A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

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Oscar Wilde. A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

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THE TOMB OF KEATS (Irish Monthly, July 1877.)

KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE (Century Guild Hobby Horse, July 1886.)

DINNERS AND DISHES (Pall Mall Gazette, March 7, 1885.)

SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY (Dramatic Review, March 14, 1885.)

HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD (Dramatic Review, May 23, 1885.)

A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 18, 1885.)

TO READ OR NOT TO READ (Pall Mall Gazette, February 8, 1886.)

THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN (Pall Mall Gazette, March 6, 1886.)

BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND (Pall Mall Gazette, April 21, 1886.)

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE (Pall Mall Gazette, May 13, 1886.)

THE CENCI (Dramatic Review, May 15, 1886.)

BALZAC IN ENGLISH (Pall Mall Gazette, September 13, 1886.)

BEN JONSON (Pall Mall Gazette, September 20, 1886.)

MR. SYMONDS’ HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 10, 1886.)

MR. MORRIS’S ODYSSEY (Pall Mall Gazette, April 26, 1887.)

RUSSIAN NOVELISTS (Pall Mall Gazette, May 2, 1887.)

MR. PATER’S IMAGINARY PORTRAITS (Pall Mall Gazette, June 11, 1887.)

A GERMAN PRINCESS (Woman’s World, November 1887.)

A VILLAGE TRAGEDY

MR. MORRIS’S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY (Pall Mall Gazette, November 24, 1887.)

MRS. SOMERVILLE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 30, 1887.)

ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA (Pall Mall Gazette, December 16, 1887.)

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND (Pall Mall Gazette, December 17, 1887.)

MADAME RISTORI (Woman’s World, January 1888.)

ENGLISH POETESSES (Queen, December 8, 1888.)

VENUS OR VICTORY (Pall Mall Gazette, February 24, 1888.)

M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND (Pall Mall Gazette, April 14, 1888.)

A FASCINATING BOOK (Woman’s World, November 1888.)

HENLEY’S POEMS (Woman’s World, December 1888.)

SOME LITERARY LADIES (Woman’s World, January 1889.)

POETRY AND PRISON (Pall Mall Gazette, January 3, 1889.)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN (Pall Mall Gazette, January 25, 1889.)

IRISH FAIRY TALES (Woman’s World, February 1889.)

MR. W. B. YEATS (Woman’s World, March 1889.)

MR. YEATS’S WANDERINGS OF OISIN (Pall Mall Gazette, July 12, 1889.)

MR. WILLIAM MORRIS’S LAST BOOK (Pall Mall Gazette, March 2, 1889.)

SOME LITERARY NOTES (Woman’s World, April 1889.)

MR. SWINBURNE’S POEMS AND BALLADS (third series) (Pall Mall Gazette, June 27, 1889.)

A CHINESE SAGE (Speaker, February 8, 1890.)

MR. PATER’S APPRECIATIONS (Speaker, March 22, 1890.)

SENTENTIAE (Extracted from Reviews)

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Oscar Wilde

Published by Good Press, 2019

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As regards the author’s particular views, we entirely agree with him on the important question of macaroni. ‘Never,’ he says, ‘ask me to back a bill for a man who has given me a macaroni pudding.’ Macaroni is essentially a savoury dish and may be served with cheese or tomatoes but never with sugar and milk. There is also a useful description of how to cook risotto—a delightful dish too rarely seen in England; an excellent chapter on the different kinds of salads, which should be carefully studied by those many hostesses whose imaginations never pass beyond lettuce and beetroot; and actually a recipe for making Brussels sprouts eatable. The last is, of course, a masterpiece.

The real difficulty that we all have to face in life is not so much the science of cookery as the stupidity of cooks. And in this little handbook to practical Epicureanism the tyrant of the English kitchen is shown in her proper light. Her entire ignorance of herbs, her passion for extracts and essences, her total inability to make a soup which is anything more than a combination of pepper and gravy, her inveterate habit of sending up bread poultices with pheasants—all these sins and many others are ruthlessly unmasked by the author. Ruthlessly and rightly. For the British cook is a foolish woman who should be turned for her iniquities into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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