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Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Drawings by Aubrey Vincent Beardsley: January 1st-January 31st, 1912
Beardsley was the most eminent of a group of men who died while still very young, but who lived long enough to accomplish success fully something original and important in art or literature. They were all constantly asso ciated With one another in their lives and work. Here we need only mention Ernest Dowson, for whose precious volumes of verse Beardsley made some of his happiest decorations; Charles Conder, the English Watteau, a romantic painter whose fans and paintings on silk are among the most exquisite works of art everproduced by an Englishman; Lionel Johnson, a genuine poet and an important figure in the Celtic movement, of which William Butler Yeats is now the acknowledged leader; Leonard Smithers, their irresponsible publisher; and our own Josiah Flynt, or Cigarette, as the tramps called him, who met the Englishmen before he too passed on for keeps, in a little back room in the Crown Tavern, near Leicester Square, - a back parlor pushed up against a bar. The grim, tragic pathos, of madness, drink, and disease attaches to their names. Of them all, one alone died with a jest on his lips, and Oscar Wilde's tragic career overshadows the whole period. Fortunately, we still have Arthur Symons, whose sympathetic apprecia tions will always remain the starting-point for all future studies of their lives and achieve ments; Will Rothenstein, the distinguished painter, who began his career by making the now famous series of portraits in lithography of his contemporaries; and Max, their in comparable caricaturist, who will remain for ever young and a dandy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
