History Of English Humour Vol 1 With An Introduction Upon Ancie
Chapter 1
ORIGIN OF HUMOUR.
Pleasure in Humour--What is Laughter?--Sympathy--First Phases--Gradual Development--Emotional Phase--Laughter of Pleasure--Hostile Laughter--Is there any sense of the Ludicrous in the Lower Animals?--Samson--David--Solomon--Proverbs--Fables 13