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Taken as a whole the current number of the Lampoon shows that the Christmas holidays have had a rather demoralizing effect. With the exception of an "Idle Class Day," a take off on the last story in "Harvard Episodes," which is decidedly clever, and a humorous imitation of the CRIMSON'S special notices, the articles and minor jokes are ordinary...
...current number of the Monthly opens with a review of "Harvard Episodes" by Pierre La Rose '95. Mr. La Rose endeavors to shift the blame for the harm the book is likely to do the University from Mr. Flandran's shoulders, to those of the publishers. It is indeed unfortunate that the book was not called "Wolcott the Magnificent, and other Harvard Episodes," as it is said the author desired...
...current number of "The Bookman" (Doda, Mead and Company) contains a characteristic portrait of Kipling by W. Nicholson, a poem by James Lane Allen, and twenty pages of interesting literary gossip. There are also articles on miscellaneous literary subjects, London and Paris letters, reviews of new books, and chapters of a serial story. A portrait of C. M. Flandrau is accompanied by a paragraph, which says: "Harvard Episodes is not to be hastily ranked with the college story-book, which, so curiously amusing to insiders, is as curiously deceptive to outsiders...
While we criticised the last number of the Lampoon as exceptional in its general interest, the current issue is by no means worthy of such praise. We have criticised some numbers as being of sectional interest rather than of general. The present number tries to cater to general demand, but fails of its own weakness. While we are glad to see the Lampoon broadening in its views we regret that it is unable to attain a uniform standard...
Walter Camp in the current issue of Harper's Weekly selects the following All-America football eleven as being the best available from the college teams...