Please note: I first published this book review on the “Goodreads”-website in 2023.
My rating: 5 (of 5) “stars”
I bought a used copy online, at AbeBooks or zvab.com. It was first published in 1930 by T. Werner Laurie Ltd.
Let me quote from Bentley’s Wikipedia entry: “Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was a popular English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics..”
And that’s what this book is. A collection of humorous verse about famous people.
My copy of the book has no publication date, but I believe it was published in 1905. It’s truly a wonderful book. Buy a used copy, if you can, from 1905. It contains 40 illustrations by G. K. Chesterton.