The new Lampoon, out today, shows a marked improvement over its predecessors of this year, and is decidedly above the standard which the Lampoon has maintained. In fact, it compares favorably in certain features with many of the professional comic papers.

The issue is enlarged to twelve pages, and several important changes have been made in its form. A new title-page appears, of the same general design as the old, but more like the original cover of 1880. The heading for the editorial page is also changed, by the adoption of a new drawing of unusual excellence.

The matter also is above the average. The most pretentious contributions are the History of Harvard College (continued), and a rather clever extract from Kipling's Jungle Book, brought up to date. Allusions to the Quakers are frequent.

The illustrations are several steps in advance of the weak artistic efforts of the past, and the centre page picture is especially creditable, though suggestive of Gibson.