The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days.
The Roycroft Dictionary, published in 1914 by the Roycrofters, the arts and crafts community Elbert Hubbard founded at East Aurora, New York, is a book of humorous and satirical definitions in the tradition of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. Playfully credited to Ali Baba and the bunch on rainy days, it runs alphabetically from advertising, defined with earnest admiration, through hundreds of entries on business, religion, politics, marriage, doctors, lawyers and reformers, each turned into an epigram or a joke. Some of the wit has dated, but much of it remains sharp, and the book captures the voice of one of America's most popular aphorists. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the opening pages free.
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