Volume 5, Number 8 · November 25, 1965
A Survivor
By Malcolm Muggeridge
Max
by David Cecil
Houghton Mifflin, 507 pp., $6.95
Max Beerbohm's Letters to Reggie Turner
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis
Lippincott, 312 pp., $6.50
Reggie
by Stanley Weintraub
Braziller, 320 pp., $6.50
Considering that Max Beerbohm resolutely refused to put pen to paper, either to write or draw, in the last decades of his life, the growth of his reputation during those years was quite remarkable. As with E. M. Forster, his fame waxed with every book he did not write. Round the Mediterranean coast from Rapallo, where Beerbohm lived, lies Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera, where another English writer, Somerset Maugham, as diligent as Beerbohm was indolent, lives out his last days. His reputation, he may wryly reflect, unlike Beerbohm's dwindled as volume succeeded volume and edition edition, until, by the time Of Human Bondage touched the million mark, there was no critic so lowly of brow as to pay him homage.
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