Number three (July, 1896) appeared in paper covers, and _The Savoy_ becomes a monthly instead of a quarterly from now on. There is a promise, unfulfilled, of the serial publication of George Moore’s new novel, _Evelyn Innes_. Yeats commences three articles on _William Blake and his Illustrations to the ‘Divine Comedy_,’ and Hubert Crackanthorpe contributes one of his best short stories. Owing to illness Beardsley’s novel stops publication, but his _Ballad of a Barber_ relieves the monotony of some dull stuff by the smaller men. The reproductions of Blake’s illustrations are made to fill the art gap of Beardsley, who has only two black-and-whites in. The publication of his novel in book form is promised when the artist is well enough. Number four (August, 1896) at once reveals the effect of Beardsley’s inactivity through illness, and shows that Beardsley is _The Savoy_, and all else but leather and prunella. The number, however, is saved by a story of Dowson, _The Dying of Francis Donne_, and on the art side a frontispiece for Balzac’s _La Fille aux Yeux d’Or_, by Charles Conder, is interesting. Number five (September, 1896) is for some unaccountable reason the hardest number to procure. Besides the cover and title-page it contains only one Beardsley, _The Woman in White_, but the cover is an exceptionally beautiful Beardsley, the two figures in the park holding a _colloque sentimental_ seem to have stepped out of the pages of Verlaine’s poem. Theodore Wratislaw and Ernest Rhys contribute the stories. Dowson, Yeats, and the Canadian, Bliss Carman, contribute the best of the poetry. Number six (October, 1896), has a very poor art side, with the exception of Beardsley’s familiar _The Death of Pierrot_. The literary contents consists chiefly of the editor. One notices the periodical is dying. The only unique feature is a story, _The Idiots_, by Conrad, and Dowson is still faithful with a poem. Number seven (November, 1896) announces in a leaflet (dated October) the death of _The Savoy_ in the next number. The editorial note states that the periodical ‘has, in the main, conquered the prejudices of the press ... it has not conquered the general public, and, without the florins of the general public, no magazine ... can expect to pay its way.’ In this number Beardsley returns to attempt to salve it with his remarkable translation of Catullus: Carmen CI., and illustration thereto. Yeats and Dowson contribute poems and Beardsley his Tristan and Isolde drawing. Number eight (December, 1896) completes the issue. The whole of the literary contents is by the Editor and the art contents by Beardsley himself: in all fourteen drawings. By way of epilogue, Symons says in their next venture, which is to appear twice a year, ‘that they are going to make no attempt to be popular.’ Unfortunately for English periodicals it was a venture never essayed.