Supermax
John Bayley, 8 December 1988
The Letters of Max Beerbohm 1892-1956
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Murray, 244 pp., £16.95, August 1988,0 7195 4537 4 Show More
edited by Rupert Hart-Davis.
Murray, 244 pp., £16.95, August 1988,
The Faber Book of Letters
edited by Felix Pryor.
Faber, 319 pp., £12.95, October 1988,0 571 15269 4 Show More
edited by Felix Pryor.
Faber, 319 pp., £12.95, October 1988,
“... at himself. As a caricaturist he was wholly good-natured. Hart-Davis includes a marvellous one of Shaw, flashing a set of new teeth: Shaw, who had previously kept his mouth closed because of his bad teeth, was delighted by it. The most sinister is of a Mr Bernard Posno, a bon viveur and member of the Orleans Club, a select ... ”