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Max Beerbohm - English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)

Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm

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Max Beerbohm in a volume of parodies entitled "A Christmas Garland," where I found myself in very good company.

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Indeed, in the wild school of caricature then current, Mr Max Beerbohm had represented him as a proposition in the fourth book of Euclid.

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SIR, - The recent article in The P&J about vandalism at the Oldmachar nursery (Press and Journal, August 21) reminded me of an essay by the satirist Max Beerbohm, published in 1896.

Illustrating the urge to destroy; Letters to the editor Write to: Letters to the editor, The Press and Journal, 1 Marischal Square, Broad Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1BL. email: pj.letters@ajl.co.uk All letters are subject to editing and must include your full address and daytime telephone number for verification. Thank you

<B Ivor Novello and Vivien Leigh in Max Beerbohm's The Happy Hypocrite at His Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket in 1936 Aberystwyth University

Welsh composer whose songs and films won him worldwide fame; Ivor Novello was a Cardiff-born composer and actor who served in World War I before masterminding what became one of the most patriotic songs for those on the front line and back home. He found global fame and his legacy lives on to this day. Tom Houghton tells his story

El motivo del autor que solo logra trascender como personaje, tiene su antecedente directo, dentro de las lecturas de Borges, en el cuento de Max Beerbohm que tradujo para la Antologia del cuento fantastico (1940) (Balderston, Innumerables 91; Olea 258-61), "Enoch Soames", cuyo personaje homonimo, un escritor fracasado, tras hacer un pacto con el diablo viaja al futuro para conocer el impacto que tuvo su obra literaria, solo para descubrir que la unica mencion de su nombre se encuentra dentro de un cuento, donde un escritor fracasado hace un pacto con el diablo para viajar al futuro...

Las posibilidades del Aleph

Tillinghast, a poet and nonfiction writer, provides personal essays about his travels to places like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Oregon, Ireland, Italy, England, Tennessee, and Hawaii, including places he has lived, the architecture of various places, and poets, writers, designers, and other individuals who lived in them, such as George MacBeth, William Morris, Max Beerbohm, John Betjeman, Nathan Bedford Forrest, and Peter Taylor.

Journeys Into the Mind of the World: A Book of Places

It was Hemingway who had first recommended this scenic spot, having visited Sir Max Beerbohm there years before.

The circuitous path of Papa and Ezra

Max Beerbohm, for instance, parodied George Meredith's elliptical prose in "The Victory of Aphasia Gibberish." One reviewer observed of Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's The Inheritors, a collaborative novel with over 400 instances of ellipsis points, that the authors had "cheated" the publisher and the public "who paid for a full six-shilling novel with words all solid on the page." With its fragmentary conversational exchanges, another critic found himself at a loss "to express our irritation at [the novel's] asthmatic dialogue."

Ellipsis in English Literature: Signs of Omission

His immediate successor at the Saturday Review, Max Beerbohm, was not only a peerlessly witty critic but also an author of brilliant comic novels, short stories and caricatures.

Both side now: can a professional critic also be a working artist?

As the satirist Max Beerbohm commented, "All fantasy should have a solid base in reality."

Welcome back

Gabelman cites a tale by Max Beerbohm in which a "dissolute" old rake puts on the mask of a saint to win the heart of a good woman and later finds that his real face has changed to conform to the mask.

George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity

Besides the books, Koc owns a charming portrait of Wilde by Max Beerbohm. In collaboration with Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland, he is in the process of organising a Wilde exhibition in Paris.