Aubrey Beardsley eBook

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Beardsley. A publisher had asked me to form and edit a new kind of magazine, which was to appeal to th public equally in its letterpress and its illustrations: need I say that I am defining the Savoy? It was, I admit, to have been something of a rival to the Yellow Book, which''had by that time ceased to mark a movement, and had come to be little more than a publisher''s magazine. I forget exactly when the expulsion of Beardsley from the Yellow Book had occurred; it had been sufficiently recent, at all events, to make Beardsley singularly ready to fall in with my project when I went to him and asked him to devote himself to illustrating my quarterly. He was supposed, just then, to be dying; and as I entered the room, and saw him lying out on a couch, horribly white, I wondered if I had come too late. He was full of ideas, full of enthusiasm, and I think it was then that he suggested the name Savoy, finally adopted after endless changes and uncertainties.