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...Charivaria--tidbits from current events, something like the New Yorker's Talk of the Town--are incomparably better in the original, but tongue-in-cheek items are probably the hardest of all writing to spoof. There is an excellent story about the birth of a game called "Museum Ball" which probably comes closer to the witty Punch style than anything else in the issue, though a poem on queues is also amusing. The play reviews, especially a report of a new musical comedy by Mr. T. S. Eliot called, "The First Serpent," are the best actual parody in the magazine...
...leafed it through, enjoying the comfortable, gouty advertisements, all of health bread or tyres, or Haig, all with the chorus, the eternal chorus, Made in England. The Vagabond settled more evenly in the luxuries which They Won't Be Able to Have When They Graduate and ran through the Charivaria. English wit, English witl He glanced once again at the little man on the ass, just beneath Mr. Punch on the cover, and buried himself in Lalage's letter. England, he was reassured, would muddle through...
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