num_pages: 272
description: The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, later by John Lane alone, and edited by the American Henry Harland, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s.It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary and artistic genres, poetry, short stories, essays, book illustrations, portraits, and reproductions of paintings.Volume I ContentsLetterpressI. The Death of the Lion - Henry JamesII. Tree-Worship - Richard Le GallienneIII. A Defence of Cosmetics - Max BeerbohmIV. ... - Arthur Christopher BensonV. Irremediable - Ella D'ArcyVI. The Frontier - William WatsonVII. Night on Curbar Edge - William WatsonVIII. A Sentimental Cellar - George SaintsburyIX. Stella Maris - Arthur SymonsX. Mercedes - Henry HarlandXI. A Broken Looking-Glass - Henry HarlandXII. Alere Flammam - Edmund GosseXIII. A Dream of November - Edmund GosseXIV. The Dedication - Fred M. SimpsonXV. A Lost Masterpiece - George EgertonXVI. Reticence in Literature - Arthur WaughXVII. Modern Melodrama - Hubert CrackanthorpeXVIII. London - John DavidsonXIX. Down-a-down - John DavidsonXX. The Love Story of Luigi Tansillo - Richard Garnett, LL.D.XXI. The Fool's Hour - John Oliver Hobbes &amp; George MoorePicturesI.A Study - Sir Frederick Leighton, PRAII. L'Education Sentimentale - Aubrey BeardsleyIII. Le Puy en Velay - Joseph PennellIV. The Old Oxford Music Hall - Walter SickertV. Portrait of a Gentleman - Will RothensteinVI. The Reflected Faun - Laurence HousmanVII. Night Piece - Aubrey BeardsleyVIII. A Study - Sir Frederick Leighton, PRAIX. Portrait of a Lady - Will RothensteinX. Portrait of Mrs. Patrick Campbell - Aubrey BeardsleyXI. The Head of Minos - J. T. NettleshipXII. Portrait of a Lady - Charles W. FurseXIII. A Lady of Reading - Walter SickertXIV. A Book Plate - Aubrey BeardsleyXV. A Book Plate - R. Anning Bell
language: English
title: The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly
publisher: Elkin Matthews & John Lane