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...impossible; it has made even more popular than usual that feature of every properly appointed household--the Cosmopolitan. From the delicate and tactful "take-off" on the late lamented Ella Wheeler Wilcox to the masterpiece of cartoonist art entitled "Woodruina" Lampy scores a decisive victory in the realm of humor. Of all forms of wit burlesque is perhaps the hardest to carry off. Nine times out of ten it falls flat simply because it is overdone. But the editors of the Lampoon knew when to stop, and therein lies their virtue. We understand that this number of the Lampoon...
Statesmen may deplore the evils of the times; bolsheviks may at any moment tear society asunder; thirsty lips may forever be parched. But if all these disasters do not destroy the spark of humor in mankind, then life will be worth living after...
...other way does the November Advocate show its rejuvenation more strikingly than in its editorials; tinged with a deliciously pungent humor, they stand a sturdy proof that Mother Advocate has abandoned her myopic spectacles of prejudice and reaction to gaze forth once more with the vision of the real Harvard. Prose and verse, fiction and discussion, all show, the same freshness, and are of almost equal merit...
...setting of "Erasmus Montanus" is laid in a small town in Denmark in the 18th century. The play is not only remarkable as a series of pictures of continental life of the time, but it also treats of a situation of universal interest with the unsurpassed humor that has made Holberg famous...
...Lampoon is pointed out as a shining example of sustained humor. With heartfelt gratitude for its Transcript number, it may yet be said that all do not agree. There is, too, a certain difference in the task of editing a daily compared with that of publishing a fortnightly or monthly. And it may be noted that a bad joke is only a slight incident in one's mental life, but what one considers a bad editorial leaves a deep irritation. One good joke wipes out the memory of a thousand bad ones...