This isn't the typical series of academic TC Lectures. Instead these are wonderful rambling sermons, full of corny anecdotes and digressions. Professor Fisher is a quaint old ham, and a pleasure to listen to.

The choice of authors is about as eclectic as you can get. Plutarch and US Grant. Beatrix Potter and Saint Augustine. Wilde, Menken, "Rabbie Burns", Hugo, Maeterlinck (with Menken and Potter, another pleasant surprise), Dickinson, Sam Johnson, and Tennyson. ( )