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Some of the excerpts are fine, but one might as well have the whole book rather than a mere chunk of Cold Comfort Farm, The Once and Future King, or one of Wodehouse's tales of Jeeves and Wooster. There are some archetypal limericks and clerihews, but you can find those anywhere. I did enjoy A. D. Godley's classic poem taking "Motor Bus" as a Latin phrase and declining it ("motorem bum", "motores bi", etc.), to the amusement of anyone who studied Latin at school; Quiller-Couch devoting a string of sapphics to the romance of Lady Jane and her gardener; and magisterial parodies of G. K. Chesterton by Sir John Squire and of Henry James by Sir Max Beerbohm. (The Chesterton parody in particular is notably more entertaining than the piece from Chesterton himself.) But I don't think the highlights justify keeping the whole volume on my shelf.
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