← Table of contents
The eighteen nineties

INDEX

Reading edition

About the Theatre, by William Archer, 207

Academy, The, 169–170

Achurch, Janet, 207–208

Adams, Francis, 34

Addison, Joseph, 41, 121

“A.E.” (see George Russell)

Æschylus, 167

Æsthetic movement, 28, 67

Ahab and Jezebel, by Oscar Wilde, 80

Albert, Prince, 100

Aldin, Cecil, 290

Allen, Grant, 21, 28–29, 35, 39, 40, 44, 131, 147–148, 151–152, 216

Almanack of Twelve Sports, by W. E. Henley, illustrated by William Nicholson, 274

Almayer’s Folly, by Joseph Conrad, 225

“An Artist in Attitudes,” 81

Angelo, Michael, 139

Anthem of Earth, by Francis Thompson, 175–176

Archer, Charles, 207

Archer, William, 157–158, 205, 207, 208, 213

À Rebours, by J. K. Huysmans, 28, 59, 61–62

Arms and the Man, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Arnold, Matthew, 128

Art Workers’ Guild, 246

Arts and Crafts Essays, 245, 256

Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, 246

Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 253

Arts and Crafts movement, 244–247, 267, 280, 284

Ashbee, C. R., 265

Auld Licht Idylls, by J. M. Barrie, 224

Autobiography of a Boy, The, by G. S. Street, 41, 67–69, 228

Aveling, Eleanor Marx, 207

Aylwin, by Theodore Watts-Dunton, 39

Bailey, Philip James, 38

Balestier, Wolcott, 232

Ballad of an Artist’s Wife, The, by John Davidson, 187

Ballad of a Nun, The, by John Davidson, 187

Ballad of Heaven, A, by John Davidson, 188

Ballad of Hell, The, by John Davidson, 187

Ballad of Reading Gaol, The, by Oscar Wilde, 80, 82–83, 88–89

Ballads and Songs, by John Davidson, 178, 181

Ballantyne & Hanson, 265

Balzac, 74, 87

Baptist Lake, by John Davidson, 178

Baring-Gould, S., 250

Baring, Maurice, 48

Barker, Granville, 214–215

Barlow, Jane, 225

Barrack-Room Ballads, by Rudyard Kipling, 232, 241

Barrie, J. M., 35, 40, 42, 224–225, 227–228

Bashkirtseff, Marie, 206

Battle of the Bays, The, by Owen Seaman, 159

Bauble Shop, The, by Henry Arthur Jones, 209

Baudelaire, Charles, 61, 110, 111, 136, 143, 160, 196, 201

Beardsley, Aubrey, 17, 21, 23, 34, 37, 45, 46, 47, 48, 50, 59, 60, 63, 76, 91–104, 111, 114–115, 117, 130–131, 137–138, 142, 143, 186, 268, 273, 280, 282, 290–292

Beardsley, The Last Letters of Aubrey, 94

Beardsley, Miss Mabel, 92

“Beardsley Craze,” 93

Beardsley woman, the, 46, 93

Beccarius, by Max Beerbohm, 117

Becke, Louis, 225

Beeching, H. C., 159

Beerbohm, Max, 17, 20, 25, 30, 35, 41, 45, 48, 50, 97, 102, 108, 112, 116, 117–125, 130, 197, 229, 291

Beerbohm, The Works of Max, 41, 118–120, 123

Beers Company, the De, 238

Beggarstaff Brothers, 34, 274–275

Bell, R. Anning, 47, 283

Beltaine, 150

Bending of the Bough, The, by George Moore, 149

Benson, Arthur Christopher, 40, 47

Benson, E. F., 224

Benson, F. R., 212

Benson, W. A. S., 251

Berneval-sur-Mer, 80

Bernhardt, Sarah, 76

Besant, Annie, 26

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, by Ian Maclaren, 225

Binyon, Laurence, 45, 51, 109, 159

Birmingham School of Art, 284–285

Björnson, Björnstjerne, 133, 209

Black, William, 39

Black Cat, The, 209

Blake, William, 50, 91, 99, 167, 174

Bland, Hubert, 26

Blatchford, Robert, 24, 44

Blind, Mathilde, 50

Blomfield, Reginald, 251

Bodley, G. F., 251

Bodley Head, The, 41, 45, 76, 119, 186

Bogland Studies, by Jane Barlow, 225

Book Bills of Narcissus, The, by Richard le Gallienne, 226

“Bon Mot” series, 103

Booth, Charles, 44

Bottomley, Gordon, 51

Brand, by Henrik Ibsen, 209

Brandes, George, 133

Brangwyn, Frank, 268, 270, 276, 277–278

Bridges, Robert, 39

Brieux, Eugene, 201

British South Africa Company, 238

Brock, C. E., 290

Brooke, Emma Frances, 224

Brooke, Stopford, 39

Brown, Ford Madox, 246, 272

Browning, Robert, 25, 38, 128, 157

Bruce: a Drama, by John Davidson, 178

Buchanan, Robert, 128

Bullen, Frank T., 225

Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, 33, 100, 103, 259–260, 273, 282

Burns, John, 26

Burns, Robert, 283

Butler, Samuel, 203

Butterfly, The, 36, 289, 291

Byron, Lord, 57, 158

Cadenhead, John, 150

Cæsar and Cleopatra, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Café Royale, 58

Caine, Hall, 39, 218, 226

Caldecott, Randolph, 281

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 290–291

Cameron, D. Y., 270

Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 213

Candida, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Canterbury Poets, 52

Canterville Ghost, The, by Oscar Wilde, 74

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen, by Max Beerbohm, 124

Carlyle, Thomas, 203

Carpenter, Edward, 34, 44, 48

Carroll, Lewis, 227

Carthusian, The, 117

Carton, R. C., 214

Case of Rebellious Susan, The, by Henry Arthur Jones, 212

Cashel Byron’s Profession, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Caslon, 255

