EDITORIAL NOTE HAVE to announce that with the next number, completing a year's existence, the present issue of "THE SAVOy" will come to an end. It has done something of what I intended it should do it has : made warm friends and heated enemies and I am equally content with both. It has, in the main, conquered the prejudices of the press; and I offer the most cordial thanks to those newspaper critics who have had the honesty and the courtesy to allow their prejudices to be conquered. But it has not conquered the general public, and, without the florins of the general public, no magazine such as THE SAVOY," issued at so low a price, and without the aid of advertisements, can expect to pay its way. We therefore retire from the arena, not entirely dissatisfied, if not a trifle disappointed, leaving to those who care for it our year's work, which will be presented to you in three volumes, in a cover of Mr. Beardsley's designing. When we come before you again, it will be in a more luxurious form, for which you shall pay more, but less often. ARTHUR SYMONS. November, 1896. |