Funny Mummy

E.S. Turner

  • The Penguin Stephen Leacock by Robertson Davies
    Penguin, 527 pp, £2.95, October 1981, ISBN 0 14 005890 7
  • Jerome K. Jerome: A Critical Biography by Joseph Connolly
    Orbis, 208 pp, £7.95, August 1982, ISBN 0 85613 349 3
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, annotated and introduced by Christopher Matthew and Benny Green
    Joseph, 192 pp, £12.50, August 1982, ISBN 0 907516 08 4
  • The Lost Stories of W. S. Gilbert edited by Peter Haining
    Robson, 255 pp, £7.95, September 1982, ISBN 0 86051 200 2

Stephen Leacock, the English-born, Canadian-reared humorist, has a single entry in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations: ‘Lord Ronald ... flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions’ (1911). Innumerable speakers, writers and politicians have helped themselves to this very serviceable joke; Leacock himself, writing in old age, used it without acknowledgment to illustrate a scientific disquisition. Perhaps he had forgotten that he was the originator of it.

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