, Homes for Old Men By Poggio Bracciolini: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-Tellers, translated by Edward Storer & Facetia Erotica by Poggio Fiorentino Anonymous Translator The Height of the Ridiculous by Oliver Wendell Holmes Brown Bread Cakes by Gail Hamilton The Old Clock by James Nack A Piano in Arkansas by Thomas B. Thorpe Maidenly Culture Anonymous Essay on Animals & A Mormon Romance -- Reginald Gloverson by Charles Farrar Browne (Aretemus Ward) Aunt Pen's Funeral by Harriet P. Spofford The High-Road to Fame by Charles B. Locke ("Petroleum S. Nasby") Aunt Anniky's Teeth by Katharine S. McDowell Anonymous: The Book-Canvasser & The Merchant and the Book-Agent The Marriage of Baptiste by Timothy Flint Pan in Wall Street. A.D. 1867. by Edmund Clarence Stedman Epigrams The Rheumatism Movement-Cure by Robert J. Burdette Aunt Patience's Dough-Nuts & A Family Jar by Anonymous Authors The Results of Phrenology by James K. Paulding Darius Green and His Flying-Machine by . T. Trowbridge That Man by an Anonymous Author How Jube Waked the Elephant by Mrs. M. Sheffey Peters Peter Funk by Asa Greene The New Church Organ by Will Carleton The Hospital for Liars Anonymous Greek Wit: Aristippus and Bias Banging the Sensational Novelist Monks and Giants by John Hookham Frere Joe Miller's Jest Book aka Mark Lemon's Jest Book Mother's Geese by George Barr Baker, George C. Chappell and Oliver Herford, Pictures by T. Gilbert White The Bachelor's Thermometer by James Smith Miseries of Human Life by James Beresford The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon The Flu & The Stranger & That's a Gift by J.P. McEvoy The Mischievous Ape by Matteo Bandello translated by Thomas Roscoe The Lover of Lies by Ortensio Lando translated by Thomas Roscoe The Oxford Solar Myth by R. F. Littledale The Song of the Cynic Early Rising by John Godfrey Saxe On Cyclones by Bill Nye and The Man and the Goose by Ambrose Bierce The Villager and the Snake by George T. Lanigan The End of the World by Oliver Herford Boyhood in a New England Hotel by Simeon Ford (Also Begun:) The Repository of Wit and Humor; comprising more than One Thousand Anecdotes, Odd Scraps, Off-Hand Hits, and Humorous Sketches; selected and arranged by M. Lafayette Byrn, M. D. On Sneezes by William Mathews The 'Best' from: Hearty Jokes and Drummers Yarns _______________________________________________ From The Worlds Wit and Humor ____________ Volume I (complete) American Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard to the "Courteous Reader", The Whistle, Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout, Friends and Acquaintances Franklin as a Teetotaler, Maxims, The Ephemera Model of a Letter, etc. To Miss Georgiana Shipley Franklin at Versailles Epitaph for Himself The Battle of the Kegs by Francis Hopkinson The Revenge of St. Nicholas by James K. Paulding Washington Irving: Wouter Van Twiller Wilhemus Kieft Peter Stuyvesant Antony Van Corlear General Van Poffenburgh The Legend of Sleepy Hollow A Fragment & Domestic Happiness by Fitz-Greene Halleck The Horse-Swap & Georgia Theatrics by Augustus B. Longstreet My First Visit to Portland by Seba Smith The Mosquito by William Cullen Bryant A Monody by Robert C. Sands Old Grimes by Albert Gorton Greene Nathaniel Hawthorne: The British Matron Dr. Heidegger's Experiment Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe N. P. Willis: Miss Albina McLush Love in a Cottage Tom Fane and I Who Paid for the Prima Donna? by Edmund Quincy Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Aphorism and a Lecture Foreign Correspondence Music-Pounding Dislikes The Deacon's Masterpiece ("The Wonderful One Horse Shay") My Aunt The Ballad of the Oysterman The Height of the Ridiculous A Walk with the Schoolmistress The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe A Proposal & Practical Jokes by William Tappan Thompson Deacon Marble & The Deacon's Trout by Henry Ward Beecher ____________________ The Ass's Testament by Ruteboeuf How a Peasant Won Paradise by Wit by Doun de Laverne Advice to a Friend on Marriage by Eustache Deschamps Ballad of Proverbs & All Things Except Myself I Know by Francois Villon One Ducat for a Horse & A Lady's Passion for a Cordelier Cured with a Stick & The Miracle of the Lighted Candle by Margaret, Queen of Navarre from The Heptameron Money by Jehan du Pontalais The Usurer's Paternoster by An Unknown Author (15th Century) How to Translate German & Odd Ideas & Solitude by Lionel Strachey Irish Bulls Anonymous Short Citations of George Meredith Extracts from Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. O. Somerville and Martin Ross The Rabbit's Eye A Legendary Tale from Korea The One-Legged Crane Three Girls and Their Talk The Stolen Pig by Giovanni Boccaccio The Making of Master Messerin by Rustico di Filippo What I Should Like to Do by Cecco Angolieri The Ridiculous End of Morgante and Margutte by Luigi Pulci The Inheritance of a Library & The Silver Cup and the Lamprey by Masuccio di Salerno Living in Bed by Francesco Berni What Astolfo Saw in the Moon by Ludovico Ariosto Of a Trick Played upon Some Monks by a Donkey by Matteo Bandello A Lawsuit and Some Domestic Vicissitudes A Compulsory Marriage at Sword's Point Criticism of a Statue of Hercules by Benvenuto Cellini Call Me Not John! by Giovanni Della Casa Diatribe Against Water by Francesco Redi Forcing a Match A Female "Solicitor of Lawsuits." by Carlo Goldoni In Praise of Small People by Carlo Frugoni