7 JANUARY 1922, Page 33

Max Beerbohm in Perspective. By Bohun Lynch. (W. Heinemann. 10s.

6d.)—Mr. Lynch gossips pleasantly about the early works of Mr. Beerbohm, giving quotations, but was it necessary to rehash so late a work as that immortal description of Swinburne, No. 2 The Pines ? One section of the book deals with the caricatures, a number of which have been reproduced, among them a page of studies of Mr. Cunninghame Graham. In this it is very interesting to see that the main form of the finished drawing was present from the beginning. Mr. Lynch has had great courage and included some drawings of his own; these appearing in such company seem very heavy-handed.