Languid in life, quick on the draw Max Beerbohm, cartoonist, essayist and novelist, stretched his 1890s dandy persona through a lifetime, finds Paul Johnson

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 13, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Max Beerbohm:

A Kind of a Life

by N. John Hall

Yale, pounds 16.95, 284 pp

pounds 16.95 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

THIS IS A delightful book. It contains many of Max Beerbohm's best cartoons, some of them rarely published. The text is less a biography than a series of notes for one, but they assemble all the hard facts one needs to know and this method keeps the book mercifully short.

Professor Hall constantly addresses the reader in the Thackeray manner - he is an admirer of Thack and thinks him the chief influence in Max's evolution - and is sometimes fey or even vulgar. He is also ...

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