Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels

Daily Chronicle.—"Here is wit, fun, frolic, nonsense, verse, satire, comedy, criticism—a perfect gold mine for those who love laughter."

Sunday Times.—"Very pungent and telling satire. Buy the book—it will give you a happy hour."

Standard.—"Under the beams of the moon of his delight, the author never fails to be amusing."

Pall Mall Gazette.—"Mr. Leacock's humour is a credit to Canada, for it has a depth and a polish such as are both rare in the literature of a young nation."

Land and Water.—"Unlike a number of so-called humorists, Mr. Leacock is really funny, as these sketches prove."

Field.—"Indeed a very pleasant hour can be spent with this author, who is full of humour, wit, and cleverness, and by his work adds much to the gaiety of life."

Spectator.—"Mr. Leacock has added to our indebtedness by his new budget of refreshing absurdities.... In shooting folly as it flies, he launches darts that find their billet on both sides of the Atlantic."

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ESSAYS AND LITERARY STUDIES

Fifth Edition. Crown 8vo. 5s. net

Truth.—"Full of practical wisdom, as sober as it is sound."

Morning Post.—"He is the subtlest of all transatlantic humorists, and, as we have pointed out before, might almost be defined as the discoverer of a method combining English and American humour. But he never takes either his subject or himself too seriously, and the result is a book which is as readable as any of its mirthful predecessors."

World.—"Those readers who fail to find pleasure in this new volume of Essays will be difficult to please. Here are discourses in the author's happiest vein."

Daily News.—"All are delightful."

Bystander.—"No sane person will object to Professor Leacock professing, so long as he periodically issues such good entertainment as 'Essays and Literary Studies.'"

Daily Telegraph.—"The engaging talent of this Canadian author has hitherto been exercised in the lighter realm of wit and fancy. In his latest volume there is the same irresistible humour, the same delicate satire, the same joyous freshness; but the wisdom he distils is concerned more with realities of our changing age."

Outlook.—"Mr. Leacock's humour is his own, whimsical with the ease of a self-confident personality, far-sighted, quick-witted, and invariably humane."

Times.—"Professor Leacock's paper on American humour is quite the best that we know upon the subject."

Spectator.—"Those of us who are grateful to Mr. Leacock as an intrepid purveyor of wholesome food for laughter have not failed to recognize that he mingles shrewdness with levity—that he is, in short, wise as well as merry."

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily Chronicle.—"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."

Spectator.—"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."

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

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

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

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

FRENZIED FICTION

FOURTH EDITION

Crown 8vo. 5s. net

"Everything in 'Frenzied Fiction' is exhilarating. Full of good things."—Morning Post.

"More delightful samples of Leacock humour. These delightful chapters show Mr. Leacock at his best."

Daily Graphic.

"Stephen Leacock has firmly established himself in public favour as one of our greatest humorists. His readers will be more than pleased with 'Frenzied Fiction.'"—Evening Standard.

"It is enough to say that Mr. Leacock retains an unimpaired command of his happy gift of disguising sanity in the garb of the ludicrous. There is always an ultimate core of shrewd common-sense in his burlesques."—Spectator.

"Full of mellow humour."—Daily Mail.

"From beginning to end the book is one long gurgle of delight."—World.

"If it is your first venture into the Leacockian world read that delicious parody 'My Revelations as a Spy,' and we will be sworn that before you've turned half a dozen pages you will have become a life-member of the Leacock Lodge."—Town Topics.

"When humour is such as you get in 'Frenzied Fiction' it is a very good thing indeed."—Sketch.