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-  IMPRESSIONS
-  OF
-  AMERICA.
-
-  BY
-  OSCAR WILDE.
-
-  EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,
-  BY STUART MASON.
-
-  Keystone Press, Sunderland.
-  1906.
-
-
-This Edition consists of 500 Copies.
-
-50 Copies have been printed on hand-made paper.
-
-
-  TO
-  WALTER LEDGER:
-
-  PIGNUS
-  AMICITI�.
-
-
-
-
-IMPRESSIONS.
-
-
-I.
-
-LE JARDIN.
-
-    The lily's withered chalice falls
-      Around its rod of dusty gold,
-      And from the beech trees on the wold
-    The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.
-
-    The gaudy leonine sunflower
-      Hangs black and barren on its stalk,
-      And down the windy garden walk
-    The dead leaves scatter,--hour by hour.
-
-    Pale privet-petals white as milk
-      Are blown into a snowy mass;
-      The roses lie upon the grass,
-    Like little shreds of crimson silk.
-
-
-II.
-
-LA MER.
-
-    A white mist drifts across the shrouds,
-      A wild moon in this wintry sky
-      Gleams like an angry lion's eye
-    Out of a mane of tawny clouds.
-
-    The muffled steersman at the wheel
-      Is but a shadow in the gloom;--
-      And in the throbbing engine room
-    Leap the long rods of polished steel.
-
-    The shattered storm has left its trace
-      Upon this huge and heaving dome,
-      For the thin threads of yellow foam
-    Float on the waves like ravelled lace.
-
-                              Oscar Wilde.
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE.
-
-
-Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the �sthetic
-School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime
-previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the
-production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Patience,"[1] in which he
-and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a
-visit to the States to give some lectures explaining what he meant by
-�stheticism, hoping thereby to interest, and possibly to instruct and
-elevate our transatlantic cousins.
-
-He set sail on board the "Arizona" on Saturday, December 24th, 1881,
-arriving in New York early in the following year. On landing he was
-bombarded by journalists eager to interview the distinguished stranger.
-"Punch," in its issue of January 14th, in a happy vein, parodied these
-interviewers, the most amusing passage in which referred to "His
-Glorious Past," wherein Wilde was made to say, "Precisely--I took the
-Newdigate. Oh! no doubt, every year some man gets the Newdigate; but not
-every year does Newdigate get an Oscar."
-
-At Omaha, where, under the auspices of the Social Art Club, Wilde
-delivered a lecture on "Decorative Art," he described his impressions
-of many American houses as being "illy designed, decorated shabbily, and
-in bad taste, filled with furniture that was not honestly made, and was
-out of character." This statement gave rise to the following verses:--
-
-    What a shame and what a pity,
-    In the streets of London City
-      Mr. Wilde is seen no more.
-    Far from Piccadilly banished,
-    He to Omaha has vanished.
-      Horrid place, which swells ignore.
-
-    On his back a coat he beareth,
-    Such as Sir John Bennet weareth,
-      Made of velvet--strange array!
-    Legs Apollo might have sighed for,
-    Or great Hercules have died for,
-      His knee breeches now display.
-
-    Waving sunflower and lily,
-    He calls all the houses "illy
-      Decorated and designed."
-    For of taste they've not a tittle;
-    They may chew and they may whittle;
-      But they're all born colour-blind!
-
-His lectures dealt almost exclusively with the subjects of Art and Dress
-Reform. In the course of one lecture he remarked that the most
-impressive room he had yet entered in America was the one in Camden Town
-where he met Walt Whitman. It contained plenty of fresh air and
-sunlight. On the table was a simple cruse of water. This led to a
-parody, in the style of Whitman, describing an imaginary interview
-between the two poets, which appeared in "The Century" a few months
-later. Wilde is called Narcissus and Whitman Paumanokides.
-
-  Paumanokides:--
-
-      Who may this be?
-    This young man clad unusually with loose locks, languorous,
-          glidingly toward me advancing,
-    Toward the ceiling of my chamber his orbic and expressive eyeballs
-          uprolling,
-
-and so on, to which Narcissus replies,
-
-    O clarion, from whose brazen throat,
-      Strange sounds across the seas are blown,
-    Where England, girt as with a moat,
-      A strong sea-lion sits alone!
-
-Of the lectures which he delivered in America only one has been
-preserved, namely that on the English Renaissance. This was his first
-lecture, and it was delivered in New York on January 9th, 1882.
-According to a contemporary account in the "New York Herald" a
-distinguished and crowded audience assembled in Chickering Hall that
-evening to listen to one who "was well worth seeing, his short breeches
-and silk stockings showing to even better advantage upon the stage than
-in the gilded drawing-rooms, where the young Apostle has heretofore been
-seen in New York."[2]
-
-On leaving the States in the "fall" of the year Wilde proceeded to
-Canada and thence to Nova Scotia, arriving in Halifax in the second week
-of October. Of his visit there we have no record except an amusing
-interview described in a local paper a few days later. He was dressed in
-a velvet jacket with an ordinary linen collar and neck tie and he wore
-trousers. "Mr. Wilde," the interviewer states, "was communicative and
-genial; he said he found Canada pleasant, but in answer to a question as
-to whether European or American women were the more beautiful, he
-dexterously evaded his querist."
-
-As regards poetry he expressed his opinion that Poe was the greatest
-American poet, and that Walt Whitman, if not a poet, was a man who
-sounded a strong note, perhaps neither prose nor poetry, but something
-of his own that was "grand, original and unique."
-
-During his tour in America Wilde "happened to find" himself (as he has
-himself described it), in Louisville, Kentucky. The subject he had
-selected to speak on was the Mission of Art in the Nineteenth Century.
-In the course of his lecture he had occasion to quote Keats' Sonnet on
-Blue "as an example of the poet's delicate sense of colour-harmonies."
-After the lecture there came round to see him "a lady of middle age,
-with a sweet gentle manner and most musical voice," who introduced
-herself as Mrs. Speed, the daughter of George Keats, and she invited the
-lecturer to come and examine the Keats manuscripts in her possession.
-
-Some months afterwards when lecturing in California he received a letter
-from this lady asking him to accept the original manuscript of the
-sonnet which he had quoted.
