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The So-called Human Race

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By Bert Leston Taylor
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A collection of short, humorous sketches, jingles, and aphorisms arranged from a long-running newspaper column, offering wry observations on everyday manners, social rituals, follies and language, often assembled from reader contributions and clipped oddities. Recurring devices include playful lists, mock societies, a cannery for trite phrases, and light verse; the tone alternates between tart satire and genial amusement, aiming to entertain and gently correct human foibles through concise, epigrammatic pieces.

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Title: The So-called Human Race

Author: Bert Leston Taylor

Editor: Henry Blake Fuller

Release date: January 31, 2010 [eBook #31138]
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Language: English

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[p i]
The So-Called
Human Race

[p ii]
BOOKS BY
BERT LESTON TAYLOR

A PENNY WHISTLE

THE SO-CALLED HUMAN RACE
THE EAST WINDOW
(Fall, 1922)

And others in a uniform collected edition, to be ready later.

New York: Alfred · A · Knopf

[p iii]
The So-Called
Human Race

by
Bert Leston Taylor

Arranged, with an Introduction, by
Henry B. Fuller

New York 1922
Alfred · A · Knopf

[p iv]
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc.

Published, March, 1922
Second Printing, April, 1922

Set up and electrotyped by J. J. Little & Ives Co., New York, N. Y.
Paper furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York, N. Y.
Printed by the Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Bound by the H. Wolff Estate, New York, N. Y.

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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WORLD WITHOUT END

Once upon a summer’s night
Mused a mischief-making sprite,
Underneath the leafy hood
Of a fairy-haunted wood.
Here and there, in light and shade,
Ill-assorted couples strayed:
“Lord,” said Puck, in elfish glee,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

Now he sings the self-same tune
Underneath an older moon.
Life to him is, plain enough,
Still a game of blind man’s buff.
If we listen we may hear
Puckish laughter always near,
And the elf’s apostrophe,
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
B. L. T.