Henry Carter Hull

A satiric literary novel by F. Frankfort Moore

Sir John Alexander Hammerton (1871–1949) is described by the 'Dictionary of National Biography' as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known". Among many other notable accomplishments, he edited the 'Punch Library of Humour', a series of 25 volumes of selected 'Punch Magazine' sketches, described as "cream of [British] national humour, contributed by the masters of the comic draughtsmanship and leading...

"On the Decay of the Art of Lying" is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882). In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. He concludes by insisting that: "the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully,...

Sybil Irene Eleanor Taylor Cookson (1890–1963) was a journalist and writer of romantic novels. She wrote under the pen-name Sydney Tremayne. Her pseudonym is often confused with two male authors of the same name: Sydney (Durward) Tremayne (1912–1986) the Scottish journalist and poet, and Sydney Tremayne, an American investment strategist. As Sybil Cookson, she published the novel Echo... (1919) and co-edited the memoir The Boy with the Guns (1919)...

Punchinello was a short-lived American satirical magazine. Inspired by the English publication Punch, it ran in weekly editions from 2 April 1870 to 24 December 1870.- from Wikipedia

"Boon" is a 1915 work of literary satire by H. G. Wells. It purports, however, to be by the fictional character Reginald Bliss, and for some time after publication Wells denied authorship. "Boon" is best known for its part in Wells's debate on the nature of literature with Henry James, who is caricatured in the book. But in "Boon," Wells also mocks himself, calling into question and ridiculing a notion he held dear—that of humanity's collective...

Punchinello was a short-lived American satirical magazine. Inspired by the English publication Punch, it ran in weekly editions from 2 April 1870 to 24 December 1870.- from Wikipedia

Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.- from introduction

Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day.

I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley, if I had been justly dealt with. (Excerpt)