It is love alone which in later life can achieve such a miracle of representment.
I am very glad to be allowed to publish this realistic miniature, in the very words of the author.
"I first met Oscar Wilde in the early part of 1868 at Portora Royal School.

He was thirteen or fourteen years of age.

His long straight fair hair was a striking feature of his appearance.

He was then, as he remained for some years after, extremely boyish in nature, very mobile, almost restless when out of the schoolroom.

Yet he took no part in the school games at any time.