MARION V. DUDLEY, Poems. ELLA A. GILES, Maiden Rachael, Out from the Shadows, Bachelor Ben, Flowers of the Spirit. JAMES GATES PERCIVAL, Percival's Poems. CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, Poems. JULIA AND MEDORA CLARK, Driftwood. CHARLOTTA PERRY, (pseud.) Carlotta Perry's Poems, 1888. JOHN GOADBY GREGORY, A Beauty of Thebes and Other Verses. FLORENCE C. REID, Jack's Afire, Survival of the Fittest. KENT KENNAN, Sketches. MYRON E. BAKER, Vacation Thoughts. JOSEPH V. COLLINS, of Stevens Point, Sketches. MYRA EMMONS, of Stevens Point, Short Stories. JULIA M. TASCHER, of Stevens Point, Arbutus and Dandelions, a Novel. ADA F. MOORE, (Mrs. John Phillips, of Stevens Point), Under the Pines. MRS. E. M. TASCHER, (Mother of Julia M. Tascher), The Story of Stevens Point. JOHN HICKS, of Oshkosh, lately Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Peru, The Man from Oshkosh. JULIUS TAYLOR CLARK, formerly of Madison, The Ojibue Conquest. GEORGE GRIMM, of Milwaukee, Pluck, a Story of a Little Immigrant Boy. GENESSEE RICHARDSON, of Oconomowoc, My Castle In the Air. CHESTER L. SAXBY, of Superior, A Captain of the King. MISS L. J. DICKINSON, of Superior, John O'Dreams. GEORGE STEELE, of Whitewater, Deidre. JULIUS C. BIRGE, (the first white child born in Whitewater.) The Awakening of the Desert. JOSEPH P. DYSART, Milwaukee, Grace Porter, a Jewel Lost and Found. MARGARET ASHMUN, Poems and Short Stories. WISCONSIN HUMORISTS Among the many purposes authors have for producing literature is that of pure fun or humor. If the writer attempts to reform by laughing at his people, we designate his work as satire. With this type of literature we have nothing to do here, but much literature has been produced within the state that has for its purpose the laughing with the readers. It attempts to amuse through affording a pleasing surprise. The unexpected which engenders this surprise may be that of situation, of ignorance, or of the mingling of sense and nonsense in a perplexing manner. This last means of engendering surprise and the resulting humor grew up quite largely among writers of the Middle West during and since the Civil War. It is often spoken of as American humor. It may be illustrated by a short selection from Edgar Wilson Nye's Comic History of the United States, which will show the point of mingling real historical facts with statements quite ridiculous in many instances. Let the reader attempt to determine which statements are historical sense and which are smart or even pure nonsense. "On December 16, 1773, occurred the tea-party at Boston, which must have been a good deal livelier than those of today. The historian regrets that he was not there; he would have tried to be the life of the party.