The Works of Max Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm [epub read online books .txt] 📗

1894. [Not reprinted]

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 “The Chieftain” 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.

“1880.” The Yellow Book, Vol. IV, Jan. 1895, pp. 275⁠–⁠283. Reprinted in “The Works.”

A parody of this appeared, under the title of “1894,” by Max Mereboom, in Punch, February 2, 1895, p. 58.

Character Sketches of “An Ideal Husband” 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 “The Works.”

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 “The Works.”

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 “The Works.”

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 “The Works,” under the title of “Dandies and Dandies.”

Press Notices on “Punch and Judy,” selected by Max Beerbohm. The Sketch, Oct. 16, 1895 (p. 644). [Not reprinted]

Be it Cosiness. The Pageant, Christmas, 1895, pp. 230⁠–⁠235.

Reprinted in “The Works” under the title of “Diminuendo.”

A parody of this appeared, under the title of “Be it Cosiness,” 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. 45⁠–⁠7. [Reprinted in “The Works”]

De Natura Barbatulorum. The Chap-Book, Feb. 15, 1896, pp. 305⁠–⁠312.

The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works,” under the title of “Dandies and Dandies.”

Poor Romeo! The Yellow Book, Vol. IX, April ’96, pp. 169⁠–⁠181. [Reprinted in “The Works”]

A Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley. A wood engraving after the drawing by Max Beerbohm. The Savoy, No. 2, April 1896, p. 161.

Personalia

On 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 historian⁠—W. C. Kinglake. Woman, April 29, 1896, p. 8.

Portraits of Mr. Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm in “Boyhood.” 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.

Endnotes

The residence of Lady Freake, a famous hostess of the day and founder of a brilliant salon, “where even Royalty was sure of a welcome.” The writer of a recent monograph declares that, “many 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.” ↩

For a full account of this function, see pp. 102⁠–⁠124 of the Annals of the Albert Hall. ↩

“Jersey Lily.” A fanciful title bestowed, at this time, upon the beautiful Mrs. Langtry, who was a native of Jersey Island. ↩

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. ↩

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:

“There were quaint, beautiful, extraordinary costumes walking about⁠—ultra-aesthetics, artistic-aesthetics, aesthetics that made up their minds to be daring, and suddenly gave way in some important point⁠—put 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