-
-Mention must be made of Wilde's first play, a drama in blank verse
-entitled "Vera, or the Nihilists." It had been arranged that, before his
-departure for America, this play should be performed at the Adelphi
-Theatre, London, with Mrs. Bernard Beere as the heroine, on Saturday,
-December 17th, 1881, but a few weeks before the date fixed for the first
-performance, the author decided to postpone the production "owing to the
-state of political feeling in England."
-
-On his return to England in 1883 Wilde started on a lecturing tour, the
-first being to the Art Students of the Royal Academy at their Club in
-Golden Square on June 30th. Ten days later he spoke at Prince's Hall on
-his "Personal Impressions of America," and on subsequent occasions at
-Margate, Ramsgate and Southampton. On Monday, July 30th he lectured at
-Southport and on the following Thursday he went to Liverpool to welcome
-Mrs. Langtry on her return from America, and the same afternoon he left
-on his second visit to the States in order to superintend the rehearsals
-of "Vera," which it had been arranged to produce at the Union Square
-Theatre, New York, on August 20th following. The piece was not a
-success--it was, indeed, the only failure Wilde had. However, his next
-play, which he called his "Opus Secundum," also a blank verse tragedy,
-had a successful run in America in 1891. This was "The Duchess of
-Padua," played by Lawrence Barrett, under the title of "Guido Ferranti."
-This has not been seen in England, nor is it even possible for Wilde's
-admirers to read this early offspring of his pen, for only twenty copies
-were printed for acting purposes in America and of these but one is
-known to be in existence, in this country at least.
-
-An authorised German translation was made by Max Meyerfeld and the first
-performance took place at the German Theatre in Hamburg about a year
-ago. An English version is advertised from a piratical publisher in
-Paris but it is only a translation from the German back into English.
-
-Towards the end of September 1883 Oscar Wilde returned to England and
-immediately began "an all round lecturing tour," his first visit being
-to Wandsworth Town Hall on Monday, September 24th, when he delivered to
-an enthusiastic audience a lecture on his "Impressions of America,"
-which is contained in the following pages. He was dressed, a London
-paper of the time states, "in ordinary evening costume, and carried an
-orange-coloured silk handkerchief in his breast. He spoke with great
-fluency, in a voice now and then singularly musical, and only once or
-twice made a scarcely perceptible reference to notes." The lecture was
-under the auspices of a local Literary Society, and the principle
-residents of the district turned out "en masse." The Chairman, the Rev.
-John Park, in introducing the lecturer, said there were two reasons why
-he was glad to welcome him, and he thought his own feelings would be
-shared by the audience. They must all plead guilty to a feeling of
-curiosity, he hoped a laudable one, to see and hear Mr. Wilde for his
-own sake, and they were also glad to hear about America--a country which
-many might regard as a kind of Elysium.
-
-On March 5th in the following year Wilde lectured at the Crystal Palace
-on his American experiences, and on April 26th he "preached his Gospel
-in the East-end," when it is recorded that his audience was not only
-delighted with his humour, but was "surprised at the excellent good
-sense he talked." His subject was a plea in favour of "art for schools,"
-and many of his remarks about the English system of elementary
-education--with its insistence on "the population of places that no one
-ever wants to go to," and its "familiarity with the lives of persons who
-probably never existed"--were said to be quite worthy of Ruskin. A
-contemporary account adds that Wilde "showed himself a pupil of Mr.
-Ruskin's, too, in insisting on the importance of every child being
-taught some handicraft, and in looking forward to the time when a boy
-would rather look at a bird or even draw it than throw "his customary
-stone!"
-
-The British "gamin" has not made much progress in this respect during
-the last twenty years!
-
-His lectures on "Dress," with the newspaper correspondence which they
-evoked, including some of Oscar Wilde's replies in his most
-characteristic vein, must be reserved for a future volume.
-
-          STUART MASON.
-
-  Oxford, January 1906.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES.
-
-[1] First produced at the Opera Comique, April 23rd, 1881. Wilde was
-burlesqued as Reginald Bunthorne, a Fleshly Poet.
-
-[2] Wilde repeated this lecture throughout the States during his tour.
-At Rochester, on February 7th, he met with a most disorderly reception
-on the part of the College Students. Two days later Mr. Joaquin Miller,
-of St. Louis, wrote to Wilde saying that he had "read with shame about
-the behaviour of those ruffians." To this Wilde replied, "I thank you
-for your chivalrous and courteous letter," and in the course of his
-letter makes a more special attack on that critic whom he terms "the
-itinerant libeller of New England."
-
-
-
-
-IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
-
-
-I fear I cannot picture America as altogether an Elysium--perhaps, from
-the ordinary standpoint I know but little about the country. I cannot
-give its latitude or longitude; I cannot compute the value of its dry
-goods, and I have no very close acquaintance with its politics. These
-are matters which may not interest you, and they certainly are not
-interesting to me.
-
-The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the
-Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are
-the most comfortably dressed. Men are seen there with the dreadful
-chimney-pot hat, but there are very few hatless men; men wear the
-shocking swallow-tail coat, but few are to be seen with no coat at all.
-There is an air of comfort in the appearance of the people which is a
-marked contrast to that seen in this country, where, too often, people
-are seen in close contact with rags.
-
-The next thing particularly noticeable is that everybody seems in a
-hurry to catch a train. This is a state of things which is not
-favourable to poetry or romance. Had Romeo or Juliet been in a constant
-state of anxiety about trains, or had their minds been agitated by the
-question of return-tickets, Shakespeare could not have given us those
-lovely balcony scenes which are so full of poetry and pathos.
-
-America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in
-the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam
-whistle. It is surprising that the sound practical sense of the
-Americans does not reduce this intolerable noise. All Art depends upon
-exquisite and delicate sensibility, and such continual turmoil must
-ultimately be destructive of the musical faculty.
-
-There is not so much beauty to be found in American cities as in Oxford,
-Cambridge, Salisbury or Winchester, where are lovely relics of a
-beautiful age; but still there is a good deal of beauty to be seen in
-them now and then, but only where the American has not attempted to
-create it. Where the Americans have attempted to produce beauty they
-have signally failed. A remarkable characteristic of the Americans is
-the manner in which they have applied science to modern life.
