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A Preface to _Dorian Gray_, by our OSCAR WILDE-r than ever, in this month's _Fortnightly. Dorian Gray_ was published some considerable time ago, so it belongs to ancient history, and now, after this lapse of time, out comes the preface. And this
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occupies the better part, I use this expression in all courtesy, of two pages; which two pages represent a literary flowerbed, where rows of bright asterisks are planted between lines of brilliant aphorisms. The rule of the arrangement seems to be.--
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_Sic itur ad astra._ The garden is open to all, let us cull; here one and there one.
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Is there not in this the scent of
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?
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Art includes
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of course. Then
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is to be found in two other full-blown aphorisms, if I mistake not. St. PAUL's advice to TIMOTHY is engrafted on to the stalk of another aphorism.
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Why lug in TIMOTHY? Well, to
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Scripture to one's purpose is not to quote it. _Vade retro!_ Do we not recognise something familiar in
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Ask Messrs. ROCHEFOUCAULD, CHAMFORT, RIVAROL, and JEAN MORLÉ.
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Let us be natural, or shut up shop. Yet there is a chance,--to be supernatural. The great Pan is dead, so there is a seat vacant among the gods, open to any aspirant for immortality.
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cries OSCAR WILDE-ly. And has it come to this?
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Is this the Hend?
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CES AUTRES.
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ARE ANY OF YOUR BROTHERS IN THE SERVICE, MISS DE BULLION?
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YES; ONE IN THE GUARDS, AND--A-- (_with disgust_)--
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THE REST IN THE COMMON ARMY, YOU KNOW.
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ADVANCE, AUSTRALIA!
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Sir HENRY PARKES concluded by declaring that if the Colonies continued separate they must become hostile communities, and, in order that they might prevent that, it was for the whole people to join in creating one great Union Government.