The Lampoon.

Lack of originality does not prevent the last Lampoon from being quite as entertaining as usual. The front page is an excellent take-off of the "Bugville" pictures that have recently crawled into so many periodicals. The drawing on the first page, too, with its faint suggestion of Peter Newell, deserves some mention.

Of the jokes and stories, the shorter pieces are the best, with perhaps one exception in favor of "Sherlock Holmes in Cambridge." The latter stays closely enough by its model to avoid too much exaggeration, and succeeds in being decidedly absurd. Nearly all the jokes are pointed; and they, like the longer stories, deal mostly with College affairs--a feature acceptable enough if not overdone. In many cases an episode relies for much of its humor on familiar connection with undergraduate life; but in many more, this connection is assumed to furnish amusement unassisted. The "Specimen Conference" in History 1 fails for this reason, and wanders along, overshooting the mark, when a little more skill would have made it entertaining. The maudlin sketch, "At the Freshman Dinner" is live enough to read with more interest.