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## MY DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND

## SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE TOWN

## ARCADIAN ADVENTURES WITH THE IDLE RICH

## MOONBEAMS FROM THE LARGER LUNACY

## THE DAWN OF CANADIAN HISTORY

## THE MARINER OF ST. MALO

## NONSENSE NOVELS

## THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA

## LITERARY LAPSES

## FRENZIED FICTION

## FURTHER FOOLISHNESS

## WINSOME WINNIE AND OTHERS

## THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

## BEHIND THE BEYOND

## ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF

VOLUMES

MY DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND

1922

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

Introduction of Mr. Stephen Leacock Given by Sir Owen Seaman

MY DISCOVERY OF ENGLAND

I.
The Balance of Trade in Impressions

II.
I Am Interviewed by the Press

III.
Impressions of London

IV.
A Clear View of the Government and Politics of England

V.
Oxford as I See It

VI.
The British and the American Press

VII.
Business in England. Wanted—More Profiteers

VIII. Is Prohibition Coming to England?

IX.
"We Have With Us To-night"

X.
Have the English any Sense of Humour?

SUNSHINE SKETCHES OF A LITTLE

TOWN

By Stephen Leacock, 1869-1944

CONTENTS

Preface

ONE.
The Hostelry of Mr. Smith

TWO.
The Speculations of Jefferson Thorpe

THREE.
The Marine Excursions of the Knights of Pythias

FOUR.
The Ministrations of the Rev. Mr. Drone

FIVE.
The Whirlwind Campaign in Mariposa

SIX.
The Beacon on the Hill

SEVEN.
The Extraordinary Entanglement of Mr. Pupkin

EIGHT.
The Fore-ordained Attachment of Zena Pepperleigh and Peter Pupkin

NINE.
The Mariposa Bank Mystery

TEN.
The Great Election in Missinaba County

ELEVEN.
The Candidacy of Mr. Smith

TWELVE. L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa

ARCADIAN ADVENTURES WITH

THE IDLE RICH

By Stephen Leacock, 1869-1944

CONTENTS

I A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe

II The Wizard of Finance

III The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson

IV The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown

V The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins

VI The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph

VII The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing

VIII The Great Fight for Clean Government

MOONBEAMS FROM THE LARGER

LUNACY

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I.—SPOOF. A Thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Fascinating! Perplexing!

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

II.—THE READING PUBLIC. A BOOK STORE STUDY

III.—AFTERNOON ADVENTURES AT MY CLUB

1.—The Anecdotes of Dr. So and So

2.—The Shattered Health of Mr. Podge

3.—The Amazing Travels of Mr. Yarner

4.—The Spiritual Outlook of Mr. Doomer

5.—The Reminiscences of Mr. Apricot

6.—The Last Man out of Europe

7.—The War Mania of Mr. Jinks and Mr. Blinks

8.—The Ground Floor

9.—The Hallucination of Mr. Butt

IV-RAM SPUDD THE NEW WORLD SINGER.

