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from Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field - Tales They Told to a Fellow Correspondent by Henry William Fischer — automated transcript, may contain recognition errors.

FIELD'S LIBRARY OF HUMOUR While in Germany, Jean had read up on ideas of humour and entertained the notion that a history of humour would prove a good seller. The book was to start with the smile, such chapters to follow as feeling good, pleasant moments, why we laugh over the ridiculous, whims, practical jokes, fixed ideas, naivete,

blue stockings, old maids, and so forth. He jotted these chapters down on the marble top of our table in the Café Royale, and I copied the list. I think the above is pretty complete. FIELD'S LIBRARY OF HUMOUR