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# Beerbohm
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4960/
- Published: 2006-08-24T19:03:05.000Z
- Updated: 2006-08-24T19:03:05.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

It's Max Beerbohm's birthday today. [Link](http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/2006/08/happy-birthday-max.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I don't know much about him, but Chesteron liked him and Joseph Epstein likes him. I read just recently that, when Epstein was first married and suffering the financial pangs of early adult life, he had to move (to Little Rock, I believe). To lighten the load, he sold almost all his books, but kept his Beerbohm collection. That's a pretty good endorsement.

GKC on Max:

> I remember that Mr. Max Beerbohm (who has every merit except democracy) attempted to analyse the jokes at which the mob laughs. He divided them into three sections: jokes about bodily humiliation, jokes about things alien, such as foreigners, and jokes about bad cheese. Mr. Max Beerbohm thought he understood the first two forms; but I am not sure that he did. In order to understand vulgar humour it is not enough to be humorous. One must also be vulgar, as I am.