V.—ARISTOCRATIC ANECDOTES OR LITTLE STORIES OF GREAT

VI.—EDUCATION MADE AGREEABLE OR THE DIVERSIONS OF A

VII.—AN EVERY-DAY EXPERIENCE

VIII—TRUTHFUL ORATORY

IX.—OUR LITERARY BUREAU

X.—SPEEDING UP BUSINESS

XI.—WHO IS ALSO WHO

XII.—PASSIONATE PARAGRAPHS

XIII.—WEEJEE THE PET DOG

XIV.—SIDELIGHTS ON THE SUPERMEN

XV.—THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

XVI—THE FIRST NEWSPAPER

XVII—IN THE GOOD TIME AFTER THE WAR

CHRONICLES OF CANADA

By Stephen Leacock

Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton

CONTENTS

I BEFORE THE DAWN

II MAN IN AMERICA

III THE ABORIGINES OF CANADA

IV THE LEGEND OF THE NORSEMEN

V THE BRISTOL VOYAGES

VI FORERUNNERS OF JACQUES CARTIER

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE MARINER OF ST MALO

A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

I EARLY LIFE

II THE FIRST VOYAGE—NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

III THE FIRST VOYAGE—THE GULF OF ST LAWRENCE

IV THE SECOND VOYAGE—THE ST LAWRENCE

V THE SECOND VOYAGE—STADACONA

VI THE SECOND VOYAGE—HOCHELAGA

VII THE SECOND VOYAGE—WINTER AT STADACONA

VIII THE THIRD VOYAGE

IX THE CLOSE OF CARTIER'S CAREER

ITINERARY OF CARTIER'S VOYAGES

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE

NONSENSE NOVELS

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

PREFACE

I. — Maddened by Mystery: or, The Defective Detective

II. — "Q." A Psychic Pstory of the Psupernatural

III. — Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry

IV. — Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen

V. — A Hero in Homespun: or, The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft

VII. — Hannah of the Highlands: or, The Laird of Loch Aucherlocherty

VIII. — Soaked in Seaweed: or, Upset in the Ocean (An Old-fashioned Sea Story.)

IX. — Caroline's Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant

X. — The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future

THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN

AMERICA

With The Bolsheviks In Berlin And Other Impossibilities

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

I.—THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN AMERICA

PREFACE

CHAPTER I — On Board the S.S. America. Wednesday

CHAPTER II — City New York. 2nd Avenue

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

II.—WITH THE BOLSHEVIKS IN BERLIN

III.—AFTERNOON TEA WITH THE SULTAN

IV.—ECHOES OF THE WAR

1.—The Boy Who Came Back

2.—The War Sacrifices of Mr. Spugg

3.—If Germany Had Won

4.—War and Peace at the Galaxy Club

5.—The War News as I Remember it

I—THE CABLE NEWS FROM RUSSIA

II—SAMPLE OF SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE

III—THE TECHNICAL WAR DESPATCHES

IV—THE WAR PROPHECIES

V—DIPLOMATIC REVELATIONS

VI—A NEW GERMAN PEACE FORMULA

VII—THE FINANCIAL NEWS

6.—Some Just Complaints About the War

7.—Some Startling Side Effects of the War

V.—OTHER IMPOSSIBILITIES

1.—The Art of Conversation

Introduction to H.E. the Viceroy of India, K.C.B.,

II—HOW TO OPEN A CONVERSATION

2.—Heroes and Heroines

3.—The Discovery of America;

4.—Politics from Within

5.—The Lost Illusions of Mr. Sims

6.—Fetching the Doctor: From Recollections of Childhood in the Canadian Countryside

LITERARY LAPSES

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

LITERARY LAPSES

My Financial Career

Lord Oxhead's Secret

Boarding-House Geometry

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

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

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

Half-hours with the Poets

PART I

PART II

PART III

A, B, and C

Acknowledgments

FRENZIED FICTION

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

I.
My Revelations as a Spy

II.
Father Knickerbocker: A Fantasy

III.
The Prophet in Our Midst

IV.
Personal Adventures in the Spirit World

V.
The Sorrows of a Summer Guest

VI.
To Nature and Back Again

VII.
The Cave-Man as He is

VIII.
Ideal Interviews

I.
WITH A EUROPEAN PRINCE

II.
WITH OUR GREATEST ACTOR

III.
WITH OUR GREATEST SCIENTIST

IV.
WITH OUR TYPICAL NOVELISTS

IX.
The New Education

X.
The Errors of Santa Claus

XI.
Lost in New York

XII.
This Strenuous Age

XIII.
The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing

XIV.
Back from the Land

XV.
The Perplexity Column as Done by the Jaded Journalist

XVI.
Simple Stories of Success, or How to Succeed in Life

XVII.
In Dry Toronto

XVIII. Merry Christmas

FURTHER FOOLISHNESS

Sketches and Satires on The Follies of The Day

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

PREFACE

FOLLIES IN FICTION

I. Stories Shorter Still

CHAPTER ONE AND ONLY

II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One

III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments.

