Chapter II: Act IV: Corrections and Additions

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES By Oscar Wilde

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The Happy Prince 15

The Nightingale and the Rose 41

The Selfish Giant 59

The Devoted Friend 73

The Remarkable Rocket 105

A CRITIC IN PALL MALL BEING EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS AND MISCELLANIES By Oscar Wilde

CONTENTS

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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

B�ranger 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

p. viEarly 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