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MRS. WILDE
WASN'T SHE, AFTER ALL,
THE REAL VICTIMP
OSCAR WILDE. By St John Ervine. Allen and Unwin.
18s. 336 pages,
Y this time, the news that Oscar Wilde was a moral
of his talents is quite widely disseminated. What then can justify a new book on the subject? In this case- (1) Flexing his muscular English, Ervine shows what can be done with the forgotten amt of vituperation. Most of his victims have long since departed. But nobody is better than he at flogging. a dead horse and seeming to make an even fight of it.
(3) He puts in a word for Mrs Wilde, and, throwing out most of the Wilde martyrology, suggests that she was after all, the real victim in the tragedy,
(3) He offers severe penetrating criticism of the Wilde plays, saving from the dustbin only The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Relevance is not of the book's virtues. But picking our way over the trailei coats and dodg- ing the hillelaghs, we can ad- mi e
of insul catholicity B which-
Denounces St Augustine as "sadistic and evil Arab" for his discovery of pre-destination; and Presents the poet Yeats as who, "while applauding every slum patriot who shot a peeler in the
one
ed by the British was pension-
Geoage Moore, Irish landlord and novelist, "was never taken riously until he met Charles Morgan.
veneration 60
****whose siscomposed him that he ex- hausted his strength in trying to live to it."
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made her ugly: "Nature is dis- It defaces the ivory- vuxting. white body which we have adored with the vile cicatrices of maternity." The thought is maan, the prose that of a tooth- paste advertisement.
Mrs Wilde, who saw little of Wilde's brief glory, who was to luncheon with never asked the Prince of Wales died a year after her husband's release from Itsading Gaol. She was forty, Can Moore arrived in Lendon with
eyes, sloping shoulders and anybody doubt that she was an of the fire the Innocent casualty hands and host, made in the comparative that consumed the Cities of the privacy of a volume ot poems: Plain? "I asn Allied with carnivorous lust, like a tiger"
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Such portraits are in the bad- tempered tradition of Irish con- deals with When he Wilde and his circle, Ervine be comes graver: assumes the robos
- 'Disgusting'
Lori Alfred Douglas, stern censor of the conduct of others, says that she should have gone back to her husband. "Love fa not love which changes, when
alteration finde." #
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MINEUSPENDED
"OVER THE BEA FROM A GIGANTIC, MAYPOLE IK?? WAS REVOLVING AT TERRIFIC SPEED
YOU HELD" ON UNTIL YOU WERE EXHAUSTED-
- THEN YOU FELL AND CONTINUED TO FALL AS THOUGH YOU WOULD NEVER STOP
"THIS DREAM MEANS: You seem to be betwee.. the devil and the deep blue sot. Your devil is the maypole res volfing at -e giddifying speed, to which you must cling, Lew your life * B giddy which of physical pleasures which you daren't give up and the pace compels you to.
"The chep bine mea is your unconscious mind and the emotional problems that you have tried to alde-track and that await yoki there for solution. Your SIS Bfraid of being subasped, by them
True Jay and genuine pleasure recreate and refresh you. A whiri of physferi picasures that provides only temporary escape and leaves everything unsolved, constitutes craving, wel toy. It merely postpones, therrases the dim- culty and the inner anxiety and accurity which Ends expression in this dream.
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Charming family plotures such as this will be greatly prized In years to come.
Pictures of the Family
and manner at a judge, a hang- she rejoined: Wilde she mighICTURES of our own family family in the activity in which
ing judge. Wildc
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success
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condemned ---
St Joha Ervine thinks that had have saved him from the de- gradations of his last years in Paris. There is not a shred of evidence to support such optimism. Wilde was by that time in the grip of a progressive moral disease.
Hounded
Yet for him, because his rain was be com- 60 complete, there must
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129
30
32
DOWN
2 Diverted (8).
ACROSS
1 Flach (4).
4 Suffocate (7).
3 Sculptor's work (6),
8 Specimen (4). he or she looke comfortable and
9 Big cat (4). familiar. Maybe it is dad with his golf clubs or mother in ner 10. Foolish (7).
Those hobbies11 Fastened (4). flower garden. and recreations tell a story of 12 Lover (4).. the members of the family and 14 Hit (7). should be included in the family 17 Loafer (5).
10 Strike (5). Besides the individual shots of
history.
4 Enemy agents (6).
5 Interfere (6).
6 Military unit (B).
7 Best part (5).
12 Tie (4).
13 Mountains (4).
15 Couple (4).
18 Expires (4).
18 Disinclinež (0).
20 Optical illusion (8).
21 Drink (6).
are the most important to us. In years to come, as we thumb 1952 snapshots in and
through the rightly as one who took his
our album, the ones that we will gift from God and dropped it in
cherish the most will be those and little the mire He was vulgar, selfish,
of mother and dad fat, middle-agad man whose
sikter and brother Foe.
