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...hour and a half to 24 minutes. At first he would no more have drunk a highball than try to get a laugh in church. Later he even ordered a set of books called Wit and Humor of America from the Methodist Book Concern, took to reading Mark Twain. It helped...
...Vote, who was at one time an instructor at Harvard, has been editor of the Saturday Review of Literature and has written widely in the field of American history and criticism. Among his books are "The Taming of the Frontier." "Mark Twain's America." and "Foraya and Rebuttals...
King Arthur of Britain lived about 525 -if at all. Legend encrusted his name almost at once. Nine hundred years later the Arthurian Cycle was already decadent when "Syr Thomas Maleore Knyght" wrote his Morte d'Arthur. Another 500 years later, with Tennyson's pious allegories, Mark Twain's farce, John Erskine's sophistications, etc., King Arthur was still going strong...
...field of literature will be: "English Literature from 1550 to 1600" by Hyder E. Rollins, Gurney Professor of English Literature; "Bunyan and his Contemporaries," by Professor James B. Wharey, University of Texas; "The Prose Writers of the Augustan Age," Professor Roger P. McCutchoon, of Tulane University; "Mark Twain and His Contemporaries," by Associate Professor Walter Blair, of University of Chicago...
Rochester, Wash. (pop. 300) is a flag stop 60 miles from Tacoma. Rochester is also the home town and laughingstock in trade of Dave James, 30-year-old Tacoma News-Tribune humorist, whose sly exaggerations are as American as roasting ears, would have tickled Artemus Ward, Mark Twain or Will Rogers...