The Men of the Nineties

The day Beardsley left his stool and ledger in a London insurance office and betook himself seriously to the illustration of that strange comic world of Congreve, a new manifest...

At one time it was customary for critics to plead that he was only a supreme imitator of the Japanese or somebody; but, in reality, as has been pointed out by Robert Ross in his...

The publisher, Mr. John Lane, says[8] this much-discussed _Yellow Book_ was founded one morning during half-an-hour’s chat over cigarettes, at the Hogarth Club, by himself, Bear...

But in so far as English fiction alone is concerned, it cannot be said that the men of the nineties produced work of a very high order in this form. They do not seem to have had...

Immediately he entered the theatre, the sudden sight of the scene stopped him, revealed, as it were, through a great gap. The stage blazed white; masses of recumbent girls, bath...

Above all, Davidson handles with marked facility the modern ballad medium of narrative verse. _The Ballad of a Nun_, _The Ballad of an Artist’s Wife_, and others, relate their s...

It has been said his caricatures are essays. May we not equally say his essays are caricatures? The essay, indeed, is the work of the feline male, the man who sits beside the fi...

Indeed, the elements that destroy the worthless, that winnow the chaff from the grain, have been at work. For us, indeed, this landscape has changed from what it once was, and l...