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The opportunity to establish a major periodical excited Beards¬
ley, then only twenty-one (Flarland was thirty-two). The two
approached Lane with the proposal, which was accepted almost
immediately. .Max Bccrbohm. writing to his friend Regsjic Turner,
 

A'la.\ Bccrbohm s iii ,i\, ,i "_■.    Soinu Pci-stins of The \inclics.' '   LMiicuurcs

Cjcorge Moore, Oscar VV'ildc, W. B. Yeats, Aubrey Beardsley and other

writer.s. Harland appears in the left center just behind Arthur Svmons

and Charles Conder.

announced the founding of The Yellow Book with his usual faceti¬
ous exuberance: "It is to make all our fortunes. . . ."

Though it created a sensation when it appeared in April, 1894
(primarily because of Beardsley's suggestive and mocking draw-