For 10 points, name this collection of cynical epigrams by Ambrose Bierce.
In this work's preface, its author claims that it is addressed to "enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor, and clean English to slang." This work contains a story about a rogue who presents gunpowder as the seed of Flashawful flabbergastor to agriculture secretary James Wilson, who is then pursued by a pillar of fire after planting it. It notes that New Jersey's use of the electric chair is "the first instance...of anybody questioning the expediency of hanging Jerseymen," and argues that Walt Whitman's poetry and God's mercy to man are incompossible. This book includes fictional poems, including many by Father Gassalasca Jape, and characterizes a harangue as "A speech by an opponent, who is known as a harangue-outang." Other sections of this book describe a Christian as "one who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin" and refer to the brain as "an apparatus with which we think that we think." The first of its ? twenty-six sections distinguishes between an academe with an E, or "an ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught," and an academy with a Y, or "a modern school where football is taught." For 10 points, name this collection of cynical epigrams by Ambrose Bierce. 
In this work's preface, its author claims that it is addressed to "enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor, and clean English to slang.
The {Devil's Dictionary}