“_The books are delightful in every way, and are notable for the high standard of taste and the excellent judgment that characterise their editing, as well as for the brilliancy of the literature that they contain._”—BOSTON (U.S.A.) GAZETTE. LIBRARY OF HUMOUR COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED. _Cloth Elegant, Large Crown 8vo, Price 3s. 6d. per Vol._ Each volume deals with the humour of the literature of a particular nation, the aim in making the various selections being to produce volumes as representative as possible in each case of the particular national humour, as it appears throughout the literature dealt with. * * * * * Illustrations to the different volumes by DUDLEY HARDY, H. R. MILLAR, C. E. BROCK, ARTURO FALDI, PAUL FRÉNZENY, OLIVER PAQUE, etc. _SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATION._ (FROM THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE.) [Illustration: DOCTOR DECHAR: “AND YET YOU DECLARED THE OPERATION MUST BE DONE?” DOCTOR RAPPASS: “OF COURSE. YOU MUST ALWAYS OPERATE.” ] THE HUMOUR OF FRANCE. Selected and Translated, with Introduction and Biographical Index, by ELIZABETH LEE. With 70 Illustrations by PAUL FRÉNZENY. “From Villon to Paul Verlaine, from dateless _fabliaux_ to newspapers fresh from the kiosk, we have a tremendous range of selections.”—_Birmingham Daily Gazette._ [Illustration] “The work of translation has been well done, and the book sparkles from beginning to end.”—_Globe._ “Miss Lee has compiled a very entertaining volume, traversing the whole world of French literature from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries gleaning from novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists, writers of _fabliaux_, newspapers. The result is a very readable and amusing volume.”—_Birmingham Post._ “A most agreeable and entertaining volume.”—_Scottish Leader._ “There is not a dull page in the volume from beginning to end, is a piece of praise too often lavished on a book by the indolent, unconscientious, or over tender-hearted reviewer; nevertheless, at the risk of ranking ourselves with him, we will make that assertion concerning these specimens of ‘The Humour of France.’”—_St. James’s Gazette._ _SPECIMEN ILLUSTRATION._ (FROM THE HUMOUR OF GERMANY.) [Illustration: “HE WAS TOO FOND OF DELIVERING LONG SPEECHES AT THE ALEHOUSE.” ] [Illustration: “SIT THE GOOD TOWNSPEOPLE OF A SUMMER EVENING.” ] THE HUMOUR OF GERMANY. Selected and Translated, with Introduction and Biographical Index, by HANS MÜLLER-CASENOV. With 60 Illustrations by C. E. BROCK.