To various publishers in New York and Boston, who have been most courteous and liberal, credit is given elsewhere.
Touched by the occasion, I "drop into" doggerel:
If you pronounce this book not funny, And wish you hadn't spent your money, There soon will be a general rumor That you're no judge of Wit or Humor.
Alcott, Louisa: "Transcendental Wild Oats" IV. 68
American Early Writers: Some of them who were thought Witty--Anne Bradstreet; Mercy Warren; Tabitha Tenney III. 47 Satirical Poem, by Mercy Warren III. 47 Mrs. Sigourney's Johnsonese Humor; Extracts from her Note-Book III. 48 Miss Sedgwick's Witty Imagination, III. 49 Mrs. Caroline Gilman's humorous Poem, "Joshua's Courtship" III. 49
Andersen, Hans, Reference to Woman Dramatist in his Autobiography X. 196
Aphorisms by the Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) I. 24
"Aunty Doleful's Visit," by M.K.D.--"If I can't do anything else, I can cheer you up a little" VI. 118
Bates, Charlotte Fiske: "Hat, Ulster and All," Satirical Poem, Quatrain and Epigram VIII. 175
"Beechers," Old Family Epigram applied to the I. 22
Behn, Aphra: Wrote Comedies; her unsavory Wit X. 195
Bellows, Isabel Frances: "A Fatal Reputation" (for wit)--"A picnic, that most ghastly device of the human mind" VII. 129
Bremer, Frederika, her genuine Humor; First Quarrel with her "Bear" II. 41
Brine, Mary D.: Poems, "Kiss Pretty Poll" VIII. 158
" " "Thanksgiving Day--Then and Now" VIII. 159
Burleigh, Pun on, by Queen Elizabeth I. 16
Butter, Punning Poem on, by Caroline B. Le Row I. 18
Cary, Phoebe, "The wittiest woman in America": Her quick retorts and merry repartees; her parodies and humorous poems V. 101
Champney, Lizzie W.: "An Unruffled Bosom"--a Tragical Tale of a Negress who "knew Washington" VIII. 171
Cleaveland's, Mrs., "No Sects in Heaven" IV. 69
Clemmer, Mary: Her Life of Phoebe Cary V. 102
Comedies--Few written by Women; Five Englishwomen produced successful; Susanna Centlivre wrote nearly a score--contain some wit, but old-fashioned; Aphra Behn wrote several comedies, witty but coarse X. 195
Cooke's, Rose Terry, "Knoware" IV. 68 " " " "Miss Lucinda's Pig" IV. 69 " " " Story of "A Gift Horse" IV. 71
Coolidge, Grace F.: "The Robin and Chicken" IX. 188
Cone, Helen Gray: Satirical Poems--"Cassandra Brown" IX. 180 " " " "The Tender Heart" IX. 182