More - Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm Presents In More A Collection Of Twenty Brilliantly Amusing Essays. In A Wide-ranging Tour Through Both The Inspiring And The Ridiculous In English Fin De Siecle Society, Beerbohm Casts A Veiled Critical Drubbing Here, And A Wistful Though Sprightly Appreciation There, Thoroughly Entertaining Us And Accurately Spearing His Victims.some Of His Most Noted Work Appeared In This Second Little Volume When It Was First Published In 1899. In Punch He Asks Us If The Magazines Terrible Dullness Is Not Our Own Fault; In An Infamous Brigade The Question Is Revolved As To Whether The Fire Engine Is Not An Infernal Machine Designed To Dampen Our Pleasure; In The Blight On The Music Halls We Must Critically Consider The Relative Merits Of Vulgarity And Refinement; In Ouida The Famed Enthusiastic Authors Wild Colour And Occasional Infelicities Are Justly Celebrated; In Arise, Sir - -