Miscellanies

July 12. *THREE NEW POETS. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. I. No. 7587, page 3.

December. IN THE FOREST. Illustrated by Bernard Partridge. Lady’s Pictorial Christmas Number, page 9.

(Set to music by Edwin Tilden and published by Miles and Thompson, Boston, U.S.A., 1891.)

1890

January 9. REPLY TO MR. WHISTLER. Truth, Vol. XXVII. No. 680, page 51.

February 8. A CHINESE SAGE. Speaker, Vol. I. No. 6, page 144.

March 22. MR. PATER’S LAST VOLUME. Speaker, Vol. I. No. 12, page 319.

May 24. *PRIMAVERA. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LI. No. 7856, page 3.

June 20. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY. Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine (July), Vol. XLVI. No. 271, page 3.

(Containing thirteen chapters only.)

June 26. MR. WILDE’S BAD CASE. St. James’s Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3135, page 4.

June 27. MR. OSCAR WILDE AGAIN. St. James’s Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3136, page 5.

June 28. MR. OSCAR WILDE’S DEFENCE. St. James’s Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3137, page 5.

June 30. MR. OSCAR WILDE’S DEFENCE. St. James’s Gazette, Vol. XX. No. 3138, page 5.

July. THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING: A DIALOGUE. Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXVIII. No. 161, page 123.

July 2. ‘DORIAN GRAY.’ Daily Chronicle and Clerkenwell News, No. 8830, page 5.

July 12. MR. WILDE’S REJOINDER. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 86, page 201.

August 2. ART AND MORALITY. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 89, page 279.

August 16. ART AND MORALITY. Scots Observer, Vol. IV. No. 91, page 332.

September. THE TRUE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF CRITICISM; WITH SOME REMARKS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DOING NOTHING: A DIALOGUE (concluded). Nineteenth Century, Vol. XXVIII. No. 163, page 435.

1891

February. THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM. Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIX. No. 290, page 292.

March. A PREFACE TO ‘DORIAN GRAY.’ Fortnightly Review, Vol. XLIX. No. 291, page 480.

September 26. AN ANGLO-INDIAN’S COMPLAINT. Times, No. 33,440, page 10.

December 5. ‘A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.’ Speaker, Vol. IV. No. 101, page 682.

December 11. MR. OSCAR WILDE’S ‘HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.’ Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIII. No. 8339, page 2.

1892

February 20. PUPPETS AND ACTORS. Daily Telegraph, No. 11,470, page 3.

February 27. MR. OSCAR WILDE EXPLAINS. St. James’s Gazette, Vol. XXIV. No. 3654, page 4.

December 6. THE NEW REMORSE. Spirit Lamp, Vol. II. No. 4, page 97.

1893

February 17. THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT. Spirit Lamp, Vol. III. No. 2, page 52.

March 2. MR. OSCAR WILDE ON ‘SALOMÉ.’ Times, No. 33,888, page 4.

June 6. THE DISCIPLE. Spirit Lamp, Vol. IV. No. 2, page 49.

TO MY WIFE: WITH A COPY OF MY POEMS; AND WITH A COPY OF ‘THE HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES.’ Book-Song, An Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen from Modern Authors. Edited by Gleeson White, pages 156, 157. London: Elliot Stock.

[This was the first publication of these two poems. Anthologies containing reprints are not included in this list.]

1894

January 15. LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE THIRTEEN CLUB. Times, No. 34,161, page 7.

July. POEMS IN PROSE. (‘The Artist,’ ‘The Doer of Good,’ ‘The Disciple,’ ‘The Master,’ ‘The House of Judgment.’) Fortnightly Review, Vol. LIV. No. 331, page 22.

September 20. THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX. No. 9202, page 3.

September 25. THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM. Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX. No. 9206, page 3.

October 2. ‘THE GREEN CARNATION.’ Pall Mall Gazette, Vol. LIX. No. 9212, page 3.

December. PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG. Chameleon, Vol. I. No. 1, page 1.

1895

April 6. LETTER ON THE QUEENSBERRY CASE. Evening News, No. 4226, page 3.

