THE YELLOW BOOK An Illustrated Quarterly Volume I April 1894 [Illustration: Magazine Cover] London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane Contents Letterpress I. The Death of the Lion By Henry James _Page_ 7 II. Tree-Worship Richard Le Gallienne 57 III. A Defence of Cosmetics Max Beerbohm 65 IV. Daimonizomenos Arthur Christopher Benson 83 V. Irremediable Ella D'Arcy 87 VI. The Frontier } } William Watson 113 VII. Night on Curbar Edge } VIII. A Sentimental Cellar George Saintsbury 119 IX. Stella Maris Arthur Symons 129 X. Mercedes } } Henry Harland 135 XI. A Broken Looking-Glass } XII. Alere Flammam } } Edmund Gosse 153 XIII. A Dream of November } XIV. The Dedication Fred M. Simpson 159 XV. A Lost Masterpiece George Egerton 189 XVI. Reticence in Literature Arthur Waugh 201 XVII. Modern Melodrama Hubert Crackanthorpe 223 XVIII. London } } John Davidson 233 XIX. Down-a-down } XX. The Love-Story of Luigi } Richard Garnett, LL.D. 235 Tansillo } XXI. The Fool's Hour { John Oliver Hobbes } 253 { and George Moore } Pictures I. A Study { By Sir Frederic Leighton, { P.R.A. _Frontispiece_ II. L'Education Sentimentale Aubrey Beardsley _Page_ 55 III. Le Puy en Velay Joseph Pennell 63 IV. The Old Oxford Music Hall Walter Sickert 85 V. Portrait of a Gentleman Will Rothenstein 111 VI. The Reflected Faun Laurence Housman 117 VII. Night Piece Aubrey Beardsley 127 VIII. A Study Sir Frederic Leighton, P.R.A. 133 IX. Portrait of a Lady Will Rothenstein 151 X. Portrait of Mrs. Patrick } Aubrey Beardsley 157 Campbell } XI. The Head of Minos J. T. Nettleship 187 XII. Portrait of a Lady Charles W. Furse 199