OSCAR WILDE.
TO WHOM:
“A poor thing,” Oscar—“but” for once, I suppose “your own.”
J. A. McN. W.
THE HABIT OF SECOND NATURES
Truth, Jan. 2, 1890.
MOST VALIANT TRUTH—Among your ruthless exposures of the shams of to-day, nothing, I confess, have I enjoyed with keener relish than your late tilt at that arch-imposter and pest of the period—the all-pervading plagiarist!
I learn, by the way, that in America he may, under the “Law of ’84,” as it is called, be criminally prosecuted, incarcerated, and made to pick oakum, as he has hitherto picked brains—and pockets!
How was it that, in your list of culprits, you omitted that fattest of offenders—our own Oscar?