Poets Ranked by Beard Weight - Upton Uxbridge Underwood

Poets Ranked by Beard Weight is a tongue-in-cheek classic of
Edwardian esoterica, a privately printed leaflet offered by
subscription to the informed man of fashion and as a divertissement au courant for the reading bins and cocktail tables of parlor
cars, and smoking lounges of gentlemen’s clubs. Typifying a once-popular but nowadays seldom-encountered species of turn-of-the-century ephemera, it has become a rarity much prized by bibliophiles. See how the beards of Walt Whitman and Henry David
Thoreau stack up against those of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Also includes: Fundamentals of Beard Flirtation, in which readers learn
the etiquette and code of beard poses and gestures; fortune-telling through beard-reading (pogonomancy); beard-based folklore and controversies (?Public Statues: Dignitaries or Dust Catchers?”)