Caxton, William, 260

Celtic revival, 42, 147–156

Celtic Twilight, The, by W. B. Yeats, 42, 149, 155

Chamberlain, Joseph, 151, 238–239

Chameleon, The, 36

Champneys, Basil, 251

Chant, Mrs Ormiston, 24

Chap-Book, The, 118

Charrington, Charles, 207–208

Chesterton, G. K., 112

Child of the Jago, A, by Arthur Morrison, 43, 130, 216

Children of the Ghetto, by Israel Zangwill, 225

Chiswick Press, 255, 257

Chord, The, 36

Christ in Hades, by Stephen Phillips, 158, 164

Christmas Day in the Workhouse, by G. R. Sims, 187

Christmas Garland, A, by Max Beerbohm, 120

Chronicle, The Daily, 24, 80

City of Dreadful Night, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Clarion, The, 24

Clausen, George, 270

Clifford, Mrs W. K., 224

Cobden-Sanderson, T. J., 251, 253, 260, 266

Cockerell, Douglas, 251

Coleridge, S. T., 58, 158

Collins, Lottie, 31

Colour of Life, The, by Alice Meynell, 139, 145

Colvin, Sydney, 39

Comte, 60

Comus, by John Milton, 58

Conder, Charles, 35, 37, 48, 50, 131, 270, 273–274

Confessions of a Young Man, by George Moore, 63

Conrad, Joseph, 40, 50, 225

Coppée, François, 178

Corelli, Marie, 225

Couch, Arthur Quiller, 35, 225

Countess Kathleen, The, by W. B. Yeats, 41, 149, 156

Courting of Dinah Shadd, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Crackanthorpe, Hubert, 35, 47, 131, 142, 144, 220, 223

Craig, Gordon, 51, 207, 290

Crane, Stephen, 229

Crane, Walter, 33, 48, 251, 280–283

Crashaw, Richard, 166

Critic as Artist, The, by Oscar Wilde, 75

Crockett, Alexander, 177

Crockett, S. R., 42, 150, 224

Crosland, T. W. H., 51

Cruelties of Prison Life, by Oscar Wilde, 80

Custance, Olive, 48, 159

Cyrenaicism, the New, 59

Daily Express (Dublin), The, 150

Daily Graphic, The, 287

Daily Mail, The, 52

Daily Telegraph, The, 208

Dalmon, Charles, 48, 159,

D’Annunzio, Gabriele, 128

Dante, 272

D’Arcy, Ella, 48

Darwinian idea, 190

D’Aurevilly, Barbey, 13, 110–111, 114–115

Davidson, Alexander, 177

Davidson, John, 20, 35, 41, 45, 47, 91, 106, 129, 131, 158, 177–192, 234

Davies, William H., 170

Day’s Work, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Decadents, The, 36

Decameron, The, by Boccaccio, 102

Decay of Lying, The, by Oscar Wilde, 75

Decorative Illustration, by Walter Crane, 280

Deemster, The, by Hall Caine, 225

Defence of Cosmetics, A, by Max Beerbohm, 117

Defence of the Revival of Printing, by Charles Ricketts, 261

Degas, 203

Degeneration, by Max Nordan, 195

Dent, J. M., 93

Departmental Ditties, by Rudyard Kipling, 231, 232

De Profundis, by Oscar Wilde, 80–81, 88

De Quincey, Thomas, 167

Devil’s Disciple, The, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Dial, The, 257, 260, 261

Diarmuid and Grania, by W. B. Yeats and George Moore, 149

Diary of Lady Willoughby, by Hannah Mary Rathbone, 255

Dickens, Charles, 33, 43, 107, 217, 289

Dionysos, 58

Dobson, Austin, 39

Doll’s House, A, by Henrik Ibsen, 208–209

Dome, The, 36, 50–51

“Don’t Read This if You Want to be Happy To-day,” by Oscar Wilde, 80

D’Orsay, Count, 122

Douglas, Lord Alfred, 76, 159

Douglas, Sir George, 150

Doves Press, 255, 266

Dow, T. Millie, 270

Dowie, Menie Muriel, 224

Dowden, Edward, 39

Dowson, Ernest, 35, 48, 58, 70, 91, 158, 162, 166

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 40, 225

Dream Days, by Kenneth Graham, 227

Dream Tryst, by Francis Thompson, 167

Dublin Review, The, 167–168

Duchess of Padua, The, by Oscar Wilde, 75

Du Maurier, George, 39, 67, 226, 279

Duncan, John, 150, 283

Durer, Albrecht, 281

Eagle and the Serpent, The, 129–130

Early Italian Poets, by D. G. Rossetti, 281

Ebb-Tide, The, by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, 225

Echegaray, 209

Eckhardt, O., 290

Egerton, George, 45, 47, 129, 143, 144, 217, 224

Eglinton, John, 42, 149

Elder Conklin and Other Stories, by Frank Harris, 43

Eliot, George, 217

Ellis, Havelock, 50, 129, 221

Elsmere, Robert, by Mrs Humphry Ward, 224

Emanuel, Frank L., 290

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 132

Emperor and Galilean, by Henrik Ibsen, 208

Endymion, by John Keats, 58

Enemy of the People, An, by Henrik Ibsen, 209–210

English Episodes, by Frederick Wedmore, 39

English Illustrated Magazine, 281

English People, Modern History of, by R. H. Gretton, 53

Episodes, by G. S. Street, 144

Eragny Press, 255

Esperance Girls’ Club, 250

Essex House Press, 255, 265–266

Esther Waters, by George Moore, 43, 63, 130, 216, 228–230

Eureka, 36, 289, 291

Euripides, 212

Evans, Frederick H., 93

Evelyn Innes, by George Moore, 230

Eve of St Agnes, The, by John Keats, 58

Evergreen, The, 36, 43, 150, 283

Fabian Essays in Socialism, 194

Fabianism and the Empire, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Fabian Society, the, 26, 186, 194, 200, 209

Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser, 281

Farrar, Archdeacon, 38

Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev, 132

Fat Woman, The, by Aubrey Beardsley, 101–102

Fell, H. Granville, 283

Fenn, Frederick, 214

Fergusson, John Duncan, 35, 270

Feverel, The Ordeal of Richard, by George Meredith, 123

Field, Michael, 45, 159, 209

Fitzgerald, Edward, 135

Fleet Street Eclogues, by John Davidson, 41, 106, 178

Fleet Street Eclogues, by John Davidson (second series), 178

Fleet Street and Other Poems, by John Davidson, 178

Fleming, George, 144

Fleshly School of Poetry, The, by Robert Buchanan, 128

Fortnightly Review, The, 28, 74, 147

Fletcher, A. E., 24

Florentine Tragedy, A, by Oscar Wilde, 75

Forbes, Stanhope, 270

Forest Lovers, The, by Maurice Hewlett, 226

For the Crown, by John Davidson, 178

Fowler, Robert, 270, 273, 276

Fragonard, 274

France, Anatole, 48, 206

Frederic, Harold, 226

French Revolution, 57

Froude, James Anthony, 38

Fry, Roger, 51

Furniss, Harry, 280

Furse, Charles W., 47

Futurists of Milan, 188

Gale, Norman, 45

Galsworthy, John, 214

Galton, Francis, 38

Garden Cities of To-morrow, by Ebenezer Howard, 254

Garnett, Richard, 47

Gaskin, Arthur, 284

Gaskin, Mrs Arthur, 284

Gautier, Théophile, 58, 61, 70, 85, 111, 136, 160, 196

Geddes, Patrick, 42, 150, 283

Gentle Art of Making Enemies, The, by James McNeill Whistler, 40

George IV. (caricature of), 48

George, D. Lloyd, 151, 239

Gere, C. M., 284

Gerontius, The Dream of, by John Henry Newman, 68

Ghetto Tragedies, by Israel Zangwill, 225

Ghosts, by Henrik Ibsen, 194, 208

Gide, André, 72, 78–79

Gibson, Wilfred Wilson, 51

Gilbert and Sullivan, 73

Gilbert, W. S., 67, 73, 118

Gilchrist, Murray, 229

Giles, Althea, 51, 283

Gissing, George, 27, 35, 39, 43, 223, 229

Glasgow Herald, The, 178

Glasgow School, 269–270

Gods and Fighting Men, by Lady Gregory, 149

Golden Age, The, by Kenneth Graham, 227

Goncourt, Edmund and Jules de, 58

Gordon, General, 237

Gosse, Edmund, 38, 47, 50, 207

Goya, by W. Rothenstein, 277

Graham, R. B. Cunninghame, 35, 44, 225

Grahame, Kenneth, 45, 47, 227

Grand, Sarah, 217, 224

Graphic, The, 287

Graphic Pictures, by Phil May, 287

Gray, John, 94, 159, 166, 262

Great God Pan, The, by Arthur Machen, 226–227

Greenaway, Kate, 92, 281

Green Carnation, The, by Robert Hichens, 41, 73, 79, 135, 139, 228

Green Fire, by Fiona Macleod, 139

Gregory, Lady, 42, 149

Greiffenhagen, Maurice, 270, 273, 276, 290

Grein, J. T., 194, 205

Gretton, R. H., 31 (footnote), 53

Grey Roses, by Henry Harland, 139

Grosvenor Gallery, 25, 270

Grundy, Sidney, 78, 214

Guest, Lady Charlotte, 151

Guild of Handicraft, 265

Gunga Din, by Rudyard Kipling, 187

Gunnlang Saga, translated by William Morris, 257

Guthrie, Sir James, 270

Guttersnipes, by Phil May, 287

Hacon & Ricketts, 51, 257

Haggard, Rider, 39

Halkett, G. R., 288, 290

Hankin, St John, 214

Happy Hypocrite, The, by Max Beerbohm, 120, 123, 229

Happy Prince and Other Tales, The, by Oscar Wilde, 54, 89

Hardie, M.P., Keir, 26

Hardy, Dudley, 47, 268, 270, 290

Hardy, Thomas, 38, 40, 216, 221–222, 223

Hardy, The Art of Thomas, by Lionel Johnson, 38

Harland, Henry, 35–36, 46, 47, 131, 143, 144, 224, 229

Harlot’s House, The, by Oscar Wilde, 82, 83, 102

Harmsworth, Alfred, 54

Harraden, Beatrice, 224

Harris, Sir Augustus, 275

Harris, Frank, 43, 225, 228–229

Harrison, Frederic, 38

Hartrick, A. S., 36, 47–48, 290

Hauptmann, Gerhardt, 210

Hayes, Alfred, 47

Headlam, Rev. Stewart, 26

Heather Field, The, by Edward Martyn, 149

Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, 194, 208–209

Hedonism, The New, by Grant Allen, 21, 28–29

Heinemann, William, 45

Henley, William Ernest, 34, 38, 108–109, 143, 267

Henry, George, 270

Henry & Co., 45, 129

Herbert, George, 166

Hernani, by Victor Hugo, 39, 207

Hewlett, Maurice, 40, 226

Hiatt, Charles, 274–275

Hichens, Robert, 41, 73

Hill, Raven, 36, 37, 280, 290–291

Hind, C. Lewis, 170–172

Hobbes, John Oliver, 35, 47, 144, 224

Hobby Horse, The, 36, 257, 281

Holiday and Other Poems, by John Davidson, 178, 184

Holmes, C. J., 51

Hope, Anthony, 40

Horace, 121

Horne, Herbert P., 257, 281

Hornel, E. A., 35, 150, 270

Hornung, E. W., 226

Horton, William, T., 50, 284

Hound of Heaven, The, by Francis Thompson, 172–173

House of Pomegranates, The, by Oscar Wilde, 74, 75, 88, 89, 260, 262

House of the Wolfings, The, by William Morris, 257

