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...world is available for solving such problems as may be suggested, the possibilities seem limitless. When a maxim silencer has been invented for airplanes, and non-clogging pipe-stems have become actualities, inventors and scientists can turn their attention to the making of articles once suggested in joke. Stephen Leacock's "Man in Asbestos" may yet come into being, dressed in a suit of everlasting knickerbockers, and cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will...
...Stephen Leacock is Not Yet Out of Style...
...humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting his phrases, of rolling his tongue or of winking his eye. Stephen Leacock's popularity has lasted longer than most. From Literary Lapses to My Discovery of England his books have been funny with a certain consistency. Canadian by birth, professor of political economy by profession, a raconteur who has only one equal in my experience [Irvin Cobb], he is a solid, jolly...
...Leacock and his friends are loyal Canadians. During the past two years, they have built up a Canadian Authors' Association which, starting originally to protect copyrights, has developed into a pleasant social organization, and one which takes a great interest in book propaganda. To their efforts must be credited the original success of the delightful Maria Chapdelaine. It was a relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel...
...still blessed with a sense of humor, and of Dickens' son, Charles, for a time in the Canadian Northwest mounted police. " I never mentioned his father to him," Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good? but Dickens! Why? For the reason that the humor of Stephen Leacock persists because it is based...