-
-This is apparent in the most cursory stroll through New York. In England
-an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances
-invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America an inventor is
-honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the
-application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to
-wealth. There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as
-in America.
-
-I have always wished to believe that the line of strength and the line
-of beauty are one. That wish was realised when I contemplated American
-machinery. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I
-realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods,
-the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautifully
-rhythmic thing I have ever seen.[3] One is impressed in America, but not
-favourably impressed, by the inordinate size of everything. The country
-seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive
-bigness.
-
-I was disappointed with Niagara--most people must be disappointed with
-Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the
-stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest,
-disappointments in American married life. One sees it under bad
-conditions, very far away, the point of view not showing the splendour
-of the water. To appreciate it really one has to see it from underneath
-the fall, and to do that it is necessary to be dressed in a yellow
-oil-skin, which is as ugly as a mackintosh--and I hope none of you ever
-wears one. It is a consolation to know, however, that such an artist as
-Madame Bernhardt has not only worn that yellow, ugly dress, but has been
-photographed in it.
-
-Perhaps the most beautiful part of America is the West, to reach which,
-however, involves a journey by rail of six days, racing along tied to an
-ugly tin-kettle of a steam engine. I found but poor consolation for this
-journey in the fact that the boys who infest the cars and sell
-everything that one can eat--or should not eat--were selling editions of
-my poems vilely printed on a kind of grey blotting paper, for the low
-price of ten cents.[4] Calling these boys on one side I told them that
-though poets like to be popular they desire to be paid, and selling
-editions of my poems without giving me a profit is dealing a blow at
-literature which must have a disastrous effect on poetical aspirants.
-The invariable reply that they made was that they themselves made a
-profit out of the transaction and that was all they cared about.
-
-It is a popular superstition that in America a visitor is invariably
-addressed as "Stranger." I was never once addressed as "Stranger." When
-I went to Texas I was called "Captain"; when I got to the centre of the
-country I was addressed as "Colonel," and, on arriving at the borders of
-Mexico, as "General." On the whole, however, "Sir," the old English
-method of addressing people is the most common.
-
-It is, perhaps, worth while to note that what many people call
-Americanisms are really old English expressions which have lingered in
-our colonies while they have been lost in our own country. Many people
-imagine that the term "I guess," which is so common in America, is
-purely an American expression, but it was used by John Locke in his work
-on "The Understanding," just as we now use "I think."[5]
-
-It is in the colonies, and not in the mother country, that the old life
-of the country really exists. If one wants to realise what English
-Puritanism is--not at its worst (when it is very bad), but at its best,
-and then it is not very good--I do not think one can find much of it in
-England, but much can be found about Boston and Massachusetts. We have
-got rid of it. America still preserves it, to be, I hope, a short-lived
-curiosity.
-
-San Francisco is a really beautiful city. China Town, peopled by Chinese
-labourers, is the most artistic town I have ever come across. The
-people--strange, melancholy Orientals, whom many people would call
-common, and they are certainly very poor--have determined that they will
-have nothing about them that is not beautiful. In the Chinese
-restaurant, where these navvies meet to have supper in the evening, I
-found them drinking tea out of china cups as delicate as the petals of a
-rose-leaf, whereas at the gaudy hotels I was supplied with a delf cup an
-inch and a half thick. When the Chinese bill was presented it was made
-out on rice paper, the account being done in Indian ink as fantastically
-as if an artist had been etching little birds on a fan.
-
-Salt Lake City contains only two buildings of note, the chief being the
-Tabernacle, which is in the shape of a soup-kettle. It is decorated by
-the only native artist, and he has treated religious subjects in the
-naive spirit of the early Florentine painters, representing people of
-our own day in the dress of the period side by side with people of
-Biblical history who are clothed in some romantic costume.
-
-The building next in importance is called the Amelia Palace, in honour
-of one of Brigham Young's wives. When he died the present president of
-the Mormons stood up in the Tabernacle and said that it had been
-revealed to him that he was to have the Amelia Palace, and that on this
-subject there were to be no more revelations of any kind!
-
-From Salt Lake City one travels over the great plains of Colorado and up
-the Rocky Mountains, on the top of which is Leadville, the richest city
-in the world. It has also got the reputation of being the roughest, and
-every man carries a revolver. I was told that if I went there they
-would be sure to shoot me or my travelling manager. I wrote and told
-them that nothing that they could do to my travelling manager would
-intimidate me. They are miners--men working in metals, so I lectured to
-them on the Ethics of Art. I read them passages from the autobiography
-of Benvenuto Cellini and they seemed much delighted. I was reproved by
-my hearers for not having brought him with me. I explained that he had
-been dead for some little time which elicited the enquiry "Who shot
-him"? They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only
-rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano
-was printed a notice:--
-
-    |                           |
-  --+---------------------------+--
-    |  PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE  |
-    |          PIANIST.         |
-    |    HE IS DOING HIS BEST.  |
-  --+---------------------------+--
-    |                           |
-
-The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous. Then they
-asked me to supper, and having accepted, I had to descend a mine in a
-rickety bucket in which it was impossible to be graceful. Having got
-into the heart of the mountain I had supper, the first course being
-whisky, the second whisky and the third whisky.
-
-I went to the Theatre to lecture and I was informed that just before I
-went there two men had been seized for committing a murder, and in that
-theatre they had been brought on to the stage at eight o'clock in the
-evening, and then and there tried and executed before a crowded
-audience. But I found these miners very charming and not at all rough.
-
-Among the more elderly inhabitants of the South I found a melancholy
-tendency to date every event of importance by the late war. "How
-beautiful the moon is to-night," I once remarked to a gentleman who was
-standing next to me. "Yes," was his reply, "but you should have seen it
-before the war."
-
-So infinitesimal did I find the knowledge of Art, west of the Rocky
-Mountains, that an art patron--one who in his day had been a
-miner--actually sued the railroad company for damages because the
-plaster cast of Venus of Milo, which he had imported from Paris, had
-been delivered minus the arms. And, what is more surprising still, he
-gained his case and the damages.
-
-Pennsylvania, with its rocky gorges and woodland scenery, reminded me of
-Switzerland. The prairie reminded me of a piece of blotting-paper.
