On the eve of publication, Hind and Gleeson White asked for a cover design for _The Studio_ from the much gratified youth, who went home thrilled with the prospect that set his soul on fire--here was _réclame_! as he always preferred to call being advertised, or what the studios call being “boosted.” Indeed, was not Beardsley to appear in the first number of _The Studio_ after Frank Brangwyn, then beginning to come to the front, in a special article devoted to his work by Pennell, the most vocal of critics, with illustrations from the portfolio in his several styles--the Japanesque, and the mediæval _Morte d’Arthur_ blackletter? Was it not to be a tribute to “a new illustrator”? In Pennell there stepped into the young Beardsley’s life a man who could make his voice heard, and, thanks to Hind, he was to champion the lad through rain and shine, through black and sunny days. And what was of prodigious value to Beardsley, Pennell did not gush irrelevantly nor over-rate his worth as did so many--he gave it just and fair and full value. All the same we must not make too much of Beardsley’s indebtedness to the first number of _The Studio_ in bringing him before the public. Pennell had the advantage of seeing a portfolio which really did contain very remarkable work--at the same time it was scarcely world-shattering--and it is to Pennell’s eternal credit for artistic honesty and critical judgment that he did not advertise it at anything more than its solid value. Pennell was writing for a new magazine of arts and crafts; and his fierce championship of process-reproduction was as much a part of his aim as was Beardsley’s art--and all of us who have been saved from the vile debauching of our line-work by the average wood-engravers owe it largely to Pennell that process-reproduction won through--and not least of all Beardsley. What Pennell says about Beardsley is sober and just and appreciative; but it was when Beardsley developed far vaster powers and rose to a marvellous style that Pennell championed him, most fitly, to the day he lay down and died.