The Humour of Homer and Other Essays

The Humour of Homer and Other Essays, by Samuel Butler
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The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
Introduction By R. A. Streatfeild
The nucleus of this book is the collection of essays by Samuel Butler, which was originally published by Mr. Grant Richards in 1904 under the title Essays on Life, Art and Science, and reissued by Mr. Fifield in 1908. To these are now added another essay, entitled “The Humour of Homer,” a biographical sketch of the author kindly contributed by Mr. Henry Festing Jones, which will add materially to the value of the edition, and a portrait in photogravure from a photograph taken in 1889—the period of the essays.
From a photograph made by Pizzetta in Varallo in 1889. Emery Walker Ltd., ph. sc. “The Humour of Homer” was originally delivered as a lecture at the Working Men’s College in Great ...