Unerring as a caricaturist, a shrewd and subtle commentator and a precise and devastating critic, Max Beerbohm lavished all his gifts upon Zuleika Dobson, the undergraduate epic of Oxford.  Its gayety and irrepressible mockery make it a book to be savored over and over again by the knowing and a delightful intellectual adventure for those who come upon it for the first time.  Satire and innuendo are intermingled with beauty and charming malice; humor ripples through every page and the dialogue sparkles. Zuleika Dobson is indeed a novel of youth and all its glittering extravagances, a witty, wise and entertaining travesty on university life.