Oscar Wilde, in the Bankruptcy Court, presents a miserable spectacle. There surely never was a bankrupt of whom it could more truly be said that he had "no assets." Fame and fortune, health, self-respect, all is gone that makes life worth living. It is painful to drag the criminal out of the shelter of the prison, though, in the way of an object lesson, it would be hard to get a more striking incentive to clean living.

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