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A CHRISTMAS GARLAND
_woven by_
MAX BEERBOHM
LONDON MCMXXI
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
First printed, October, 1912.
New Impressions, October, 1912; December, 1912; December, 1912; July,
1918; September, 1918; March, 1931.
Copyright, 1912.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
THE WORKS OF MAX BEERBOHM
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YET AGAIN
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THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE
ZULIEKA DOBSON
SEVEN MEN
AND EVEN NOW
CARICATURES OF TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN
THE POETS' CORNER
THE SECOND CHILDHOOD OF JOHN BULL
A BOOK OF CARICATURES
FIFTY CARICATURES
NOTE
_Stevenson, in one of his essays, tells us how he "played the sedulous
ape" to Hazlitt, Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, and other writers of
the past. And the compositors of all our higher-toned newspapers keep
the foregoing sentence set up in type always, so constantly does it
come tripping off the pens of all higher-toned reviewers. Nor ever do
I read it without a fresh thrill of respect for the young Stevenson.
I, in my own very inferior boyhood, found it hard to revel in so much
as a single page of any writer earlier than Thackeray.
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