Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best piece of work in the number is Mr. Townsend's "Lord and Lady Bountiful," which has genuine humor and much felicity of detail. Mr. Powel's "up to the minute" story is a wild burlesque, of considerable merit, with a preface which might well be reduced to a title, and a postscript which in spite of its kindly spirit might well be omitted. Mr. Schenck's "Missing Mistletoe" is slow in getting under way, and sudden ever afterwards. Much of the dialogue lacks ease, but, the sudden part is diverting. Mr. Warren's "Lost Christmas" is a story...
Ephemeral as the stock-market quotations which lend humor to the situations, and as slender as the broker's tape out of which the plot is spun, Mr. Owen Wister's little story of "Mother" is nevertheless not unworthwhile. On these few genial pages, the author's touch is light and graceful; and if one cares for a moral, there is perhaps, one to be found. Not the least amusing part of the story is that "Mother" turns out to be--but this is infringing on Mr. Wister's copyright. P. A. HUTCHISON...
...book peddler is described with an effective sense of fun, his Irish colleague is not convincing. We wonder if Mr. Millet ever saw an Irish book agent in actual life. Mr. Sheldon's contribution, "The Endless Journey," is in the nature of Episode, and displays happy gifts of insight, humor, and expression. His Cuban in Wisconsin, who "doan' work, but just goes by," is a new type of that Beloved Vagabond with whom our sophisticated generation has developed such an odd, and yet not wholly surprising sympathy. Mr. Stoddard's "Mine Own Familiar Friend" is in a kindly vein, though...
...point. The description of the lover's symptoms is now and then extravagant, and if the same restraint had been observed throughout that appears in the conclusion, the effect would have been better. Mr. Dorey's sketch of "An American on the Thames" is amusing, though the humor is sometimes a little forced. Mr. Mayer's article on "Josiah Quincy" gives a suitable account of a career which ought to be of interest to Harvard men in every generation...
...meant in good part, as simple fun, and after all, the puns and the really amusing illustrations that interrupt the sarcasm make it, as was intended, innocuous. The man who buys this number of the Lampoon, gets a great deal for his money, in space and in humor...