Volume 36, Number 18 · November 23, 1989
Petit Maître
By John Gross
Letters of Max Beerbohm, 1892–1956
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis
Norton, 244 pp., $22.50
In 1954, when he was well over eighty, Max Beerbohm wrote a letter thanking a young admirer who had sent him a copy of The Reason Why, Cecil Woodham Smith's account of the Charge of the Light Brigade and the two commanders responsible for that celebrated disaster, Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan:
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