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 CONTENTS 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.