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Yellow Book

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Yellow Book, English illustrated quarterly published (1894–97) in book form in London. Henry Harland Harland, Henry, 1861–1905, American novelist, b. St. Petersburg, Russia, studied at Harvard. He traveled extensively in Europe during his childhood. His first novels were written under the pseudonym Sidney Luska and dealt with immigrant Jewish life in the
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 was literary editor, and Aubrey Beardsley Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (ô`brē, bĭrdz`lē), 1872–98, English illustrator and writer, b. Brighton.
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, whose exotic and provocative drawings brought immediate attention to the publication, was art editor until 1896. The Yellow Book was a miscellany of short stories, articles, poetry, and drawings. It was able to draw material from writers with wide differences of style and viewpoint, but its emphasis was on the bizarre, the "modern," and the aesthetic. It included among its contributors Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, John Davidson, Richard Le Gallienne, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Dowson, and Arnold Bennett.

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See H. Jackson, The Eighteen Nineties (1927); E. L. Casford, The Magazines of the 1890's (1929); N. Denny, ed., The Yellow Book: A Selection (1949); K. L. Mix, A Study in Yellow: The Yellow Book and Its Contributors (1960, repr. 1969).


The standard for the physical format of a CD-ROM disk. The ISO 9660 standard defines the logical format for the disk. See CD.


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Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue, All true, or just as good as true, And here's the Yellow Book for YOU!
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