-
-The Spanish and French have left behind them memorials in the beauty of
-their names. All the cities that have beautiful names derive them from
-the Spanish or the French. The English people give intensely ugly names
-to places. One place had such an ugly name that I refused to lecture
-there. It was called Grigsville. Supposing I had founded a school of Art
-there--fancy "Early Grigsville." Imagine a School of Art teaching
-"Grigsville Renaissance."
-
-As for slang I did not hear much of it, though a young lady who had
-changed her clothes after an afternoon dance did say that "after the
-heel kick she shifted her day goods."
-
-American youths are pale and precocious, or sallow and supercilious, but
-American girls are pretty and charming--little oases of pretty
-unreasonableness in a vast desert of practical common-sense.
-
-Every American girl is entitled to have twelve young men devoted to her.
-They remain her slaves and she rules them with charming nonchalance.
-
-The men are entirely given to business; they have, as they say, their
-brains in front of their heads. They are also exceedingly acceptive of
-new ideas. Their education is practical. We base the education of
-children entirely on books, but we must give a child a mind before we
-can instruct the mind. Children have a natural antipathy to
-books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls
-should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be
-less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
-
-In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary
-accompaniment to civilisation. There at any rate is a country that has
-no trappings, no pageants and no gorgeous ceremonies. I saw only two
-processions--one was the Fire Brigade preceded by the Police, the other
-was the Police preceded by the Fire Brigade.
-
-Every man when he gets to the age of twenty-one is allowed a vote, and
-thereby immediately acquires his political education. The Americans are
-the best politically educated people in the world. It is well worth
-one's while to go to a country which can teach us the beauty of the word
-FREEDOM and the value of the thing LIBERTY.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES.
-
-[3] In a poem published in an American magazine on February 15th, 1882,
-Wilde wrote
-
-      "And in the throbbing engine room
-    Leap the long rods of polished steel."
-
-[4] _Poems by Oscar Wilde. Also his Lecture on the English Renaissance._
-The Seaside Library, Vol. lviii. No. 1183, January 19th, 1882. 4to. Pp.
-32. New York: George Munro, Publisher.
-
-A copy of this edition was sold by auction in New York last year for
-eight dollars.
-
-[5] See _An Essay concerning Human Understanding_, IV. xii. 10.
-
-A still more striking instance of the use of this expression is to be
-found in the same writer's _Thoughts concerning Education_, s. 28, where
-he says:--"Once in four and twenty hours, I think, is enough; and
-nobody, _I guess_, will think it too much."
-
-
-
-
-OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA.
-
-
-An interesting account of Oscar Wilde, at the time of his American tour,
-was given in the _Lady's Pictorial_ a few weeks after his arrival in New
-York, the city which he described as "one huge Whiteley's shop."
-
-[Sidenote: His Abode.]
-
-He was interviewed in a room which was intensely warm and the sofa on
-which the poet reclined was drawn up to the fire. An immense wolf rug,
-bordered with scarlet, was thrown over it and half-encircled his
-graceful form in its warm embrace. Wilde was wearied. In a languid, half
-enervated manner he gently sipped hot chocolate from a cup by his side.
-Occasionally he inhaled a long, deep whiff from a smouldering cigarette
-held lightly in his white and shapely hand.
-
-[Sidenote: His Dress.]
-
-He was attired in a smoking suit of dark brown velvet faced with lapels
-of red quilted silk. The ends of a long dark necktie floated over the
-facing like sea-weed on foam tinged by the dying sun. Dark brown nether
-garments, striped with red up the seam, and patent leather shoes with
-light cloth uppers completed the rest of the poet's costume.
-
-His favourite colour is said to have been something between brown and
-green, a tint "that never was on sea or sky," and he had a complete suit
-made of it. A white walking-stick which he was in the habit of carrying
-was presented to him at the Acropolis and was said to have been cut from
-the olive groves of the Academia. Only in the evening was he wont to don
-knee breeches, "but evening and morning alike," adds his interviewer,
-"find him neither more nor less than a man, and always a perfect
-gentleman."
-
-[Sidenote: His appearance.]
-
-Long masses of dark brown hair, parted in the middle, fell in odd curves
-of beauty over his broad shoulders. He wore neither beard nor moustache.
-The full, rather sensuous lips, now pressed close together with
-momentary tension, now parted in kindly smile, showed to perfection the
-nobility of his countenance.
-
-A Grecian nose and a well-tinged flush of health on the poet's face
-added all that was required to make it a truly remarkable one. The eyes
-were large, dark[6] and ever-changing in expression. He was a charming
-companion who could tell racy stories and repeat _bons mots_ of those
-whom society delighted to honour, and at the same time could cap
-quotations from Greek authors.
-
-
-FOOTNOTE.
-
-[6] A French writer, M. Joseph-Renaud, recently described Wilde's eyes
-as being _blue_, while Lord Alfred Douglas affirms that they were
-_green_.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-The two poems _Le Jardin_ and _La Mer_ appeared originally in the first
-number of _Our Continent_, an American Magazine, in February, 1882. They
-have not been reprinted or included in any edition of the collected
-poems.
-
-
-
-
-BY THE SAME WRITER.
-
-Imp. 16mo. Pp. 120. Five Illustrations.
-
-OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY. From the French of Andr� Gide.
-
-With Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Stuart Mason.
-
-500 copies 3/6 net.
-
-50 copies on hand made paper, 10/6 net.
-
-Oxford: The Holywell Press: 1905.
-
-
-"Will be found interesting by many readers."--_Publishers' Circular._
-
-"Beautifully printed and illustrated, and has genuine literary
-attributes."--_Notes and Queries._
-
-"One of the best accounts yet printed of the poet's later days ... with
-unique illustrations."--_Reynolds's Newspaper._
-
-The author "saw much of Wilde in his later days."--_Evening Standard and
-St. James's Gazette._
-
-"Probably nothing good will ever be written about Oscar Wilde. This is
-better than Mr. Sherard's book; at any rate shorter. But it is very dull
-and unintelligent."--_Oxford Magazine._
-
-
-
-
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-  IMPRESSIONS
-  OF
-  AMERICA.
