Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age.", A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)
Chapters
1 01 - My Financial Career 6 min 2 02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret 14 min 3 03 - Boarding-house Geometry 2 min 4 04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones 6 min 5 05 - A Christmas Letter 3 min 6 06 - How to Make a Million Dollars 9 min 7 07 - How to Live to Be 200 8 min 8 08 - How to Avoid Getting Married 7 min 9 09 - How to Be a Doctor 9 min 10 10 - The New Food 3 min 11 11 - A New Pathology 8 min 12 12 - The Poet Answered 2 min 13 13 - The Force of Statistics 3 min 14 14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me 9 min 15 15 - Getting the Thread of It 7 min 16 16 - Telling His Faults 3 min 17 17 - Winter Pastimes 9 min 18 18 - Number Fifty-Six 15 min 19 19 - Aristocratic Education 5 min 20 20 - The Conjurer's Revenge 5 min 21 21 - Hints to Travellers 6 min 22 22 - A Manual of Education 5 min 23 23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas 7 min 24 24 - The Life of John Smith 9 min 25 25 - On Collecting Things 6 min 26 26 - Society Chit-Chat 7 min 27 27 - Insurance Up to Date 3 min 28 28 - Borrowing a Match 3 min 29 29 - A Lesson in Fiction 8 min 30 30 - Helping the Armenians 3 min 31 31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel 4 min 32 32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan 12 min 33 33 - The Passing of the Poet 12 min 34 34 - Self-Made Men 7 min 35 35 - A Model Dialogue 3 min 36 36 - Back to the Bush 11 min 37 37 - Reflections on Riding 4 min 38 38 - Saloonio 7 min 39 39 - Half-Hours with the Poets 16 min 40 40 - A, B, and C 12 min 41 41 - Acknowledgments 2 min