They had gone to his silly
are so easy to take right now. Don't put it off for another week heed, the author of love letters "such as might be written by a
or so, because sometimes the each member, we need to get 22 Merit (7). pretentious and incontinent
pictures we really want just the whole family together once 28 Part of the eye (4). haberdasher," the author of
never get taken.
in a while, too. In these family 27 Potentate (4). poems as bad as George Moore's paston. Ervine can however opare
Because they change most pictures we don't always have to 28 Earnest (7). which
Ilne he persuaded the public mone for much Robert Row, the
everybody up with straight art dealer: rapidly, it is especially important
29 Snakes (4), obsequious degenerate"
Try to get frequent shots of the military precisión, to buy. us Moore never did.
80 Comfortable (4). He married Constance Lloyd whom he regards as the chief author
of Wilde's corruption; or Charly younger children. They
are ahots during the family's joint. playwright because she was beautiful: be- Brookfield. an actor, cause he loved her and she had who had failed, and a man whose naturals as picture subjects, for, activities, such as at a picnic, or 31 Stopped working (7).
farm, or while 32 Uniform (4). disinterested hatred hounded Wide whatever they do, they do with visiting on the friends complated His
around Tunbridled enthusiasm. after the downfall.
prize Shoot gathered
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acres: 1 Ballad, 5 Spate, that she had not as much money as be expected, and that she in-
them often, for they grow so fast: bloom in mother's garden. Make
8 Melee, 9 Picnic, 10 Natal, 11 Divan, 12. Sire, 13 Tusks, 18 older members of the the pictures look unposed and terrupted his well rehearsed
family change, too, and deserve natural.
Remote, 13 Teaser, 20 Scent, 22 Ramp, 23 Strap, 25 Awful, 201 conversations. She had £800 a
No matter how you do it do some photographic attention. One
Nations, 27 Reign, 28 Greed, 29 Egress. Down: 1 Bypasses, 2 Lacer- year (which her husband squan-
Those snapshots that make dered) and she heard the con-
of the happiest solutions to the it!
ate, 3 Amid, 4 Decides, "Senator, & Peanut, 7 Track, 14 Sedative, problem of avoiding that stilted the memories of tomorrow must
16 Suspends, 16 Rattled, 17 Melange, 19 Epure, 21 Cower, 24 versations too often.
and get-it-over-with-quick pose be taken today.
John van Guilder.
Pang is to picture each member of the
money
Wilde's personal grievance against her was that maternity
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"FOR GOSISAKES, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? WHY DON'T YOU ASK ALE TO DO | THINGS LIKE THAT?""
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Brookfield was it need not be said, one of the forty gentlemen ad dis- Unction attending the dinner given by Charles Hawty, a more notable autor, to celebrate the result of the Wilde trial.
St John Ervine directs at the vile scene and the people a prolonged and searching gaze. Hike a maledic
in od Late wife, turned not to salt, but to truculent and vigorous prose
"ONLY
TAKE AN HOUR
The
Draftees
that
some
23 Decree (5).
24 Surpass (5).
25 Revise (5).
By KEMP STARRETT
"DID YOU WANT
A LARGER SIZE
ONE WAY TO DRAFT BIAL FOR, THAT BOOK- CASE JOB IS TO STAGGER PIST - WITH A FULL FIVE-FOOT SHELF IN YOURË POOR, TIRED LITTIE, ÁRKS.
LETTATICOR YOU, DEARY
JURY DITY?
THE FIRST TIME YOU PLAN TO TAKE
A LATE VACATION AND
DRAFTED FOR JIRY DITY.
YOUR WIE SAD NOID
BE GLAD TOS
"COM, HETKY GENERAL FEATURES /
CORF, TM-WORLD. JAUNS KILAVID.
JUST VIEN YOU'VE GOT THE LAD READY TO SIGN UP FOR A LIFE-TIME ENLISTAENT "THEY' COME ALONG AND DRAFT HIM FOR A STRETCA AS YES-KAN AND AUDIENCE FOR PANDY'S PET HOBBY DEMONSTRATION.
-WAY, WHEN YOU'RE DRAFTED TO CHANGE THE WIFE'S GIRDLE, DOES THE SALES GAL TALK AS IF IT WERE YOUR POT HOLDERS
ÁROTHERS DRAFTEE FOR THE DURATION. OF ABNT MANÈS (AND FIDOS)
VISIT:
THE AID TWO
BROKEN RIES.