Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magazine will have no editorial page, for its only aim will be to give facts and let the reader term his own conclusions...
...surest test of good parody is this; is it funny to the reader who never saw the original? Readers of the Lampoon's "Town and Country" number will be able to laugh even though they never subscribed to "Town and Country". The parody itself, plus a small injection of imagination, is enough to reconstruct that magazine in all its glory. No doubt the real "Town and Country" will be much in demand hereabouts--no one suspected what an entertaining periodical it was, before the Lampoon et to work and brought out its virtues. Parody is not only the highest flattery...
...longer "articles", though ingeniously planned, are less easy to read. Though full of clever touches, they give time for the reader's laughter to pause and wonder. But one rarely reads the longer articles of any comic magazine. The cover is adept, and the mock advertisements so good (or the genuine ones so bad) that it is hard to tell which is what, There is no moral; but the society magazine, of which "Town and Country" is only one of a kind, gets its full and deserved dose of satire in this number. And the High Society that is mirrored...
With the output of books increasing at an equal pace, and with such uncertain means for judgment, the casual reader and the book-buyer are put to it to make profitable selections. The desert-island test of a book's value, recently restored to academic popularity, would find little, nowadays, that could be passed...
...Norman Cabot writes with a pleasant hardness and bite of intellectual irony; and Mr. Grant Code is adept in showing his reader a kaleidescope of vivid and colorful details. Mr. Wheelright displays a cleverness which would perhaps be more at home in prose than in verse; and Mr. Merton writes with the neatness, if not with the power, of a Landor. And, finally, in Mr. Snow and Mr. R. Cameron Rogers one finds serious effort toward a self-realization which is not yet quite accomplished, but which holds good promise. Altogether, the book is more than a Harvard anthology...