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He merely | tells what he really thinks about Broad- and automobile tourists, and pro- hibition and golf for small towns and musical comedy and such like. What he is sometimes highly uncompli- mentary, sometimes warmly the oppo- site, and he’s deadly serious about it in his shrewd, sarcastic way. When the joke comes, it has a wallop. We like Ade far better in this book than in his recent standardized **Fables,” which are as alike as so many Ford sedans. wTER YET we like the bland, gentle, V. Lucas “Giving and Receiv- ing” (Doran & Co.), who writes essays in the tradition of his master, Lamb, and dares to be scholarly, as in his paper on |“The Evolution of Whinmsicality,” or | sentimental, as in his essay on the bull- fight. He never suggests that he is working to be funny, He chats away as if he were writing you a personal letter, which is, dear reader, considerable of a compliment to you. Ouv® Herrorp, who used to share with Joe Choate credit for all the ams, but now has to bear the entire for the most part works very Neither Here Nor There Most of the little ; , ” But every so often, just as we were becoming bored by his exertions, he would forget to be funny, and say something he re whereupon we'd wake up and re There are enough such dull periods to get you through the book. cpig burden, hard in ‘How To Be Happy Though Humorous by Walter Prichard Eaton not burlesque—the originals had done that. Maybe it’s so with visiting English celeb i Tl ymous author of this book works till his forehead resembles that of the once well-known village black- smith (now the proprietor of a garage), but not a sound broke the stillness of our library as we read, unless it was the soft splash of a falling tear. D* ALD OGpEN Stewart, who surely a humorous fellow, written an entire volume to burlesqu the books of etiquette now so generally and generously advertised. “Perfect Behavior” (Doran & Co.). Ralph Barton has aided and abettered him with comical drawings. Books of etiquette, like visiting Englishmen, of course bur- lesque themselves, without. much help from anybody, Stewart de es his work, “with deepest: sympathy,” to the bridegroom whose wedding was utterly ruined because the bride came up the aisle on the left arm of her father instead of the right. We got a chuckle out of that. But our chue ckles grew fewer and fainter as we progressed into. the book and found the author toiling to pad a gazine skit into a volume. At last awned, and turned to, - Lawton Mackall (Lieber Lewis). Mr. Mackall writes “set. pieces,” too. He deliberately en- deavors to be funny about various things, from the Congressional free seed _pack- ages to getting when the maid i subtle, but 1 He's distinctly Fabiet and observant. a likable person. You could probabl) go camping with him without wanting to throw an ax at his head after the first three days. “Bizarre” would read well aloud, which is, perhaps, the real function of all funny books. You can try it on your family without any fear of reprisals. D” you EVER attend an old home week, or a huge family reunion? Tom Masson’s collection of funny stories, “Listen to The: (Doubleday, Page), is something like that. Story after story comes up and pumps you by the hand, as you wildly struggle to remember where you heard it first. Some of them have uciip’s OUTLINE oF SEx” by | Wilbur P. Birdwood (Henry Holt & Co.), we never got through all. It is, we gather, a geometrical | burlesque of Freud. But as we never could understand either geometry or Freud we had to give it up. What we read sounded quite as sensible |to us as either Euclid or “Dreams jand the Subconscious.” ANTE BOOK we couldn't wade through was “Timothy Tubby’s Journal” (Doran & Co.), an anony: mous satire on the. visiting English literary celebrity, reprinted from The | Bookman. Weber and Fields used to ‘say there were some plays they could 20 THE LAST STRAW “John, will you thread this needle for me? My fingers are all thumbs.”