A Christmas Garland

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A Christmas Garland is a book woven by Max Beerbohm. The note says Stevenson, in one of his essays, tells how he played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, Sir Thomas Browne, Montaigne, and other writers of the past. The front matter lists works by the same author, among them The Happy Hypocrite and Seven Men.

Not once did Albert himself glance in her direction, and she was just a dim silhouette on the outskirts of his vision. Jos was too amazed to put in a word. A character leans towards the foot of his bed as though to touch the stocking which Santa Claus had, overnight, left dangling there.

About the author

Max Beerbohm

Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist, one of the defining wits of the 1890s and a contributor to The Yellow Book. Celebrated for his elegant satire and drawings of famous contemporaries, he also wrote the comic novel Zuleika Dobson.