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Max Beerbohm: Spectator Sport
From: The Hudson Review
Date: 20030701
Author:Mullen, Alexandra
WE ALL HAVE FAVORITE BOOKSHOPS, and one of mine is in London. It's crammed with books, both new and secondhand, in tidy piles upstairs and in more enticingly untidy ones downstairs. It's a great place to wedge yourself in a corner and see what you find. A few years ago, I had already turned up a copy of The Wallet of Kai Lung (one of Lord Peter Wimsey's favorites for whiling away an idle hour on a punt), some light verse by Evoe, an H. Rider Haggard novel I'd never even heard of, a pile of Dornford Yates, and a prayer book for children from the 1930s ("Please God bless Mummy, Daddy, my ...
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