FURTHER FOOLISHNESS

Sketches and Satires on The Follies of The Day

By Stephen Leacock



CONTENTS

PREFACE
FOLLIES IN FICTION
I. Stories Shorter Still
CHAPTER ONE AND ONLY
II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One
III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
Movies and Motors, Men and Women
(II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS
(III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE
(IV) HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER
(III)
X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor
Peace, War, and Politics
XI. Germany from Within Out
XIII. In Merry Mexico
XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers
XV. The White House from Without In
Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics
XVI. Are the Rich Happy?
XVII. Humour as I See It





WINSOME WINNIE AND OTHER NEW NONSENSE NOVELS

By Steven Leacock

CONTENTS

I. WINSOME WINNIE; OR, TRIAL AND TEMPTATION 7
I. Thrown on the World 9
II. A Rencounter 14
III. Friends in Distress 18
IV. A Gambling Party in St. James's Close 24
V. The Abduction 28
VI. The Unknown 33
VII. The Proposal 36
VIII. Wedded at Last 42
II. JOHN AND I; OR, HOW I NEARLY LOST MY HUSBAND 43
III. THE SPLIT IN THE CABINET; OR, THE FATE OF ENGLAND 65
IV. WHO DO YOU THINK DID IT? OR, THE MIXED-UP MURDER MYSTERY 95
I. He Dined with Me Last Night 97
II. I must save her Life 100
III. I must buy a Book on Billiards 108
IV. That is not Billiard Chalk 112
V. Has anybody here seen Kelly? 113
VI. Show me the Man who wore those Boots 119
VII. Oh, Mr. Kent, save me! 123
VIII. You are Peter Kelly 127
IX. Let me tell you the Story of my Life 132
X. So do I 139
V. BROKEN BARRIERS; OR, RED LOVE ON A BLUE ISLAND 143
VI. THE KIDNAPPED PLUMBER: A TALE OF THE NEW TIME 177
VII. THE BLUE AND THE GREY: A PRE-WAR WAR STORY 205
VIII. BUGGAM GRANGE: A GOOD OLD GHOST STORY 225





THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

By Stephen Leacock



CONTENTS

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I. The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour 9
II. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 33
III. The Failures and Fallacies of Natural Liberty 48
IV. Work and Wages 66
V. The Land of Dreams: The Utopia of the Socialist 88
VI. How Mr. Bellamy Looked Backward 103
VII. What Is Possible and What Is Not 124





BEHIND THE BEYOND

By Stephen Leacock

CONTENTS

BEHIND THE BEYOND 11
FAMILIAR INCIDENTS
  I. With the Photographer 53
  II. The Dentist and the Gas 61
  III. My Lost Opportunities 69
  IV. My Unknown Friend 74
  V. Under the Barber's Knife 84
PARISIAN PASTIMES
  I. The Advantages of a Polite Education      93
  II. The Joys of Philanthropy 104
  III. The Simple Life in Paris 117
  IV. A Visit to Versailles 129
  V. Paris at Night 143
THE RETROACTIVE EXISTENCE OF MR. JUGGINS 159
MAKING A MAGAZINE 169
HOMER AND HUMBUG 185

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Prologue Frontispiece
to face page
The curtain rises 12
Their expression is stamped with deep thought 28
He kisses her on the bare shoulder 30
He takes her in his arms 50
"Is it me?" 58
I did go—I kept the appointment 66
He showed me a church that I could have bought for a hundred thousand 72
I shall not try to be quite so extraordinarily clever 84
When he reached my face he looked searchingly at it 88
The tailor shrugged his shoulders 98
Something in the quiet dignity of the young man held me 114
The Parisian dog 120
Personally I plead guilty to something of the same spirit 142
The lady's face is aglow with moral enthusiasm 146
Meanwhile he had become a quaint-looking elderly man 166
With all the low cunning of an author stamped on his features 174





ADVENTURERS OF THE FAR NORTH

A Chronicle of the Frozen Seas

By Stephen Leacock



CONTENTS

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I.   THE GREAT ELIZABETHAN NAVIGATORS 1
II.   HEARNE'S OVERLAND JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN OCEAN 34
III.   MACKENZIE DESCENDS THE GREAT RIVER OF THE NORTH 70
IV.   THE MEMORABLE EXPLOITS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN 89
V.   THE TRAGEDY OF FRANKLIN'S FATE 112
VI.   EPILOGUE. THE CONQUEST OF THE POLE 136
  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 147
  INDEX 149