Season's Greetings

Seven short comic pieces on the least private of holidays: the mortgage, the unwanted baby and the long-lost sons of Stephen Leacock's farm melodrama; three sketches by Robert Benchley of an afternoon that will not end, a student home on vacation and a church pageant that goes wrong by plan; and three Saki stories of thank-you letters, old scores and a house party game that goes too far. Three humorists, one season of enforced good cheer. A Christmas volume for readers who love the day and enjoy watching it fall apart. A gift edition, illustrated throughout with original paintings made for this edition and set with ornamental chapter openings.