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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter with Mahomet ? What's the matter with Confucius, to say nothing of Bab? And there is a sect called the Mormons, and there was Mrs. Eddy. What's the matter with any or all of these? Let's have a nice quiet lane in Central Park, etc...
Also it seems to me that his "stuff," "Celebrities Dine," in TIME of Jan. 11, 1926, is not real foreign news or worth-while reading except for those who enjoy Town Topics, The Police Gazette, etc...
...well written that the Jollyco doings read like bits of Dickens or Thackeray, with Ivory Soap mentioned quite casually. The public became so interested that thousands of letters poured in: "Send Bobby Jollyco to boarding school. . . . Have Teewee make mud pies. . . . When can Sally Jollyco go to dancing school?. . .etc., etc...
Whether or not this Burmese fragment was written in 1894 or dates to an earlier, simpler time, Wilde enthusiasts may decide for themselves. It is very much in the manner of his first fairy tales (The Nightingale and the Rose, The Happy Prince, etc.) which he wrote in 1888, and has not the suggestive undercurrent of his later fairy tales (House of Pomegranates), which appeared in 1892 with the explicit statement that they were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public...
...life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel-nut box, "dragons of gold with eyes of jade," "Buddhas of gigantic size with heads that move," parrots, crows, peacocks, etc., etc...