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

turned out that morning. The motley crowd mingled, forming into groups, sometimes dazzling you by the array of colours that you never thought to see in full daylight.⁠ ⁠… Canary-coloured garments flitted cheerily by garments of the saddest green. A hat in an agony of pushes and angles was seen in company with a bonnet that was a gay garland of flowers. A vast cape that might have enshrouded the form of a Mater Dolorosa hung by the side of a jauntily-striped Langtry-hood.”

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By this title his disciples used to address James Whistler, the author-artist. Without echoing the obloquy that was lavished at first nor the praise that was lavished later upon his pictures, we must admit that he was, as least, a great master of English prose and a controversialist of no mean power. ↩

One authority derives the title, rather ingeniously, from Ma Chère, the mode of address used by the gilded youth to the barmaids of the period⁠—whence the corruption, “Masher.” Another traces it to the chorus of a song, which, at that time, had a great vogue in the music-halls:

“I’m the slashing, dashing, mashing Montmorency of the day.”

This, in my opinion, is the safer suggestion, and may be adopted. ↩

I received some great and beautiful light. ↩

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The Works of Max Beerbohm
was published in 1896 by
Max Beerbohm.

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