CONTENTS

THE TOMB OF KEATS ( Irish Monthly , July 1877.)

KEATS'S SONNET ON BLUE ( Century Guild Hobby Horse , July 1886.)

DINNERS AND DISHES ( Pall Mall Gazette , March 7, 1885.)

SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY ( Dramatic Review , March 14, 1885.)

HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD ( Dramatic Review , May 23, 1885.)

A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE ( Pall Mall Gazette , November 18, 1885.)

TO READ OR NOT TO READ ( Pall Mall Gazette , February 8, 1886.)

THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN ( Pall Mall Gazette , March 6, 1886.)

BERANGER IN ENGLAND ( Pall Mall Gazette , April 21, 1886.)

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE ( Pall Mall Gazette , May 13, 1886.)

THE CENCI ( Dramatic Review , May 15, 1886.)

BALZAC IN ENGLISH ( Pall Mall Gazette , September 13, 1886.)

BEN JONSON ( Pall Mall Gazette , September 20, 1886.)

MR. SYMONDS' HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE ( Pall Mall Gazette , November 10, 1886.)

MR. MORRIS'S ODYSSEY ( Pall Mall Gazette , April 26, 1887.)

RUSSIAN NOVELISTS ( Pall Mall Gazette , May 2, 1887.)

MR. PATER'S IMAGINARY PORTRAITS ( Pall Mall Gazette , June 11, 1887.)

A GERMAN PRINCESS ( Woman's World , November 1887.)

A VILLAGE TRAGEDY

MR. MORRIS'S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY ( Pall Mall Gazette , November 24, 1887.)

MRS. SOMERVILLE ( Pall Mall Gazette , November 30, 1887.)

ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA ( Pall Mall Gazette , December 16, 1887.)

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND ( Pall Mall Gazette , December 17, 1887.)

MADAME RISTORI ( Woman's World , January 1888.)

ENGLISH POETESSES ( Queen , December 8, 1888.)

VENUS OR VICTORY ( Pall Mall Gazette , February 24, 1888.)

M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND ( Pall Mall Gazette , April 14, 1888.)

A FASCINATING BOOK ( Woman's World , November 1888.)

HENLEY'S POEMS ( Woman's World , December 1888.)

SOME LITERARY LADIES ( Woman's World , January 1889.)

POETRY AND PRISON ( Pall Mall Gazette , January 3, 1889.)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN ( Pall Mall Gazette , January 25, 1889.)

IRISH FAIRY TALES ( Woman's World , February 1889.)

MR. W. B. YEATS ( Woman's World , March 1889.)

MR. YEATS'S WANDERINGS OF OISIN ( Pall Mall Gazette , July 12, 1889.)

MR. WILLIAM MORRIS'S LAST BOOK ( Pall Mall Gazette , March 2, 1889.)

SOME LITERARY NOTES ( Woman's World , April 1889.)

MR. SWINBURNE'S POEMS AND BALLADS ( third series ) ( Pall Mall Gazette , June 27, 1889.)

A CHINESE SAGE ( Speaker , February 8, 1890.)

MR. PATER'S APPRECIATIONS ( Speaker , March 22, 1890.)

SENTENTIAE ( Extracted from Reviews )

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BEING EXTRACTS FROM
REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES

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OSCAR WILDE

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First Published in 1919

This selection has been made by Mr. E. V. Lucas