+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p633 S 30 ’20 1350w
BEERBOHM, MAX. Seven men. il *$3.50 Knopf
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Six men and the author make seven. The book contains six imaginary sketches of six imaginary men: Enoch Soames; Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton; James Pethel; A. V. Laider; “Savonarola” Brown; with an appendix of drawings of these men by the author. As the drawings are caricatures so are the pen sketches satires on human vanities, weaknesses and foibles, literary and otherwise.
“In none is the author’s authentic touch wholly absent, but there are tedious pages.”
+ − Ath p1138 O 31 ’19 80w
“Our only regret on finishing the book is that he might have paraded his seventh, and after all his most amusing puppet, himself, a little more lavishly.” S. W.
+ Ath p1186 N 14 ’19 720w
“The motif of each story in ‘Seven men’ is slight, the working out of it spread thin—very thin.” C. K. H.