-
-  BY
-  OSCAR WILDE.
-
-  EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION,
-  BY STUART MASON.
-
-  Keystone Press, Sunderland.
-  1906.
-
-
-This Edition consists of 500 Copies.
-
-50 Copies have been printed on hand-made paper.
-
-
-  TO
-  WALTER LEDGER:
-
-  PIGNUS
-  AMICITIAE.
-
-
-
-
-IMPRESSIONS.
-
-
-I.
-
-LE JARDIN.
-
-    The lily's withered chalice falls
-      Around its rod of dusty gold,
-      And from the beech trees on the wold
-    The last wood-pigeon coos and calls.
-
-    The gaudy leonine sunflower
-      Hangs black and barren on its stalk,
-      And down the windy garden walk
-    The dead leaves scatter,--hour by hour.
-
-    Pale privet-petals white as milk
-      Are blown into a snowy mass;
-      The roses lie upon the grass,
-    Like little shreds of crimson silk.
-
-
-II.
-
-LA MER.
-
-    A white mist drifts across the shrouds,
-      A wild moon in this wintry sky
-      Gleams like an angry lion's eye
-    Out of a mane of tawny clouds.
-
-    The muffled steersman at the wheel
-      Is but a shadow in the gloom;--
-      And in the throbbing engine room
-    Leap the long rods of polished steel.
-
-    The shattered storm has left its trace
-      Upon this huge and heaving dome,
-      For the thin threads of yellow foam
-    Float on the waves like ravelled lace.
-
-                              Oscar Wilde.
-
-
-
-
-PREFACE.
-
-
-Oscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the AEsthetic
-School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime
-previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the
-production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "Patience,"[1] in which he
-and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a
-visit to the States to give some lectures explaining what he meant by
-AEstheticism, hoping thereby to interest, and possibly to instruct and
-elevate our transatlantic cousins.
-
-He set sail on board the "Arizona" on Saturday, December 24th, 1881,
-arriving in New York early in the following year. On landing he was
-bombarded by journalists eager to interview the distinguished stranger.
-"Punch," in its issue of January 14th, in a happy vein, parodied these
-interviewers, the most amusing passage in which referred to "His
-Glorious Past," wherein Wilde was made to say, "Precisely--I took the
-Newdigate. Oh! no doubt, every year some man gets the Newdigate; but not
-every year does Newdigate get an Oscar."
-
-At Omaha, where, under the auspices of the Social Art Club, Wilde
-delivered a lecture on "Decorative Art," he described his impressions
-of many American houses as being "illy designed, decorated shabbily, and
-in bad taste, filled with furniture that was not honestly made, and was
-out of character." This statement gave rise to the following verses:--
-
-    What a shame and what a pity,
-    In the streets of London City
-      Mr. Wilde is seen no more.
-    Far from Piccadilly banished,
-    He to Omaha has vanished.
-      Horrid place, which swells ignore.
-
-    On his back a coat he beareth,
-    Such as Sir John Bennet weareth,
-      Made of velvet--strange array!
-    Legs Apollo might have sighed for,
-    Or great Hercules have died for,
-      His knee breeches now display.
-
-    Waving sunflower and lily,
-    He calls all the houses "illy
-      Decorated and designed."
-    For of taste they've not a tittle;
-    They may chew and they may whittle;
-      But they're all born colour-blind!
-
-His lectures dealt almost exclusively with the subjects of Art and Dress
-Reform. In the course of one lecture he remarked that the most
-impressive room he had yet entered in America was the one in Camden Town
-where he met Walt Whitman. It contained plenty of fresh air and
-sunlight. On the table was a simple cruse of water. This led to a
-parody, in the style of Whitman, describing an imaginary interview
-between the two poets, which appeared in "The Century" a few months
-later. Wilde is called Narcissus and Whitman Paumanokides.
-
-  Paumanokides:--
-
-      Who may this be?
-    This young man clad unusually with loose locks, languorous,
-          glidingly toward me advancing,
-    Toward the ceiling of my chamber his orbic and expressive eyeballs
-          uprolling,
-
-and so on, to which Narcissus replies,
-
-    O clarion, from whose brazen throat,
-      Strange sounds across the seas are blown,
-    Where England, girt as with a moat,
-      A strong sea-lion sits alone!
-
-Of the lectures which he delivered in America only one has been
-preserved, namely that on the English Renaissance. This was his first
-lecture, and it was delivered in New York on January 9th, 1882.
-According to a contemporary account in the "New York Herald" a
-distinguished and crowded audience assembled in Chickering Hall that
-evening to listen to one who "was well worth seeing, his short breeches
-and silk stockings showing to even better advantage upon the stage than
-in the gilded drawing-rooms, where the young Apostle has heretofore been
-seen in New York."[2]
-
-On leaving the States in the "fall" of the year Wilde proceeded to
-Canada and thence to Nova Scotia, arriving in Halifax in the second week
-of October. Of his visit there we have no record except an amusing
-interview described in a local paper a few days later. He was dressed in
-a velvet jacket with an ordinary linen collar and neck tie and he wore
-trousers. "Mr. Wilde," the interviewer states, "was communicative and
-genial; he said he found Canada pleasant, but in answer to a question as
-to whether European or American women were the more beautiful, he
-dexterously evaded his querist."
-
-As regards poetry he expressed his opinion that Poe was the greatest
-American poet, and that Walt Whitman, if not a poet, was a man who
-sounded a strong note, perhaps neither prose nor poetry, but something
-of his own that was "grand, original and unique."
-
-During his tour in America Wilde "happened to find" himself (as he has
-himself described it), in Louisville, Kentucky. The subject he had
-selected to speak on was the Mission of Art in the Nineteenth Century.
-In the course of his lecture he had occasion to quote Keats' Sonnet on
-Blue "as an example of the poet's delicate sense of colour-harmonies."
-After the lecture there came round to see him "a lady of middle age,
-with a sweet gentle manner and most musical voice," who introduced
-herself as Mrs. Speed, the daughter of George Keats, and she invited the
-lecturer to come and examine the Keats manuscripts in her possession.
-
-Some months afterwards when lecturing in California he received a letter
-from this lady asking him to accept the original manuscript of the
-sonnet which he had quoted.
