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January 22.--"Humor and Satire...
...that sets a high standard for the drawings. And almost all are good, some very funny in themselves, some admirably illustrating the verses that accompany them. The caricatures are excellent, especially the clever pictorial review of the Blue Bird. The whole number, however, overflows with a good, healthy, fantastic humor. It never descends into profundity, is not boastful as some Yale Game numbers have been, but is as ready to make high-spirited fun of our own failures as of those of our guests. No one but a man without humor could find anything to irritate him and every...
...word with regard to the verse appearing first in sequence in the October issue of the Harvard Monthly. Gleams of humor in it there undoubtedly are, but it is humor of a one-sided kind, which only persons of a certain class can enjoy, while others must not and cannot but regard it s insulting. Humor which depends for its power on injury to one class of men at Harvard, in order that the others may laugh, is not a help towards the broadness and religious toleration in which all Harvard men take pride. There are many Roman Catholics...
...from the court, giving the money got her. She explains to the magistrate that she has acquired the money by selling her jackdaw. Michael Cooney discovers a whole brood of jackdaws, and brings these to Joseph Nestor. There then arises a scene with a pungency and vigorous working of humor that would affect the most somber man in Ireland."The Workhouse Ward...
...success of "The Product of the Mill" will depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript