The Venture

The Venture

An Annual of Art and Literature

 

Edited by
Laurence Housman and
W. Somerset Maugham.

 

London
At John Baillie's
1, Princes Terrace,
Hereford Road, W. 1903.

Printed at the Pear Tree Press,
15 Holborn, London, E.C.

Literary Contents.

			Page
Beauty's Mirror	by	John Masefield.	1
The Philosophy of Islands	„	G. K. Chesterton.	2
The Market Girl	„	Thomas Hardy.	10
Open Sesame	„	Charles Marriott.	13
To Any Householder	„	Mrs. Meynell.	31
The Oracles	„	A. E. Housman.	39
The Genius of Pope	„	Stephen Gwynn.	40
Poor Little Mrs. Villiers	„	Netta Syrett.	53
Blindness	„	John Masefield.	74
The Merchant Knight	„	Richard Garnett.	77
Earth's Martyrs	„	Stephen Phillips.	112
The Gem and Its Setting	„	Violet Hunt.	115
Marriage in Two Moods	„	Francis Thompson.	131
An Indian Road-Tale	„	S. Boulderson.	133
Madame de Warens	„	Havelock Ellis.	136
The Clue	„	Laurence Binyon.	158
Richard Farquharson	„	May Bateman.	161
Jill's Cat	„	E. F. Benson.	175
Proverbial Romances	„	Laurence Housman.	187
Marriages Are Made in Heaven	„	W. Somerset Maugham.	209
A Phial	„	John Gray.	233
A Concert at Clifford's Inn	„	John Todhunter.	235

Wood-Cuts.

	Frontispiece.
The Dove Cot	by	Charles Hazelwood Shannon.
			Page
John Woolman	„	Reginald Savage.	viii
Psyche's Looking Glass	„	Charles S. Ricketts.	11
Pan and Psyche	„	T. Sturge Moore.	29
Queen of the Fishes	„	Lucien Pissarro.	37
Birdalone	„	Bernard Sleigh	51
The Trumpeter	„	E. Gordon Craig.	75
The Death of Pan	„	Louise Glazier.	97
Playfellows	„	T. Sturge Moore.	113
The Crowning of Esther	„	Lucien Pissarro.	129
Daphne and Apollo	„	Elinor Monsell.	159
The World is old to-night	„	Paul Woodroffe.	173
The Gabled House	„	Sydney Lee.	185
The Blue Moon	„	Laurence Housman.	207
The Bather	„	Bernard Sleigh.	231

The Editors have to thank the Essex House Press for permission to print the "John Woolman" engraving of Mr. Reginald Savage; Mr. Alexander Moring for the use of Mr. Paul Woodroffe's illustration to the song "The World is Old To-night," published with music by the De La More Press; and Mr. John Murray for first use of "The Blue Moon" title-page.

John Woolman.