HERFORD, OLIVER. The Herford Esop. Ginn and Company
Fifty old-time fables in verse.

HOOD, THOMAS. Nonsense Poems. Houghton Mifflin Company

Hood's "Poems of Wit and Humor were written for the English humorous magazine, Punch.

JEROME, JEROME K. Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog). Henry Holt and Company

Perhaps the most hilarious boating experiences ever set down on paper.

JESSUP, ALEXANDER. Best American Humorous Short Stories. Boni and Liveright A group of older stories from Poe, Holmes, Mark Twain, Bunner, Stockton, O. Henry, and others, especially well chosen.

LARDNER, RING W. How to Write Short Stories (with Samples). Charles Scribner's Sons

A fund of lively wit and absurdity, burlesquing modern methods of story writing. LEACOCK, STEPHEN B. My Discovery of England. Dodd, Mead and Company Leacock's clever burlesque of Englishmen and Americans who judge each other's countries after a visit of a few hours in the metropolis.

LEAR, EDWARD. Nonsense Books. Little, Brown and Company

A much loved collection of laughable lyrics with more laughable illustrations after the manner of "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" and "The Courtship of Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo."

MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. Rocking Horse. Doubleday, Doran and Company

A delightful collection of verse, revealing the funny side as well as the human side of home life in saucy but meaningful lines.

PEARSON, PAUL M. (editor). The Humorous Speaker: a Book of Humorous Selections for Reading and Speaking. Hinds, Hayden and Eldredge

All the old favorites and many new ones within the covers of one volume.

REED, LANGFORD. Book of Nonsense Verse. G. P. Putnam's Sons

A recent collection of the best nonsense verse.

RHYS, ERNEST, and SCOTT, MRS. C. A. Twenty-eight Humorous Stories, Old and New. D. Appleton and Company

This collection contains a preponderance of recent humorous stories.

ROGERS, WILL. The Illiterate Digest. Albert and Charles Boni

A comical take-off on famous personages and events by the country's best known humorist of today.

Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President. Albert and Charles Boni Will Roger's clever burlesque of recent letters and memoirs on foreign relations and travel.

SHUTE, HENRY. A Real Diary of a Real Boy. The Everett Press, Boston

A book full of laughs. Every day was "brite and fare" to this other Penrod, who told his story after the manner of "Jubilee's Partner."

TWAIN, MARK (Samuel L. Clemens). Pudd'nhead Wilson. Harper and Brothers "The comedy of those extraordinary twins." A laugh from cover to cover not to mention the account of the triumph of the finger print in court.

WELLS, CAROLYN. A Nonsense Anthology. Charles Scribner's Sons
The best-known collection of humorous verse.

The Book of Humorous Verse. Doubleday, Doran and Company
This volume brings A Nonsense Anthology down to date.

Book of American Limericks. G. P. Putnam's Sons

Those who like limericks will thoroughly enjoy this collection.

And in that town a dog was found,
As many dogs there be,

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,

And curs of low degree.

The dog and man at first were friends;
But when a pique began,

The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad and bit the man.

Around from all the neighboring streets,

The wondering neighbors ran,
And swore the dog had lost his wits
To bite so good a man.

The wound it seemed both sore and sad
To every Christian eye;

And while they swore the dog was mad,
They swore the man would die.

But soon a wonder came to light,
That showed the rogues they lied;
The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.

STRICTLY GERM-PROOF 1

ARTHUR GUITERMAN

THE Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up;
They looked upon the Creature with a loathing undisguised;
It wasn't Disinfected and it wasn't Sterilized.

They said it was a Microbe and a Hotbed of Disease;
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees;
They froze it in a freezer that was cold as Banished Hope
And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap.

In sulfurated hydrogen they steeped its wiggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears;
They donned their rubber mittens and they took it by the hand
And 'lected it a member of the Fumigated Band.

There's not a Micrococcus in the garden where they play;

They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day;
And each imbibes his rations from a Hygienic Cup -

The Bunny and the Baby and the Prophylactic Pup.

1 From Arthur Guiterman's The Laughing Muse, copyrighted by Harper and Brothers. Used by permission.

THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

LEWIS CARROLL

THE sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright –
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done -
"It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"

The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead
There were no birds to fly.

The Walrus and the Carpenter
Were walking close at hand:
They wept like anything to see
Such quantities of sand:
"If this were only cleared away,"
They said, "it would be grand."

"If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year,
Do you suppose," the Walrus said,
"That they could get it clear?"
"I doubt it," said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.