LIBRARY OF 

 HUMOUR. 



EDITED BY W. H. DIRCKS. 



Each Volume will contain from 50 to 70 Illustrations and 

 from 250 to joo pages. 



In each of these volumes the object will be to 

 give an anthology of the humorous literature 

 of the particular nation dealt with. France, 

 Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and Holland 

 will each have their respective volumes ; England, 

 Ireland, and Scotland will each be represented, 

 as will also America and Japan. ' From China 

 to Peru' the globe will be traversed in search of its jokes, in 

 so far as they have recorded themselves in literature. The 

 word Humour admits of many interpretations; for the pur- 

 poses of this Series it has been interpreted in its broadest 

 generic sense, to cover humour in all its phases as it has 

 manifested itself among the various nationalities. Necessarily 

 founded on a certain degree of scholarly knowledge, these 



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