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CHARLES DICKENS-Stephen Leacock -Doubleday, Doran ($3). A serious biography by the humorous Canadian economist...
...Stephen Leacock, the astounding fellow who possesses both a Professorship in Economics and what some people have seen fit to term a sense of humor, has completed a magnum opus, a life of Charles Dickens, which is to be published on November 16. It is something of a shock to consider the name Leacock in connection with a serious work. It will be interesting to note whether that shock interferes with an appreciation of the work...
Depressed Leacock. Professor Stephen Butler Leacock, McGill's witty economist, intended to devote all his income to cancer research when Mrs. Leacock died of cancer. Commented he at the Physicians' meeting: "Subsidize cancer research? Why I couldn't subsidize a pony cart today. . . . That was two years ago. .. . You've heard of the Depression, haven't you? . . . No, I haven't any money for research...
...else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which a map of the world appears according to a Bostonian. Of course, it is a map of Boston...
...LEACOCK (Stephen) The Hohenselloerns in America...