He retained his British citizenship and seemed ill-suited to the 20th century. "Not for him the telephone, the gramophone, or the radio. Even the telephone stirred him to loud abuse unless it served his purpose and then was hung up."
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Ill-Suited to the 20th Century
Ward W. Briggs, Jr., "Laistner, Max Ludwig Wolfram," in Ward W. Briggs, Jr., ed., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994), pp. 337-338 (at 338):