The morning news., 1894-11-25
FROM N"ACREEN CARNATION," "

unknown to this country and but little
known in his own. The authorship Of the
book was variousIy attributed to Oscar
Wilde, to Oscar Wilde's sister. to E. f.
Benson, the author of Dodo. and to ]. Nc
Neil Whistler. Much of its vogue is due
to its Dungent witticisms on various we'll
known authors and public folk of the Eng
lish metropolis.
These are some of the epigrams and
caustic drives which have set all London
smiling:
i think you are wronging good women,
Lord Reggie said Lady Locke, rather
gravely.
1t is almost impossible to wrong a wo-
man nowadays he answered pensively.
Women are 50 busy in wronging men"
Lady Jeune," said Amarinth makes
one great mistake. She judges of society
[ by her own parties. and looks at life
through the spectacles of a divorce court
judge. No wonder she is the bun terrier
of modern London life"
In conversation one has to choose be-
tween being dangerous and being dull
Society loves to feel itself upon the edge
of precipice. To be harmless is the most
deadly enemy to social salvation. Strict
respectability would even handicap a rich
Americans nowadays, and rich Americans
are terribly respectable by nature. That
is why they are always so anxious to get
into the Prince of Wales set"
NO, the words are not mine" said Reg
gle; they are really taken from the Song
of Solomon. had no idea that the Bible
was SO intensely artistic. There are pas
sagcs in the book of Job that I should not
be ashamed to have written"
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' has made
suicide quite the rage A number of
most respectable ladies, without the ves-
tige Of q past among them, have put an
end to themselves lately, I am told To
die naturally has become quite unfash-
ionable.'
Il think he means well" said Mrs Wind
sor.
= am afraid SO" Amarinth answered.
People who mean well always do badly"
My dear lady, if you read Mr.. Jerome
K. jerome you will find that he is the
reverse of Beerbohm Tree as Hamlet,
! Trees Hamlet is funny. without being
vulgar. Jeromes writings are vulgar,
without being funny"
Look Emily, there goes George Mere
/ dith into the postoffce. Mr. Amarinth
/ says he is going TO get out new edition
of Mr.. Meredith's works. Done Into Eng
lish" by himself. 1t is such a good idea
but it would be very difficult to do, I
suppose. However, Mr.. Amarinth is so
! clever that he might manage it."
Charity he observed, usually begins
abroad"
You are very amusing" she said
bluntly. Il wonder if you have philoso-
ply of life?''
I have" he saba beautiful one"
What is it?'
Take everything and nothing seriously
And in your career of deception always,
If possible. include yourself among those
whom you deceive
'The art of life is the art of defiance
To defy-that is what we ought to live
for. instead of living as we DO to acqui-
esce."
"There is nothing in the world worth
having, except youth--youth, with it's per-
feet sins sins with the dew upon them
like red roseS-youth, with its purple pas
sions and its wild and wonderful tears
All, my dear friend. let us sin while we
may. for the time will come when we shall
be able to sin no more"
"A nineteenth century cynic minus Wit
riol would be like a goose minus sage and
onions. prefer to be a goose with these
alleviations of the goose nature"
'I shall go and lie down and read Os-
car WiIdes decay of lying. That always
sends me to sleep. 1t like himself all
artfulness and no art"
"Esme is the bravest man I know"
said Reggie, taking some marmalade. It
thing sometimes that he sins even more
perfectly than l do. He is so varied"
Intelligence is the demon Of our age.
mine bores me horribly. 1 am alweys
trying to ind a remedy for It, / have ex-
perimented with absinthe. l have read
the collected works of Walter Besant.
They are said to sap the mental powers.
They do not sap mine. What am / to
do? I so long for the lethargy, the sweet
peace of stupidity. If only ! were Lewis
Morris"
zone must perpetually doubt TO be
faithful Perpiexity and mistrust fan af-
fection into passion. and so bring about
those beautiful tragedies that alone
make life worth living"
you have a beautiful soul" said he,
softly. "uud ! have beautiful soul, too.
WHY should there not be sympathy be-
tween us? Lady Locke, l am the victim
of depression. l am suffering from the
malady of life
when he could not be witty. he often
told the naked truth, and truth without
any clothes on frequently passes for cpl
gram II is daring. and 50 II seems
clever
"He knew. he was great, and he said
so often in society. And society smiled
and murmured that 1t was a pose Ev-
erything is pose nowadays, especially
genius
"Ile believed that art showed the way
10 nature. and W0rshiped the abnormal
with an tho passion of his impure and
subtle youth.
There is nothing 10 absolutely pathetic
ns "a really nuo paradox Everything that
b. true inappropriate
"Our artists. as they call thcmaeitef.
ore like 49, Grant Allen theF Haf that
an their fsilures are potbo'iere. Thcr