Stephen Leacock
Further Foolishness
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664616647
Table of Contents
(I) AN IRREDUCIBLE DETECTIVE STORY
(II) A COMPRESSED OLD ENGLISH NOVEL
(III) A CONDENSED INTERMINABLE NOVEL
II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One
III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments.
Serge the Superman: A Russian Novel
Madame Vasselitch took Serge by the hand.
Movies and Motors, Men and Women
(II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS
X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor
XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers
XV. The White House from Without In
Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics
PREFACE
Many years ago when I was a boy at school, we had over our class an ancient and spectacled schoolmaster who was as kind at heart as he was ferocious in appearance, and whose memory has suggested to me the title of this book.
It was his practice, on any outburst of gaiety in the class-room, to chase us to our seats with a bamboo cane and to shout at us in defiance:
Now, then, any further foolishness?
I find by experience that there are quite a number of indulgent readers who are good enough to adopt the same expectant attitude towards me now.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
McGILL UNIVERSITY MONTREAL
November 1, 1916
Follies in Fiction
I. Stories Shorter Still
Among the latest follies in fiction is the perpetual demand for stories shorter and shorter still. The only thing to do is to meet