The Works of Max Beerbohm

1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: The Marquis of Queensberry (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Nov. 17, 1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: Ada Reeve (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Nov. 24, 1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: Seymour Hicks (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 1, 1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: Corney Grain (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 8, 1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: Lord Randolph Churchill (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 22, 1894. [Not reprinted]

Personal Remarks: Dutch Daly (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Dec. 29, 1894. [Not reprinted]

1895

• Character Sketches of “The Chieftain” at the Savoy.

  1. Mr. Courtice Pounds.

  2. Mr. Scott Fishe.

  3. Mr. Walter Passmore.

  Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 5, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Henry Irving (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 5, 1895.

• “1880.” The Yellow Book, Vol. IV, Jan. 1895, pp. 275⁠–⁠283. Reprinted in “The Works.”

  A parody of this appeared, under the title of “1894,” by Max Mereboom, in Punch, February 2, 1895, p. 58.

• Character Sketches of “An Ideal Husband” at the Haymarket.

  1. Mr. Bishop.

  2. Mr. Charles Hawtrey.

  3. Miss Julia Neilson.

  Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 19, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Harry Marks (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 19, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: F. C. Burnand (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Jan. 26, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 7, 1895.

  The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works.”

• Personal Remarks: Arthur Pinero (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Feb. 9, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 14, 1895.

• Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 21, 1895.

  The above have been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works.”

• Personal Remarks: The Rt. Hon. Sir William Vernon Harcourt (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, Feb. 23, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Dandies and Dandies. Vanity (New York). Feb. 28, 1895.

  The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works.”

• Personal Remarks: Earl Spencer (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 9, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Arthur Balfour (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 16, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: S. B. Bancroft (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 23, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Paderewski (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, March 30, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Colonel North (Caricature). Pick-Me-Up, April 6, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Personal Remarks: Alfred de Rothschild. Pick-Me-Up, April 20, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Merton. (The Warden of Merton.) The Octopus, May 25, 1895. A Caricature. [Not reprinted]

• Seen on the Towpath. The Octopus, May 29, 1895. A Caricature. [Not reprinted]

• An Evening of Peculiar Delirium. The Sketch, July 24, 1895. [Not reprinted]

• Notes in Foppery. The Unicorn, Sept. 18, 1895.

• Notes in Foppery. The Unicorn, Sept. 25, 1895.

  The above have been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works,” under the title of “Dandies and Dandies.”

• Press Notices on “Punch and Judy,” selected by Max Beerbohm. The Sketch, Oct. 16, 1895 (p. 644). [Not reprinted]

• Be it Cosiness. The Pageant, Christmas, 1895, pp. 230⁠–⁠235.

  Reprinted in “The Works” under the title of “Diminuendo.”

  A parody of this appeared, under the title of “Be it Cosiness,” by Max Mereboom, in Punch, Dec. 21, 1895, p. 297.

1896

• A Caricature of Mr. Beerbohm Tree, a wood engraving after the drawing by Max Beerbohm. The Savoy, No. 1, Jan. 1896, p. 125. [Not reprinted]

• A Good Prince. The Savoy, No. 1, Jan. 1896, pp. 45⁠–⁠7. [Reprinted in “The Works”]

• De Natura Barbatulorum. The Chap-Book, Feb. 15, 1896, pp. 305⁠–⁠312.

  The above has been reprinted with additions and alterations in “The Works,” under the title of “Dandies and Dandies.”

• Poor Romeo! The Yellow Book, Vol. IX, April ’96, pp. 169⁠–⁠181. [Reprinted in “The Works”]

• A Caricature of Aubrey Beardsley. A wood engraving after the drawing by Max Beerbohm. The Savoy, No. 2, April 1896, p. 161.

Personalia

• On the 24th instant, at 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington, the wife of J. E. Beerbohm, Esq., of a son. The Times, Aug. 26, 1872.

• A few words with Mr. Max Beerbohm. (An interview by Ada Leverson.) The Sketch, Jan. 2, 1895, p. 439.

• Max Beerbohm: an interview by Isabel Brooke Alder. Woman, April 29, 1896, pp. 8 & 9.

• On Mr. Beerbohm leaving Oxford in July 1895, he took up his residence at 19 Hyde Park Place, formerly the residence of another well-known historian⁠—W. C. Kinglake. Woman, April 29, 1896, p. 8.

Portraits of Mr. Max Beerbohm

• Max Beerbohm in “Boyhood.” The Sketch, Jan. 2, 1895, p. 439.

• Max Beerbohm. Oxford Characters. Lithographs by Will Rothenstein. Part 6.

  It is believed this artist did several pastels of Mr. Beerbohm.

• Portrait of Mr. Beerbohm standing before a picture of George the Fourth, by Walter Sickert.

• Mr. Max Beerbohm. Woman, April 29, 1896, p. 8.

Endnotes

1. The residence of Lady Freake, a famous hostess of the day and founder of a brilliant salon, “where even Royalty was sure of a welcome.” The writer of a recent monograph declares that, “many a modern hostess would do well to emulate Lady Freake, not only in her taste for the Beautiful in Art but also for the Intellectual in Conversation.” ↩

2. For a full account of this function, see pp. 102⁠–⁠124 of the Annals of the Albert Hall. ↩

3. “Jersey Lily.” A fanciful title bestowed, at this time, upon the beautiful Mrs. Langtry, who was a native of Jersey Island. ↩

4. Supposed to have been introduced by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, who, having heard it in Vienna, was pleased, for a while, by its novelty, but soon reverted to the more sprightly deux-temps. ↩

5. This passage, which I found in a contemporary chronicle, is so quaint and so instinct with the spirit of its time that I am fain to quote it:

   “There were quaint, beautiful, extraordinary costumes walking about⁠—ultra-aesthetics, artistic-aesthetics, aesthetics that made up their minds to be daring, and suddenly gave way in some important point⁠—put a frivolous bonnet on the top of a grave and flowing garment that Albert Durer might have designed for a mantle. There were fashionable costumes that Mrs. Mason or Madame Eliot might have