Housman, A. E., 40, 45, 158, 164–165

Housman, Laurence, 37, 47, 51, 158, 280, 283

Howard, Ebenezer, 254

Hudson, W. H., 40

Hueffer, Ford Madox, 48

Hugo, Victor, 178

Humanitarian League, the, 186

Hunt, Holman, 33, 281

Hunt, Leigh, 41

Huysmans, Joris Karl, 28, 58, 61, 136, 223

Huxley, Thomas Henry, 38

Hyde, Dr Douglas, 42, 149

Hyndman, Henry Mayers, 26, 134

Ibsen, Henrik, 27, 128, 133, 194, 196, 201–203, 205–212, 220

Ibsenism, the Quintessence of, by Bernard Shaw, 44, 194, 198, 211

Ideal Husband, An, by Oscar Wilde, 76, 88

Idler, The, 36

Idylls of the King, The, by Lord Tennyson, 100

Illumination, by Harold Frederic, 226

Image, Selwyn, 50, 159, 257, 281

Importance of Being Earnest, The, by Oscar Wilde, 76, 105–106

Impossibilities of Anarchism, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Impressionists, French, 198, 203, 207, 244, 267–269, 272–273, 276

In a Music Hall, by John Davidson, 178

In Black and White, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Independent Theatre, the, 205, 209

Industrial Democracy, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 44

Ingelow, Jane, 38

Intentions, by Oscar Wilde, 75, 85, 88

In the Key of Blue, by John Addington Symonds, 39, 262

“Iota,” 224

Irish Literary movement, 42, 64, 149–150

Irish Melodies, by Thomas Moore, 153

Irish National Theatre, 42, 150

Irving, Sir Henry, 211

“Israfel,” 51

It’s Never too Late to Mend, by Charles Reade, 196

Jackson, T. G., 251

Jacobs, W. W., 227

James, Gilbert, 290

James, Henry, 38, 47, 217, 223

Jameson, Dr, 238–239

Jameson Raid, the, 23, 233

Jefferies, Richard, 186

Jenson, Nicholas, 256, 258

Jerome, Jerome K., 40, 227

“Jingle,” 291

Joan of Arc, The Procession of, by Aubrey Beardsley, 100

John, Augustus, 270

Johnson, Lionel, 35, 38, 45, 48, 131, 141–142, 149, 158, 160–161, 166

Johnson, Samuel, 41, 107, 115

Jones and Evans, 93

Jones, Henry Arthur, 209, 212–213

Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy, 39, 216–217, 221

Jungle Books, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Just-so Stories, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

“Kail Yard School,” 42

Keats, John, 58, 93, 95, 135, 158, 165, 176, 185, 225

Keene, Charles, 37, 279

Kelmscott Press, 51, 248, 255–262, 264–266, 281–284

Kelmscott Press Books, 258–259, 263, 266

Keynotes, by George Egerton, 129, 144

Khartoum, Taking of, 237

Khayyám, Omar, 135

Kidson, Frank, 250

Kim, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

King of the Schnorrers, The, by Israel Zangwill, 225

King, Jessie M., 283

Kipling, Rudyard, 34, 35, 39, 43, 54, 126, 158, 187, 218, 225, 231–243, 292

Kiss of Judas, The, by Aubrey Beardsley, 101

Kitchener, Lord, 237

Krafft-Ebing, 102

Kruger, Paul, 238

Labour Party, Independent, 26

Lady Windermere’s Fan, by Oscar Wilde, 77, 133

Lamb, Charles, 41, 107, 121, 123

Lane, John, 35, 45, 51, 93, 119, 186, 262

Lang, Andrew, 38

Lassalle, Ferdinand, 134

Last Ballad, The, by John Davidson, 178

Last Feast of Fraima, The, by Alice Milligan, 149

Lavery, John, 35, 270, 276–277

Lawrence and Bullen, 45

Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick, 250

Lecky, W. E. H., 38

Lee, Vernon, 144

Leech, John, 37, 279

Le Gallienne, Richard, 31, 35, 38, 41, 45, 46, 47, 91, 106, 108, 139, 142–144, 157, 159, 160, 163–164, 226–228

Legros, Alfonse, 290

Leighton, Sir Frederick, 47

L’Enfant Prodigue, 94

Leno, Dan, 275, 289

Lepage, Bastien, 270

Lethaby, W. R., 251, 253

Levetus, Celia, 284

Leyland, Sir James, 268

Liberty, 196

Liddon, Canon, 38

Light That Failed, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232, 234

Lindsay, Sir Coutts, 270

Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, 75

Little Minister, The, by J. M. Barrie, 224

Little Novels from Italy, by Maurice Hewlett, 226

Liza of Lambeth, by Somerset Maugham, 43, 130, 224

Locksley Hall, by Lord Tennyson, 128

Lombroso, Cesare, 50

London People, The Life and Labour of the, by Charles Booth, 45

London Programme, The, by Sidney Webb, 44

London Types, by W. E. Henley and William Nicholson, 274

London Visions, by Laurence Binyon, 109–110

London Voluntaries, by W. E. Henley, 108–109, 143

Longmans & Co., 93

Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime, by Oscar Wilde, 74

Love Songs of Connacht, The, by Douglas Hyde, 149

Lowry, H. D., 144

Lysistrata, by Aristophanes, 103

Mabinogian, The, translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, 151

