PREFACE FOLLIES IN FICTION I. Stories Shorter Still CHAPTER ONE AND ONLY II. Snoopopaths; or, Fifty Stories in One III. Foreign Fiction in Imported Instalments. CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV Movies and Motors, Men and Women (II) THE MINISTER WHOSE CHURCH HE ATTENDS (III) HIS PARTNER AT BRIDGE (IV) HIS HOSTESS AT DINNER (III) X. A Study in Still Life—My Tailor Peace, War, and Politics XI. Germany from Within Out XIII. In Merry Mexico XIV. Over the Grape Juice; or, The Peacemakers XV. The White House from Without In Timid Thoughts on Timely Topics XVI. Are the Rich Happy? XVII. Humour as I See It WINSOME WINNIE AND OTHER NEW NONSENSE NOVELS By Steven Leacock CONTENTS I. WINSOME WINNIE; OR, TRIAL AND TEMPTATION 7 I. Thrown on the World 9 II. A Rencounter 14 III. Friends in Distress 18 IV. A Gambling Party in St. James's Close 24 V. The Abduction 28 VI. The Unknown 33 VII. The Proposal 36 VIII. Wedded at Last 42 II. JOHN AND I; OR, HOW I NEARLY LOST MY HUSBAND 43 III. THE SPLIT IN THE CABINET; OR, THE FATE OF ENGLAND 65 IV. WHO DO YOU THINK DID IT? OR, THE MIXED-UP MURDER MYSTERY 95 I. He Dined with Me Last Night 97 II. I must save her Life 100 III. I must buy a Book on Billiards 108 IV. That is not Billiard Chalk 112 V. Has anybody here seen Kelly? 113 VI. Show me the Man who wore those Boots 119 VII. Oh, Mr. Kent, save me! 123 VIII. You are Peter Kelly 127 IX. Let me tell you the Story of my Life 132 X. So do I 139 V. BROKEN BARRIERS; OR, RED LOVE ON A BLUE ISLAND 143 VI. THE KIDNAPPED PLUMBER: A TALE OF THE NEW TIME 177 VII. THE BLUE AND THE GREY: A PRE-WAR WAR STORY 205 VIII. BUGGAM GRANGE: A GOOD OLD GHOST STORY 225 THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE By Stephen Leacock CONTENTS chapter page I. The Troubled Outlook of the Present Hour 9 II. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness 33 III. The Failures and Fallacies of Natural Liberty 48 IV. Work and Wages 66 V. The Land of Dreams: The Utopia of the Socialist 88 VI. How Mr. Bellamy Looked Backward 103 VII. What Is Possible and What Is Not 124