-
-Mention must be made of Wilde's first play, a drama in blank verse
-entitled "Vera, or the Nihilists." It had been arranged that, before his
-departure for America, this play should be performed at the Adelphi
-Theatre, London, with Mrs. Bernard Beere as the heroine, on Saturday,
-December 17th, 1881, but a few weeks before the date fixed for the first
-performance, the author decided to postpone the production "owing to the
-state of political feeling in England."
-
-On his return to England in 1883 Wilde started on a lecturing tour, the
-first being to the Art Students of the Royal Academy at their Club in
-Golden Square on June 30th. Ten days later he spoke at Prince's Hall on
-his "Personal Impressions of America," and on subsequent occasions at
-Margate, Ramsgate and Southampton. On Monday, July 30th he lectured at
-Southport and on the following Thursday he went to Liverpool to welcome
-Mrs. Langtry on her return from America, and the same afternoon he left
-on his second visit to the States in order to superintend the rehearsals
-of "Vera," which it had been arranged to produce at the Union Square
-Theatre, New York, on August 20th following. The piece was not a
-success--it was, indeed, the only failure Wilde had. However, his next
-play, which he called his "Opus Secundum," also a blank verse tragedy,
-had a successful run in America in 1891. This was "The Duchess of
-Padua," played by Lawrence Barrett, under the title of "Guido Ferranti."
-This has not been seen in England, nor is it even possible for Wilde's
-admirers to read this early offspring of his pen, for only twenty copies
-were printed for acting purposes in America and of these but one is
-known to be in existence, in this country at least.
-
-An authorised German translation was made by Max Meyerfeld and the first
-performance took place at the German Theatre in Hamburg about a year
-ago. An English version is advertised from a piratical publisher in
-Paris but it is only a translation from the German back into English.
-
-Towards the end of September 1883 Oscar Wilde returned to England and
-immediately began "an all round lecturing tour," his first visit being
-to Wandsworth Town Hall on Monday, September 24th, when he delivered to
-an enthusiastic audience a lecture on his "Impressions of America,"
-which is contained in the following pages. He was dressed, a London
-paper of the time states, "in ordinary evening costume, and carried an
-orange-coloured silk handkerchief in his breast. He spoke with great
-fluency, in a voice now and then singularly musical, and only once or
-twice made a scarcely perceptible reference to notes." The lecture was
-under the auspices of a local Literary Society, and the principle
-residents of the district turned out "en masse." The Chairman, the Rev.
-John Park, in introducing the lecturer, said there were two reasons why
-he was glad to welcome him, and he thought his own feelings would be
-shared by the audience. They must all plead guilty to a feeling of
-curiosity, he hoped a laudable one, to see and hear Mr. Wilde for his
-own sake, and they were also glad to hear about America--a country which
-many might regard as a kind of Elysium.
-
-On March 5th in the following year Wilde lectured at the Crystal Palace
-on his American experiences, and on April 26th he "preached his Gospel
-in the East-end," when it is recorded that his audience was not only
-delighted with his humour, but was "surprised at the excellent good
-sense he talked." His subject was a plea in favour of "art for schools,"
-and many of his remarks about the English system of elementary
-education--with its insistence on "the population of places that no one
-ever wants to go to," and its "familiarity with the lives of persons who
-probably never existed"--were said to be quite worthy of Ruskin. A
-contemporary account adds that Wilde "showed himself a pupil of Mr.
-Ruskin's, too, in insisting on the importance of every child being
-taught some handicraft, and in looking forward to the time when a boy
-would rather look at a bird or even draw it than throw "his customary
-stone!"
-
-The British "gamin" has not made much progress in this respect during
-the last twenty years!
-
-His lectures on "Dress," with the newspaper correspondence which they
-evoked, including some of Oscar Wilde's replies in his most
-characteristic vein, must be reserved for a future volume.
-
-          STUART MASON.
-
-  Oxford, January 1906.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES.
-
-[1] First produced at the Opera Comique, April 23rd, 1881. Wilde was
-burlesqued as Reginald Bunthorne, a Fleshly Poet.
-
-[2] Wilde repeated this lecture throughout the States during his tour.
-At Rochester, on February 7th, he met with a most disorderly reception
-on the part of the College Students. Two days later Mr. Joaquin Miller,
-of St. Louis, wrote to Wilde saying that he had "read with shame about
-the behaviour of those ruffians." To this Wilde replied, "I thank you
-for your chivalrous and courteous letter," and in the course of his
-letter makes a more special attack on that critic whom he terms "the
-itinerant libeller of New England."
-
-
-
-
-IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
-
-
-I fear I cannot picture America as altogether an Elysium--perhaps, from
-the ordinary standpoint I know but little about the country. I cannot
-give its latitude or longitude; I cannot compute the value of its dry
-goods, and I have no very close acquaintance with its politics. These
-are matters which may not interest you, and they certainly are not
-interesting to me.
-
-The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the
-Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are
-the most comfortably dressed. Men are seen there with the dreadful
-chimney-pot hat, but there are very few hatless men; men wear the
-shocking swallow-tail coat, but few are to be seen with no coat at all.
-There is an air of comfort in the appearance of the people which is a
-marked contrast to that seen in this country, where, too often, people
-are seen in close contact with rags.
-
-The next thing particularly noticeable is that everybody seems in a
-hurry to catch a train. This is a state of things which is not
-favourable to poetry or romance. Had Romeo or Juliet been in a constant
-state of anxiety about trains, or had their minds been agitated by the
-question of return-tickets, Shakespeare could not have given us those
-lovely balcony scenes which are so full of poetry and pathos.
-
-America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in
-the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam
-whistle. It is surprising that the sound practical sense of the
-Americans does not reduce this intolerable noise. All Art depends upon
-exquisite and delicate sensibility, and such continual turmoil must
-ultimately be destructive of the musical faculty.
-
-There is not so much beauty to be found in American cities as in Oxford,
-Cambridge, Salisbury or Winchester, where are lovely relics of a
-beautiful age; but still there is a good deal of beauty to be seen in
-them now and then, but only where the American has not attempted to
-create it. Where the Americans have attempted to produce beauty they
-have signally failed. A remarkable characteristic of the Americans is
-the manner in which they have applied science to modern life.
