Literary lapses

Leacock, Stephen 1869-1944 (Author). Davies, Robertson. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780771093753
ISBN: 0771093756
Physical Description: print
169 p. ; 20 cm.
Edition: New Canadian library ed.
Publisher: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: Montreal : Gazette Print. Co. , 1910.

Formatted Contents Note:

My Financial Career -- Lord Oxhead's Secret -- Boarding-House Geometry -- The Awful Fate Of Melpomenus Jones -- A Christmas Letter -- How To Make A Million Dollars -- How To Live To Be 200 -- How To Avoid Getting Married -- How To Be A Doctor -- The New Food -- A New Pathology -- The Poet Answered -- The Force Of Statistics -- Men Who Have Shaved Me -- Getting The Thread Of It -- Telling His Faults -- Winter Pastimes -- Number Fifty-Six -- Aristocratic Education -- The Conjurer's Revenge -- Hints To Travellers -- A Manual Of Education -- Hoodoo Mcfiggin's Christmas -- The Life Of John Smith -- On Collecting Things -- Society Chit-Chat -- Insurance Up To Date -- Borrowing A Match -- A Lesson In Fiction -- Helping The Armenians -- AStudy In Still Life: The Country Hotel -- An Experiment With Policeman Hogan -- The Passing Of The Poet -- Self-Made Men -- A Model Dialogue -- Back To The Bush -- Reflections On Riding ? Saloonio -- Half-Hours With The Poets-- -- I. Mr. Wordsworth And The Little Cottage Girl -- Ii. How Tennyson Killed The May Queen -- Iii. Old Mr. Longfellow On Board The "Hesperus" -- A. B, And C.