SOME MEMORIES
My Remarkable Uncle
The Old Farm and the New Frame
The Struggle to Make Us Gentlemen
LITERARY STUDIES
The British Soldier
The Mathematics of the Lost Chord
The Passing of the Kitchen
Come Back to School
What’s in a Name?
Who Canonizes the Classics?
Among the Antiques
SPORTING SECTION
What Is a Sport?
Why Do We Fish?
When Fellers Go Fishing
Eating Air
STUDIES IN HUMOUR
The Saving Grace of Humour
Laughing Off Our History
War and Humour
MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS
Christmas Rapture
Christmas Shopping
War- time Santa Claus
War- time Christmas
GOODWILL STUFF
Cricket for Americans
Our American Visitors
A Welcome to a Visiting American
Why Is the United States?
The Transit of Venus
Migration in English Literature
Three Score and Ten
Index: There Is No Index
L’Envoi: A Salutation Across the Sea
Afterword
Stephen Leacock was born in Swanmore, Hampshire, England, in
1869. His family emigrated to Canada in 1876 and settled on a farm
north of Toronto. Educated at Upper Canada College and the
University of Toronto, Leacock pursued graduate studies in
economics at the University of Chicago, where he studied under
Thorstein Veblen.
Even before he completed his doctorate, Leacock accepted a position
as sessional lecturer in political science and economics at McGill
University. When he received his Ph.D. in 1903, he was appointed to
the position of lecturer. From 1908 until his retirement in 1936,
he chaired the Department of Political Science and Economics.
Leacock’s most profitable book was his textbook, Elements of
Political Science, which was translated into seventeen
languages. The author of nineteen books and countless articles on
economics, history, and political science, Leacock turned to the
writing of humour as his beloved avocation. His first collection of
comic stories, Literary Lapses, appeared in 1910, and from
that time until his death he published a volume of humour almost
every year.
Leacock also wrote popular biographies of his two favourite
writers, Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. At the time of his death,
he left four completed chapters of what was to have been his
autobiography. These were published posthumously under the title
The Boy I Left Behind Me.
Stephen Leacock died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1944.
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