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Two volumes of comic poetry might seem a bit much but this amount was probably meant so reciters would have a wide selection. Skimming shows that these don't appear to be classics but the emphasis is on the comic not the poetry. Best-known names are Lewis Carroll, Bret Harte and W.S. Gilbert (the book's dedicatee) but the bulk are unfamiliar. Still, I can't resist "The Chimpanzor and the Chimpanzee" which could be a hoot spoken aloud (with its Professor Balaam Vermicelli Lepidoptera FitzApe) or titles like "Fugitive Lines on Pawning My Watch", "The Weather in Verse", "The Puzzled Census-Taker", "Christmassing a la Mode de Slumopolis" or "Villon's Straight Tip to All Cross Coves".
