Reviewer:
johanna1872
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July 8, 2013
Subject:
the yellow booj vol 3
the third collaborative effort of the greatest writers and artists of the 1890's boggles the mind with riches. The stories are vast, carefully complete novelettes of intense variety. The poems are not the familiar ones of anthologies but are rare and delightful. And the art, the young, gifted Aubrey Beardsley was the very discriminating art editor, with a fair supply of his own clever work. I expected his drawing and know them well, but was happy to see the splendid examples of other drawings, heretofore unknown and unpublished. The book is ambitious, and weighty, truly, a book. Hours are required to sample all its fine work. the Cover is marvelous, and wickedly smiling. Just as we were told to expect from AB's innocent depictions of the fin de siecle.