New York Herald - Saturday, April 13, 1895
This report was originally published in English. Machine translations may be available in other languages.
OSCAR WILDE'S BOOKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:
Allow me through the columns of year valuable paper to congratulate the librarians of the Mercantile library and others upon their sensible action in the decision of the questionable exclusion of the works of Oscar Wilde. They are to be commended for the cool heads which they kept, while theatres and libraries excluded his name and works. If our art galleries and libraries were to exclude the works of immoral authors I am afraid tbey would suffer from an attack of quick consumption! Another cool headed action which been exhibited in connection with the same case, but under more difficult circumstances, is the one of the manager of the Palma Theatre, London, who said that he knew Mr. Wilde only as a dramatist. What seems to me to be the most interesting part of this affair is the fact that before the revelations concerning Oscar Wilde's life, nothing immoral bad been detected in his works.
NEW YORK, April 11. 1895. V. S. B. M.