The last chapter of the tale is good story telling throughout, in style and matter--as good as Chapter IX is bad.[21] And when Mr. Wilde thoroughly sees why two particular sentences in that last chapter--"The Park is quite lovely now. I don't think there have been such lilacs since the year I met you,"--though trivial in themselves are full of significance and beauty in their setting he will be far on the road to eminence in fiction. He has given us a work of serious art, strong and fascinating, in spite of its blemishes. Will he insist on being taken seriously, and go on to give us a better? [18] Vol. III., No. 27. July 5, 1890. [19] The second story was "Perfervid: the Career of Ninian Jamieson," by John Davidson (Ward and Downey). [20] p. 34. [21] Chapter IX in the _Lippincott_ version is Chapter XI in later editions, the last chapter (XIII) being afterwards divided into two (XIX and XX). * * * * * "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY." A Spiritualistic Review. By "NIZIDA." The following review of "Dorian Gray" referred to by Oscar Wilde in his second letter to the _Scots Observer_ (see page 71) was published in the issue of _Light_ dated July 12th, 1890. This is "a Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research." "M.A., Oxon," writing in the same paper a few weeks later mentions that "Oscar Wilde says of _Light_ that it is 'The organ of the English mystics,' and adds 'I do not like that word 'organ.'" At the same time "M.A., Oxon," refers to the _Scots Observer_ as being "bright, wise, witty, and not at all aggressive." The review is here given in its entirety: Mr. Oscar Wilde has created a new character in fiction, one likely to absorb public attention with a similar weird fascination to that produced by the renowned Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; and with a more lasting and beneficial moral effect than had Mr. Stevenson's surprising creation. A deeply conceived psychological study, upon entirely new lines, enriched by the stored wealth of a mind which has spared no pains in the pursuit of sensuous beauty, and which has, to all appearance, revelled in deepest draughts from that sparkling and alluring fountain. But what a spiritual lesson has he drawn therefrom--a lesson graphically and powerfully set forth in the fascinating pages which present to us the life of Dorian Gray. A modern Narcissus, enamoured of his own beauty, which proves a lure to draw him down into the deepest hells of sensual indulgence, from whence he sinks into a still deeper abyss of crime.