Transcriber’s note Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. A list with the corrections made can be found at the end of the book. Formatting and special characters are indicated as follows: _italic_ =bold= The Yellow Book An Illustrated Quarterly Volume III October 1894 London: John Lane Boston: Copeland & Day Contents Literature I. Women--Wives or Mothers By A Woman _Page_ 11 II. “Tell Me not Now” William Watson 19 III. The Headswoman Kenneth Grahame 25 IV. Credo Arthur Symons 48 V. White Magic Ella D’Arcy 59 VI. Fleurs de Feu José Maria de Hérédia, of the French Academy 69 VII. Flowers of Fire, a Translation Ellen M. Clerke 70 VIII. When I am King Henry Harland 71 IX. To a Bunch of Lilac Theo Marzials 87 X. Apple-Blossom in Brittany Ernest Dowson 93 XI. To Salome at St. James’s Theodore Wratislaw 110 XII. Second Thoughts Arthur Moore 112 XIII. Twilight Olive Custance 134 XIV. Tobacco Clouds Lionel Johnson 143 XV. Reiselust Annie Macdonell 153 XVI. To Every Man a Damsel or Two C. S. 155 XVII. A Song and a Tale Nora Hopper 158 XVIII. De Profundis S. Cornish Watkins 167 XIX. A Study in Sentimentality Hubert Crackanthorpe 175 XX. George Meredith Morton Fullerton 210 XXI. Jeanne-Marie Leila Macdonald 215 XXII. Parson Herrick’s Muse C. W. Dalmon 241 XXIII. A Note on George the Fourth Max Beerbohm 247 XXIV. The Ballad of a Nun John Davidson 273 Art I. Mantegna By Philip Broughton _Page_ 7 II. From a Lithograph George Thomson 21 III. Portrait of Himself } IV. Lady Gold’s Escort } V. The Wagnerites } Aubrey Beardsley 50 VI. La Dame aux Camélias } VII. From a Pastel Albert Foschter 89 VIII. Collins’ Music Hall, Islington } IX. The Lion Comique } Walter Sickert 136 X. Charley’s Aunt } XI. The Mirror } XII. Skirt-Dancing } P. Wilson Steer 169