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Christopher Morley. Shandygaff
Shandygaff
Table of Contents
A QUESTION OF PLUMAGE
DON MARQUIS
THE ART OF WALKING
RUPERT BROOKE
THE MAN
THE HEAD OF THE FIRM
17 HERIOT ROW
FRANK CONFESSIONS OF A PUBLISHER'S READER
WILLIAM McFEE
RHUBARB
THE HAUNTING BEAUTY OF STRYCHNINE
A LITTLE-KNOWN TOWN OF UNEARTHLY BEAUTY
INGO
"ZUM ANDENKEN"
HOUSEBROKEN
THE HILARITY OF HILAIRE
I
II
III
IV
A CASUAL OF THE SEA
THE LAST PIPE
TIME TO LIGHT THE FURNACE
MY FRIEND
A POET OF SAD VIGILS
TRIVIA
PREFACES
THE SKIPPER
A FRIEND OF FITZGERALD
A VENTURE IN MYSTICISM
AN OXFORD LANDLADY
"PEACOCK PIE"
THE LITERARY PAWNSHOP
A MORNING IN MARATHON
THE AMERICAN HOUSE OF LORDS
COTSWOLD WINDS
CLOUDS
UNHEALTHY
CONFESSIONS OF A SMOKER
HAY FEBRIFUGE
APPENDIX
SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS
FINIS CORONAT OPUS
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Christopher Morley
A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader
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The purveyor of intellectual highbrow wit and humour pours his soul into the business of capturing a few refined, appreciative grins in the course of a lifetime, grins that come from the brain; he is more than happy if once or twice in a generation he can get a cerebral chuckle—and then Old Boob Nature steps in and breaks a chair or flings a fat man down on the ice and the world laughs with, all its heart and soul.
Don Marquis recognizes as well as any one the value of the slapstick as a mirth-provoking instrument. (All hail to the slapstick! it was well known at the Mermaid Tavern, we'll warrant.) But he prefers the rapier. Probably his Savage Portraits, splendidly truculent and slashing sonnets, are among the finest pieces he has done.
