OSCAR WILDE.
Oscar Wilde, the esthete, now doing time at Pentonville, has been taken off the tread-mill, and! put to picking oakum, with making matches to follow. The doctors absolutely refire his baing kept on the mill. He is in good hoalth. Recently he asked a friend to send him Sfc Augustine's works and soma his* torical books. His plays are about to make their re-appearance 01 the Eng* lish stage. The Grand Theatre annouM* ces the production of "The Ideal Husband" ace r ing to a London dispatch of June 80th, and prints Wilde's name a< the author, in large letters on tho bi 1. Lord Alfred Douglas has bought and f urnishea in a most luxurious am' ncr a bijou residence not far from Sorrento, Italy. Ho has openly declared that his avowed object id to await the release of Oscar Wilde, when he will at once transport him to the Italian coast. Young Dougla? has written a sonnet which he told a French journalist would be the first
piece of reading O3car Wilde would have from Iha outside world. " Dorian Gray "has been translated into French, and the Parisians are- raving over it.
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Inangahua Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 509, 11 September 1895, Page 2
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196OSCAR WILDE. Inangahua Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 509, 11 September 1895, Page 2
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