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”g•ayES.theril-vo-5he into lug his dio iug .111-re-s is re-re-er, os-es, er-the 3ck es, •et-ick the t is tobigim-tudcalacettirlerythethein-itymdall.anostayspa. id, ieir ! It itli iu-igh nt. or hisclehermi-myeetsorbleers5 to ’ter ide lets theteidtis-Dodaveilialessizesireslin-ad-Duuwitig up 1JU ijuiiuto commit that assault. ”Lord Rosebery failed to pay any attention to Queensberry’s threats, so fai as the public knows, and in due time the matter died out. There are plenty of persons who think a similarly silent course on the part of Oscar Wilde when an offensive card was sent to him by the marquis of the prize ring wouldMARQUIS OF QUEENSBEUUY.have inspired greater respect from the public than has the arrest of tho card writer. But Wilde is a man who never lets slip a good opportunity to get an advertisement, and although the advertisement he is now receiving is not to be obtained without expense and would not be pleasing to most of us it will prove a good one if extensive dissemination bo the proper standard.Wildo is essentially a product of the second half of the nineteenth century, though, to tho credit of tho race and the age, he is not a typical one. Cultivated ho certainly is, but ho must not bo considered primarily as a cultivated person. His chief characteristics aro clever impudenco and a willingness to do almost anything for money. Who but a man of theso traits could have displayed the nerve he showed during his memorable tour through the United States when ho attired himself in knee breeches and appropriate accompanying garments and lectured in stained glass attitudes with a sunflower in his hand? There were thoso who thought him a bit d; ft r.t thut time, but it was 6een long 11 fore tho conclusion of his tour that ho knew a lot.Yit notwithstanding Wilde’s keenness ho was easily bunkoed during that visit to tho States 12 years ago by “Hungry Joo” and has moro than once said since tin u that tho notorious confidence man had much greater ability in several directions than any one else he had ever met.Many people have forgotten that it was Du Maurier, the author of the much discussed “Trilby,” who first exploited WTilde, yet so it was. Du Maurier, though himself a very clever person, seems to havo been taken in by Wilde quite as much as Wildo was deceived by “Hungry Joe,” for the artist evidently accepted the posings and other nonsense of the * ‘apostle of sestheticism’! as sincere, else he would not have caricatured him, thus furnishing the desired advertisement. Gilbert and Sullivan took WTilde in similar fashion, and in their opera of “Patience” did him a similar favor. Now Wilde caii laugh at them all, for his plays and books, albeit some of them, as George Parsons La-throp has said, are “disgustingly filthy and a-reek with unnatural debasement,” nru exceedingly successful, and he has money a plenty. But, after all, it would seem that he has paid a high price for it. C. W. Oldborn.
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Warren Evening News
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Mar 21, 1895
Page 3
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