I do not think so in the person of another contributor to the magazine. It would show very bad literary taste. I strongly objected to the whole story. I took no steps to express public disapproval of _The Chameleon_, because I think it would have been beneath my dignity as a man of letters to associate myself with an Oxford undergraduate’s productions. I am aware that the magazine might have been circulated among the undergraduates of Oxford, but I do not believe that any book or work of art ever had any effect whatever on morality. Am I right in saying that you do not consider the effect in creating morality or immorality? Certainly, I do not. So far as your own works are concerned you pose as not being concerned about morality or immorality? I do not know whether you use the word “pose” in any particular sense. It is a favourite word of your own. Is it? I have no pose in this matter. In writing a play or a book I am concerned entirely with literature, that is, with art. I aim not at doing good or evil but in trying to make a thing that will have some quality of beauty. What would any body say would be the effect of “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young” taken in connection with such an article as “The Priest and the Acolyte”? Undoubtedly, it was the idea that might be formed that made me object so strongly to the story. I saw at once that maxims that were perfectly nonsensical, paradoxical or any thing you like, might be read in conjunction with it. On Tuesday, April 30, which was the fourth day of the first trial of Oscar Wilde, Sir Edward Clarke entered an emphatic protest against Mr. Gill having read over again the cross-examination of the accused upon his books and writings which he had given at the trial of Lord Queensberry. It was not fair to judge of a man’s conduct by his books, but the Prosecution had gone much further than that, and had sought to judge Wilde by books which he did not write, and by a story which he had repudiated as horrible and disgusting. Public opinion had been excited and fanned by the quotation in Court of passages of literature for which he was not responsible.