eighteen-nineties

Updated: June 7, 2025

When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages.

Sir Max Beerbohm - Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties