OLD SERIES

Volume I, Number 1: April 1974

Editor's Note

    Jack Meathenia

Mark Twain Talks Mostly about Humor and Humorists

    Louis J. Budd

Josh Billings on Lecturing and Humor: Some Recently Discovered Letters

    David B. Kesterson

Immigrant Stereotypes: 1880–1900

    William R. Linneman

Peter De Vries: The Case for Comic Seriousness

    Craig Challender

Reviews

Poe's Fiction: Romantic Irony in the Gothic Tales by G. R. Thompson

    J. Gerald Kennedy

The Schlemiel as Modern Hero by Ruth R. Wisse

    Clifford J. Ronan

The Humor of the American Cowboy by Stan Hoig

    Donald L. Clarke

Veins of Humor edited by Harry Levin

    Jack Meathenia

Comic Terror: The Novels of John Hawkes by Donald J. Greiner

    J. J. Johnson

The Comic Imagination in American Literature edited by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

    M. Thomas Inge