Transcribed from the 1919 Methuen & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

A CRITIC
IN PALL MALL

BEING EXTRACTS FROM
REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES

by
OSCAR WILDE

METHUEN & CO. LTD.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

First Published in 1919

This selection has been made by Mr. E. V. Lucas

	page
The Tomb of Keats	[1]
Keats’s Sonnet on Blue	[4]
Dinners and Dishes	[8]
Shakespeare on Scenery	[10]
‘Henry the Fourth’ at Oxford	[15]
A Handbook to Marriage	[18]
To Read or Not to Read	[21]
The Letters of a Great Woman	[22]
Béranger in England	[27]
The Poetry of the People	[29]
‘The Cenci’	[32]
Balzac in English	[34]
Ben Jonson	[37]
Mr. Symonds’ History of the Renaissance	[39]
Mr. Morris’s ‘Odyssey’	[44]
Russian Novelists	[48]
Mr. Pater’s ‘Imaginary Portraits’	[51]
A German Princess	[55]
‘A Village Tragedy’	[63]
Mr. Morris’s Completion of the ‘Odyssey’	[65]
Mrs. Somerville	[70]
Aristotle at Afternoon Tea	[76]
Early Christian Art in Ireland	[81]
Madame Ristori	[85]
English Poetesses	[91]
Venus or Victory	[101]
M. Caro on George Sand	[105]
A Fascinating Book	[108]
Henley’s Poems	[123]
Some Literary Ladies	[129]
Poetry and Prison	[143]
The Gospel According to Walt Whitman	[146]
Irish Fairy Tales	[152]
Mr. W. B. Yeats	[158]
Mr. Yeats’s ‘Wanderings of Oisin’	[160]
Mr. William Morris’s Last Book	[162]
Some Literary Notes	[167]
Mr. Swinburne’s ‘Poems and Ballads’ (Third Series)	[173]
A Chinese Sage	[177]
Mr. Pater’s ‘Appreciations’	[187]
Sententiae	[194]

CONTENTS