Uninvited Guests by Carlo Gozzi On Reciting One's Own Compositions Dialogue Between Fashion and Death Dialogue Between the Earth and the Moon The Academy of Syllographs The Origin of Laughter by Giacomo Leopardi The Purchase of a Greek Manuscript by Alberto Nota Don Abbondio's Encounter with the Outlaws by Alessandro Manzoni On Musical Instruments by Antonio Ghislanzoni Methods of Making a Living & The Penalty for Deceived Husbands by Paolo Ferrari The Pythagorean Problem by Enrico Castelnuovo Edmondo d'Amicis: The Conscript Tooth for Tooth Pride The Cheese-Eating Snake by Hurtado de Mendoza The Demoniac by Lope de Vega Truth and Falsehood by Luis de Gongora Sleep by Baltasar del Alcazar Miguel Cervantes: The Attack on the Windmills Great Battle Against a Flock of Sheep Rascalities of Rincon and Cortado Doctor Glass-Case To-Morrow by Tome Burguillos José Morell: Advice to an Innkeeper To a Poet The Mayor of Zalamea -- Act I by Calderon de la Barca Tomas Yriarte: The Musical Ass. The Eggs. The Bear, the Ape, and the Pig Two Rival Lovers Gulled by Manuel de los Herreros Minguillo's Kiss by An Anonyous Author José de Larra: Joys of Journalism Don Candido Buenafé's Ambitious son Antonio Ribot y Fontseré: Maximum and Minimum Eccentric Briton The Friend that Sticketh Closer than a Brother by Juan M. Villergas Pedro de Alarcon: Courting by Invective, Captain Veneno's Proposal of Marriage, The Account Book Doctor Pertinax by Leopoldo Alas Founding a Provincial Newspaper by Palacio Valdés The Hungry Englishwoman (from "The King of the Mountains") by Edmond About _____________________________________________ More Edmond About: Brief Biography Extracts from: The King of the Mountains & The Man with the Broken Ear. The Novelle Antiche (Ancient Tales) translated by Thomas Roscoe The Novels of Sacchetti translated by Thomas Roscoe A Sublime Elopement by Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield Happy December, Sad January? by Juno Wye The Logical Vegetarian by G. K. Chesterton The Undergraduate's Aunt by Francis Anstey The Gridiron by Samuel Lover ________________________________________________ Tales from the Italian and Spanish, Volume III, Tales of Humor and Adventure: Belphagor, by Niccolo Machiavelli, Perfidious!, by Girolamo Rovetta, The Patient With the Plague, by Giovanni Sabbadino, The Wonderful Parrot, by Italo Mario Palmarini, Ciacco Gets Even, by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Return of the Corsair, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Saving the Grapes, by Count Carlo Gozzi, The Courier's Defense, by Ascanio Mori Da Ceno, The Journey of the Monk, by Giovanni Bottari A Resurrection, by Anton-Francesco Doni, The Lost Bracelet, by Count Carlo Gozzi, The Gentleman Baker, by Giovanni Boccaccio, The One Who Broke the Pipe, by Emilio De Marchi, The Pious Brigand, by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Faithful Servant, by Marco Cademosto Da Lodi, The Persian Peasant, Anonymous, The Three Blind Beggars, by Franco Sacchetti, The Dutiful Son, by Franco Sacchetti, The Thief and the Cavalier, by Luigi Sanvitale, The Interloper, by Girolamo Parabosco, The Bandit Chief, by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, The Teacher Taught, by Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, The Fearsome Man, by Franco Sacchetti, The Escape from the Tomb, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Funeral Eulogies, by Eugenio De Marchi, Calandrino's Mistake, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Calandrino's Pig, by Giovanni Boccaccio, Alimek, by Francesco Soave, The Disguise, by Matteo Bandello, Two Capons for Nothing, by Alessandro Sozzini, Turlendana Returns, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, The Gentle Art of Lying, by Ortenso Lando, A Fifteenth Century Spiritualist, by Masuccio of Salerno, Currado's Cook, by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Gallow's Ghost, by Anton-Frencesco Grazzini, Martellino Escapes, by Giovanni Boccaccio, On the Housetop, by Neera, His Beloved Wife, by Masuccio of Salerno, The Sorcerer, by Grazia Deledda, The Lost Purse, by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio, The Woodcutter's Ass, by Michele Colombo, R. Schumann: Op. 68, by Antonio Fogazzaro, The Shouting Corpse, by Masuccio of Salerno, The Fountain of Pietrarsa, by Renato Fucini, The Alchemist, by Celio Malespini, A Provincial Family Feud, by Matilde Serao, An Italian Lear, by Giovanni Brevio, Making the Will, by Giovan-Francesco Straparola Eden Anto, by Antonio Fogazzaro, The Fat Ebony Carver, Anonymous, The Colonel, by Renato Fucini, The Instruction Bettered, by Girolamo Parabosco, The Cares of Prosperity, by Luigi Capuana. ____________________________________________ From The Rise and Fall of the Mustache and Other Hawkeyetems: by Robert Burdette: The Rise and Fall of the Mustache Getting Ready for the Train Driving the Cow Voices of the Night The Demand for Light Labor Infantile scintillations A German Picture of the Scotch from Dickens's Household Words. The Naughty Greek Girl Anonymous On Lending a Punch-Bowl by Oliver Wendell Holmes Robert J. Burdette: The Rise and Fall of the Mustache Getting Ready for the Train Driving the Cow Voices of the Night Infantile Scintillations François Rabelais: The Lost Hatchet Astrological Predictions Will Irwin: Warrior the Untamed Preface to 700 Limerick Lyrics by Stanton Vaughan Cobb's Bill of Fare by Irvin S. Cobb Illustrated by Peter Newell & James M.Preston |