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

Movies and Motors, Men and Women

(II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS

(III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE

(IV) HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER

(III)

X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor

Peace, War, and Politics

XI. Germany from Within Out

XIII. In Merry Mexico

XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers

XV. The White House from Without In

Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics

XVI. Are the Rich Happy?

XVII. Humour as I See It

WINSOME WINNIE AND OTHER

NEW NONSENSE NOVELS

By Steven Leacock

CONTENTS

I. WINSOME WINNIE; OR, TRIAL AND TEMPTATION 7

I. Thrown on the World 9

II. A Rencounter 14

III. Friends in Distress 18

IV. A Gambling Party in St. James's Close 24

V. The Abduction 28

VI. The Unknown 33

VII. The Proposal 36

VIII. Wedded at Last 42

II. JOHN AND I; OR, HOW I NEARLY LOST MY HUSBAND 43

III. THE SPLIT IN THE CABINET; OR, THE FATE OF ENGLAND 65

IV. WHO DO YOU THINK DID IT? OR, THE MIXED-UP MURDER MYSTERY 95

I. He Dined with Me Last Night 97

II. I must save her Life 100

III. I must buy a Book on Billiards 108

IV. That is not Billiard Chalk 112

V. Has anybody here seen Kelly? 113

VI. Show me the Man who wore those Boots 119

VII. Oh, Mr. Kent, save me! 123

VIII. You are Peter Kelly 127

IX. Let me tell you the Story of my Life 132

X. So do I 139

V. BROKEN BARRIERS; OR, RED LOVE ON A BLUE ISLAND 143

VI. THE KIDNAPPED PLUMBER: A TALE OF THE NEW TIME 177

VII. THE BLUE AND THE GREY: A PRE-WAR WAR STORY 205

VIII. BUGGAM GRANGE: A GOOD OLD GHOST STORY 225

THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL

JUSTICE

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

chapter
page

I. The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour
9

II. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
33

III. The Failures and Fallacies of Natural Liberty
48

IV. Work and Wages
66

V. The Land of Dreams: The Utopia of the Socialist
88

VI. How Mr. Bellamy Looked Backward
103

VII. What Is Possible and What Is Not
124

BEHIND THE BEYOND

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

BEHIND THE BEYOND
11

FAMILIAR INCIDENTS

I. With the Photographer
53

II. The Dentist and the Gas
61

III. My Lost Opportunities
69

IV. My Unknown Friend
74

V. Under the Barber's Knife
84

PARISIAN PASTIMES

I. The Advantages of a Polite Education
93

II. The Joys of Philanthropy
104

III. The Simple Life in Paris
117

IV. A Visit to Versailles
129

V. Paris at Night
143

THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS 159

MAKING A MAGAZINE
169

HOMER AND HUMBUG
185

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Prologue
Frontispiece

to face page

The curtain rises
12

Their expression is stamped with deep thought
28

He kisses her on the bare shoulder
30

He takes her in his arms
50

"Is it me?"
58

I did go—I kept the appointment
66

He showed me a church that I could have bought for a hundred thousand
72

I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever
84

When he reached my face he looked searchingly at it
88

The tailor shrugged his shoulders
98

Something in the quiet dignity of the young man held me
114

The Parisian dog
120

Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit
142

The lady's face is aglow with moral enthusiasm
146

Meanwhile he had become a quaint-looking elderly man
166

With all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features
174

ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR

NORTH

A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

Page

I. THE GREAT ELIZABETHAN NAVIGATORS
1

II. HEARNE'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN
34

III. MACKENZIE DESCENDS THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTH
70

IV. THE MEMORABLE EXPLOITS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
89

V. THE TRAGEDY OF FRANKLIN'S FATE
112

VI. EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE
136

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
147

INDEX
149

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