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A Christmas Garland

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Christmas Garland, by Max Beerbohm This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: A Christmas Garland

Author: Max Beerbohm

Release Date: January 11, 2005 [EBook #14667]

Language: English

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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 MORE YET AGAIN

A CHRISTMAS GARLAND

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

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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 yo

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