Stella & Rose's Books

Contents

• Introduction
• Geoffrey Chaucer Our Host
• William Shakespeare Henry V's St Crispin's Day Speech
• William Makepeace Thackeray Waterloo
• Samuel Johnson In brief
• Libby Purves Address to the Samuel Johnson Society
• Horace Walpole Charles Townshend's champagne Speech
• PG Wodehouse A few auspicious words
• Jose Manser Hugh Casson and Laurie Lee
• Jose Manser A Thatcher put-down
• John Wells and Richard Ingrams Dear Bill
• The King's Tradesmen On his Majesty's Birthday
• GK Chesterton Speechlessness
• Sir Pelham Warner Just not cricket
• Revd RH Barham From 'The Lay of St Cuthbert'
• Charles Dickens PS America
• Charles Dickens Dingley Dell v All Muggletonians
• Richard Ingrams Ballades and eachcomber
• Henry W Gradey The New South
• Mark Twain Littery Men
• Michael Holroyd A prominent feature
• AP Herbert Winston Churchill
• Winston Churchill To the Corinthians
• Stanley Baldwin On England
• Stanley Baldwin Advice on speech-making
• John Fothergill Falls to Lodore
• AP Herbert The English Laugh
• Mae West In brief
• Dorothy Parker In brief
• Groucho Marx In brief
• Groucho Marx How to be a spy
• Osbert Sitwell Sir Herbert and Lady Tree
• AP Herbert The English Laugh - again
• Maurice Baring Such a treat
• AP Herbert The English laugh - chorus
• AP Herbert after dinner
• Joyce Grenfell Useful and acceptable gifts
• Evelyn Waugh Dreading it
• Gerard Hoffnung From a bricklayer in Golders Green
• Patrick Garland Lord David Cecil's dismay
• Clive James The Pembroke smoker
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to the French Chamber of Commerce
• John Gordon Lord Beaverbrook's last speech
• Lord Beaverbrook Apprentice
• Matthew Parris On Gyles Brandreth
• Gyles Brandreth Gobbledegook or small print
• The Think Tank Top Secret
• Miles Kington Ten Ways not to start a funny story
• John Mortimer Stranger than fiction
• Joanna Trollope Trollope and sex
• Robertson Davies Refuge of insulted saints
• HM The Queen Golden wedding
• Margaret Scott Royal, real and republic
• Tim Heald An evening with Brian Johnson
• Thomas Braun A Birthday tribute to Jasper Griffin
• Alan White Lewis Carroll and Ralph Steadman
• Ralph Steadman But we'll need some jam
• Helen Fielding Bridget Joes at a wedding
• Maureen Lipman BeRo and borrowed Hats
• David Burnett To the Society of Dorset Men
• William Ind, Bishop of Truro, Not enough Cricket
• Jilly Cooper, Meeting David Niven
• Patrick Garland The incomparable Rex Harrison
• Peter Ustinov A run-in with Dame Edith Evans
• Tim Heald Business unusual or the END
• Acknowledgements