This 1909 collection of humorous sketches includes “The Fire, ” “Seeing People Off, ” “A Club in Ruins, ” “A Study in Dejection, ” “A Pathetic Imposture, ” “The Decline of the Graces, ” “Whistler’s Writing, ” “A Morris for May-Day, ” “The House of Commons Manner, ” “The Naming of Streets, ” “On Shakespeare’s Birthday, ” “A Home-Coming, ” and “The Humour of the Public.”
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Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist, satirist, caricaturist, and broadcaster, best known today for the novel Zuleika Dobson (1911). The London son of a Lithuanian-born grain merchant, he became a member of the artistic and literary circle that included Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. He was knighted in 1939. George Bernard Shaw said of him, ‘The younger generation is knocking at the door; and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.’