Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature : A melange of excerpta

This edition has images. Title: Facts and fancies for the curious from the harvest-fields of literature : A melange of excerpta Contents: Americana -- Our national airs -- Our historic characters -- Our wonderlands -- Our language -- First things -- Prototypes -- Forecasts -- Miscellanea curiosa -- Facetiæ -- Flashes of repartee -- The word-twisting of the punsters -- Clever hits of the humorists -- The hits of the satirists -- Evasions of ambiguity -- Comical blunders -- Missing the point...