save the picture from contempt and the artist from censure.

There is one measure by which intention as apart from accomplishment
can be judged, and one only: "If you think the book well done," says
Pascal, "and on re-reading find it strong; be assured that the man who
wrote it, wrote it on his knees." No book could have been written more
reverently than this book of mine.

FRANK HARRIS.
Nice, 1910.


FOOTNOTES:

[1] [Transcriber's Note: Printer error. In the 1930 U.S. edition the
word "in" is deleted.]




OSCAR WILDE: HIS LIFE AND CONFESSIONS




CHAPTER I


On the 12th of December, 1864, Dublin society was abuzz with
excitement. A tidbit of scandal which had long been rolled on the