“Mabon,” 151

Macdougal, William, 283

Macgillivray, Pittendrigh, 150, 283

Macgregor, W. Y., 270

Mackie, Charles H., 283

“Maffick,” to, 39

Mahdi, the, 237

Maitland, 270

Machen, Arthur, 226

“Maclaren, Ian,” 42, 225

Macleod, Fiona (see also William Sharp), 35, 42, 48, 51, 147, 150, 226

Mademoiselle de Maupin, by Théophile Gautier, 59

Mademoiselle Miss, by Henry Harland, 144

Maeterlinck, Maurice, 51, 132, 153, 209–210

Mæve, by Edward Martyn, 149

Mafeking night, 54

Major Barbara, by Bernard Shaw, 200

Mallarmé, Stéphane, 56, 61, 78

Mallock, W. H., 38, 67

Mammon and His Message, by John Davidson, 179

Man of Destiny, The, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Man and Superman, by Bernard Shaw, 199

Manet, Eduard, 63, 99, 203, 268, 276

Mann, Harrington, 270

Mann, Tom, 26

Manning, Cardinal, 38

Manuel, J. W. T., 36, 290

Margaret Ogilvy, by J. M. Barrie, 224

Marillier, H. C., 97, 263

Marius the Epicurean, by Walter Pater, 118, 140

Marriott-Watson, Rosamund, 159

Marpessa, by Stephen Phillips, 158

Martian, The, by George du Maurier, 39

Martineau, James, 38

Martyn, Edward, 149

Mary Glocester, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 187

Marx, Karl, 134, 207

Marxian theory, 194

Masefield, John, 214

Masks or Faces? by William Archer, 207

Masks, The Truth about, by Oscar Wilde, 74

Massacre of the Innocents, The, by Maurice Maeterlinck, 54

Master Builder, The, by Henrik Ibsen, 209, 211

Mathews, Elkin, 35, 45, 51, 93

Maude, Aylmer, 250

Maugham, W. Somerset, 43, 224, 225

Maupassant, Guy de, 220, 223, 235

May, Phil, 35, 36, 37, 50, 275, 280, 287–292

Melmoth, Sebastian, 80

Melville, Arthur, 270

Meredith, George, 38, 121, 135, 144, 157, 223

Merrie England, by Robert Blatchford, 44

Merriman, Henry Seton, 225

Merry England, 167

Meynell, Alice, 35, 45, 141, 144–145, 158, 168

Meynell, Wilfrid, 168–169

Midshipman Easy, by Captain Marryat, 118

Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare, 58

Millais, Sir John Everett, 281

Millar, H. R., 290

Milligan, Alice, 149

Milton, John, 165

Molière, 213

Monet, Claude, 139, 268

Money-Coutts, F. B., 159, 164

Monticelli, 274

Moore, George, 27, 35, 39, 42, 47, 48, 63, 64, 130, 135, 149, 209, 216–217, 223, 229–230, 267–269

Moore, T. Sturge, 51, 159

Moore, Tom, 153

More, by Max Beerbohm, 120

Morgan, William de, 251

Morris, Lewis, 38

Morris, May, 251

Morris, William, 26, 33, 38, 39, 51, 100, 103, 134, 157, 196, 244–254, 256–261, 263–266, 280, 282–284

Morrison, Arthur, 43, 130, 216, 223, 225

Morte d’Arthur, by Malory, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, 93

Mrs Warren’s Profession, by Bernard Shaw, 194–196

Muckley, L. Fairfax, 284

Murdoch, W. G. Blaikie, 33

Murger, Henri, 226

Napoleon, 57, 183

Nation, The, 170

National Observer, The, 22, 228–229

Nature of Gothic, The, by John Ruskin, 246–247

Naulahka, The, by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcot Balestier, 232

Neal, Mary, 250

Nesbit, E., 159

Nettleship, J. T., 47

New, E. H., 284

New Age, The, 22, 24

New Ballads, by John Davidson, 178

Newbolt, Henry, 40, 158

New Century Theatre, 209

New English Art Club, 269

New Grub Street, The, by George Gissing, 43

New Humour, The, 227

Newill, Mary, 284

Newlyn School, 270

New Poems, by Francis Thompson, 169

New Republic, The, by W. H. Mallock, 67

New Review, The, 22

Newman, John Henry, 38

News from Nowhere, by William Morris, 39, 248

Nicholson, William, 34, 35, 268, 270, 274–275

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 50, 61, 88, 128–129, 131–133, 182, 190, 203, 234

Nigger of the Narcissus, The, by Joseph Conrad, 225

Nineteenth Century, The, 75

No. 5 John Street, by Richard Whiteing, 40, 43, 224

“Nonconformist Conscience,” 24, 216

Nordau, Max, 19–20, 30, 34, 195

Nutt, David, 93

O’Connor, T. P., 24

Octopus, The, 118

Of a Neophyte, by Aubrey Beardsley, 101

Olivier, Sydney, 26

“On Going to Church,” by Bernard Shaw, 50, 204

Once a Week, 37

Orpen, William, 35, 270

Osbourne, Lloyd, 225

Ospovat, Henry, 290

O’Sullivan, Vincent, 144, 222–223

Outcast of the Islands, An, by Joseph Conrad, 225

Pagan Review, The, 22

Pageant, The, 41, 160

Pain, Barry, 40, 225, 227

Palace Theatre, 76, 120

Pall Mall Budget, The, 118, 287

Paolo and Francesca, by Stephen Phillips, 158

Parade, The, 36

Park, Carton Moore, 290

Parnassiens, the, 59

Parson and the Painter, The, by Phil May, 287

Partridge, Bernard, 280, 290

Passion of Mary, The, by Francis Thompson, 167

Pater, Walter, 26, 34, 38, 59, 61, 74, 87, 135, 140

Patience, by W. S. Gilbert, 67, 73

Paton, Sir Noel, 150

Payn, James, 39

Payne, Henry, 284

Peacock Room, the, 268

Pears, Charles, 290

Pearson’s Weekly, 77–78

Pelleas and Mélisande, by Maurice Maeterlinck, 156

Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen, by Joseph Pennell, 285

Pen, Pencil and Poison, by Oscar Wilde, 74

Pennell, Joseph, 47, 50, 93, 98, 285, 290

Peploe, J. T., 35, 270

Perfect Wagnerite, The, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Perfervid, by John Davidson, 177, 181