-
-This is apparent in the most cursory stroll through New York. In England
-an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances
-invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America an inventor is
-honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the
-application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to
-wealth. There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as
-in America.
-
-I have always wished to believe that the line of strength and the line
-of beauty are one. That wish was realised when I contemplated American
-machinery. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I
-realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods,
-the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautifully
-rhythmic thing I have ever seen.[3] One is impressed in America, but not
-favourably impressed, by the inordinate size of everything. The country
-seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive
-bigness.
-
-I was disappointed with Niagara--most people must be disappointed with
-Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the
-stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest,
-disappointments in American married life. One sees it under bad
-conditions, very far away, the point of view not showing the splendour
-of the water. To appreciate it really one has to see it from underneath
-the fall, and to do that it is necessary to be dressed in a yellow
-oil-skin, which is as ugly as a mackintosh--and I hope none of you ever
-wears one. It is a consolation to know, however, that such an artist as
-Madame Bernhardt has not only worn that yellow, ugly dress, but has been
-photographed in it.
-
-Perhaps the most beautiful part of America is the West, to reach which,
-however, involves a journey by rail of six days, racing along tied to an
-ugly tin-kettle of a steam engine. I found but poor consolation for this
-journey in the fact that the boys who infest the cars and sell
-everything that one can eat--or should not eat--were selling editions of
-my poems vilely printed on a kind of grey blotting paper, for the low
-price of ten cents.[4] Calling these boys on one side I told them that
-though poets like to be popular they desire to be paid, and selling
-editions of my poems without giving me a profit is dealing a blow at
-literature which must have a disastrous effect on poetical aspirants.
-The invariable reply that they made was that they themselves made a
-profit out of the transaction and that was all they cared about.
-
-It is a popular superstition that in America a visitor is invariably
-addressed as "Stranger." I was never once addressed as "Stranger." When
-I went to Texas I was called "Captain"; when I got to the centre of the
-country I was addressed as "Colonel," and, on arriving at the borders of
-Mexico, as "General." On the whole, however, "Sir," the old English
-method of addressing people is the most common.
-
-It is, perhaps, worth while to note that what many people call
-Americanisms are really old English expressions which have lingered in
-our colonies while they have been lost in our own country. Many people
-imagine that the term "I guess," which is so common in America, is
-purely an American expression, but it was used by John Locke in his work
-on "The Understanding," just as we now use "I think."[5]
-
-It is in the colonies, and not in the mother country, that the old life
-of the country really exists. If one wants to realise what English
-Puritanism is--not at its worst (when it is very bad), but at its best,
-and then it is not very good--I do not think one can find much of it in
-England, but much can be found about Boston and Massachusetts. We have
-got rid of it. America still preserves it, to be, I hope, a short-lived
-curiosity.
-
-San Francisco is a really beautiful city. China Town, peopled by Chinese
-labourers, is the most artistic town I have ever come across. The
-people--strange, melancholy Orientals, whom many people would call
-common, and they are certainly very poor--have determined that they will
-have nothing about them that is not beautiful. In the Chinese
-restaurant, where these navvies meet to have supper in the evening, I
-found them drinking tea out of china cups as delicate as the petals of a
-rose-leaf, whereas at the gaudy hotels I was supplied with a delf cup an
-inch and a half thick. When the Chinese bill was presented it was made
-out on rice paper, the account being done in Indian ink as fantastically
-as if an artist had been etching little birds on a fan.
-
-Salt Lake City contains only two buildings of note, the chief being the
-Tabernacle, which is in the shape of a soup-kettle. It is decorated by
-the only native artist, and he has treated religious subjects in the
-naive spirit of the early Florentine painters, representing people of
-our own day in the dress of the period side by side with people of
-Biblical history who are clothed in some romantic costume.
-
-The building next in importance is called the Amelia Palace, in honour
-of one of Brigham Young's wives. When he died the present president of
-the Mormons stood up in the Tabernacle and said that it had been
-revealed to him that he was to have the Amelia Palace, and that on this
-subject there were to be no more revelations of any kind!
-
-From Salt Lake City one travels over the great plains of Colorado and up
-the Rocky Mountains, on the top of which is Leadville, the richest city
-in the world. It has also got the reputation of being the roughest, and
-every man carries a revolver. I was told that if I went there they
-would be sure to shoot me or my travelling manager. I wrote and told
-them that nothing that they could do to my travelling manager would
-intimidate me. They are miners--men working in metals, so I lectured to
-them on the Ethics of Art. I read them passages from the autobiography
-of Benvenuto Cellini and they seemed much delighted. I was reproved by
-my hearers for not having brought him with me. I explained that he had
-been dead for some little time which elicited the enquiry "Who shot
-him"? They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only
-rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano
-was printed a notice:--
-
-    |                           |
-  --+---------------------------+--
-    |  PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE  |
-    |          PIANIST.         |
-    |    HE IS DOING HIS BEST.  |
-  --+---------------------------+--
-    |                           |
-
-The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous. Then they
-asked me to supper, and having accepted, I had to descend a mine in a
-rickety bucket in which it was impossible to be graceful. Having got
-into the heart of the mountain I had supper, the first course being
-whisky, the second whisky and the third whisky.
-
-I went to the Theatre to lecture and I was informed that just before I
-went there two men had been seized for committing a murder, and in that
-theatre they had been brought on to the stage at eight o'clock in the
-evening, and then and there tried and executed before a crowded
-audience. But I found these miners very charming and not at all rough.
-
-Among the more elderly inhabitants of the South I found a melancholy
-tendency to date every event of importance by the late war. "How
-beautiful the moon is to-night," I once remarked to a gentleman who was
-standing next to me. "Yes," was his reply, "but you should have seen it
-before the war."
-
-So infinitesimal did I find the knowledge of Art, west of the Rocky
-Mountains, that an art patron--one who in his day had been a
-miner--actually sued the railroad company for damages because the
-plaster cast of Venus of Milo, which he had imported from Paris, had
-been delivered minus the arms. And, what is more surprising still, he
-gained his case and the damages.
-
-Pennsylvania, with its rocky gorges and woodland scenery, reminded me of
-Switzerland. The prairie reminded me of a piece of blotting-paper.
