A book of wit and humour

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A BOOK OF WIT AND HUMOUR is a personal anthology of British humour of the last twenty years compiled by a humorist whose own work in this field is on a high level. The selection includes essays, lyrics, stories, poems and drawings. There are nearly forty contributors, among them Evelyn Waugh, A. A. Milne, Sir A. P. Herbert, Eric Linklater, John Betjeman, and Stella Gibbons. A. G. Macdonell's famous "Cricket Match" is here. Here, too, is Nat Gubbins on the twin curses of dogs and women; sustained lunacy by Beachcomber and Timothy Shy; four examples of Ronald Searle's awful schoolgirls, and Arthur Marshall's glorious review of schoolgirl's stories; Brahms and Simon suggesting that Shakespeare polished up Bacon's essays; Stephen Potter on the etiquette of fouling in a gentlemanly way; H. F. Ellis advising on the messy art of cleaning the porridge basin; poems by Sagittarius, a film review by C. A. Lejeune, a piece of surrealist fantasy by Maurice Richardson, drawings... Tovább

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About this booh
A BOOK OF WIT AND HUMOUR is a personal anthology of British humour of the last twenty years compiled by a humorist whose own work in this field is on a high level. The selection includes essays, lyrics, stories, poems and drawings. There are nearly forty contributors, among them Evelyn Waugh, A. A. Milne, Sir A. P. Herbert, Eric Linklater, John Betjeman, and Stella Gibbons. A. G. Macdonell's famous "Cricket Match" is here. Here, too, is Nat Gubbins on the twin curses of dogs and women; sustained lunacy by Beachcomber and Timothy Shy; four examples of Ronald Searle's awful schoolgirls, and Arthur Marshall's glorious review of schoolgirl's stories; Brahms and Simon suggesting that Shakespeare polished up Bacon's essays; Stephen Potter on the etiquette of fouling in a gentlemanly way; H. F. Ellis advising on the messy art of cleaning the porridge basin; poems by Sagittarius, a film review by C. A. Lejeune, a piece of surrealist fantasy by Maurice Richardson, drawings by Emett, Pont, and Anton. Michael Barsley includes one of his own "Colonel Bogus" episodes, and writes a "profile" on each contributor.
The son of a Canon of the Cathedral, Michael Barsley was born and educated in Liverpool, the home of many famous humorists including Tommy Handley and Arthur Askey. He edited an undergraduate magazine at Oxford, entered advertising and learnt to sell his own drawings though he had never learnt to draw (the well-knowai'Barsley "poached-egg" eye adorns the cover of thj/s boolc^. He is the author of a dozen books on humour and qa^been bold enough to lecture to Conti-
nental audiences on the has been a BBC rad? and is now editor of 1
umout. For ten producer* and re] eigramrW "Panoj Vissza