The Book of Humorous Verse. Various

The Positivists Mortimer Collins 315 Martial in London Mortimer Collins 316 The Splendid Shilling John Philips 316 After Horace A. D. Godley 320 Of a Precise Tailor Sir John Harrington 322 Money Jehan du Pontalais 323 Boston Nursery Rhymes Rev. Joseph Cook 324 Kentucky Philosophy Harrison Robertson 325 John Grumlie Allan Cunningham 326 A Song of Impossibilities Winthrop Mackworth Praed 327 Song John Donne 330 The Oubit Charles Kingsley 330 Double Ballade of Primitive Man Andrew Lang 331 Phillis's Age Matthew Prior 332 V: CYNICISM Good and Bad Luck John Hay 334 Bangkolidye Barry Pain 334 Pensées De Noël A. D. Godley 336 A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan G. K. Chesterton 337 Pessimism Newton Mackintosh 338 Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public Charles Mackay 339 Youth and Art Robert Browning 339 The Bachelor's Dream Thomas Hood 342 All Things Except Myself I Know Francois Villon 343 The Joys of Marriage Charles Cotton 344 The Third Proposition Madeline Bridges 345 The Ballad of Cassandra Brown Helen Gray Cone 345 What's in a Name? R. K. Munkittrick 347 Too Late Fits Hugh Ludlow 348 [Pg xv] The Annuity George Outram 350 K. K.—Can't Calculate Frances M. Whitcher 353 Northern Farmer Lord Tennyson 354 Fin de Siècle Unknown 357 Then Ag'in Sam Walter Foss 357 The Pessimist Ben King 358 Without and Within James Russell Lowell 359 Same Old Story Harry B. Smith 360 VI: EPIGRAMS Woman's Will John G. Saxe 362 Cynicus to W. Shakespeare James Kenneth Stephen 362 Senex to Matt. Prior James Kenneth Stephen 362 To a Blockhead Alexander Pope 362 The Fool and the Poet Alexander Pope 363 A Rhymester Samuel Taylor Coleridge 363 Giles's Hope Samuel Taylor Coleridge 363 Cologne Samuel Taylor Coleridge 363 An Eternal Poem Samuel Taylor Coleridge 364 On a Bad Singer Samuel Taylor Coleridge 364 Job Samuel Taylor Coleridge 364 Reasons for Drinking Dr. Henry Aldrich 364 Smatterers Samuel Butler 365 Hypocrisy