Peter Ibbetson, by George du Maurier, 39

Petronius, 107

Phantom ’Rickshaw, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Pharais, by Fiona Macleod, 42, 150

Philanderer, The, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Phillips, Stephen, 51, 158, 164

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, by Oscar Wilde, 112

Pick-me-up, 36, 37, 118, 287, 289–291

Picture of Dorian Gray, The, by Oscar Wilde, 21–22, 27, 59, 62, 63, 68, 75, 84, 88–89, 138, 228

Pierrot of the Minute, The, by Ernest Dowson, 141

Pillars of Society, by Henrik Ibsen, 202

Pinero, Arthur W., 39, 40, 78, 207, 209, 212–213

Pissarro, 139

Plain Tales from the Hills, by Rudyard Kipling, 231

Platonic dialogue, 202

Playhouse Impressions, by A. B. Walkley, 206

Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant, by Bernard Shaw, 44, 45, 195

Podmore, Frank, 26

Poe, Edgar Allan, 155

Poems, by Francis Thompson, 169

Poems by the Way, by William Morris, 258

Poetry of the Celtic Races, The, by Ernest Renan, 151

Poets’ Corner, The, by Max Beerbohm, 124

Poets of the Younger Generation, by William Archer, 157–158

Post-Impressionists, 269

Poster, The, 36

Poster Exhibition, 275

Posters, 47

Pour la Couronne, by François Coppée, 178

Pre-Raphaelite movement, 34, 58, 244, 267, 272, 281, 284

Prisoner of Zenda, The, by Anthony Hope, 226

Prose Fancies, by Richard le Gallienne, 139, 142

Prose Poems, by Oscar Wilde, 88, 89

Pryde, James, 34, 35, 268, 270, 274–275

Psychopathia Sexualis, by Krafft-Ebing, 101–102

Puck of Pook’s Hill, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Pugh, Edwin, 225

Punch, 36, 37, 67, 74, 287

Purple Land that England Lost, The, by W. H. Hudson, 40–41

Quarto, The, 36

Queen’s Romance, A, by John Davidson, 178

Quest, The, 284

Quest of the Gilt-edged Girl, The, 228

Quest of the Golden Girl, The, by Richard le Gallienne, 41, 226, 228

Question of Memory, A, by Michael Field, 209

Quilp, Jocelyn, 22

Radford, Dolly, 47, 159

Radford, Ernest, 159

Random Itinerary, A, by John Davidson, 179

Ransome, Arthur, 72

Rape of the Lock, The, illustrated by Beardsley, 98, 101, 103

Ray, Catherine, 207

Reade, Charles, 196

Reclus, Élisée, 150

Red Deer, by Richard Jefferies, 186

Reeves and Turner, 265

Renaissance, The, by Walter Pater, 28, 59–60

Renaissance, The History of the Italian, by John Addington Symonds, 39

Renaissance of the Nineties, The, by W. G. Blaikie Murdoch, 33

Renan, Ernest, 147, 151–152, 154

Renoir, 99

Renunciations, by Frederick Wedmore, 39

Review of Reviews, The, 24

Reynard the Fox, 281

Rhodes, Cecil, 54, 238–239

Rhymers, Club, the, 115, 186

Rhys, Ernest, 42, 48

Richard Yea and Nay, by Maurice Hewlett, 226

Richards, Grant, 45

Ricketts, Charles, 34, 35, 37, 74, 256, 260–262, 270, 273–274, 276, 280, 282

Ridge, Pett, 40, 225, 227

Rimbaud, Arthur, 61, 63

Roberts, Morley, 225

Robertson, Forbes, 178

Robins, Elizabeth, 224

Robinson, Charles, 283

Rodin, Auguste, 271

Rodney Stone, by A. Conan Doyle, 226

Romance and Reality, by Holbrook Jackson, 290

Romantic Farce, A, 178

Romantic movement, The, 57

Romaunt of the Rose, 100

Roots of the Mountains, The, by William Morris, 39, 257

Rops, Felicien, 103

Rose Leaf, The, 36

Rosmersholm, by Henrik Ibsen, 194, 209

Ross, Robert, 72, 80–81, 96

Rossetti, Christina, 38

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 58, 128, 135, 157, 160, 162, 281

Rothenstein, William, 35, 47, 50, 270, 276–278, 290

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 201

Roussel, 270

Royal Academy, 269

Royal Scottish Academy, 269

Runciman, John F., 51

Runnable Stag, A, by John Davidson, 185–186

Ruskin, John, 34, 38, 135, 196, 203, 244–245, 246, 267

Russell (“A. E.”), George, 42, 149

Ruy Blas, by Victor Hugo, 178

St James’s Theatre, 76

Salisbury, Marquis of, 238

Salomé, by Oscar Wilde, 84–85, 90

Salomé, Beardsley’s illustrations to, 103

Sambourne, Linley, 280

Samhain, 150

Sanity of Art, The, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Santayana, George, 159

