Leacock Remains at McGill: Some Notes on the Stephen Leacock Collection

Abstract

lthough we mark this year as the fiftieth anniversary of Stephen Leacock's death on March 28, 1944, it is also worth remarking that it was exactly a century ago, in 1894, that Leacock publishedhis earliest writing, twelve years before his first book. Fifty years of writing produced an enormous quantity of books and magazine pieces, and Leacock's fame meant that most of those books appeared in many editions and translations, both during and after his lifetime. The dedicated Leacock collector will not need an infinitely deep pocketbook, for the majority of the books is not particularly expensive; a great deal of shelf-space, however, is a sine qua non.