The Yellow Book: A Checklist and Index.Mark Samuels Mark Samuels is a London-based writer of horror and fantastic fiction in the tradition of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Born in 1967 in Clapham, South London, he was first published in 1988, and his short stories often focus on detailing a shadowy modern London in which Lasner. The Eighteen Nineties Society. [pounds]25.00 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-905744-22-5. Mark Samuels Lasner has brought his widely recognised authority on the literature and art of the late Victorian period See See also: Victorian to bear on the compilation of an annotated checklist and index to The Yellow Book. In so doing he has performed a most useful service, making it possible for the serious student to have access to the entire contents of the thirteen volumes - April 1894-April 1897 - of what must undoubtedly be regarded as the epitomising artifact of the fin de siecle Fin` de sie´cle 1. Lit., end of the century; - mostly used adjectively in English to signify: belonging to, or characteristic of, the close of the 19th century. , with, literally, finger-tip ease. Heretofore, to 'learn much about the illustrations, to find a specific story by title, to see if Georges Bizet or Robert Bage Robert Bage may refer to:
Taking into consideration, as it does, every author, every illustrator, including the identities of those who, for whatever reason, chose to lurk - latitat et discurrit as the legal tag has it - behind the masks of pseudonyms This article gives a list of pseudonyms, in various categories. Pseudonyms are similar to, but distinct from, secret identities. Artists, sculptors, architects
The author has been meticulous in providing those standard references, biographies and bibliographies to which he has had recourse. In this context I must confess that I was somewhat surprised to discover the total absence of any mention of Dr. Geoffrey Smerdon and my definitive biography of Richard Le Gallienne Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866 - 1947) was an English man of letters, closely associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s; after that he resided in the USA, without altering his period style. , which is not only rich in Yellow Book references and data, but contains also a catalogue of Le Gallienne's writings. This was published in 1965, but Mr. Lasner has elected rather to cite R. C. Lingel's 1926 volume on Le Gallienne. Of course the well known contributors - Beardsley, Beerbohm, Bennett, Corvo, D'Arcy, Davidson, Dowson, Egerton, Cissing, James, Symons, Wells, Yeats - are easy to discover and display, but there have had to be esoteric rummagings in certain less well illuminated areas. Mr. Lasner supplies a valuable encrustation en·crust·a·tion n. Variant of incrustation. Noun 1. encrustation - the formation of a crust incrustation of footnotes. Most interesting, bibliographically, are the details which he gives regarding reprints of The Yellow Book which masquerade as first editions. Not everyone, I think, realises that that curious 'Hermit of Peking', the sinophilic Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, may have had a yellow finger in the running of The Yellow Book. Neither perhaps, is the curious and - for its day and age - somewhat scandalous lifestyle of Rosamund Ball, also known as Rosamund Marriott Watson Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860 – 1911) was a Victorian poet and critic who wrote under the pseudonym of Graham R. Tomson. Her poems, which presaged modernism, are informed by aestheticism and occasionally avant-garde sensibilities. , widely recalled. There is a beguiling nostalgia in rediscovering the couple of contributions - to Volumes IV and V - by that almost forgotten 'man of letters' and incidentally father-in-law of Edward Thomas, James Ashcroft Noble, who hailed from Liverpool and nursed those local literary lion cubs, Richard Le Gallienne and William Watson. One of Mr Lasner's few failures is the exposition of the true identity of the continuingly mysterious S. Cornish Watkins. A small correction for future editions: it is Wilfred not Wifred Meynell. RICHARD WHITTINGTON-EGAN. |
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