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...fulfilled the contract by December 20. Whenever his ideas gave out he would go for an "idea-gathering"' walk, through the shopping district of London, to picture galleries or churches. Frank even in public, he was doubly so in his diary. "I also bought Legouis and Cazamian's Histoire de la Litterature Anglaise, chiefly in order to read the pages on myself." Though he knew it was a weakness, he was often attracted to patent medicines. Once he took six boxes of anti-fat pills, which upset his heart. His doctor mildly rebuked him, said "that I oughtn...
PROFESSOR CAZAMIAN offers in his latest work a survey of the rise and growth of humour in the literature of England. His purpose is, as he says, strictly historical: he has no intention, on the first page, of explaining the phenomenon, and of illustrating it with numerous examples...
...heart of the volume is M. Cazamian's contention that English humour is derived in part from the French. He finds, in Chaucer, support for his case, a case which does not in any way deny to English humour its peculiarly native quality. "The sap of rich realism and supple shrewdness which nourished his humour was of native racy flow. He announces the breadth of the Elizabethan drama and the subtlety of modern English humorists...
Professor Cazamian's extremely clear style is flavored with his delicate wit; the book, when completed, will be a worthy addition to any shelf of English critical works...
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