Laughs from the Lampoon.

"Laughs from the Lampoon" is a late issue of that enterprising paper, containing in its twenty-six or more pages a "collection of the best things that have appeared in the Harvard Lampoon during the past year." The contents certainly answer the description. Most of them show good judgment in choice, and some of the selections, being from copies now out of print, are the more interesting to see again. Possibly a few are flavored too much of the college to be quickly understood to outsiders, but they will appeal at once to all college men and are very welcome because of their aptness. We should like to have seen more verse, perhaps, but the prose is some of the best that has been published this year and the drawings are very creditable work. A word must be spoken of the cover, for, simple and neat as it is, its arrangement is one that calls for great care in printing. On the second page is a short but interesting history of the Lampoon and a list of the most prominent editors who have belonged to it since the initial number in February, 1876. Upon the whole the issue is thoroughly representative and entertaining.