THE PAGEANT VOL1 REVIEWS
Periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic regularly reviewed late-Victorian little magazines of art and literature. Some reviews would be fairly lengthy essays; others might only be a sentence or two in length; occasionally, the critic would compare one magazine to another. As was typical of the period, most reviews were published unsigned. This digital repository of historical reviews offers insight into the critical reception of Y90s magazines at the time of their production.
From The Sketch: “Heralding ‘The Pageant’.” Rev. of The Pageant, vol. 1
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“Take up and read’ is the motto of Messrs. H. Henry and Co., which legend, in the case of their forthcoming annual, “The Pageant,” might well run, “Take up and admire,” for even if the book contained no literature, it would still be very precious.
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From the Pall Mall Gazette: “A ‘Pageant,’ and How it is Made.” Rev. of The Pageant, vol. 1
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And I thought of the distance to Ravenscourt Park, and hailed it. “The editor of the Pageant,” I said simply. But the driver appeared not to have heard of the publication, and demanded further particulars, which resulted in my being deposited eventually at the house of the personage in question.
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From The Academy: “The ‘Pageant’.” Rev. of The Pageant, vol. 1
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THE Pageant, which Messrs. Henry & Co. have just issued, proves a remarkable gift-book, charged, it may be, a little too much with the spirit of pre-Raphaelite art, yet by no means exclusively pre-Raphaelite, either in its illustration or in the tendency of its literature.
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From The Morning Post: “The Pageant.” Rev. of The Pageant, vol. 1¹
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One of the many curious developments of modernity is manifested in a return to long-abandoned usages which in the distant past had a basis of rationality, but which now savour only of affection. An example is provided in “The Pageant,” a miscellany which in its appearance as well as in its matter shows a strange combination of the new with the old.
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From The Standard: “Recent Art Books: The Pageant.” Rev. of The Pageant, vol. 1
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“The Pageant.” Henry and Co.—This beautiful little gift-book, of which Mr. Gleeson White is the literary, and Mr. C. H. Shannon the artistic, editor, is practically a return to the fashion of the “annuals” which charmed our grandfathers and grandmothers some sixty years ago. Now, as then, picture alternates with literature, and well-known writers and draughtsmen or painters are summoned to give us of their best.
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From The Spectator: “‘The Pageant,’ And Two Other Miscellanies”
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The Pageant is a rightly conceived mixture of literature and graphic art. Instead of illustrations furnished by some indifferent hack to story or essay, and wordy description written round pictures, we have here drawings, verses, prose, appealing each on their own merits.
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