Truth - Sunday, May 5, 1895
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THE CRITIC.
By "Sir Fretful Plagiary."
The genius that stands at the London end of the Oable and transmits his lies to Australia, is always in evidence. When his concoctions fail to assure us that he is a Liar, they generally demonstrate, by way, perhaps, of variety, that he is a Fool. In the Oscar Wilde case they have the latter tendency. The Cable-fiend transmits the news that 'the evidence before the Court is quite unprintable.' I should say it was unprintable, even without the 'quite,' and no one but a Cable-humorist could imagine a case of unmentionable crime in which the evidence could be classed as printable. And yet the Sydney dailies pay for this transmitted rubbish, and publish it for the information of their readers, -— oblivious, perhaps, of the manifest insult such superfluous intelligence offers to their long-suffering and, perhaps, none-too-intelligent patrons.