SEVEN MEN by Max Beerbohm Transcriber’s Note: From the version of “Seven Men” published in 1919 by William Heinemann (London). Two of the stories have been omitted (“James Pethel” and “A.V. Laider”) since they are available separately from Project Gutenberg. In this plain ASCII version, emphasis and syllable stress italics have been converted to capitals; foreign italics and accents have been removed In “Enoch Soames:” I added a missing closing quotation mark in the following phrase: ‘Ten past two,’ he said. In “Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton:” I changed the opening double quote to a single quote in: ‘I wondered what old Mr. Abraham Hayward... and ‘I knew that if I leaned forward... Contents ENOCH SOAMES HILARY MALTBY AND STEPHEN BRAXTON ‘SAVONAROLA’ BROWN SAVONAROLA