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Vote: | Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. |
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Vote: | Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests. |
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Vote: | I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. |
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Vote: | Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. |
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Vote: | Most women are not as young as they are painted. |
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Vote: | One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. |
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Vote: | To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. |
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Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist.
He was born in London, England, the younger half-brother of actor and producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford; it was at school that he began writing. Some of his work appeared in The Yellow Book (1894). He toured the United States while a young man, as a press agent for his brother's theatrical company.
His first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, was published in 1896. In 1898 he followed George Bernard Shaw as drama critic for the Saturday Review, on whose staff he remained until 1910. From 1935 onwards, he was an occasional if popular radio broadcaster.
His best known works are A Christmas Garland (1912), a parody of literary styles, and
Seven Men (1919), which includes "Enoch Soames", the tale of a poet who makes a deal with the Devil to find out how posterity will remember him, is also well-known.
In 1911 he wrote Zuleika Dobson, his only novel. Other works include The Happy Hypocrite (1897).
Beerbohm married actress Florence Kahn in 1910. He was knighted in 1939. He died in Rapallo, Italy aged 83.
Books of Max Beerbohm's works
Written works
*The Works of Max Beerbohm, with a Bibliography by John Lane (1896)
*More (1899)
*Yet Again (1909)
*Zuleika Dobson; or, An Oxford Love Story (1911)
*A Christmas Garland, Woven by Max Beerbohm (1912)
*Seven Men (1919)
*Herbert Beerbohm Tree: Some Memories of Him and of His Art (1920, ed. by Max Beerbohm)
*And Even Now (1920)
*A Peep into the Past (1923)
*Around Theatres (1924)
*A Variety of Things (1928)
*The Dreadful Dragon of Hay Hill (1928)
*Lytton Strachey: The Rede Lecture (1943)
*Mainly on the Air (1946; enlarged edition 1957)
*The Incomparable Max: A Collection of Writings of Sir Max Beerbohm" (1962)
*Max in Verse: Rhymes and Parodies (1963, ed. by J. G. Riewald)
*Letters to Reggie Turner (1964, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)
*More Theatres, 1898–1903 (1969, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)
*Max and Will: Max Beerbohm and William Rothenstein: Their Friendship and Letters (1975, ed. by Mary M. Lago and Karl Beckson)
*Letters of Max Beerbohm: 1892–1956 (1988, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)
*Last Theatres (1970, ed. by Rupert Hart-Davis)
*A Peep into the Past and Other Prose Pieces (1972)
*Max Beerbohm and "The Mirror of the Past" (1982, ed. Lawrence Danson)
Collections of caricatures
* Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen (1896)
* The Poets' Corner (1904)
* A Book of Caricatures (1907)
* Cartoons: The Second Childhood of John Bull (1911)
* Fifty Caricatures (1913)
* A Survey (1921)
* Rossetti and His Circle (1922)
* Things New and Old (1923)
* Observations (1925)
* Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet (1931) five drawings in a portfolio
* Max's Nineties: Drawings 1892–1899 (1958, ed. Rupert Hart-Davies and Allan Wade)
* Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures: From Homer to Huxley (1977, ed. J. G. Riewald)
* Max Beerbohm Caricatures (1997, ed. N. John Hall)
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