LEONARD SMITHERS’ SUBSCRIPTION FORM: SILHOUETTES

Silhouettes by Arthur Symons. Second Edition. Carefully Revised and Enlarged by the addition of nineteen new poems. Uniform with "London Nights." Mr. Symons' new Volume of Poems, printed at the Chiswick Press, is now ready for delivery. The edition consists of 400 Small Paper Copies of Large Post 8vo, deckle-edged paper, bound in dark green cloth, at Five Shillings net per copy; and 15 Large Paper Copies on Royal 8vo hand-made paper, bound in dark gren buckram at One Guinea net per copy. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. By ALEXANDER POPE ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY. April 1896. Mr. Leonard Smithers begs to announce the publication on the 20th of this month an Edition de Luxe of the above famous Poem, printed by the Chiswick Press, in crown quarto size onold style paper, illustrated with nine elaborate drawings by Mr. Aubrey Beardsley, and bound in a specially designed cloth cover. The edition will be a limited one, and the price will be Ten shillings and Sixpence net per copy. Twenty five copies will be printed on Japanese Vellum, and will be offered at Two Guineas net per copy. Note. - This book was advertised to be ready last month, but owing to the very elaborate character of the drawings, and the care needed in their reproduction, its publication has had to be postponed. Only five copies on Japanese Vellum now remain unsubscribed for. THE SAVOY. A New Illustrated Quarterly. EDITED BY ARTHUR SYMONS. NO. I. NOW READY. 170 pages, 18 full-page Illustrations, and 5 Illustrations in the Text, Crown quarto, bound ni pictorial cover, 2s. 6d. net. No. 2 will be ready on the 24th April, containing upwards of 200 pages, and 20 full-page Illustrations. The number will include a story entitled "A Mere Man" (by a new writer) and literary contributions by Cesare Lombroso ("A Mad Saint"), Paul Verlaine ("My Visit to London"), Edmund Gosse, W. B. Yeats, Havelock Ellis ("Friedrich Neitzsche"), Frederick Wedmore, Selwyn Image, Ernest Dowson, John Gray, Vincent O'Sullivan, Leila Macdonald, Aubrey Beardsley and the Editor. The illustrations will include work by Joseph Pennell, C. H. Shannon, W. T. Horton, W. Rothenstein, Ph. Caresme, Albert Sterner, W. Sickert, Lemmen, Max Beerbohm, andAubrey Beardsley. LEONARD SMITHERS, EFFINGHAM HOUSE, ARUNDEL STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.

Uniform with "London Nights" Mr. Symons' new volume of Poems, printed at the Chiswick Press, is now ready for delivery. Edition consists of 400 Small Paper copies on Large post 8vo deckle-edged paper, bound in dark green cloth, at Five Shillings net per copy; and 15 Large Paper copies on Royal 8vo handmade paper, bound in dark green buckram, at One Guinea net per copy. SILHOUETTES BY ARTHUR SYMONS. SECOND EDITION REVISED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: LEONARD SMITHERS EFFINGHAM HOUSE: ARUNDEL STREET STRAND: MDCCCXCVI

PRESS NOTICES ON THE FIRST EDITION OF "SILHOUETTES." "Mr. Arthur Symons's 'Silhouettes' are graceful and musical poems, with the finish beseeming their briefness. They are choicely executed miniatures rather than silhouettes. For the especial quality which almost all possess - and some in a great degree - there i sno other description so appropriate as that vague word 'charm.' ... Mr. Symons may be frankly accepted as a genuine poet - major or minor is at present no matter for decision, for, at his stage, minor may become major before all is done." Athenaeum, March 4, 1893. PRESS NOTICES ON "LONDON NIGHTS." "Those who have learned from his former volumes know Mr. Symons as a careful maker of meolodious verse, not without a gift of direct vision, and often distinguished by some felicity of expression, will open, as we did, his new book of poems with considerable expectations. Nor will any studen of verse, simply as verse, be disappointed. Mr. Symons is no unskilled metricist. He has learned the secret of the melody of simple metres, and he uses his knowledge often with unquestionable success. He has learned, too, the value of simplicity of language, and in such verse as 'White Magic,' 'Memory,' and 'At the Ambassadeurs,' he hits the mark." - Saturday Review. "'London Nights,' by Arthur Symons, is a very dainty, very clever volume of verses, mainly descriptive of various female characters - fickle, fleeting, beautiful, intensely human, and of course, not usnsuspectable, and therefore tormentingly unsatisfactory." - Glasgow Herald. "'Nuits de Londres,' ainsi s'intule le nouveau livre du delicat et vivant poete. Mais n'allex pas en conclure a des tenebres de 'fog' et de 'mist,' a des scenes lugubres ou brutales. Imaginez ou, comme dit l'Anglais, 'realisez,' au contraire, toute le raffinement et tout l'eclat de la vie nocturne d'un fantaisiste elegant, epris du joli, do coquet - et du Beau, parmi les splendeurs d'un Londres intelligemment viveur, d'un Londres moderne a l'extreme et le plus parisien possible, avec la nuance anglaise, toutefois, distinction supreme, veux-je de dire, dans le style, joyeux parfois, leger, qui sait sourire et badiner sans jamais 's'emballer' jusqu'a meme un soupcon de gaite quelque peu grasse." Paul Verlaine in the Revue Encyclopedique. To Mr....189 Sir, Please forward me cop of "SILHOUETTES," by Mr. Arthur Symons, small paper edition at Five Shillings per copy net, or cop large paper edition at One Guinea per copy net, as published by Mr. Leonard Smithers, of 1, Arundel Srreet, Strand, London. Name... Address....

MLA citation:

Leonard Smithers’ Subscription Form: Silhouettes, by Arthur Symons.. Insert in The Savoy, vol. 2, April 1896. The Savoy Digital Edition, edited by Christopher Keep and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2018-2019. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2021, https://1890s.ca/savoyv2-symons-silhouettes/

magazine_images The Savoy 1 A Large Christmas Card Aubrey Beardsley Pen and ink Paul Naumann

“AUBREY BEARDSLEY”

Blanket, Flowers, and Crown Human Figure, Female Figure/ Woman, Baby, Tie, Robe, Son, Mother, and Crown 1890s Night, Outdoor setting, Woods/ forest, Flower, and Trees