Sardou, 76

Sargeant, John S., 270

Saturday Review, The, 120, 195, 205

Savoy, The, 17, 34, 35, 36, 45–46, 48–49, 91, 118, 129, 204, 221

Scaramouch in Naxos, by John Davidson, 178, 181

School for Saints, The, by John Oliver Hobbes, 224

Schopenhauer, 203

Schreiner, Olive, 224

Scots Observer, The, 267

Scott, Bailey, 251

Scott, Clement, 208

Scott Library, 52

Scott, Sir Walter, 58

Scribe, 76

Seaman, Owen, 40, 159–160

Second Mrs Tanqueray, The, by Arthur W. Pinero, 40, 209, 213–214

Secret Rose, The, by W. B. Yeats, 155–156

Secular Society, the, 174

Sentences and Paragraphs, by John Davidson, 129, 179

Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne, 226

Sentimental Tommy, by J. M. Barrie, 224

Setoun, Gabriel, 150

Seven Seas, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232, 242–243

Shakespeare, William, 165, 212, 272

Shannon, Charles H., 35, 50, 270, 273–274, 282

Shannon, J. J., 35

Sharp, Cecil, 250

Sharp, William, 22, 30, 42

Shavianism, the quintessence of, 198–201

Shaw, George Bernard, 26, 34, 35, 44, 45, 50, 78, 112, 120, 131, 134, 146, 193–204, 234

Shaw, Norman, 251

Shelley, P. B., 58, 158, 165, 169, 174–175, 185

Shelley, by Francis Thompson, 168

Shepherd’s Calendar, The, illustrated by Walter Crane, 282

Sherard, Robert H., 72, 79

Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle, 226

Shropshire Lad, A, by A. E. Housman, 45

Sickert, Walter, 26, 47, 50, 270, 290

Silverpoints, by John Gray, 262

Sime, S. H., 36, 37, 270, 280, 290, 291–292

Simpson, Joseph, 290

Sinner’s Comedy, The, by John Oliver Hobbs, 224

Sister Songs, by Francis Thompson, 168

Sketch, The, 118, 287

Sleigh, Bernard, 284

Smith: a Tragic Farce, by John Davidson, 178

Smithers, Leonard, 35, 45

Social Democratic Federation, 26

Socialism, 247–248

Socialism in England, by Sidney Webb, 44

Socialist Movement, 44

Socialist Party, the British, 26

Soldiers Three, by Rudyard Kipling, 231

Some Emotions and a Moral, by John Oliver Hobbes, 144

Soul of Man, The, by Oscar Wilde, 27, 88, 89, 134

South African War, 53

Speaker, The, 178, 267

Spence, R., 290

Spencer, Herbert, 38, 203

Spenser, Edmund, 251

Sphinx, The, by Oscar Wilde, 74, 82–83, 260, 263

Sphinx without a Secret, The, by Oscar Wilde, 74

Spirit Lamp, The, 22

Spurgeon, Charles, 38

Stage Society, 194, 209, 214

Stalky & Co., by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Star, The, 24, 193

Stead, W. T., 24

Steele, Sir Richard, 41

Steer, Wilson, 35, 47, 270

Steevens, G. W., 40

Stephen, Leslie, 38

Stephens, Riccardo, 150

Stevenson, Robert Louis, 38, 135, 225, 227

Stickit Minister, The, by S. R. Crockett, 224

Stirner, Max, 132

Stones of Venice, The, by John Ruskin, 246

Story of an African Farm, The, by Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner), 224

Story of the Gadsbys, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Story of the Glittering Plain, The, by William Morris, 39, 258, 259

Story of the Sundering Flood, The, by William Morris, 39

Strang, William, 290

Street, G. S., 41, 46, 48, 68–69, 91, 112, 144

Strike at Arlingford, The, by George Moore, 209

Strindberg, August, 210, 212

Studio, The, 36, 93

Study in Temptations, A, by John Oliver Hobbs, 224

Sudermann, Hermann, 209–210

Sullivan, E. J., 47, 280, 290

Superman, 190

Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 38, 58, 74, 157, 160, 162

Sydney Bulletin, The, 287

Symbolist Movement in Literature, by Arthur Symons, 56

Symbolists, the, 59, 244

Symonds, John Addington, 39, 262

Symons, Arthur, 35, 36, 42, 47, 48, 55–56, 70, 81, 85, 91, 95, 96–97, 106, 112–114, 130, 134, 142, 159, 161–162

Synge, J. M., 42, 87

Tables of the Law, The, by W. B. Yeats, 156

Tabley, Lord de, 262

Tales of Mean Streets, by Arthur Morrison, 43, 130, 216

Tales of Unrest, by Joseph Conrad, 225

Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay, 31

Temple Classics, 52

Ten O’Clock, by J. McNeill Whistler, 40, 123

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 37, 100, 128, 157, 220, 281

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy, 39, 40

Testament of John Davidson, The, by John Davidson, 179–181

Testament of a Vivisector, The, by John Davidson, 179

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 217

The Testament of a Man Forbid, by John Davidson, 179, 189

The Testament of an Empire Builder, by John Davidson, 179

Theatrocrat, The, by John Davidson, 179

Theosophy, 149

Theosophical movement, 132

Thomas, Inigo, 284

Thompson, Francis, 45, 51, 91, 131, 158, 166–176

Thompson, The Life of Francis, by Everard Meynell, 171

Three Plays for Puritans, by Bernard Shaw, 195

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche, 129

Time Machine, The, by H. G. Wells, 225

Times, The, 34

To-Day, 36, 47

Todhunter, John, 209

Tolstoy, Leo, 128, 203, 212, 250

To-morrow, 36, 120

“Tomlinson,” by Rudyard Kipling, 292

Toulouse-Lautrec, 274

Towards Democracy, by Edward Carpenter, 44

Town planning, 254

Townsend, F. H., 290

Trades Unionism, The History of, by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 44

