The Works of Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm (reading like a writer .txt) ๐
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The Works of Max Beerbohm is a collection of satirical essays by Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1896 at The Bodley Head, his publisher John Lane contributing a detailed bibliography of the works of the author, then aged 24. Before their publication as a book, the essays had appeared in prominent literary periodicals such as The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Most of the essays were written while he was a student at Oxford, although he had left Merton College in 1894. By then he was already known as a caricaturist, parodist and essayist and well acquainted with the writers and artists connected with The Bodley Head, notably Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde.
The essays can perhaps be best described as both elaborate parody and vicious satire. Beerbohmโs intimate knowledge of the social circles of the time and his penchant for pointed descriptions of character are always on display, dismantling the purported greatness that surrounds him.
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Personal Remarks: The Marquis of Queensberry (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Nov. 17, 1894. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Ada Reeve (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Nov. 24, 1894. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Seymour Hicks (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 1, 1894. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Corney Grain (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 8, 1894. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Lord Randolph Churchill (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 22, 1894. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Dutch Daly (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 29, 1894. [Not reprinted]
1895
Character Sketches of โThe Chieftainโ at the Savoy.
Mr. Courtice Pounds.
Mr. Scott Fishe.
Mr. Walter Passmore.
Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 5, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Henry Irving (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 5, 1895.
โ1880.โ The Yellow Book, Vol. IV, Jan. 1895, pp. 275โ โโ 283. Reprinted in โThe Works.โ
A parody of this appeared, under the title of โ1894,โ by Max Mereboom, in Punch, February 2, 1895, p. 58.
Character Sketches of โAn Ideal Husbandโ at the Haymarket.
Mr. Bishop.
Mr. Charles Hawtrey.
Miss Julia Neilson.
Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 19, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Harry Marks (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 19, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: F. C. Burnand (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 26, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 7, 1895.
The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in โThe Works.โ
Personal Remarks: Arthur Pinero (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Feb. 9, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 14, 1895.
Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 21, 1895.
The above have been reprinted with additions and alterations in โThe Works.โ
Personal Remarks: The Rt. Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Feb. 23, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 28, 1895.
The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in โThe Works.โ
Personal Remarks: Earl Spencer (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 9, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Arthur Balfour (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 16, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: S. B. Bancroft (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 23, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Paderewski (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 30, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Colonel North (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, April 6, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Personal Remarks: Alfred de Rothschild. Pick-Me-Up, April 20, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Merton. (The Warden of Merton.) The Octopus, May 25, 1895. A Caricature. [Not reprinted]
Seen on the Towpath. The Octopus, May 29, 1895. A Caricature. [Not reprinted]
An Evening of Peculiar Delirium. The Sketch, July 24, 1895. [Not reprinted]
Notes in Foppery. The Unicorn, Sept. 18, 1895.
Notes in Foppery. The Unicorn, Sept. 25, 1895.
The above have been reprinted with additions and alterations in โThe Works,โ under the title of โDandies and Dandies.โ
Press Notices on โPunch and Judy,โ selected by Max Beerbohm. The Sketch, Oct. 16, 1895 (p. 644). [Not reprinted]
Be it Cosiness. The Pageant, Christmas, 1895, pp. 230โ โโ 235.
Reprinted in โThe Worksโ under the title of โDiminuendo.โ
A parody of this appeared, under the title of โBe it Cosiness,โ by Max Mereboom, in Punch, Dec. 21, 1895, p. 297.
1896
A Caricature of Mr. Beerbohm Tree, a wood engraving after the drawing by Max Beerbohm. The Savoy, No. 1, Jan. 1896, p. 125. [Not reprinted]
A Good Prince. The Savoy, No. 1, Jan. 1896, pp. 45โ โโ 7. [Reprinted in โThe Worksโ]
De Natura Barbatulorum. The Chap-Book, Feb. 15, 1896, pp. 305โ โโ 312.
The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in โThe Works,โ under the title of โDandies and Dandies.โ
Poor Romeo! The Yellow Book, Vol. IX, April โ96, pp. 169โ โโ 181. [Reprinted in โThe Worksโ]
A Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley. A wood engraving after the drawing by Max Beerbohm. The Savoy, No. 2, April 1896, p. 161.
PersonaliaOn the 24th instant, at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, the wife of J. E. Beerbohm, Esq., of a son. The Times, Aug. 26, 1872.
A few words with Mr. Max Beerbohm. (An interview by Ada Leverson.) The Sketch, Jan. 2, 1895, p. 439.
Max Beerbohm: an interview by Isabel Brooke Alder. Woman, April 29, 1896, pp. 8 & 9.
On Mr. Beerbohm leaving Oxford in July 1895, he took up his residence at 19 Hyde Park Place, formerly the residence of another well-known historianโ โW. C. Kinglake. Woman, April 29, 1896, p. 8.
Portraits of Mr. Max BeerbohmMax Beerbohm in โBoyhood.โ The Sketch, Jan. 2, 1895, p. 439.
Max Beerbohm. Oxford Characters. Lithographs by Will Rothenstein. Part 6.
It is believed this artist did several pastels of Mr. Beerbohm.
Portrait of Mr. Beerbohm standing before a picture of George the Fourth, by Walter Sickert.
Mr. Max Beerbohm. Woman, April 29, 1896, p. 8.
EndnotesThe residence of Lady Freake, a famous hostess of the day and founder of a brilliant salon, โwhere even Royalty was sure of a welcome.โ The writer of a recent monograph declares that, โmany a modern hostess would do well to emulate Lady Freake, not only in her taste for the Beautiful in Art but also for the Intellectual in Conversation.โ โฉ
For a full account of this function, see pp. 102โ โโ 124 of the Annals of the Albert Hall. โฉ
โJersey Lily.โ A fanciful title bestowed, at this time, upon the beautiful Mrs. Langtry, who was a native of Jersey Island. โฉ
Supposed to have been introduced by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who, having heard it in Vienna, was pleased, for a while, by its novelty, but soon reverted to the more sprightly deux-temps. โฉ
This passage, which I found in a contemporary chronicle, is so quaint and so instinct with the spirit of its time that I am fain to quote it:
โThere were quaint, beautiful, extraordinary costumes walking aboutโ โultra-aesthetics, artistic-aesthetics, aesthetics that made up their minds to be daring, and suddenly gave way in some important pointโ โput a frivolous bonnet on the top of a grave and flowing garment that Albert Durer might have designed for a mantle. There were fashionable costumes that Mrs. Mason or Madame Eliot might have
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