John Henry Johnson

A gallimaufry of ballads, lyrics, and songs "to amuse, astound or wring your heart". The author clearly practices his devotion to the drink, women, outlawry, sin, sex and sentimentality which is so very worthy of song.

From the rough men of the sea and embattled shores, from Elizabethan to modern beats, you can find a laugh, a tear, and a thrill of derring-do, in singing their ballads and rhymes.

Includes lusty work by bards of note and fame--Taylor, Villon, Thos. Moore, Robert Burns, Thomas Hood, Keats, Fletcher, and Shakespeare.… (meer)

Collection of short anecdotes, listed by arbitrary number, but provided with a detailed Index by topic. The 1936 publication reflects the attitudes of the times which the general audiences shared about their situations. A large percentage of the humor is about or quotes "an old negro on a southern plantation", for example. And attitudes about hill-billy back-country folk, about servitude, about women, are also curiously stereotyped in a manner unfamiliar to those of us trapped and blessed to be in the current generation.… (meer)