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...BALLADES IN HARVARD CHINA. By E. S. M. Boston: A. Williams & Co., Old Corner Bookstore." "Sly Ballades in Harvard China" is a volume belonging to the school of Harvard writers which has produced "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels" and "Rollo's Tour to Cambridge." Nevertheless, these verses have a character of their own; their humor is aptly termed "sly." The subjects chosen are always unpretending, the metres used are appropriate and handled with a pleasant facility, and the execution of nearly every piece is felicitous and successful. The book throughout is pervaded with the genuine college spirit...
...Nation thinks that "Owen Wister's 'The New Swiss Family Robinson' (Cambridge : C. W. Sever) hits the mark as a satire, but for sustained humor it suffers by comparison with Rollo's Cambridge adventures, that earlier trophy of the Harvard Lampoon. On the other hand, 'College Cuts' (White & Stokes), chosen from the Columbia Spectator, a college paper with a humorous corner or corners, compares well with the larger and more heterogeneous collection of designs from the Lampoon. There is more chic and a higher average quality in the drawing. Politics are altogether eschewed in favor of collegiate and social topics...
...young Butterfield came down stairs with his hair nicely oiled and parted, and brushed up on each side in the form of a pigeon-wing, and his store clothes on, he was immediately struck by the appearance of Asphyxia, and the only thing he could think of was the Rollo books which he had found a few years before in the Sunday School library of his native town, Saug Centre. He began to wonder if the young gentleman whom Mrs. De Sorosis had promised to introduce him to would wear pantalets, little white waists and velveteen coats, that being...
...Plummer's First Assembly," a very amusing account, by the author of the "Frivolous Girl," of the experiences of a Sophomore at his first Harvard Assembly. At the second, he will read selections from "Macbeth," and "The Sewing School for Scandal," written by one of the authors of "Rollo...
...Rollo's Journey" is too well known to need comment at this time. Its many readers who laughed over Rollo's adventures as they appeared in the Harvard Lampoon will be glad to see them republished in book form. Mr. Attwood's illustrations are, perhaps, the best feature of the little parody...