The Yellow Nineties Online The Spectator, 22 Feb 1896 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <edition> <date>2019</date> </edition> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>R_TS_0296_EGV2</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 Spectator The Evergreen Unknown Unknown Feb 1896 "The Evergreen." Review of The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, vol.2, Autumn 1895, The Spectator Feb 1896, p. 274. Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/EG2_Review_The_Spectator_Feb_1896/

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1895 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 literature 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 Evergreen</emph>

For the good intentions and some of the ideas of the pro- ducers of The Evergreen we have sympathy; but they appear to us to confuse the ardent desire for the presence of art with the power to produce it.    The essence of their movement for a "Scots Renascence" would appear to be a kind of social settle- ment including University teachers and students, and they are anxious to add culture and an artistic creation to their study of science and aspiration after social good-fellowship.    But these things do not come only by wishing and taking thought and trying.    Talent too is necessary, and is not to be had to order.    These two numbers of the" Seasonal" are marked by an anxious self-consciousness, an effort to have style that defeats itself.    The type has so much of this style that it is ugly and unreadable. Style stands like a grille before the articles, and hits one in the eye from the drawings.    We find, however, some feeling and talent in the writing of Miss Fiona MacLeod, and in Mr. Charles Mackie's Hide and Seek.