Chapter I: Introduction: 13

CHAPTER

I. FIN DE SIÈCLE--1890–1900 17

II. PERSONALITIES AND TENDENCIES 33

III. THE DECADENCE 55

IV. OSCAR WILDE: THE LAST PHASE 72

V. AUBREY BEARDSLEY 91

VI. THE NEW DANDYISM 105

VII. THE INCOMPARABLE MAX 117

VIII. SHOCKING AS A FINE ART 126

IX. PURPLE PATCHES AND FINE PHRASES 135

X. THE DISCOVERY OF THE CELT 147

XI. THE MINOR POET 157

XII. FRANCIS THOMPSON 166

XIII. JOHN DAVIDSON 177

XIV. ENTER--G.B.S. 193

XV. THE HIGHER DRAMA 205

XVI. THE NEW FICTION 216

XVII. RUDYARD KIPLING 231

XVIII. ART AND LIFE 244

XIX. THE REVIVAL OF PRINTING 255

XX. BRITISH IMPRESSIONISTS 267

XXI. IN BLACK AND WHITE 279

INDEX 293

_Reproduced by kind permission of the proprietors of
“Punch”_

Britannia à la Beardsley

By our “Yellow” Decadent

(E. T. Reed)]

LIST OF PLATES

Aubrey Beardsley _Frontispiece_
_From a Photograph by Frederick H. Evans_

TO FACE PAGE

Cover Design of _The Yellow Book_, Volume I 18
_By Aubrey Beardsley_

Cover Design of _The Saturday Review_, Christmas Supplement
(1896) 34
_By William Rothenstein_

Cover Design of _The Savoy_, Volume I 38
_By Aubrey Beardsley_

Oscar Wilde (1895) 72

Aubrey Beardsley 92
_By Max Beerbohm_

The Rape of the Lock 98
_By Aubrey Beardsley_

Page Decoration from the _Morte d’Arthur_ 100
_By Aubrey Beardsley_

Tail-piece from _Salomé_ 104
_By Aubrey Beardsley_

“Mr W. B. Yeats introducing Mr George Moore to the
Queen of the Fairies” 120
_By Max Beerbohm_

A. E. Housman 164
_From a Drawing by William Rothenstein_

Francis Thompson (Life Mask, 1905) 166

Rudyard Kipling 232
_By William Nicholson_

A Garland for May Day 1895 244
_By Walter Crane_

Page Decoration from the Kelmscott _Coleridge_ 258
_By William Morris_

Page Decoration from John Gray’s _Spiritual Poems_ 262
_By Charles Ricketts_

Frontispiece and Title-Page of _The House of Joy_ 266
_By Laurence Housman_

The Peacock Fan 268
_By Charles Conder_

The Arrival of Prince Charming 274
_By Charles Conder_

A Voluptuary 280
_By L. Raven Hill_

Illustration from _The Faerie Queene_ 282
_By Walter Crane_

Phil May 286
_By Spy_

A Lecture in Store 288
_By Phil May_

The Banks of the Styx 290
_By S. H. Sime_