The current number of the "Bodleian Quarterly Record gives ap account of the discovery of four of Max Seerbohm''s sketches among the prints, etc., of the library.
These are catalogued as "'four sketches taken in Oxford at lectures by Max Beerbohm when an undergraduate of Merton College, circa 1890." They have deen inlaid and bound, and can be found in the Gough Room. The first and most elaborate of the. four shows the late Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, of Corpus Christi College, radiant and haloed, poising delicately on the highest peak of Corpus Parnassus; at his side the legend:
O fumose sene, minus ne credo libells Von sie Parnassum tengere tu patens.
Next comes a sketch of the late Mr. Ingram Bywater in his hat and Inverness cape, with a look so sidelong and so demure and alert as to make one person say when he saw it: "Yes, that is Bywater; but why make him so much like Mephistopheles?" G. C. Brodrick, then Warden of Merton, appears in the third sketch, walking with bent shoulders, a tall hat well on the back of his head, and his stick behind him. This, though the slightest, is also (say those who knew him) by far the happiest likeness of the four. The last is one of Dean Liddell, looming and tremendous, seeming all! gown and white bushy hair.
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