REVIEWS.

Otaki Mail, 12 March 1923, Page 3

REVIEWS.

1 "HUMOUR," AND'REAL PUN. i. Every country of any importance have their colored comics. Even Sydney has two of them, slipped into Sunday papers. The idea behind the publication of these comics is to catch tho young idea and make it laugh, to tickle its fancy and bring joy into its life. A paper thai- can do this serves a veryuseful purpose in the community, hut. the main drawback with the colored comic is that, it does not stimulate the I intellectual joy emotions of the reader, and does not appeal to th« adult at all. It takes something more than a. colotcd comic, to make cheerful a whole house, full of people. Such a paper there 'S en'kd "Humour" In this paper. >ii rather, magazine there is subtle humour gleaned from all sources throughout the world, short stories, sketches, paragraphs, illustrated jokes, cartoon and verse, all extremely funny, and uono of them coarse. COLLECTED LAUGHTER, With the world's wit to draw on "Humour," the fortnightly magazine of laughter and fun, har- a joke about almost every situation in life. All the world, enjoys a laugh and while the world is laughing "Humour" is busy gathering in the jokes for publication in Australasia. These jokes appear in "Humour" niter they have been printed in such fani9ua papers as: —Loudon "Punch." Passing Show." "Tit-Bits." "Pearson's Weekly." London Opinion. " "Sketch." "Weekly Telegraph." "Answers," "Edinburgh Scotsman," "Life," "Judge," "Wayside Tales." "Buffali Express," "Boston Transcript," "California Pelican," "Saturday Eveuing Post." "Ladies' Home Journal." "New York Tribune." "Chicago Herald." Stray Stories," "Martin," "Le Kire." "Le Regiment," "Do Amsterdamme" (Holland). "Simplicissimus" (Germany), and "Die Muskcte" (Austria), other countries whose artists and writers are represented in "Humour" ate Italy, Spain and Norway.