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Lack of space in these columns has prevented our mentioning before to-day the current number of the Lampoon. The present Lampoon editors have so evidently abandoned the sort of humor, both in illustration and reading matter, that used to appear in their columns, that we find ourselves wondering if the change is for the better, if the editors have shown good taste in departing from the peculiar college humor of former volumes and resorting to humor that is not at all collegiate and is certainly less dignified. Such things as "Spageltim's Revenge," "A Malayan Tragedy," "Bad Ballads...
...Preston has a very able article in the current number of the Forum on the need of denominational Catholic Schools...
...portion of it. To effect this, the author must deal with sentiments common to the generality of human beings; but in addition must have in view a clearly defined artistic result. In the "machinery" of the action, there must be nothing which shall be meaningless or contrary to the current of sympathies aroused by the play as a whole. The events must be managed in such a way as not to jar even upon the social traditions of the audience. Care must be taken to have the misfortunes happen to those characters which do not appeal as above...
Julian Hawthorne has an interesting sketch in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly entitled, "Problems of the Scarlet Letter...
...comment. Its aim is not, perhaps, to make statesmen of all who take part in the discussions. Many of the questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate, and of forming either an acquired opinion, or original judgment on them. These views may be erroneous and may be discarded by those who hold them; but they do not stand for nothing. They represent reading in live questions and practical...