BY C. 3. 3
[OSCAR WILDE]
A poem of more than 600 lines, dedicated to the memory of a trooper of
the Horse Guards who was hanged in Reading Gaol during the poet's
confinement there. An English classic.
_Cloth, One Dollar; Paper, Ten Cents_
The cloth edition has covers of blue and vellum, and is beautifully
printed from large type on hand-made antique deckle-edge paper. It is a
sumptuous book of 96 pages, and should be in every library.
_PRESS COMMENTS_
_Albany Press._--"Strong writing, almost too strong; it is
horrible, gruesome, uncanny, and yet most fascinating and
highly ethical.... One of the greatest poems of the century, a
permanent addition to English literature.... It is the best
Lenten and Easter sermon of the year."
_Brooklyn Citizen._--"Many of the stanzas are cries out of the
lowest hell. The poem, indeed, takes rank with the most
extraordinary psychological phenomena of this or any time."
_Indianapolis Journal._--"The work is one of singular power,
holding the reader fascinated to the last line. Nothing
approaching it in strength has been produced in recent years."
_Philadelphia Conservator._--"People who imagine themselves
superior to the prisoners in jails should read this poem.
People who love invasive laws should read this poem. People who
think existing governmental methods of meeting social invasion
civilized should read this poem. People who do not know that
laws may make as well as punish crime should read this poem. In
fact, everybody should read this poem. For somewhere it touches
everybody, accuses everybody, appeals to everybody."
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