The Treasury of Modern Anecdote
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Excerpt from The Treasury of Modern Anecdote: Being a Selection From the Witty and Humorous Sayings of the Last Hundred Years The present collection of Anecdotes differs from its predecessors in several particulars. To begin with, it is strictly a Treasury of Modern Anecdote. It does not profess to dish up for the delectation of present-day readers stories which have been familiar to them all their lives, and which are, in fact, the commonplaces of ordinary conversation. There is a certain sprinkling of old favourites, - of time-honoured tales which no one likes to see omitted from any collection, however fresh it be in aim and character. But these are anecdotes of the perennial kind, - anecdotes which, the more they are known the better they are liked - which are so excellent in themselves that they never pall upon the taste. For the most part, however, the Anecdotes in this collection are emphatically modern, - modern in so far that they are drawn from modem sources, and refer to modern people. They do not, for the most part, go farther back than Walpole´s "Letters," and they come down as far as the latest stories and reminiscences, such as those of Crabb Robinson and J. R. Planche. It has seemed to the editor and to the publishers that the public is tired of the old stories that generally do duty in such collections, and that it is ready to welcome a work which shall put before it the cream of the spoken wit and humour of the last hundred years. Again: the Anecdotes in this volume are, as far as can possibly be ascertained, authentic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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