From the Glasgow Herald: “Miscellaneous Books: The Pageant, vol. 2”

The Pageant. Edited by C. Hazelwood Shannon and J. W. Gleeson White. (London: Henry & Co.)—

This, the second issue of “The Pageant,” is delightful enough for us to hope that it may become a hardy annual. Messrs. White and Shannon have carried out their task—the difficulty of which only such as have essayed it may fully know—with considerable skill, and the consequence is a very beautiful and charming volume. Amongst the artists whose stores have been drawn upon for contributions to the pictorial part of the volume we notice especially Rossetti, Burne-Jones, G. F. Watts, Gustave Moreau, and Puvis de Chavannes, of whose works some well chosen and brilliantly reproduced specimens are given. The printing of the blocks reflects great credit upon the Swan Electric Engraving Company, which is responsible for them all, and upon the oversight of Mr. Shannon. We especially admire Mr Shannon’s powerful “Wounded Amazon” and Mr Charles Ricketts’s beautiful “Autumn Muse.” The artist will find much to interest him in “The Pageant.” In addition to all these beautiful pictures, there are essays on “Gustave Moreau,” by Mr. Gleeson White, who is learned and sympathetic, and on “Giulio Campagnola,” with illustrations, by Mr. D. S. MacColl. Mr Charles Ricketts also writes “A Note on Original Wood Engraving.” Amongst the purely literary contributions the first place is easily taken by Mr Dobson’s happy poem on Johnson in the style and measure of Goldsmith’s “Retaliation,” to which it is supposed be an addendum. Dr. Richard Garnett has a beautiful sonnet, and Michael Field a pretty poem on “July.” Of the prose fiction we much prefer Mr. Laurence Housman’s delicate and delightful fairy tale of “Blind Love,” which reads almost like a poem by Christina Rossetti translated into beautiful prose; it has something of Hans Anderson and more of “The Earthly Paradise.” Mr Max Beerbohm tells a pathetic little Japanese idyll without any of his usual grotesquerie, and tells it very prettily and well.