... MR. OSCAR WILDE'S FAIR Y TALES.* IT Would seem to be a very difficult task to be original in fairy tales- harder, even, than in most walks of literature, where, as Emerson reminded us, everything has been said before. To write an original story for ...

... Allonby, you will remember, thought there couldn't be such a thing and wandered into objectionable flippancy. And Mr. Oscar Wilde, having, we more than suspect, a lingering sympathy with Mrs. Allonby, has written a whole play to demonscrate this imp ...

... descends on three happy couples. For Mr. Oscar Wilde, with a commendable regard for dramatic customs, has supplied the Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D., for the excellent Miss Prism. It is all very funny, and Mr. Oscar Wilde has decorated a humour that is Gilbertian ...

... Underdown, Q.C., and Mr. Poland, Q.C. ; art patronage, Mr. Aird, Sir John Pender, and Mr. Sebag- Montefiore ; letters, Mr. Oscar Wilde, Mr. Cosmo Monkhouse, Mr. Grego, Mr. Broadley, and Mr.. Boyes; and there !were besides Sir J. C. Robinson, Mr. Bernard Partridge ...

... bright pages from a Mediterranean sketch-book ; M. Gaston Jollivet discoursing on Art at the ' Mirlirons ' Club; Mr. Oscar Wilde warbling a little canzonet, full of sweetness and iight; and MM.Hervieu and Lau ol providing somne fairly entertaining fiction ...

... homely fare. The first leader about Fellows Going Home from school for the Christmas Holidays is capitally written. Mr. Oscar Wilde evidently finds sotne difficulty in elevating the Lady's ff o~ld into the larger atmosphere and more ambitious plan of the ...

... XR. OSCAR WIlDE 'S S DORIAN GRA E' * MR. OSCAR WILDE'S new novelette (it fills a hundred large pages of .4Ppsncoffs Magazine) is compounded of three elements in equal propor- tions. It is one part Stevenson, one part Huysmans, one part Wilde. But for ...

... SPORTS AN) PASTIMIES. Lord Harris. Sir John Astley. Mr. G. Lane Fox. F. Archer. Mr. Ashbury. PERSONAGES OF THE DAY' Mr. Oscar Wilde. Sir John Bennett. Lord Ranelagh. Mr. Biggar. Archbishop Croke. Dr. Joseph Parker. ...

... S O M E SKETCHES AT HENLEY. LITERARY AND ART NOTES, ETC. lir. Oscar Wilde has found a new career. He has been appointed editor of the Laily's WIorld. Mllr- Nicholas Chevalier is engaged on a water-colour drawing, in which ore to be epitomized all the ...

... Now followed a crowd-Mr. Val Prinsep and his wife, MTr. Andrew Lang, Lord Granville, Mr. Joachim, Mr. Savile Clarke, Mr. Oscar Wilde, Mr. Keeley Halswelle, and. Mr. May, R.l., and scores of others known to fame ard each other, packed in the now seething ...

... on Geometry,' Gresham CoPege, Pasinghall-street, 6 Bernard Dyer on Agriculture, Citv of London Col- iege, 7 ; Mrs. Oscar Wilde and Viscountess Harbernon on 'Rational Dress, Somerville Club, Ox'ord street, 8. TO-NIORROW. St. George s Studeiis' Union-Rev ...

... boys in the pit were enchan'ed They took 'Ta ra ra' as if it ivere inluenza-as instantly and as severely. There were some Oscar Wilde boys in the stalls, who were pleased to give it a languid support. Tint they all wore lilies. I fancy the supply of green ...