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Title: The Works of Max Beerbohm

Author: Max Beerbohm

Commentator: John Lane

Posting Date: November 20, 2008 [EBook #1859]
Release Date: August, 1999

Language: English

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THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM

by Max Beerbohm

With a Bibliography by John Lane

Original Transcriber's Note:

I have transliterated the Greek passages. Here are some approximate
translations:

--philomathestatoi ton neaniskon: some of the youths most eager for
knowledge

--Nepios: childish

--hexeis apodeiktikai: things that can be proven (Aristotle, Nic.
Ethics)

--eidolon amauron: shadowy phantom (phrase used by Homer in The Odyssey
to describe the specter Athena sends to comfort Penelope)

--all' aiei: but always

--tina phota megan kai kalon edegmen: I received some great and
beautiful light

'Amid all he has here already achieved, full, we may
think, of the quiet assurance of what is to come,
his attitude is still that of the scholar; he
seems still to be saying, before all
things, from first to last, "I
am utterly purposed
that I will not
offend."'

CONTENTS

Dandies and Dandies
A Good Prince
1880
King George the Fourth
The Pervasion of Rouge
Poor Romeo!
Diminuendo
Bibliography

Dandies and Dandies

How very delightful Grego's drawings are! For all their mad perspective
and crude colour, they have indeed the sentiment of style, and they
reveal, with surer delicacy than does any other record, the spirit of
Mr. Brummell's day. Grego guides me, as Virgil Dante, through all
the mysteries of that other world. He shows me those stiff-necked,
over-hatted, wasp-waisted gentlemen, drinking Burgundy in the Cafe des
Milles Colonnes or riding through the village of Newmarket upon their
fat cobs or gambling at Crockford's. Grego's Green Room of the Opera
House always delights me. The formal way in which Mdlle. Mercandotti is
standing upon one