Review of The Venture. Vol. 2

The Venture, published by Mr. John Baillie,
is a collection of pictures, stories, articles,
and verse by a number of clever writers, who
are mostly young. There is a tendency to
preciosity, and much of the work is imitative,
but there is also plenty of talent. Assured
authors, however, also add their quota to
the vividness of ‘The Venture.’ Mr. Gosse
supplies a poem, Mr. Symons a fragment of
a play, and Mrs. Meynell some remarks on
customs of publicity. Les Jeunes, since the
prolific nineties, have had few shows of this
sort, and we congratulate Mr. Baillie on his
enterprise in continuing this one.