The Yellow Nineties Online The Academy, 2 April 1892 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <edition> <date>2020</date> </edition> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>R_TA_0492_DIALV2</idno> <publisher>The Yellow Nineties Online</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University</pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor>Unknown</editor> <author>Unknown</author> <title level="j">The Academy The Art Magazines The Academy 2 April 1892 "The Art Magazines." Rev. of The Dial, vol. 2, 1869-1902, The Academy, no. 1039, 2 April 1892, p. 332. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020. https://www.1890s.ca/Dial2-Review-The-Academy-Apr-1892/

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1892 English English literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals Great Britain -- Periodicals Review Possible Genres (multiple): "Fiction," "Nonfiction," "Poetry," "Paratext" (TOC, prospecti, advertisements, frontmatter, titlepage), "Review" (older reviews), "Criticism" (including critical introductions), "Visual Art" (images, bio images), Historiography (bios),"Bibliography" (intros, crit, bios, anything with a bibliography attached), "Drama," "Ephemera," "Translation," "Religion," "Travel Writing," "Music, Other,") Periodical Possible Types (singular): "Periodical" (texts/most stuff), "Interactive Resource" (current writing, biographies, not old reviews), "Still Image" (images, visual art), "Physical Object" (posters, prospecti) Book History Art History Possible Disciplines (multiple): "Book History (include for all periodical items)," "Literature," "Art History (use for art, also use for reviews)," "History (don't use in a general sense)," "Theatre Studies," "Musicology," "Philosophy," "Anthropology," "Science" <emph rend="bold">THE ART MAGAZINES.</emph>

THE Dial, that extremely occasional and still more eccentric periodical, has struck two, thereby falsifying the prophecy of the enemy. There is no doubt that Mr. C. Ricketts is a very clever artist, and cuts his own designs well upon the block; and there is a dreamy suggestiveness about Mr. Charles Shannon’s drawings which is very taking. The art, indeed, of the whole number, in so far as it is graphic, is so fresh and strange that one does not care to criticise it too minutely. But as to the letterpress, most of it is sheer nonsense; and the kindest thing to do is what somebody (it is not clear whom) did, as reported in the last line of the Dial No. 2— “He laughed, because he knew they could not mean what they said.”