Traill, H. D., 21, 39, 227

Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 76, 210, 211

Trench, Herbert, 159

Trilby, by George du Maurier, 39, 226

Triumph of Mammon, The, by John Davidson, 179

Tupper, Martin, 38

Turgenev, 128, 132

Twisting of the Rope, The, by Douglas Hyde, 149

Two Essays on the Remnant, by John Eglington, 149

Tyndall, John, 38

Under the Deodars, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Under the Hill, by Aubrey Beardsley, 50, 59, 63, 101–102, 114–115, 138, 228

Unhistorical Pastoral, An, by John Davidson, 178

Unicorn Press, 45

Unicorn, The, 118

Unwin, Fisher, 45

Upward, Allen, 40

Vachell, H. A., 40

Vale Press, 51, 255, 261–263, 281

Vampire, The, by Rudyard Kipling, 235

Vanity, 118

Vanity Fair, 217

Vaughan, Henry, 166

Vedrenne-Barker repertoire season, 195, 214–215

Vera: or the Nihilists, by Oscar Wilde, 75

Verdigris, Baron, by Jocelyn Quilp, 21

Verhaeren, Emil, 50

Verlaine, Paul, 50, 58, 61, 63, 135, 274

Victor Hugo, 57, 58

Victoria, Queen, 237

Vignettes, by Hubert Crackanthorpe, 142

Vistas, by William Sharp, 30

Vizetelly, Ernest, 42

Voltaire, 201

Voysey, C. F. A., 251

Voysey Inheritance, The, by Granville Barker, 214

Wagner, Richard, 198, 203

Wagnerians, The, by Aubrey Beardsley, 101

Walker, Emery, 251, 256–257, 266

Walkley, A. B., 35, 206–207

Wallace, Alfred Russel, 38

Wallas, Graham, 26

Wanderings of Oisin, The, by W. B. Yeats, 148

War of the Worlds, The, by H. G. Wells, 225

Ward, Mrs Humphry, 26, 224

Washer of the Ford, The, by “Fiona Macleod,” 150

Water of the Wondrous Isles, The, by William Morris, 39

Watson, William, 34, 40, 46, 47, 158, 163

Watteau, 94, 100, 274

Watts, George Frederick, 33, 99, 268, 277

Watts-Dunton, Theodore, 39

Waugh, Arthur, 47, 218–220

Webb, Beatrice, 44

Webb, Sydney, 26, 44, 200

Webb, Stephen, 251

Wedmore, Frederick, 38, 39, 50, 224

Wee Willie Winkie, by Rudyard Kipling, 232

Well at the World’s End, The, by William Morris, 39

Wells, H. G., 27, 34, 35, 44, 224, 225, 228–229, 274

Welsh Literary Movement, 42

Wessex Poems, by Thomas Hardy, 39

Weyman, Stanley J., 40, 226

What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy, 250

Wheeler & Co., A. H., 231

Wheels of Chance, The, by H. G. Wells, 224

When the Sleeper Wakes, by H. G. Wells, 225

Whibley, Charles, 41

Whistler, James McNeill, 34, 40, 47, 74, 85, 98, 107, 111, 123, 141, 143, 220, 245, 270, 277, 287

Whistler, The Life of James McNeill, by E. R. and J. Pennell, 98

White Company, The, by A. Conan Doyle, 226

Whiteing, Richard, 40, 43, 44, 224

Whitman, Walt, 85

Whitten, Wilfred, 169

Whittingham, Charles, 255

Widowers’ Houses, by Bernard Shaw, 44, 194–196

Wilde, Oscar, 21, 22, 25, 27–28, 34, 45, 53–54, 58, 63, 66–68, 70, 72–90, 91, 98, 102–103, 105, 107–108, 111–112, 114, 131–132, 134, 136–137, 138–139, 142, 143, 144–145, 146, 195, 205–206, 210, 212, 228, 244, 260, 263

Wilde, Oscar, The Story of an Unhappy Friendship, by R. H. Sherard, 72

Wilson, Edgar, 36, 283

Wilson, Henry, 251

Wilson, Patten, 290

Window in Thrums, A, by J. M. Barrie, 224

Wolseley, Viscount, 237

Woman and Her Son, A, by John Davidson, 189

Woman Who Did, The, by Grant Allen, 40, 131, 216

Woman Covered with Jewels, The, by Oscar Wilde, 76

Woman of No Importance, A, by Oscar Wilde, 21, 76, 209, 212

Woman’s World, The, 74

Women’s Tragedies, by George Fleming, 144

Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender, The, by John Davidson, 179, 181

Wonderful Visit, The, by H. G. Wells, 224

Wood Beyond the World, The, by William Morris, 39

Woods, Margaret L., 159

Worde, Wenkyn de, 260–261

Wordsworth, William, 58, 158, 174

World, The, 193

Wratislaw, Theodore, 48, 159

Wreckage, By Hubert Crackanthrope, 144

Wrecker, The, by Lloyd Osbourne and Robert Louis Stevenson, 225

Yeats, Jack B., 283

Yeats, R.H.A., J. B., 152

Yeats, William Butler, 35, 42, 48, 51, 56, 71, 141, 149, 150–156, 158, 163–164, 283

Yellow Aster, The, by Iota, 47, 139

Yellow Book, The, 17, 23, 25, 34, 40, 41, 45–46, 49, 52, 91, 93, 98, 118, 139, 178, 186, 219, 228

“Yellow, The Boom in,” 46–47

“Yellow Nineties,” the, 34

“Yellow Press,” the, 23, 52

Yet Again, by Max Beerbohm, 120, 123

You Never Can Tell, by Bernard Shaw, 194

Zangwill, Israel, 35, 40, 211, 225, 227

Zola, Emile, 27, 42, 128, 130, 201, 203, 216

Zuleika Dobson, By Max Beerbohm, 120, 123

Notes in this chapter

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings