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...Outing for March is rather above the average. The best thing about the number is the fact that "Harry's Career" comes to its end. We congratulate the editors for getting through with it, and we sincerely hope for their good as well as our own that they will not undertake to publish anything more in the same style. The number opens with an article on steeple chasing in Ireland. It is good reading and the illustrations are decidedly above the Outing standard, One of the best articles of the number is "Track Athletics at Yale" by S. Scoville, Yale...
...Outing for February is not a good number, there is much more to be criticised than is be commended. The illustrations are very poor, especially the front-piece, "The Veteran's Last Fight," painted expressly for Outing. It would be hard to imagine a tamer fight. It is a picture of a wild hog with two dogs on him and three or four more looking on with a sleepy kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand...
Once more it is our painful duty to call the attention of our readers to the continued evidence of poor taste on the part of the editors of Outing. "Harry's Career at Yale" has passed its fiftieth chapter and gives no signs of ceasing. We have heard of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of overdrawn realism or naturalism; it is well nigh time we were hearing of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of the greater sin of stupidity. The world has already had more than enough of "Harry" and his "Career...
...Outing devotes more space than usual this month to its fiction. There are five stories most notable among which is Edgar Fawcett's "A Comedy of Counterparts." There is a very entertaining paper by Arthur Montebiore on "Some Famous Alpine Ascents," illustrated with sketches of some of the wildest Swiss mountains...
...summary of the big football games of last autumn in the January Outing is written by John Corbin...