A Christmas Garland

Beerbohm's parodies of their work are intermixed with a Christmas theme and the inventiveness of his own comic talents.

[3] When A Christmas Garland first appeared in 1912 reviewers agreed that Beerbohm had not only captured the styles or "externals" of his subjects but had "unbared their brains and hearts".

Henry James, the first author parodied, read A Christmas Garland with "wonder and delight" and called the book "the most intelligent that has been produced in England for many a long day.

"[3] "A Christmas Garland is surely the liber aureus of prose parody", said John Updike.

He seems to enclose in a transparent omniscience the genius of each star as, in A Christmas Garland, he methodically moves across the firmament of Edwardian letters.