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href="#ulink_3e449f20-fdef-5532-be27-f2ef2b7a68e4">LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES—I

       MR. MAHAFFY’S NEW BOOK

       MR. MORRIS’S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY

       SIR CHARLES BOWEN’S VIRGIL

       LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES—II

       ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA

       EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND

       LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES—III

       THE POETS’ CORNER—IV

       LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES—IV

       THE POETS’ CORNER—V

       VENUS OR VICTORY

       LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES—V

       THE POETS’ CORNER—VI

       M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND

       THE POETS’ CORNER—VII

       A FASCINATING BOOK

       THE POETS’ CORNER—VIII

       A NOTE ON SOME MODERN POETS

       SIR EDWIN ARNOLD’S LAST VOLUME

       AUSTRALIAN POETS

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—I

       POETRY AND PRISON

       THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN

       THE NEW PRESIDENT

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—II

       ONE OF THE BIBLES OF THE WORLD

       POETICAL SOCIALISTS

       MR. BRANDER MATTHEWS’ ESSAYS

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—III

       MR. WILLIAM MORRIS’S LAST BOOK

       ADAM LINDSAY GORDON

       THE POETS’ CORNER—IX

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—IV

       MR. FROUDE’S BLUE-BOOK

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—V

       OUIDA’S NEW NOVEL

       SOME LITERARY NOTES—VI

       A THOUGHT-READER’S NOVEL

       THE POETS’ CORNER—X

       MR. SWINBURNE’S LAST VOLUME

       THREE NEW POETS

       A CHINESE SAGE

       MR. PATER’S LAST VOLUME

       PRIMAVERA

       INDEX OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS REVIEWED

INTRODUCTION

       Table of Contents

      The editor of writings by any author not long deceased is censured sooner or later for his errors of omission or commission. I have decided to err on the side of commission and to include in the uniform edition of Wilde’s works everything that could be identified as genuine. Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly contemporaries ever supposed he would become.

      It should be remembered, however, that at the time when most of these reviews were written Wilde had published scarcely any of the works by which his name has become famous in Europe, though the protagonist of the æsthetic movement was a well-known figure in Paris and London. Later he was recognised—it would be truer to say he was ignored—as a young man who had never fulfilled the high promise of a distinguished university career although his volume of Poems had reached its fifth edition, an unusual event in those days. He had alienated a great many of his Oxford contemporaries by his extravagant manner of dress and his methods of courting publicity.

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