Excerpt from The Humour of GermanyIN endeavouring to bring together examples of so significant and at the same time elusive a phase of national character - literary as well as psychological - as a nation's humour, it were of course vain to seek to make each selection typical in itself - typical, that is, in the sense of referring to the broad basis of a nation's individuality in respect of its humour as distinguished from other nations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.