presentation copy of Moore's _Pagan Poems_ to, 49, 51;
advancing value of first editions of, 49;
multiplicity of books about him, 49, 51;
_The Importance of Being Earnest_, 89, 334, 337;
bibliography of, 114;
Beardsley's caricature of, 114, 319;
lectures in U.S., 318, 325, 327;
personal appearance, 318;
difficulties of discussing him, 320;
his place in literature as influenced by his character, 321, 322;
_Dorian Gray_, 322, 329-331;
early life, 322, 323;
leads the "æsthetic cult," 323, 324;
at Oxford, and in London, 323, 324;
_Poems_ (1881), 324, 325;
_The Duchess of Padua_, 327;
_The Woman's World_, 329;
fairy tales, 331;
_The Soul of Man under Socialism_, 332, 333;
_Pen, Pencil, and Poison_, 333;
his poems, 333, 334;
his dramatic works--_Lady Windermere's Fan_, 335;
_A Woman of No Importance_, 335, 336;
_An Ideal Husband_, 336, 337;
_Salome_, 337;
success of the plays, 338;
his downfall, 338, 339;
in prison, 338;
_De Profundis_, 338, 339;
effect of his reputation on his works, 339, 340;
in Paris under assumed name, 340;
_The Ballad of Reading Gaol_, 340;
death, 341;
Robert Ross and, 341, 342;
mentioned, 292.
_Wilde, Oscar, Three Times Tried_, 49.
WILDE, WILLIE, 49.
WILDE, LADY ("Speranza"), 322.
WILKES, JOHN, 179.
WILSON, WOODROW, _Constitutional History of the
United States_, with inscription, 125, 126.
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL, 95.
WOLFE, GENERAL JAMES, sale of his copy of Gray's _Elegy_, 107, 108.
WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY, becomes Godwin's mistress, 232, 233;
marries him, 233, 228.
_See_ Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft.
WOODHOUSE, JAMES, 192, 193.
WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM, his copy of _Endymion_, 7, 29, 106;
mentioned, 38, 133.
WREN, CHRISTOPHER, builds new Temple Bar, 279, 280.
WYKEHAM, WILLIAM OF, 95.
WYNNE, MAURICE, OF GWYDIR, 189.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] The facsimile (page 6) is from the first edition, with the first
title-page. From the Hagen collection. Mr. Hagen has written on the
fly-leaf, "Rebound from original calf binding which was too far gone to
repair." In the process of binding it was seen that the title-page was
part of a signature and not a separate leaf as in the case of the issue
with the "Second" title, 1667, which would seem to settle the priority
of these two titles.
[2] See _infra_, chapter III, p. 104, where the further
adventures of this book are related, and where its price at the Hagen
sale, May 14, 1918, becomes $1950, with A. E. N. as the bidder-up.
[3] See _infra_, chapter XI, pp. 307_ff._
[4] I had a letter from Mr. Dobell early in the war, telling me that
business was very bad in his line, and that he had taken to writing bad
war-poems, which, he said, was a harmless pastime for a man too old
to fight. I am not sure that the writing of bad poetry is a harmless
pastime, and I was just about to write and tell him so, when I read in
the _Athenæum_ that he had passed away quite suddenly.
[5] The facsimile is from the original manuscript by Charles Lamb.
First published in 1799 in what is usually referred to as Cottle's
"Annual Anthology." The poem is generally attributed to Southey, but it
sounds like Lamb, who liked tobacco, whereas Southey did not. The MS.,
in ten stanzas, is undoubtedly in Lamb's handwriting.
[6] See Professor Trent's remarks on this "point," in chapter
III, p. 100.
[7] The facsimile on page 105 is from the original manuscript of John
Keats's "To some Ladies," published in Keats's first volume (1817). The
ladies were the sisters of George Felton Mathew, to whom Keats also
addressed a poem. It will be observed that in the second verse he used
the word "gushes" at the end of the third as well as the first line.
This error does not occur in the printed text. On the other hand the
MS. shows a correction which has never been made in the printed text,
where the word "rove" is corrected to "muse." There is an interesting
communication in the Athenæum, April 16, 1904, by H. Buxton Forman,
anent this holograph.
[8] In Walter Hill's recent catalogue a copy is priced at $350.
[9] See _infra_, page 319.
[10] I received a note some time ago from Christopher Morley, saying,
"Let us hereafter and forever drink tea together on this date in
celebration of this meeting."
[11] The original of the portrait opposite was owned by Boswell, who
used the engraving as the frontispiece of his "Life of Johnson." Now
in the Johnson collection of Robert B. Adam, Esq., of Buffalo. There
is a proof plate with an inscription in Boswell's hand: "This is the
first impression of the Plate after Mr. Heath the engraver thought it
was finished. He went with me to Sir Joshua Reynolds who suggested that
the countenance was too young and not thoughtful enough. Mr. Heath
thereupon altered it so much to its advantage that Sir Joshua was quite
satisfied and Heath then saw such a difference that he said he would
not for a hundred pounds have had it remain as it was."
[12] This was written in April, 1915. Sir Hedworth Meux is not now in
active service.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
rememberd that=> remembered that {pg 42}
A 'Becket=> À Becket {pg 359}
Bronté=> Brontë {pg 361}
GRANNIS, RUTH S., 113.=> GRANNISS, RUTH S., 113. {pg 364}