Excerpt from English Humorists of to-Day But there is one aspect of humour which would be worthy of consideration if the occasion served, and that is the manner in which its characteristics change from generation to generation. There is, for instance, a wide difference between what passed for humour in the days of Elizabeth and in the days of George I, while the humour of both those periods is vastly different from that of to-day, which, in its turn, is losing all relationship to the humour of the early Victorian period. This is only Saying that humour is a national characteristic which takes on the temper of the time, and it also explains why books over which one generation has laughed consumedly fail utterly to amuse another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.