Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-10-21 | Page 4 | Barbed Levity in Leacock Essays

Barbed Levity in Leacock Essays The delightful effervescent Stephen phen Leacock of Nonsense ions nse Novels appears only too Infrequently infrequently infrequently in Short Circuits In this series of essays Leacock Is more the fault finder Cinder than the humorist His levity carries a barb and In consequence is neither ef- ef ef effective effective humor nor competent cism We Ve will concede Leacock nn n active mind and one that is at attracted attracted at- at by virtually every ry 1 phenomenon phe In the twentieth century social and economic current nut lInt diversity of subject matter does not necessarily compensate for mediocrity rity of Interpretation Oh tc to have some more Frenzied Fiction