author
W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe
b. 1848
Best known for gathering lively collections of British and Irish wit, he worked more as a careful compiler than a traditional novelist. His books preserve the jokes, anecdotes, and epitaphs that amused readers at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Scotch Wit and Humor
by W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe
About the author
Walter Henry Howe, born in 1848, is credited on late nineteenth-century books as W. H. (Walter Henry) Howe. The clearest records found here identify him as the compiler or editor of humor anthologies rather than the original author of a single literary work.
His known books include Scotch Wit and Humor (1898), English Wit and Humor (1898), Irish Wit and Humor, and Here Lies, a collection of humorous and unusual tombstone inscriptions. These volumes were organized by subject and designed for browsing, suggesting a writer with a taste for curation, quotation, and the small pleasures of shared jokes.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth year is scarce in the sources reviewed, so it is safest to remember him as a late Victorian anthologist of comic writing. If you enjoy old-fashioned collections of sayings, stories, and sharp little observations, his books offer a window into the humor reading habits of his time.