THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES

BOOKS BY HOLBROOK JACKSON

ROMANCE AND REALITY ALL MANNER OF FOLK PLATITUDES IN THE MAKING GREAT ENGLISH NOVELISTS BERNARD SHAW: A MONOGRAPH WILLIAM MORRIS SOUTHWARD HO!

_From the Photograph by Frederick H. Evans_]

THE EIGHTEEN NINETIES

A REVIEW OF ART AND IDEAS AT THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

BY HOLBROOK JACKSON AUTHOR OF “ROMANCE AND REALITY,” ETC.

LONDON GRANT RICHARDS LTD. MDCCCCXXII

_First Edition_ _1913_ _Reprinted_ _1922_

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED EDINBURGH

TO MAX BEERBOHM

Page of _The Savoy_, Vol. I.]

LIST OF PLATES

Aubrey Beardsley _Frontispiece_ _From a Photograph by Frederick H. Evans_

TO FACE PAGE

Cover Design of _The Yellow Book_, Volume I 18 _By Aubrey Beardsley_

Cover Design of _The Saturday Review_, Christmas Supplement (1896) 34 _By William Rothenstein_

Cover Design of _The Savoy_, Volume I 38 _By Aubrey Beardsley_

Oscar Wilde (1895) 72

Aubrey Beardsley 92 _By Max Beerbohm_

The Rape of the Lock 98 _By Aubrey Beardsley_

Page Decoration from the _Morte d’Arthur_ 100 _By Aubrey Beardsley_

Tail-piece from _Salomé_ 104 _By Aubrey Beardsley_

“Mr W. B. Yeats introducing Mr George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies” 120 _By Max Beerbohm_

A. E. Housman 164 _From a Drawing by William Rothenstein_

Francis Thompson (Life Mask, 1905) 166

Rudyard Kipling 232 _By William Nicholson_

A Garland for May Day 1895 244 _By Walter Crane_

Page Decoration from the Kelmscott _Coleridge_ 258 _By William Morris_

Page Decoration from John Gray’s _Spiritual Poems_ 262 _By Charles Ricketts_

Frontispiece and Title-Page of _The House of Joy_ 266 _By Laurence Housman_

The Peacock Fan 268 _By Charles Conder_

The Arrival of Prince Charming 274 _By Charles Conder_

A Voluptuary 280 _By L. Raven Hill_

Illustration from _The Faerie Queene_ 282 _By Walter Crane_

Phil May 286 _By Spy_

A Lecture in Store 288 _By Phil May_

The Banks of the Styx 290 _By S. H. Sime_