British literary critics of the mauve decade were mildly amused by a gifted young man who called his very first book The Works of Max Beerbohm. Future titles might well present a problem. But merry Max Beerbohm outwitted his critics by later publishing a volume called More, then Yet Again and eventually And Even Now.
Last summer another Briton named Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas published a stockmarket forecast: The Coming American Boom. The breezy little pamphleteer sold tens of thousands of copies in the U. S. and gave his name to the short-lived "Angas rally" on the New York Stock Exchange....
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