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Who but Stephen Leacock would endeavor to describe a boarding house
-- in terms of schoolroom geometry? ("The landlady of a
boarding-house is a parallelogram -- that is, an oblong angular
figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to
anything.") Or to detail the terrible ordeal of Melpomenus Jones,
unable to say, "Good-bye"?
Leacock (1869-1944) did have his serious side -- for he wrote
learnedly of Twain and Dickens, and was a professor of political
science and economics at McGill University . . . but it was when he
set aside seriousness for levity, with such sketches as "How
Tennyson Killed the May Queen" or "Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas,"
that he has won over the English-reading public everywhere.
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Literary Lapses
Stephen Leacock
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Nonsense Novels
Stephen Leacock
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