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23 NOTES 1 Karl Beckson, ed,, Aesthetes and Decadents of the 1890's (NY: Random House, I966), p. 9, 2 Stanley Weintraub, Beardsleyι A Biography (NY: G. Braziller, 1967), p. 168. 3 Weintraub, p. I68. 4 Weintraub, p. 230. 5 That Beardsley sent this "private" and "pornographic" version to Smithers as it was written does not invalidate the meaning of these terms. Smithers, Weintraub tells us, was so well known as a dealer in and enthusiast over pornography that William Rothenstein , for one, would not associate with him. There is no indication that Beardsley intended the MS ever to be published in the form that it was sent to Smithers. 6 Weintraub, p. loi. INDEX A cumulative fifteen-year index to ELT is nearing completion with generous support from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Humanities. See further notices for more detailed information. 32 10 Lavers, p. 245. 11 For Swinburne, this was the "tragic touch" of the story ι "that the knight who has renounced Christ believes in him; the lover who has embraced Venus disbelieves in her" (Complete Works. 20 vols., ed by E. W. Gosse and T. J. Wise [Londi W. Heinemann, Ltd., 1925-27], XVI, 365). 12 Aubrey Beardsley and John Glassco's Under the Hill (NY: Grove P. 1959). is an attempt by Glassco, the Canadian poet, to complete Beardsley's tale according to the design Beardsley originally established. INDEX The cumulative fifteen-year index to ELT now in preparation is scheduled for separate publication about June or July 1975» See further notices for more detailed information. • ••»••••••••••«ν········*·····**· 35 through Beerbohm's mind during the many hours he spent there alone. Her scholarship is prodigal of unpublished letters and material from privately held archives, but these alone do not make a biography ι and the biographical parts of her book are weakened by her lack of deep interest in Beerbohm's imaginative work, the most important part of his life. Her infrequent references to his fantasies , for example, can not be depended upon even for accuracyi she calls Zuleika Dobson's grandfather her uncle; she confuses Lord George Hell with George IV; she misreads a James character for James himself in Beerbohm's parody, "The Guerdon," where James himself is indeed a character. Better accounts of Beerbohm have been and will be written, and perhaps even Florence Kahn will inspire a more thoroughgoing biography, but this is still a valuable book. Its thesis is sound, enlightening , and one Beerbohm would have approved. He disliked theories and abstractions, always preferring things and people in particular to things and people in general. The Americans in Mrs. Mix's title have deserved an historian; many are people he loved, and many scholars , critics, collectors, librarians, essayists, and even publishers - are people that loved him. Mrs. Mix has written, around the edges and in the spaces of the accounts of Florence and Max Beerbohm, the chronicle of the works of Beerbohm's American readers and admirers; these Americans have cultivated his reputation and preserved his manuscripts as vessels of an old-world sweetness that this country will one day come to know that it needs. Americans of that day will give thanks for these devotees whose works and names Mrs. Mix has recorded and whose company she has now joined. Brooklyn College, CUNY Robert Viscusi it*******»****«**··*******·***«*** INDEX The cumulative fifteen-year index to ELT now in preparation will be sold separately, cost will be announced later. See further notices for more detailed information. 37 NOTES 1 (NYi Dutton, 1924), p. 21. 2 © Mrs. Helena Ward, 1974. For permission to publish the letter we are grateful to the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas (Austin) and to Mrs. Ward. Also we wish to thank Professor T. E. M. Boll for checking our transcription of Roberts' difficult handwriting. 3 Compare with Roberts' more romantic statement in A. Portrait ι "I wished to take him out on the open pampa, with a long wide view beyond the sight of man even on horsback, with the great clear sky above. So I would have digged a grave and put him to rest in his blanket just as he had fallen asleep, without disturbing his attitude of...