Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Enoch Soames, by Max BeerbohmThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Enoch Soames A Memory of the Eighteen-ninetiesAuthor: Max BeerbohmPosting Date: July 23, 2008 [EBook #760] Release Date: December, 1996Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENOCH SOAMES ***Produced by Judith Boss.Enoch SoamesA Memory of the Eighteen-ninetiesByMAX BEERBOHMWhen a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I lookedeagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whomI had quite forgotten, or remembered but faintly, lived again for me, they and their work, in Mr. Holbrook Jackson's pages.The book was as thorough as it was brilliantly written. And thus the omission found by me was an all the deadlier recordof poor Soames's failure to impress himself on his decade.I dare say I am the only person who noticed the omission. Soames had failed so piteously as all that! Nor is there acounterpoise in the thought that if he had had some measure of success he might have passed, like those others, out ofmy mind, to return only at the historian's beck. It is true that had his gifts, such as they were, ...