The Otago Witness - Thursday, July 25, 1895
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OUR AMERICAN LETTER.
LITERARY NOTES.
The rapid transition of the fastidious Wilde into the closely-shaven convict No. — has astonished the American press. This latter chuckled with delight and drew awful comparisons when it was rumoured Wilde was to be permitted to "skip," &c., &c. There are no comments now—there seldom are in the last resort in all questions touching British doings,—but it is permissible to assert that in this country Wilde would have been still fighting the courts three years from now.
The rapid transformation of the fastidious Wilde into the closely-shaven convict No. — has astonished the American press. This latter chuckled with delight and drew awful comparisons when it was rumoured Wilde was to be permitted to "skip," &c., &c. There are no comments now—there seldom are in the last resort in all questions touching British doings,—but it is permissible to assert that in this country Wilde would have been still fighting the courts three years from now.