1897

May 28. THE CASE OF WARDER MARTIN. SOME CRUELTIES OF PRISON LIFE. Daily Chronicle, No. 10,992, page 9.

1898

March 24. LETTER ON PRISON REFORM. Daily Chronicle, No. 11,249, page 5.

1

See Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other Prose Pieces in this edition, page 223.

2

Reverently some well-meaning persons have placed a marble slab on the wall of the cemetery with a medallion-profile of Keats on it and some mediocre lines of poetry. The face is ugly, and rather hatchet-shaped, with thick sensual lips, and is utterly unlike the poet himself, who was very beautiful to look upon. ‘His countenance,’ says a lady who saw him at one of Hazlitt’s lectures, ‘lives in my mind as one of singular beauty and brightness; it had the expression as if he had been looking on some glorious sight.’ And this is the idea which Severn’s picture of him gives. Even Haydon’s rough pen-and-ink sketch of him is better than this ‘marble libel,’ which I hope will soon be taken down. I think the best representation of the poet would be a coloured bust, like that of the young Rajah of Koolapoor at Florence, which is a lovely and lifelike work of art.

3

It is perhaps not generally known that there is another and older peacock ceiling in the world besides the one Mr. Whistler has done at Kensington. I was surprised lately at Ravenna to come across a mosaic ceiling done in the keynote of a peacock’s tail – blue, green, purple, and gold – and with four peacocks in the four spandrils. Mr. Whistler was unaware of the existence of this ceiling at the time he did his own.

4

An Unequal Match, by Tom Taylor, at Wallack’s Theatre, New York, November 6, 1882.

5

‘Make’ is of course a mere printer’s error for ‘mock,’ and was subsequently corrected by Lord Houghton. The sonnet as given in The Garden of Florence reads ‘orbs’ for ‘those.’

6

September 1890. See Intentions, page 214.

7

November 30, 1891.

8

February 12, 1892.

9

February 23, 1893.

10

The verses called ‘The Shamrock’ were printed in the Sunday Sun, August 5, 1894, and the charge of plagiarism was made in the issue dated September 16, 1894.

11

Cousin errs a good deal in this respect. To say, as he did, ‘Give me the latitude and the longitude of a country, its rivers and its mountains, and I will deduce the race,’ is surely a glaring exaggeration.

12

The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the Roman constitution are referred to.

13

Polybius, vi. 9. αυτη πολιτειων ανακυκλωσις, αυτη φυσεως οικνομια.

14

χωρις ορyης η φθονου ποιουμενος την αποδειξιν.

15

The various stages are συστασις, αυξησις, ακμη, μεταβολη ες τουμπαλιν.

16

Polybius, xii. 24.

17

Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.

18

He makes one exception.

19

Polybius, viii. 4.

20

Polybius, xvi. 12.

21

Polybius, viii. 4: το παραδοξοτον των καθ ημας ερyον ητυχη συνετελεσε; τουτο δ’εστι το παντα τα yνωριζομενα μερη της οικουμενης υπο μιαν αρχην και δυναστειαν αyαyειν, ο προτερον ουχ ευρισκεται yεyονος

22

Polybius resembled Gibbon in many respects. Like him he held that all religions were to the philosopher equally false, to the vulgar equally true, to the statesman equally useful.

23

Cf. Polybius, xii. 25, ψιλως λεyομενον το yεyονος ψυχαyωyει μεν, ωφελει δ'ουδεν προστεθεισης δε της αιτιας εyκαρπος η της ιστοριας yιyνεται χρησις.

24

Polybius, xxii. 22.

25

I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesian War which, from what remains to us of Athenian literature, we know must have been completely exaggerated. Or, rather, he is looking at men merely in their political dealings: and in politics the man who is personally honourable and refined will not scruple to do anything for his party.

26

Polybius, xii. 25.

27

As an instance of the inaccuracy of published reports of this lecture, it may be mentioned that all previous versions give this passage as The artist may trace the depressed revolution of Bunthorne simply to the lack of technical means!

28

The Two Paths, Lect. III. p. 123 (1859 ed.).

29

Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).

30

Edition for Continental circulation only. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, vol. 4056. 1908 (August).