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Leacock's lecture is not of a character which, has not, so to speak, the kind of value, in short, is not a lecture of that class." Here he paused and choked back a sob. "Had our poor friend been spared to us for another six years he would have rounded out the century. But it was not to be.
Stephen Leacock - My Discovery of England
On his next call there was a lively Ruth who invited him up to the library, read extracts from Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels; turned companionably serious, and told him how divided were her sympathies between her father the conscientiously worried employer and a group of strikers in his factory. She made coffee in a fantastic percolator, and played Débussy and ragtime.
Sinclair Lewis - The Trail of the Hawk
A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
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