FOR LOVE OF THE KING—Oscar Wilde—Putman ($1.50). Oscar O' Flahertie Wills Wilde once meditated writing a novel "as beautiful and as intricate as a Persian praying rug." He would spend hours at the Middle Temple and in a punt on the Thames absorbing atmosphere from a certain distinguished barrister, a Mr. Chan Toon, whose "long and luminous" converse ran much on the exotic customs of his native country, Burmah. Mrs. Chan Toon was a childhood friend of the poet, and one day, having neglected to acknowledge a...
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