Beerbohm, Max 1872-1956. British caricaturist
and author, the half-brother of the actor and
manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917). A
perfectionist in style, he contributed to The
Yellow Book in 1894; wrote the novel of
Oxford undergraduate life, Zuleika Dobson
1911; and published volumes of caricature,
including Rossetti and His Circle 1922. He
succeeded G B Shaw as critic to the Saturday
Review 1898.