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Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties
Enoch Soames a memory of the eighteennineties Author:Max Beerbohm 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. Holbroo... more »k
Jackson's pages. The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly
written. And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier
record of poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade.« less