-
-The Spanish and French have left behind them memorials in the beauty of
-their names. All the cities that have beautiful names derive them from
-the Spanish or the French. The English people give intensely ugly names
-to places. One place had such an ugly name that I refused to lecture
-there. It was called Grigsville. Supposing I had founded a school of Art
-there--fancy "Early Grigsville." Imagine a School of Art teaching
-"Grigsville Renaissance."
-
-As for slang I did not hear much of it, though a young lady who had
-changed her clothes after an afternoon dance did say that "after the
-heel kick she shifted her day goods."
-
-American youths are pale and precocious, or sallow and supercilious, but
-American girls are pretty and charming--little oases of pretty
-unreasonableness in a vast desert of practical common-sense.
-
-Every American girl is entitled to have twelve young men devoted to her.
-They remain her slaves and she rules them with charming nonchalance.
-
-The men are entirely given to business; they have, as they say, their
-brains in front of their heads. They are also exceedingly acceptive of
-new ideas. Their education is practical. We base the education of
-children entirely on books, but we must give a child a mind before we
-can instruct the mind. Children have a natural antipathy to
-books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls
-should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be
-less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
-
-In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary
-accompaniment to civilisation. There at any rate is a country that has
-no trappings, no pageants and no gorgeous ceremonies. I saw only two
-processions--one was the Fire Brigade preceded by the Police, the other
-was the Police preceded by the Fire Brigade.
-
-Every man when he gets to the age of twenty-one is allowed a vote, and
-thereby immediately acquires his political education. The Americans are
-the best politically educated people in the world. It is well worth
-one's while to go to a country which can teach us the beauty of the word
-FREEDOM and the value of the thing LIBERTY.
-
-
-FOOTNOTES.
-
-[3] In a poem published in an American magazine on February 15th, 1882,
-Wilde wrote
-
-      "And in the throbbing engine room
-    Leap the long rods of polished steel."
-
-[4] _Poems by Oscar Wilde. Also his Lecture on the English Renaissance._
-The Seaside Library, Vol. lviii. No. 1183, January 19th, 1882. 4to. Pp.
-32. New York: George Munro, Publisher.
-
-A copy of this edition was sold by auction in New York last year for
-eight dollars.
-
-[5] See _An Essay concerning Human Understanding_, IV. xii. 10.
-
-A still more striking instance of the use of this expression is to be
-found in the same writer's _Thoughts concerning Education_, s. 28, where
-he says:--"Once in four and twenty hours, I think, is enough; and
-nobody, _I guess_, will think it too much."
-
-
-
-
-OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA.
-
-
-An interesting account of Oscar Wilde, at the time of his American tour,
-was given in the _Lady's Pictorial_ a few weeks after his arrival in New
-York, the city which he described as "one huge Whiteley's shop."
-
-[Sidenote: His Abode.]
-
-He was interviewed in a room which was intensely warm and the sofa on
-which the poet reclined was drawn up to the fire. An immense wolf rug,
-bordered with scarlet, was thrown over it and half-encircled his
-graceful form in its warm embrace. Wilde was wearied. In a languid, half
-enervated manner he gently sipped hot chocolate from a cup by his side.
-Occasionally he inhaled a long, deep whiff from a smouldering cigarette
-held lightly in his white and shapely hand.
-
-[Sidenote: His Dress.]
-
-He was attired in a smoking suit of dark brown velvet faced with lapels
-of red quilted silk. The ends of a long dark necktie floated over the
-facing like sea-weed on foam tinged by the dying sun. Dark brown nether
-garments, striped with red up the seam, and patent leather shoes with
-light cloth uppers completed the rest of the poet's costume.
-
-His favourite colour is said to have been something between brown and
-green, a tint "that never was on sea or sky," and he had a complete suit
-made of it. A white walking-stick which he was in the habit of carrying
-was presented to him at the Acropolis and was said to have been cut from
-the olive groves of the Academia. Only in the evening was he wont to don
-knee breeches, "but evening and morning alike," adds his interviewer,
-"find him neither more nor less than a man, and always a perfect
-gentleman."
-
-[Sidenote: His appearance.]
-
-Long masses of dark brown hair, parted in the middle, fell in odd curves
-of beauty over his broad shoulders. He wore neither beard nor moustache.
-The full, rather sensuous lips, now pressed close together with
-momentary tension, now parted in kindly smile, showed to perfection the
-nobility of his countenance.
-
-A Grecian nose and a well-tinged flush of health on the poet's face
-added all that was required to make it a truly remarkable one. The eyes
-were large, dark[6] and ever-changing in expression. He was a charming
-companion who could tell racy stories and repeat _bons mots_ of those
-whom society delighted to honour, and at the same time could cap
-quotations from Greek authors.
-
-
-FOOTNOTE.
-
-[6] A French writer, M. Joseph-Renaud, recently described Wilde's eyes
-as being _blue_, while Lord Alfred Douglas affirms that they were
-_green_.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-The two poems _Le Jardin_ and _La Mer_ appeared originally in the first
-number of _Our Continent_, an American Magazine, in February, 1882. They
-have not been reprinted or included in any edition of the collected
-poems.
-
-
-
-
-BY THE SAME WRITER.
-
-Imp. 16mo. Pp. 120. Five Illustrations.
-
-OSCAR WILDE: A STUDY. From the French of Andre Gide.
-
-With Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Stuart Mason.
-
-500 copies 3/6 net.
-
-50 copies on hand made paper, 10/6 net.
-
-Oxford: The Holywell Press: 1905.
-
-
-"Will be found interesting by many readers."--_Publishers' Circular._
-
-"Beautifully printed and illustrated, and has genuine literary
-attributes."--_Notes and Queries._
-
-"One of the best accounts yet printed of the poet's later days ... with
-unique illustrations."--_Reynolds's Newspaper._
-
-The author "saw much of Wilde in his later days."--_Evening Standard and
-St. James's Gazette._
-
-"Probably nothing good will ever be written about Oscar Wilde. This is
-better than Mr. Sherard's book; at any rate shorter. But it is very dull
-and unintelligent."--_Oxford Magazine._
-
-
-
-
-
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