"You have no business to be bathing here," he shouted.
"I'm not," I said; "I'm bathing on the other side." In the same
way, if anyone on either side of the water is unintelligent enough
to criticise Mr. Leacock's humour, he can always say it comes from
the other side. But the truth is that his humour contains all that
is best in the humour of both hemispheres.
Having fulfilled my duty as chairman, in that I have told you
nothing that you did not know before--except, perhaps, my swimming
feat, which never got into the Press because I have a very bad
publicity agent--I will not detain you longer from what you are
really wanting to get at; but ask Mr. Leacock to proceed at once
with his lecture on "Frenzied Fiction."
CONTENTS
I. THE BALANCE OF TRADE IN IMPRESSIONS
II. I AM INTERVIEWED BY THE PRESS
III. IMPRESSIONS OF LONDON
IV. A CLEAR VIEW OF THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF ENGLAND
V. OXFORD AS I SEE IT
VI. THE BRITISH AND THE AMERICAN PRESS
VII. BUSINESS IN ENGLAND
VIII. IS PROHIBITION COMING TO ENGLAND?
IX. "WE HAVE WITH US TO-NIGHT"
X. HAVE THE ENGLISH ANY SENSE OF HUMOUR?
My Discovery of England
I. The Balance of Trade in Impressions
FOR some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men
from England has washed upon the shores of our North American
continent. The purpose of each one of them is to make a new discovery
of America.
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